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[Wrex]

You guys get fun hallucinations! I get horrible wolves baying at my mind.


Probably not so horrible anymore though. I mean, it's just a dream, and If I feel utterly fan-fucking-tastic after them, more power to me.

[Scelly9]

* Scelly9 also has nothing like that

[Frumple]

..The only time I've ever hallucinated was....oh, last monthish when I was desprately afraid of my dreams, and stayed up for 72 hours at a stretch. That was....fun utterly fucking terrifying

Yeah, the visual snow thing was actually pretty terrifying for a long damn time. I couldn't sleep in the dark until my mid-teens, because there were giant multicolored amoebas floating in the room, presumably waiting to eat me. Lights back on please! With light, it's more of a multicolored buzz if you're not paying specific attention to it.

So i'm not the only one. You got any idea what causes that?

They've got no flipping idea, currently. May be genetic, may be onset, may be any dozen of things. May be several different things with similar symptoms. There's generally no major pattern (though there's several minor ones, especially among onset cases) among people with the condition. There's a general potential link with depression, but nothing definite. Me, near as I can tell it's genetic. Have had it since birth (or at least as far back as I can remember, so around early 3-ish), father reported the same thing and that his father had it, so... yeah.

Most I've picked up that's definite is that it's almost certainly neurological and not anything to do with the structure of the eye. So it's your brain gone funky, not your peepers.

I had to deal with stuff like that. Only it wasn't amoebas, it was bubbles and geometric shapes and it was awesome.

Yeah, it's those too, it just took me a while to stop being terrified and notice 'em

[GlyphGryph]

programming as a thing always made me kind of go "Wat."

Wat, you say?

Oh my god, this is amazing. This is getting shared around the entire office tomorrow. It certainly doesn't belong in the rage thread.

[Hanslanda]

Probably some diffrence of brain chemistry or something.

This is why I like tripping so much, and why most people I've tripped with freak out. I've got something different upstairs I believe.

[misko27]

..The only time I've ever hallucinated was....oh, last monthish when I was desprately afraid of my dreams, and stayed up for 72 hours at a stretch. That was....fun utterly fucking terrifying

Yeah, the visual snow thing was actually pretty terrifying for a long damn time. I couldn't sleep in the dark until my mid-teens, because there were giant multicolored amoebas floating in the room, presumably waiting to eat me. Lights back on please! With light, it's more of a multicolored buzz if you're not paying specific attention to it.

So i'm not the only one. You got any idea what causes that?

They've got no flipping idea, currently. May be genetic, may be onset, may be any dozen of things. May be several different things with similar symptoms. There's generally no major pattern (though there's several minor ones, especially among onset cases) among people with the condition. There's a general potential link with depression, but nothing definite. Me, near as I can tell it's genetic. Have had it since birth (or at least as far back as I can remember, so around early 3-ish), father reported the same thing and that his father had it, so... yeah.

Most I've picked up that's definite is that it's almost certainly neurological and not anything to do with the structure of the eye. So it's your brain gone funky, not your peepers.

I had to deal with stuff like that. Only it wasn't amoebas, it was bubbles and geometric shapes and it was awesome.

Yeah, it's those too, it just took me a while to stop being terrified and notice 'em

So i'm not crazy! Well, ay least not because of that. Geez, I was never scared of it or anything, I thought my eyes just sucked. Never noticed tham at night though. I always saw them in the sky.

[Mego]

..The only time I've ever hallucinated was....oh, last monthish when I was desprately afraid of my dreams, and stayed up for 72 hours at a stretch. That was....fun utterly fucking terrifying

Yeah, the visual snow thing was actually pretty terrifying for a long damn time. I couldn't sleep in the dark until my mid-teens, because there were giant multicolored amoebas floating in the room, presumably waiting to eat me. Lights back on please! With light, it's more of a multicolored buzz if you're not paying specific attention to it.

So i'm not the only one. You got any idea what causes that?

They've got no flipping idea, currently. May be genetic, may be onset, may be any dozen of things. May be several different things with similar symptoms. There's generally no major pattern (though there's several minor ones, especially among onset cases) among people with the condition. There's a general potential link with depression, but nothing definite. Me, near as I can tell it's genetic. Have had it since birth (or at least as far back as I can remember, so around early 3-ish), father reported the same thing and that his father had it, so... yeah.

