[krishnork]

This is something that's been haunting me since my psychotic episode. I noticed animal behavior around me changed drastically when my psychosis got intense.

- A crow dragging a worm into my path on the sidewalk. the crow seemed to be showing it to me. This wriggling worm. It wouldn't fly away, it wasn't afraid of me, instead it seemed to be deliberately trying to demonstrate something to me regarding this worm.

- A dog sneering viciously at me. The owner chastised the dog for bad behavior, but I know I saw what I saw. This was at a time when I thought the psychic community saw me as an antichrist.

- Again, when I was in my negative "antichrist" state, the only thing that would cheer me were some the cheerful chirpings of birds. But even this was taken away from me, as I approached a tree of birds the birds got more and more distressed, until I was near the tree and the birds became vicious, attacking each other.

- I had a cat visitations. Not cats that wanted to be pet or anything else, just cats that showed up, stared at me for a long time, as if waiting for some communion between us, before eventually walking away. Cats that made themselves deliberately known to me, at a short distance, staring intently at my face.

- Above me in an awning, I heard what sounded like pigeons fighting with a rat. It sounded violent and awful.

this stuff was not hallucination, with the possible exception of the sounds of rats. It was real. As real as anything.

Does anyone else experience weird animal behaviors when you're in an episode, and how do you explain this?

Originally Posted by krishnork

This is something that's been haunting me since my psychotic episode. I noticed animal behavior around me changed drastically when my psychosis got intense.

- A crow dragging a worm into my path on the sidewalk. the crow seemed to be showing it to me. This wriggling worm. It wouldn't fly away, it wasn't afraid of me, instead it seemed to be deliberately trying to demonstrate something to me regarding this worm.

- A dog sneering viciously at me. The owner chastised the dog for bad behavior, but I know I saw what I saw. This was at a time when I thought the psychic community saw me as an antichrist.

- Again, when I was in my negative "antichrist" state, the only thing that would cheer me were some the cheerful chirpings of birds. But even this was taken away from me, as I approached a tree of birds the birds got more and more distressed, until I was near the tree and the birds became vicious, attacking each other.

- I had a cat visitations. Not cats that wanted to be pet or anything else, just cats that showed up, stared at me for a long time, as if waiting for some communion between us, before eventually walking away. Cats that made themselves deliberately known to me, at a short distance, staring intently at my face.

- Above me in an awning, I heard what sounded like pigeons fighting with a rat. It sounded violent and awful.

this stuff was not hallucination, with the possible exception of the sounds of rats. It was real. As real as anything.

Does anyone else experience weird animal behaviors when you're in an episode, and how do you explain this?

Hi,

Psychosis for most people means that sound becomes exaggerated , ie it becomes louder and more pronounced.

What you describe , is normal animal behaviour. The difference being is , how you make assumptions and draw conclusions. Animals basically do as they please.

You probably have the same issue with humans. Questioning the authenticity of their behaviour? I did at least , and so do many , if you care to read the experiences of people on this forum.

[newtus]

i thought this thread was about how you act llike in animal behavior while psychotic.

[RRex]

Psychosis for me is a whole different world. It's a world that talks to you and tells you secrets you don't see outside of psychosis. I felt I was seeing the true reality of things when I was in it.

[krishnork]

Originally Posted by RRex

Psychosis for me is a whole different world. It's a world that talks to you and tells you secrets you don't see outside of psychosis. I felt I was seeing the true reality of things when I was in it.

I thought this too, except that I kept bouncing from reality to reality to reality. So I couldn't get a handle on "truth" because that truth kept changing. I couldn't figure out "how it all worked," but I knew I was onto something greater than anything I had experienced before.

[ksm1235q]

So what you're saying is that you believe animals maybe perhaps signaling stuff to you? I sometimes have these thoughts too but with these kinds most of the time when I am well I can tell myself that's most likely not true, although I can't evidentally prove it. I mean, who am I to say that they can't. I think sometimes when we look past the trends and illusions in life such an human interactions, we look at the world as a whole on a philosophical level and we try to figure out the bigger picture. I don't think you're crazy, I think you're intelligent but a bit of advice that works for me, that may not work for everyone is that you should keep your beliefs as open minded as possible if you don't have total evidence, otherwise the "normal ones" call us delusional. Therefore it's the best of both world, we are open to new ideas but remember why other people believe theres. I hope this makes sense.