I’ve been in my new place for a few days now and I’m still busy trying to psychologically colonise this new habitat. At my old place I often felt that my consciousness filled the entire room. I suspect this is partly why I refused to clean it, the room had become a second skin of sorts, but I think these feelings are normal. But it also means that until my consciousness feels at home here I’ll continue to feel trapped in my body.
Anyway, back to the alleged minor hallucinations, as I looked back yesterday at the kitchen the sight of a washing up liquid bottle briefly appeared as the image of the virgin Mary. The same thing happened a few minutes later. I don’t think they are real hallucinations, just my brain overinterpreting stimuli in an as yet unfamiliar environment. What do you think?
I also get that a lot but these experiences were a bit different. Briefly the bottle became the Virgin Mary and I couldn’t “see” the bottle, it wasn’t a pattern emerging from a recognisable background. Would something like this still qualify as pareidolia?
But without jest, this type of thing does happen quite often. If you google “Jesus toast,” you’ll see even the best of normies often spot religious figures in the most mundane of objects.
…Now, if Dish Soap Mary starts talking to you, that’s another thing .
I’ve had them in the past. So could the emergent pattern obliterate the body out of which it emerges? For instance could pareidolia cause the cheese toast to disappear and briefly morph into Jesus?
Was it prolonged or was it for an instant your mind visualized the virgin mary. I have awakened in a dark room and a coat thrown over a chair became for a moment a burglar. I could have sworn it was. The mind can play tricks that are distinct from hallucinations.
I do not know much about this to be honest. My most recent hallucination was a bug drifting off my shirt, but that was just a simple dark spot (with no tactile sensation) skipping down my shirt quickly at the edge of my vision.
I would still say this seems like a hallucination, unless you’re seeing a pattern like in a bathroom tile and you see/ recognize a pattern to appear to be something of a face. If its like that, I don’t honestly think you should worry, unless you’re particularly stressed about it or it bothers you. Go get some tape or something akin to that and block the spot.
I’m not particularly religious but I’m not particularly agnostic I don’t see the harm of covering it up maybe draw a face on it thats silly if you got a marker so you feel less religious stress about it.
I find moving very stressful these days. In my younger years it wasn’t any an issue but as I moved recently I got to deal with anxiety nowadays. Don’t know, I feel more vulnerable.
Congratulations on getting a new place. I hope you’ll be really happy there. I don’t know if you hallucinated or if your mind is otherwise playing tricks on you. My sister, neurotypical, on her first night at a new place saw baby dragons crawling up the screen of her bedroom window.
moving is stressful for everyone.
One of my first hallucinations
(long before sz)
was at a night, when i was walking
by the sea, I saw a couple of gypsies,
having sex. It lasted for 2 seconds.
When it disappeared, i saw a tree
where my hallucination was placed.
Pareidolia usually occurs in the form of forming a face out of patterns that are similar as the human condition is to make out a face.
To me, what you are describing are full blown hallucinations. Fully replacing objects with an alternative that aren’t really faces at all indicates hallucinations.
Do the objects return to their original form easily? Can you form a face and disform that face at will like you can with pareidolia? For exanmple, I have a patterned curtain that if I stare at it I could form face like shapes from the folds and curves and disform these faces back to the curtain.
Actually seeing distinct objects that aren’t faces or based on faces leads me to think about hallucinations.
As you are seeing them out of the corner of your eye, but then focussing on them and they warp doubles me down on it.
Aside from this, seeing the world in a different manner isn’t all that bad I suppose, unless they go on to become a persecutory hallucination and interfere in your life by scaring the crap out of you.
When I watched ‘True detective’ there was a guy in it that had persistent hallucinatory disorder from the all the drugs he had consumed and the screen would trip out slightly to account for it, but as you have not done a massive amount of drugs it can’t be that.
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. So what do you think of my reply to divided self, would that still be pareidolia?
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