I had a friend Patrick for years. But it’s somewhere in my head now that he might not have been real. I thought he died. How do I know if he’s real or not?
Do you have any pictures of him?
Does anyone else know him?
I used to have a pic of him I thought. But what if it’s not real? No one in my life now would have known him
That’s tricky.
I can remember anyone ive ever met probably since kindergarten. Not names but faces. It’s like I have a photographic memory of faces. No joke I literally recognize everyone. Sometimes it weirds people out.
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Usually, for me, if I have to question what is real,
Its not real.
But I would still try to find that picture, just in case.
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We met when I was swimming at nighttime in Florida, but he lived in Michigan like me. I was hanging out alone on a beach and got scared of something and I went into the water. He appeared there. Now I’m thinking that’s strange and may not be real
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Sounds not real to me too.
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Could be a hallucination. Were you psychotic at the time? Like a month after I went on meds my English teacher was going to call the cops on me bc he thought I was stalking him… Which I still don’t understand AT ALL. Who knows what I did during those months. I hitch hiked a couple miles in the middle of winter by first knocking on someone’s door. I do remember that. But somehow I lost my pill cutter cause I brought some abilofy with me. Before I knocked on the door I thought I fell in a hole they were doing road work cause I was on close to something that was a highway. No sidewalks. An angel must have saved me
I don’t think I’ve ever hallucinated a person vividly enough for me to mistake them for a human companion. Animals, though. I see them all the time, even when no one else does. And of course, when I point said animal out to others, the animal conveniently runs away or hides, and it happens often enough to where my mom suggested they might be hallucinations, which had previously never occurred to me. And I’m really not convinced that they’re hallucinations. I choose not to believe that they’re hallucinations.
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Do you usually hallucinate people in great detail? I can always spot a hallucination because they are flat black. I mean as far as I know. Well I take that back one time I hallucinated some musicians with detail but I was very out of it, not calm enough to engage really. I don’t know how you can tell, that’s a hard one. Try to think of times that you were with him and other people, did the other people interact with him? Did you eat at a restaurant? if so were there two plates or always just you eating? Did he ever hold the door open for you? Just go through and start trying to make sense of the memories.
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I don’t know if I was psychotic, but he was my friend for many years.
I’ll try going through my memories as best I can. Thanks.
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This reminds me of the movie ‘The beautiful mind’ in which John Nash had hallucinations that he had a friend while he studied in the university. No friends existed and it was all his hallucination. I have had all kinds of delusions in the past, but never any visual hallucinations of people.
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He’s real. I remember now my mom met him when I turned 19. I had a few friends over and he was there. The way we met was weird but he’s real. I wish he was still alive. He was a good guy.
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