Do you see things you know aren't there?

I catch shadows or dark figures out of the corner of my eye all of the time. I also suffer from frequent insomnia, so I just chalk it up to sleep deprivation, usually.

@TheOnlyNeffie Hmmm. That’s been starting to happen to me lately. Just a little bit. It’s a little startling but I figure it’s just something to do with my eyes. Although, I have been having sleep problems of late.

@wundayatta it happens to me often, but most frequently when I haven’t slept. It is like something has gone running past me, but it’s just a dark shadow and always out of the corner of my eye. I think it’s related to not sleeping. For me, I’m sure that’s the case.
Are you having some sort of trouble with your eyes that leads you to believe that’s the cause?

Only in my dreams. My Jacquito returns. He died in my neighbors yard 2 years ago from something he ate. They did not own up to his presence there for quite a few days, after I specifically asked them. But I had smelled something dead in their yard days before. Why didn’t they?

Sometimes, when I am really smashed, I try to will him back to life. I miss him terribly.

only on hallucinogens :P

I was diagnosed with an over-reactive imagination at around 4. Been bugging me ever since, thinking you see someone in the corner of my eye, always hearing things, a feeling of something on your shoulder, these are all common symptoms of a hyper-reactive imagination. A life long problem that you have to deal with so people don’t look at you more weirdly than they already do, and they ALREADY do. My family told me I was a weird child and wasn’t normal alot, even though they know I was diagnosed with this problem at a young age.

No, but at night, or whenever I go to sleep, I often hear stuff that I know isn’t real. Like voices and shit, in that level in between sleep and being awake. Usually it’s voices from people I heard in the day, whether real, in a movie, TV, radio, whatever. I can’t always make out what they’re saying, and when I can, it’s usually random nonsense, like just a bunch of words strung together. It’s very clear though, sometimes distant, but you can still hear it.
My dad used to experience this too, and he said it was pretty normal.
I also have sleep paralysis episodes, but those aren’t exactly the same. Although since I started drinking about a year and a half ago, I haven’t heard these much lately, unless I’m having a nap, or a night where I go to sleep sober.
Otherwise though, it’s happened for years, so it isn’t freaky or anything, I got used to it easily, and it’s actually a good sign to hear them, since it means I’ll fall asleep soon, which I also have problems with.

I’ve experienced cognitive failure a couple of times. And both were near people that did drugs. I think I got a sniff of some compound. It felt like a headache in my occipital lobe and had issues with my vision.

On another plane, I see things through logic and inference. Such as an infinite universe. Why? Because I know it makes no logical sense for anything to have a beginning – though I see why it’s a common error. We’re born, and we die, linear-thinking.

@Symbeline HA! Thought I was one of the rare one’s to get Sleep Paralysis too. Mine’s doesn’t get as bad as seeing things while it occurs, but it feels like a battle to even twitch a muscle. I feel into sleep paralysis one time lying on my face, now I have a slight fear of sleeping on my tummy :(

@Moegitto Usually happens to me when I fall asleep on my back. But yaay, another bro to share the freak with!
I see things, but I don’t. It’s like dreaming with your eyes open, and realizing how messed up it was when you finally get out of it, since it seems so real. And yeah, your body paralyzes you because of something to do with the REM cycle fucking up, so it’s protecting you from hurting yourself from freaking out. :/ (Since you weren’t sposed to wake up during that phase.)

My house is haunted, litterly. So I see the 4 ghosts walking around and flicking on and off the lights all the time. I feel crazy

@Kaytekat182 Ghost do nothing but annoy you, if they turn the lights off, you gotta get outta bed and turn them back on. Pain in the arse they are!!!:(

I occasionally see eye floaters. I know they’re a disturbance in the eye fluid but they appear to be floating in space.

When I meditate I “see” things that are there but really aren’t physically there. Meditation is the window to the soul and helps me see things in my life in a way my conscious mind is unable to.

I normally have to listen to REALLY loud music on my iPod or play video games for hours at a time just to drown out the random sounds and visions I go through all day every day. I think doing that makes my mind so focused on the task at hand that it won’t hallucinate, I might want to write a book soon…

I always see things that aren’t there. I see things from my plain white paper turning pink to seeing the roof cave in.

@daytonamisticrip Really!!?? That must be terrifying at times…have you spoken to anybody about this? I too see things that aren’t there, and I know it, and I try to work through it. Usually, but not always, I am alone when this occurs. I hear things, but I realize that nobody else does, I’m like a functioning alcoholic, but with this issue instead. I bet there are more people than we realize dealing with this.

@janedelila No I haven’t spoken to anybody about it. I don’t get terrified from it because I can tell that it’s not real…almost always.
I know you have probably heard this many times but you should probably back off from the alcohol a little bit.