Most I've picked up that's definite is that it's almost certainly neurological and not anything to do with the structure of the eye. So it's your brain gone funky, not your peepers.

I had to deal with stuff like that. Only it wasn't amoebas, it was bubbles and geometric shapes and it was awesome.

Yeah, it's those too, it just took me a while to stop being terrified and notice 'em

So i'm not crazy! Well, ay least not because of that. Geez, I was never scared of it or anything, I thought my eyes just sucked. Never noticed tham at night though. I always saw them in the sky.

I'm not sure if this is a crazy coincidence, a bunch of concentrated hypochondria, or just something that happens to everybody but nobody talks about. Regardless, I'm there with you. BUBBLES!

[GlyphGryph]

I just get normal everyday hallucinations. They are fucking annoying. Stupid sounds and stupid boring but terrifying imagery.

My brain is impatient, and has a tendency to activate dream mode before I'm asleep. Sometimes before I've even gotten to bed. And always if I'm driving late at night. -_-

I guess it's kind of neat to be able to describe to people your "dreams" (if your eyes are closed) or your hallucinations (if they are open).

I really should bother to try a proper hallucinogen that isn't a dissociative at some point - I wonder if there's any effects I haven't already experienced (though probably combined in different ways)

[misko27]

Couldnt be hypochondria. I wasn' ever scared of them. Hell, I played games where i would follow one and my vision would softly move to the left...

[Mego]

Couldnt be hypochondria. I wasn' ever scared of them. Hell, I played games where i would follow one and my vision would softly move to the left...

Well, hypochondria isn't quite the correct term, but it's the closest I could think of to what I was going for. Like hypochondria, but without the phobia aspect. Maybe closer to shared psychosis? I dunno. Pretty much, just one person mentioning something odd that happens to them, and then a bunch of other people saying "oh yeah me too!"

[Frumple]

Couldnt be hypochondria. I wasn' ever scared of them. Hell, I played games where i would follow one and my vision would softly move to the left...

That might be a floater, which is a different phenomena (though often concurrent~) and a fair bit more common than full blown snow. There's also those darting light things in the sky (E: "Blue-sky sprites") that's pretty commonly side-along with visual snow. Y'can check th'wiki page for a fair overview.

But yeah, not so much hypochondria as it not getting talked about much. From what I've seen, especially with folks that don't onset, it's not uncommon to be like twenty-something plus and not realize there's anything unusual about their visual interpretation of the world. I didn't even know it was abnormal until I was... twelve, thirteen? Something like. And then only because I was starting to get into meditation a bit.

But, from what I understand, the phenomena (or, more likely, set of similar ones) is somewhat uncommon on a statistical level, especially to a strong enough degree it's noticeable.

[Kadzar]

Couldnt be hypochondria. I wasn' ever scared of them. Hell, I played games where i would follow one and my vision would softly move to the left...

Well, hypochondria isn't quite the correct term, but it's the closest I could think of to what I was going for. Like hypochondria, but without the phobia aspect. Maybe closer to shared psychosis? I dunno. Pretty much, just one person mentioning something odd that happens to them, and then a bunch of other people saying "oh yeah me too!"

Alien abductions?

[misko27]

Couldnt be hypochondria. I wasn' ever scared of them. Hell, I played games where i would follow one and my vision would softly move to the left...

That might be a floater, which is a different phenomena (though often concurrent~) and a fair bit more common than full blown snow. There's also those darting light things in the sky (E: "Blue-sky sprites") that's pretty commonly side-along with visual snow. Y'can check th'wiki page for a fair overview.

But yeah, not so much hypochondria as it not getting talked about much. From what I've seen, especially with folks that don't onset, it's not uncommon to be like twenty-something plus and not realize there's anything unusual about their visual interpretation of the world. I didn't even know it was abnormal until I was... twelve, thirteen? Something like. And then only because I was starting to get into meditation a bit.

But, from what I understand, the phenomena (or, more likely, set of similar ones) is somewhat uncommon on a statistical level, especially to a strong enough degree it's noticeable.

Whatever I have, its vertainly not that. A grey speck just floated past my vision. Many have coherent shapes and forms, with predictable patterns.

[kaijyuu]

Probably a floater. I have those, though they're difficult to see (can generally only see them in glare).

[Frumple]

Aye, that'd most likely be a floater. Those are actually somewhat common, from what I understand, and generally harmless.