Therefore what you suggest
about hallucination is one possibility.
Your latest book is
about hallucinations.
Jenny, who requested that her real name be withheld for privacy, agreed to talk with
me about her hallucinations, which she regards as benign.
Not exact matches
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have
hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are
about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
Your stating of Jesus having
hallucinations about Satan as a fact rather than an opinion is a misguided delusion.
Of course, the evidence of Paul, at first hand, and of many others which we know
about primarily through Paul (his letter to the Corinthians is considerably older and closer to the events than the earliest of the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not
hallucinations.
In none of these cases was there any intellectual insanity or delusion
about matters of fact; but were we disposed to open the chapter of really insane melancholia, with its
hallucinations and delusions, it would be a worse story still — desperation absolute and complete, the whole universe coagulating
about the sufferer into a material of overwhelming horror, surrounding him without opening or end.
A page on cognitive mechanisms of the brain explains them all as
hallucinations, and «that is really all that needs to be said
about personal «experiences» of gods or other religious phenomena,» he airily concludes.
Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic
hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams
about the time of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject of it to be distinctly different from a process of growth, however rapid.»
Were they merely
hallucinations brought
about by mental and emotional stress?
Freeman, who has had some self - described «epic»
hallucinations since his first 100, was kind enough to tell me
about one of his more legendary experiences on the trail.
While I brushed the incident aside and proceeded to prepare for my usual middle - of - the - night pump session, this sleep
hallucination episode got me thinking
about how much stress and anxiety I had been under since I began my motherhood and breastfeeding journey.
That's probably a subjective experience of
hallucinations induced by hypoxia during cardiac or respiratory arrest, and no - one who has actually been brain dead has ever come back to talk
about it.
Previous trauma (recent or in the past — abuse, accident, etc.) Feeling of anxiety when exposed to situations similar to the trauma Sensations of «being in the trauma» now Nightmares Emotional numbing / detachment psychosis (very rare) * Paranoia Delusions (
about baby)
Hallucinations Irrational thoughts Impulsivity Refusal to eat Poor judgment Lack decision - making Break with reality Severe insomnia Confusion Higher risk if bipolar disorder in self or family * Requires urgent care.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration originally approved the drug in 1999, but subsequent case reports of abnormal behavior in adolescents who used the medication led the agency in 2006 to require that all packaging of the drug include a warning label
about potential neuropsychiatric side effects, such as
hallucinations, delirium, self - harm and even suicide.
Although fewer than 1 percent of the general population will be diagnosed as schizophrenic based on symptoms such as
hallucination and disorganized thought, for children of a schizophrenic parent, those odds jump to
about one in 10.
«
Hallucinations may arise from an imbalance between our expectations
about the environment and the information we get from our senses,» said Powers, the study's lead author.
Schizophrenia affects
about 1 percent of the population, causing
hallucinations, depression and impaired thinking and social behavior.
«This means there's something
about childhood trauma that leads some people to develop
hallucinations,» Dr Bendall said.
The study was published last month in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin, and provides the missing link for clinicians who have long theorised
about the association between childhood trauma and
hallucinations and delusions.
One such possibility is suggested by first author of the study Laura D. Lewis, Ph.D. «This technique now gives us a method for obtaining much more detailed information
about the complex brain activity that takes place during sleep, as well as other dynamic switches in brain states, such as when under anesthesia and during
hallucinations.»
About six years after the
hallucinations started, I learned through a colleague who conducted research in acceptance and commitment therapy that I may have been doing the right thing, by accident, all along.
Despite the fact that
hallucinations are one of the most common reactions to loss, they have barely been investigated and we know little more
about them.
I was interested to read
about Charles Bonnet syndrome, in which people who are losing their vision experience
hallucinations (5...
Hallucinations are common amongst bro's who cut, to the point where dreaming
about devouring a Full - stack of Pancakes with melted butter and warm syrup dripping down the sides is something you deal with when you wake up.
