Poll Do You Experience Hallucinations That Appear Unrelated To Your Trauma?

[mightsurvive]

Hi,

I'm not sure how to answer that question yet so I haven't. I dont know if what I am experiencing are hallucinations or not but I'm certainly not offended by that word because they are not what a non-ptsd person would be experiencing. They are not DIRECTLY linked to my trauma in that they are not related to what happened. They are definitely related to sleep deprivation and possibly lack of food? Here's an example of what I have seen:

Once I looked at the tv and there was white text on the bottom of the screen on a red back ground. then the screen changed and there was a man reading the news in a grey jacket. The "hallucination" was that I saw the writing that had previously been on the bottom of the screen printed all over his jacket.

Another example: If i look at something like say a poster (especially if it is in a contrasting colour to the wall) on a white wall and then I move my eyes to another part of white wall I can still see the poster but without any detail on it.

I think that is quite normal if you look at a light and then move your eyes away but I have never had it like this before.

 

[lrs]

Oh, yeah, there were plenty.

 

[morgan]

I've had the bugs crawling on my skin type of hallucinations really bad! They were in my hair and everything. It was awful!

 

[chrissym]

hallucinations

I started having flashbacks that made no sense to me but after alittle while in councelling I realized that they were not unreal, I had just forgotten being gang raped...it was more like I was watching it happen to someone else. Through therapy I have dealt with it and at least now I know what it's from. although when my PTSD got very severe and i had be be admitted into the hospital I was having auditory hallucinations. I kept hearing my name being called. Thank God that stopped at least for now. Good luck to you and your niece/Chrissym

 

[nightowl52]

Some sounds can make me irritable, some smells also bother me, paper towels on my skin bug me, wooden sticks from ice cream bar on my tounge almost make me throw up. But to see colors, hear voices, no.

 

[CaliSparrow]

Hello All,

Kat you are too funny. You spurred on a realization about my mother. Whenever I have a "memory" that she thinks is coming out of left field, she sarcastically says, "maybe it's a dream ". Apparently my mother put my visions in the "dream" category for denial's sake.

I dissociated quite a bit when I was younger. Then about one month ago, suffered a trauma at the hand of a therapist and MOST DEFINITELY had auditory and visual hallucinations that related to when I was traumatized as a child and had me re-experience the past trauma in the present tense without the defense mechanisms of a child and with all the clarity of being an adult. So yes. I do believe mine were hallucinations.

CS

 

[Abstract]

flashbacks "are not" restricted to trauma alone, but can include anything the mind see's fit to strike upon oneself.

I did not know this actually and am not quite sure I understand but I shall look it up.

suspecting they could be locked up and the key thrown away.

Yes. That or then thinking I am making it up that it happened. :rolleyes:

 

[einzelganger]

I have experienced some hallucinations which are not obviously trauma related. A few times in the past, when I had a high fever I would see different things like killer whales swimming around my room or werewolves climbing on my bed.

When I was really young, I remember that there were what I called then "the little people." They were only 6 inches tall and lived in my closet. They would talk to me and entertain me.

 

[Changing4Best]

My most recent hallucination, that was unrelated as far as I can tell, was an auditory one that instisted I was about to be arrested for impersonating a police officer! What?? I never impersonated anyone, let alone a police officer! STRANGE. The voice went on to describe what I would experience in jail, and horrified me. I was not even up to the point where it occurred to me that this was an hallucination. It took me a couple days to shake free from it and even realize it had been one. I wonder sometimes why we cannot even realize that something like this is not real!

 

[Abstract]

Bumped for Mrs T.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

I have hallucinated, but it was a direct result of a drug overdose/suicide attempt. I think the hallucinating itself was horrible for my family. Dealing with the fallout was worse for me (questioning reality).