25 Frightening Facts About Hallucinations

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Did you know there are ways to experience WILD hallucinations at home right now? Or that blind people sometimes hallucinate stuff that’s completely out of their control.

Author: Steve Palace

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - The Ganzfield Experiment
1:22 - Charles Bonnet Syndrome
1:55 - Hearing voices
2:31 - Brain hallucinations
3:17 - Nose hallucinations
3:55 - Sleep deprivation
4:34 - Hallucinations and reality
5:02 - Parkinson's disease
5:40 - Fever hallucinations
6:21 - Sleep paralysis
7:02 - Absinthism
7:43 - Recurring hallucinations
8:07 - Extreme isolation
8:53 - Musical hallucinations
9:25 - The family factor
9:56 - Poisonous hallucinations
10:44 - Shared hallucinations
11:28 - Brain frog
12:12 - Delirium Tremens
12:48 - The Hat Man
13:22 - Phantom limb pain
13:53 - Artistic hallucinations
14:40 - The elderly hallucinate more
15:15 - Healthy hallucinations
16:01 - A.I. and hallucinations

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[Fierysaint]

I think the line between reality and hallucinations is much blurrier than most people think.

[cindot]

I was about 5 years old when I saw Hat Man in the 70s & I was wide awake. He was standing in my room, so i noped my way out & refused to go back until he left. Hat Man is more than just a nightmare.

[Brenda-fy]

I watched my grandmother suffer with phantom limb pain my entire life before she passed away a few years ago. She lost her entire leg to cancer while my mom was still in college. I worried about it almost 10 years ago as well when I had a partial leg amputation due to MRSA and even asked my surgeon about it. The difference between her and myself is the fact that I was born physically disabled with no pain below the waist. I found out after the surgery that my surgeon and the surgeon assisting him actually discussed the possibility of me going through the phantom pains as well. They honestly didn't know if I would or not since I'm paralyzed but thankfully I have not had to suffer from it like my grandmother did.

[AwakeNeverWoke]

I smelled gasoline in our bedroom for months. My husband and kids said they didn't smell it. I blamed my husband and the dog for the smell. I was convinced that the dog got into the gas jug and that's what was causing the smell. I fussed at my poor husband and dog daily for months. I never smelled gasoline anywhere but our bedroom. The smell went away in the winter. Then spring comes and I smell it again. I smelled gasoline everywhere i went this time. I made an appointment with my Dr. She got excited and asked me if I smelled cigarettes like she does!? She apparently has phantom smells as well. I discovered that if i eat mint candy it helps me with the smells. Lucky for me, I have vertigo and my medication gives me dry mouth. The mint candy helps with that as well.

[Grace-prj]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[cynhiacations]

I have musical hallucinations while travelling long distances in a car. The rhythmic sound of the tyres on bitumin roads turns into music either instrumental or group based. I also hallucinate about a stranger at the base of my bed trying to grab my feet. I actually act out kicking them and can feel if I've struck them. That one is scary

[derekrakestraw]

Hey, Mike. I dig List 25 and really enjoyed the info about hallucinations. How about a list on delusions? Like delusions of grandeur and delusions of authority. Maybe you could help me understand some of the people I'm forced to work with.

[Patzi-lw]

One of the worst types of hallucinations is the hallucinations caused by sepsis! Three years ago I had a botched gallbladder surgery and the surgeon forgot to tie off the bile duct so poisonous bile was filling up my entire body causing the sepsis and I was seeing faces and people crawling out of the walls and curtains, hearing things that weren’t happening I could go on! And three years down the line I still have the occasional one like seeing people shaped shadows in my peripheral vision! I was scared to open my eyes and scared to close my eyes! Px

[LanaiHaselton]

Another strange symptom of brain tumors is lactation. 13 years after my last child was born I began lactating out of the blue. I was also having headaches that the doctor said was cluster migraines, along with numbness in my face. After finally getting an mri they discovered two large cysts, one on my brain stem and one in my sphenoid sinus. They will fill with fluid and cause the symptoms I experienced, then they drain and the symptoms subside until they fill again.

[KC_Eden]

I was born with a brain mutation. I have this uncanny ability to think of a food and I can taste and smell it. They're the kind of hallucinations I choose to have. One things for sure, I'm a really cheap date! I can eat rice but taste and smell Lobster. 💯😅🤷‍♀️

[nostalgiaprincess]

i started sleepwalking and hallucinations after a long time on certain meds. once i got used to the initial “jump scare” of seeing something, some of mine were pretty funny. the sleepwalking scared the bejeebers out of me, but thank goodness that part seems to have stopped. needless to say, i wear pjs now 🤦🏻‍♀️

[newshodgepodge]

"Olfactory hallucinations" are also not uncommon in people who suffer from migraines.

[darkangel]

Easy peasy, it was A Nightmare On Elm Street. The Hat Man interested Wes and he rolled with it

[silverghostcat]

One of the scariest experiences I had was after I made the mistake of watching Nightmare on Elm Street right before going to sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night with Freddy's head sitting in the middle of my stomach. I blinked a few times and it was still there. Finally I threw back the covers and went into the living room. Drank a glass of orange juice and stayed up for about an hour. If I go right back to sleep after a nightmare, it either starts over or picks up where it left off 🙀

[exploretheuniverse]

"This list should come with a warning: May cause hallucinations while reading." 🧠 Thank you!!

[dianabehrens]

After two minor strokes, I had hallucinations just before falling asleep or just after waking up. I found them frightening!

[christina-m]

A few years ago I was in a coma for a month and when I woke up I had really wild hallucinations for a a few days. I remember everything I saw and heard (and said to people 😬).

It could be a completely illogical hallucination, but it is so, so real to the person having it.

And some are so mundane. Like even after the wild hallucinations were done and over with and I was myself again, the room I was in looked completely different every day. Like I knew I was in a hospital room but I thought they just kept moving me around to different ones because every day the room looked completely different. I really saw myself in a different room every day for 3 weeks until I learned that I had been in the same hospital room the whole time.

It's crazy

[thDecember]

The brain and nervous systems are tricksters. I have only hallucinated twice, in my twenties. The first was when I had my first instance of strep throat, and it damn near killed me. I remember stumbling about my apartment, thinking soldiers were invading the premises. Luckily my father showed up because my boss was concerned I hadn't shown up for work and I was taken for medical care. The other instance was during a period of inexplicable sleep deprivation. In that instance, I hallucinated the most sublime symphonic music. It lasted for hours. I eventually fell asleep, and the music stopped. I've always thought that music is an unusual creation of the mind. Perhaps some brilliant composers experience self-aware hallucinations.

[leebrewer]

Phantom limb pain also works with teeth! After having mine pulled several years ago, I still feel toothache pain a couple of times a year still.

[NG-hmtb]

I think that supernatural or metaphysical experiences are often mistaken for hallucinating. .you have to take the person and all conditions into consideration before you right off a spiritual/ metaphysical/ Quantum reality experience as a hallucination. IE I think there is a gentleman who was hinting at this in the comments earlier when he said that "the line between reality and hallucinations is much blurrier than most people think". Yes Sir, I agree.