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Puzzlemaker

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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #45 on: September 10, 2009, 10:39:55 pm »

I hallucinate when I don't get sleep.  I keep seeing things out of the corner of my eye and I turn, but it's nothing.  Kinda creepy.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #46 on: September 11, 2009, 05:41:32 am »

I hallucinate when I don't get sleep.  I keep seeing things out of the corner of my eye and I turn, but it's nothing.  Kinda creepy.

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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #47 on: September 11, 2009, 05:11:15 pm »

60 pages is insane for high school, even for a final paper.  The most I ever had to do in my silly American high school was like 10 pages.  I did make a 12 or so page paper once but that was because it was a fictional narrative, and I was enjoying it.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #48 on: September 11, 2009, 05:24:48 pm »

It was only supposed to be 40 pages.

My teacher was a bastard.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #49 on: September 11, 2009, 06:05:45 pm »

40 pages, 60 pages, still crazy.  I would refuse to do it, on the grounds that my hands are weak.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #50 on: September 11, 2009, 08:57:34 pm »

It wasn't very well written, come to think of it.  :D

However I managed to defend it, which is why I graduated.

"You don't understand! I was writing that paper while wrestling a WAR MINISTER that swam here from Indonesia! You have to give me atleast a C!"
Indonesia how could you!
How could I what?

::) I don't like real girls, especially those who are older than me  ;D
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #51 on: September 11, 2009, 09:13:21 pm »

You don't like them or they don't like you?
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #52 on: September 11, 2009, 09:24:29 pm »

It wasn't very well written, come to think of it.  :D

However I managed to defend it, which is why I graduated.

"You don't understand! I was writing that paper while wrestling a WAR MINISTER that swam here from Indonesia! You have to give me atleast a C!"
Indonesia how could you!
How could I what?

::) I don't like real girls, especially those who are older than me  ;D

IWM YOU BASTARD.

Wait, so you like fake girls? Like... uh... I dunno.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #53 on: September 11, 2009, 09:27:29 pm »

You don't like them or they don't like you?
How about I answer 'either'?

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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #54 on: September 11, 2009, 09:55:15 pm »

you MIGHT want to cut down on the meds, and see the eyedoctor. tl;dr,

I catch a Floater in my eye every once in a while. I can even focus on the skin of my eye, which I don't think many people can do. They usually slide near the end of my vision, and I try to watch them out of the corner of my eye but then I dope and look directly at them which slides them up like 2 inches in my Field of Vision.

Bah. The REAL things I like doing is focusing so hard on a very distant object that my field of vision is filled with orb-like apparitions floating towards me, almost like going through hyper-space. :/
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #55 on: September 12, 2009, 12:25:32 am »

I don't know if hearing things counts as a hallucination, but I sometimes hear the music from Dwarf Fortress playing really quietly, like even when my computer is turned off, and I'm in another room. It's like my mind is assembling bits of background noise into coherent music.

At least it's nice music.

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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #56 on: September 12, 2009, 05:17:50 am »

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I don't know if hearing things counts as a hallucination,

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but I sometimes hear the music from Dwarf Fortress playing really quietly, like even when my computer is turned off, and I'm in another room. It's like my mind is assembling bits of background noise into coherent music.
but that's not a hallucination proper. That's more pareidolia: assembling a perceived stimulus from partially structured ones.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #57 on: September 12, 2009, 06:40:02 am »

It wasn't very well written, come to think of it.  :D

However I managed to defend it, which is why I graduated.

"You don't understand! I was writing that paper while wrestling a WAR MINISTER that swam here from Indonesia! You have to give me atleast a C!"
Indonesia how could you!
How could I what?

::) I don't like real girls, especially those who are older than me  ;D

IWM YOU BASTARD.

Wait, so you like fake girls? Like... uh... I dunno.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #58 on: September 14, 2009, 12:24:46 pm »

I've had this problem occasionally in the past few days (Not the realgirl, the 'hallucinations'). It's more like a series of intensely realistic, moving optical illusions than anything else. Only happens at night, too, regardless of how much sleep I've had. For example, I was driving home a couple nights ago at around 11:30 at night, and I saw an enormous shadow move across the road and rear up at my car like a serpent. Ugh.
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Re: what constitutes a hallucination?
« Reply #59 on: September 14, 2009, 12:28:50 pm »

that's called pareidolia. You interpretate stuff incorrectly. Happens when you are tired, or even when you are not. Nothing to worry about in itself
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