[zelda64]

I'm pretty sure I used to hallucinate when I was a kid.

I remember getting out of bed one night (not sure if it was a dream, but it seemed real to me) to go to the toilet (i was busting) and as I walked forward, I bumped into what felt like an invisible wall. I went to bed, scared and it was gone in the morning.

The second time I remember is when I was walking down my hallway during the day and I saw a crow (or multiple crows, can't quite pin point exactly) flying over me and then disappear in front of me.

I've also used to hear voices outside my bedroom whenever I was going to sleep at night.

I've also seen a snake go through a wall (when I was about 12) and a cats paw sticking through a door whilst I was in the bathroom. I ALWAYS saw something in the corner of my eye, which I know is common, but it happened quite often and it still happens to me today, I'll over somewhere and I'll swear I saw something like a person or animal etc...

Does this distress you? Lots of people hallucinate by imaging their phone ring or seeing things out of the corner of their eye, for example, but it's no big deal. It's also considered normal to hallucinate when falling asleep or waking up, called hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations respectively. If it doesn't distress you, then I wouldn't worry about it.

All the best

*Willow*

[sandersdillion948]

I don't think you hallucinated at all. Why must something unexplained have to be said to be a hallucination by a doctor? I had a woman who would stand at the end of my bed as a child and would wait until I fell asleep. Was that a hallucination? What about the voices? Why are those not really dead people talking to me? Did I imagine smelling my mothers scent two years after she died, in my car sitting in a parking lot? Was that a hallucination too? Just the other day I was out fishing in the woods, no noise, nothing but the trickle of water, and I heard some man yelling at me, so I turned around kinda like, wtf, and there was no-one there, a simple misfire of my brain? My friends when I was younger were very real to me, I would laugh out of the ordinary and they were a secret, why were they not really there? Seemed pretty real to me!

So they shove medication in-front of us, a little pill for this, a little pill for that, a little pill for the pill that makes you have to take that pill for side effects.

I chose to believe these experiences have been real, who are they to tell me their not? What authority are they? Reality is relative to the person who believes something. We change our filters when we chose to believe something, sometimes we believe things and there is a negative filter, sometimes believing something is a positive filter.

You have a gift just like me, it is as simple as that.