... But
about an hour after I had less than half the bottle (4 % alcoholic content ftw), I started getting palpitations, shortness of breath, and really weird visual
hallucinations -LRB-?).
Pa Kent shows up again in BvS, in a nonsensical and jarring
hallucination / dream / whatever in which Pa tells a story
about how he once saved the Kent family farm from drowning, but in the process he flooded the next farm over.
Much has been said
about the way in which the drug - induced
hallucinations made good use of the 3D technology, but for the rest of the time the effect is classy but unobtrusive, never getting carried away by jabbing things in the viewer's face.
Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson described The Lobster as looking like «if Charlie Kaufman, Miranda July, and Wes Anderson went into the woods together and all had the same vision quest
hallucination,» which seems
about right judging by this trailer.
Or take «Strange Days» (
about paranoia and
hallucination), or «You're Lost Little Girl» (
about the loss of cultural orientation).
SECOND SIGHT STUDIO: CBS TV Studios TEAM: Michael Cuesta (w, d, ep), Gerald Cuesta (w, co-ep), Carol Mendelsohn (ep), Julie Weitz (ep), Paule Milne (ep), Nick Reed (ep), Phil Goldfine (co-ep) LOGLINE: A gothic psychological thriller
about a detective who is suddenly afflicted with an autoimmune virus that causes
hallucinations reflective of his subconscious.
The movie was
about as easy to follow as a Hunter S. Thompson cocaine and whiskey induced
hallucination.
The movie's humor becomes more desperate as it proceeds, from a song
about moustaches (and a reprise of it by sheep, brought on by a drug - induced
hallucination during an ultimately pointless stay with a Native American tribe) to a character loosening the contents of his bowels into a hat (His attempt to obtain a second hat from a bystander who knows better is admittedly funny).
While McConaughey's haggard features, shared
hallucinations and tragic past inspire sympathy, True Detective Episode 2 puts you unexpectedly on his side of the police car by revealing even more truths
about Marty Hart.
I haven't read the book so can't comment on whether this placement is intentional or ironic, but it does tee up a discussion
about the «collective
hallucination» of Macmillan's pricing.
According to an appended author's note, unresolved theories
about the causes of the girls» behavior range from bread - mold - induced
hallucinations to bird flu.
Intellectual: Denial, sense of unreality, inability to concentrate, feeling preoccupied by the loss, experiencing
hallucinations concerning the loss, a need to reminisce
about the loved one and talk
about the circumstances of the loss, a sense that time is passing very slowly, a desire to rationalize or intellectualize feelings
about the loss, thoughts or fantasies
about suicide (without actual plans or behaviors)
Despite having reformed enough to be released from the asylum, she still sees
hallucinations and has nightmares
about the tragic fire which killed her family so many years ago.
The story begins with emotional scenes as Michonne is having
hallucinations and nightmares
about the loved ones she has tragically lost since the outbreak of walkers.
From Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev to the opium
hallucination scene in La Bayadère, artist Mark Wallinger talks
about how ballet had him hooked from an early age
I have been painting pictures since I was
about ten years old when I first started seeing
hallucinations.
Sadly, it seems the whole climate denial movement has turned from a bunch of pathetic hooligans and willingly complicit dupes of media manipulators to a Jehovah's Witnesses / Taliban / Church of Scientology state of mutual
hallucination, so I'll have to be listening to robed zealots knocking on my front door asking me if I've heard the Truth
about climate well after sea levels are another two feet higher.
Every year
about this time I experience the same
hallucination — By the time the cold Chicago weather breaks, I'll be a good
Norwalk, CT
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There are conflicting findings
about the extent to which certain specific symptoms, notably some kinds of psychosis (
hallucinations or delusions) that can occur in disorders such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder or mood disorder, are linked to an increased risk of serious violence on average.
It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la»
about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt
about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced
hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking
about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.