I was about 10. I remember walking into the kitchen and suddenly experiencing the intense feeling that my brother was just behind me ready to pounce. I looked back and there he was, but not in material form, more like a ghost or an astral projection. This vision melted away after a few seconds. Real hallucination or just selfsuggestion? Does an experience like this have anything to do with the later development of sz? Thanks.
I don’t know how common, but as a child i remember seeing 2 people made of TV static out on a friend’s lawn.
I do not have visual hallucinations. At least, i do not now.
I had a very similar “hallucination” when I was 11. Saw two men in a TV, which was off and unplugged. One was sitting in a rocking chair, and though I could not see the man in the rocking chair (apart from on the TV), the rocking chair was rocking.
I think I misread your post, it’s not as similar as I thought.
All of my other complex hallucinations are lifelike. And if it weren’t for odd things, like a cat talking to me (externally), and the sheer size of him, I would not have known it was a hallucination.
Yeah, these were people made out of tv static/snow. Was very unsettling.
But are these hallucinations related in any way to the future development of a psychotic disorder?
I started having hallucinations as a child.
I don’t super want to get into specifics, but they were disturbing.
Violent in nature.
They’ve calmed down a lot as an adult.
Of course, later I was diagnosed with schizophrenia,
But these hallucinations were chronic, not a one time thing.
I don’t know about your experience,
Could have been your imagination or a hallucination.
Sounds scary for a kid, regardless.
This is probably the wrong crowd to ask whether childhood hallucinations are normal. I definitely had them.
The cat hallucination I had came after blacking out sometime during the day, when I came to, I had driven an hour away, bought beer (I don’t drink), and a cat came up and talked to me. It was around midnight. This was labeled as a psychotic episode and I was hospitalized and put on aps. My psychiatrist thought I was sz, but put me down as schizoid. I stopped seeing her after a couple of months.
I stopped the ap, haven’t been on one since, and have no plans to see a psychiatrist again. I don’t care for a diagnosis.
For all I know, everything I experience is real. Until there are tests for sz, I will not subject myself to bs “treatment”. And even then, I likely won’t be tested. I don’t see the point in making my life worse, when I can handle psychosis well enough.
I know that I “saw” it, but because it looked like a ghostly projection of some kind I assumed the possibility that I might have psychic powers. But it was probably just child’s play.
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