Or similar disconnections from reality?

Anybody else?

I don't hallucinate, nor do I "diconnect myself from reality".

I think I hallucinated once when I was sick with a fever as a child.

Not major ones, just little things in the corner of my eye that disappear when i look at them.

I constantly think i see insects crawling on the walls but then when i look, they re not there anymore.

I get that a lot, but i've never really thought of it as hallucination before.

They sound like eye floaters perhaps?

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/spotsfloats.htm
--Eye floaters are those tiny spots, specks, flecks and "cobwebs" that drift
aimlessly around in your field of vision. While annoying, ordinary eye
floaters and spots are very common and usually aren't cause for alarm.--

I have so many of these. They like to wiggle during the day when the light
hits my eyes just right. Forgive me, but they remind me of what millions
of sperm cells might look like under a microscope. Ew, Sperm in my eyes!!!!

i get those too, but instead of insects, i see bolts of lightning or flashes of light in the corner of my eyes. i never though it was a hallucination, either, but i quickly learned to stop asking people if they had just seen lightning.

sometimes i think i might be hallucinating when i check my bank account balance... it can't really be that low, right?

I used to get hypnopompic and hypnagogic hallucinations a lot, if those counts, I don't even know how to pronounce those. They're hallucinations you get leading in/out of sleep. People with sleep paralysis get those a lot (and say they were abducted by aliens...), I used to have sleep paralysis often, and I often hallucinate shadows wandering around my room, or other translucent spirit like stuff tapping on my shoulder, the strange thing is, you could feel physical contacts during that dream state, so I also sense poking/stabbing sensation and physical pain (not really hurting kind of pain, but imaging someone pushing a stick into your back really hard), nooo I was not abducted by aliens.

i've heard that a lot of that is from getting stuck outside your body when you astral project in your sleep, and what you see and feel is actually just you (your spirit) trying to reenter your body. you can't move your body (because your spirit isn't quite all the way in there), and you see something standing over you (your spirit, mistaken for an alien or what have you), or pushing down on you (which is actually your spirit trying to reenter). also, when you have those dreams where you suddenly fall, and it shakes you awake, is when you reenter too fast and your spirit is basically slamming back into your body.

note: i'm not sure if i believe this 100%, but it is very interesting. also, supposedly 99% of ghost sightings are living people's projected spirits.

As strange as this sounds, I'd like to hallucinate while I play something like Silent Hill. I think it would be something worth recording. =P

Yea it is just a state when a person is half asleep, their body goes into a state called REM (rapid eye movement), which locks their body to avoid them from acting out their dreams, I suppose some could still move and that would be called sleep walking, but most shouldn't, and in that state, you would be overlapping your dreams into reality, so you will be seeing objects from your dreams. Most of the ghosts sightings while they can't move were probably just one of the hallucinations, dream images, it is however really real to the person experiencing it, it is very interesting.

As for astral projection, I'm not sure if it's true, I do have "out of body experience" during sleep paralysis, but I don't get very far before falling asleep, and what I see during that state are often not a perfect portrayal of the real world, half of them were dreams. So if you were to write something and hide it in a closet, I'd most likely get the wrong answer, so I'm thinking it's also closer to "dreams" than a out of body spirit. However it does look really vivid and real, sometimes it felt like I'm looking through my eyelids, but the further I go away from my body, the things becomes more "blurry" and unreal, at least for me. So I've never really believed it being true, but more just a strange dream phenomenon, and that I'm just exploring what my brain have seen before.

Quasar and Chair; here is a try. Sorry for brevity in my first.

When I was young I did not realize my world was different than others. I was pulled out of school when I was perhaps... 5 and “home-schooled” as my family would then undergo several movements. But even before this time I did not speak to many. Including my parents. I was a “late talker.” There were some to whom I spoke. These were in the minority, and I never spoke with the full confidence in explanation of my reality. It was always shadows. We didn't get a television until I was 7 and we got no real channel reception, although we had a computer and 14.4 modem as well as an SNES. The internet was predominantly text, and video-games still bordered the realm of imagination and representation at this time. I had little interest in non-gaming television at first. Books were the reality I made them out to be. We lived in principally secluded locations. My reality was what I saw, what I read, and what I listened to. Mine was the walk of nature and a hidden world of words, sounds and pictures moving from beyond my ages. I did not realize this world that I had known so well was not the world others knew.

When I reflect on this past I realize I likely said things that would have been considered rather strange. I suppose those around me wrote it off as an overactive imagination. Maybe that's all it is. We traveled a lot, and I visited many places. But I was an observer to these wonders. Always an outsider looking in.

As I matured I figured it out. Broader access and interest in television and film helped. So did talking and asking questions on the internet from my realizations, and reading first hand accounts of things. I still haven't told anybody outright. This is the first time I've typed this all out.

When I realized there was a “flaw” with myself I set out to obscure any deviance in my personality and perception. I tried to reflect what others saw and spoke of. When I was reintegrated in the school system I was some bizarre rendition of 17th to 20th century literature, video games, film and music. I guess it's no surprise people reacted the way they did.

When I'm alone for a long time, sounds that are far away in reality, suddenly sound like they are coming from inside my room. Perhaps not quite a hallucination (as the sounds usually are real), but the sounds do sound a lot harder and different than they actually do. Drug use strengthens it even more.

our house is very close to a bunch of train tracks. sometimes at night the trains will go through without blowing their horns, and the sound of those huge diesel engines is almost otherworldy at 2 am on a quiet night. at first i think it must be thunder in the distance, but it doesn't stop, it just gets slowly louder and closer. then i have a moment where i think the world might be coming to and end, and i can't imagine what unspeakable horror could make a sound like that. then the train gets to a spot in the tracks where the cars clack over some bisecting tracks, and i realize it's just a train going through.

That sounds pretty fantastic. I have a sudden urge to listen to this...

Hm... How do you know those are hallucinations, and not for real?

here is a good vid of an approaching engine. imagine this without the horn, and much slower.

Nope, but I used to get a lot of hypnagogues of hearing music and snippets of "others' conversations." They've disappeared recently, which makes sense, as they're strongly influenced by trauma in a lot of people. I miss the music, though; it was really, really pretty.

You're lucky, Zen Mei. I used to live next to the railroad and I loved the sight and sound of the trains, but then we moved...
BTW, where have you heard that most ghosts are spirits of living people? Somehow I found that statement way more frightening!


OP, I've never seen any hallucinations other than the out of the corner of the eye thing that Hypnos mentioned.

i can't remember where i've heard it, but it's an old idea. i think it might be why we have the two words "ghosts" and "spirits." a spirit is a person with a body to return to, and a ghost is a person on the way out, not returning to their body. i've got a friend that swears he saw the spirit of his friend, and he though maybe he had died and was saying goodbye, but his friend was still alive the next day. and his friend said he had dreamed about being in the guy's house the night before... *spooky*

Sometimes I hear those msn chat sounds, like someone wrote a message to me right in my head.

Well, I can't really tell to be honest, but like when you're dreaming, or hallucinating, they're just imagery from your subconscious, even though they seem real.
Also I see a lot more less than I used to, the first few times I panicked and I see more of those shadowy figures, the first time I experienced it, I saw a hand covering my face as I struggle to get up, the other times they were quite freaky too because I was frightened.
After going through many sleep paralysis, the hallucinations becomes a bit less frightening and random, as if I could "control" it somehow by being calm, even though I still can't control what I see, but I definitely sees less of those by being more aware, when it happens now, I'd just stare at my room in that state with nothing ever popping up until I could move again, only a few occasion I still see figures, but I think because I was too tired, so there was definitely a pattern.

Also some imagery overlaps some objects around my bed too in a few occasion, so I came to a conclusion that most of these objects were either out of my subconscious/dream, or there're objects around my bed in the dark that I percept as something else, etc.

Disconnect from reality, yea.. but, never any hallucinations.
Sometimes I wonder if they might be inspiring.
I never had a hallucination.

I've never hallucinated but I've always lived inside my own world.

I don't know if this is called hallucination, but I often hear someone whisper into my ear when I'm trying to sleep and it feels like someone is standing next to my bed.
But when I turn around nothing's there and the whispering ends.
I can't really recognize what I hear though...

Could be a spirit of some sort trying to get in contact.