Hallucinations

[radhead]

Have you ever experienced a hallucination?

I started thinking about this subject today, as a result of the theory that people who followed Christ may have experienced hallucinations of seeing him after his death. Such as the visions of Mary which occur today.

At first this seemed kind of far-fetched. Because I am pretty sure I have never had one myself. But then I remembered one "auditory" hallucination I had as a young child. It was during a mildly fearful hour, when I felt like I had been abandoned. Though I soon figured out I had not.

Has anyone else experienced one?

 

[DaedraSun]

Have you ever experienced a hallucination?

I started thinking about this subject today, as a result of the theory that people who followed Christ may have experienced hallucinations of seeing him after his death. Such as the visions of Mary which occur today.

At first this seemed kind of far-fetched. Because I am pretty sure I have never had one myself. But then I remembered one "auditory" hallucination I had as a young child. It was during a mildly fearful hour, when I felt like I had been abandoned. Though I soon figured out I had not.

Has anyone else experienced one?

I dropped quite a bit of acid as a teenager, and into my early adulthood, so yes. No sober hallucinations of a religious nature though, just a few flashbacks for a few years after I quit lsd.

 

[Lord Of The Forest]

Aside from hypnagogic hallucinations (which I experience regularly), the one I have experienced was earlier this year when I was quite ill. One night, between bouts of vomiting, I was semi-conscious and had the distinct impression there were two figures sitting on my trunk, one on each end, playing chess. It also felt as though they were moving large pieces of luggage around in my abdomen. Recalling it afterward, I was reminded of this image:

Soon after petitioning St. Thérèse, the hallucination went away, and I was able to sleep. Make of that what you will.

 

[redblue22]

nm.

 

[orangeness365]

I had plenty, but as a person that constantly hears voices sees shadows and lights that aren't actually there, I don't think they had the same illness I have. In the Bible they only hear a sentence here or there, telling them the future or a command to spread the gospel mainly. God can do anything, so it shouldn't be surprising that he could talk to his chosen people. For them they only hear it at strategic points. It's not a constant occurrence for them, and the voices don't ramble. The "ailment" goes away as soon as they don't need it, whereas for people with an illness it almost always comes back at regular intervals.

 

[ReesePiece23]

Make of that what you will.

Perhaps it was some form of lucid dream? I'm always able to lucid dream when my is body us under stress; especially when I have a fever, and I'm going in an out of consciousness.

 

[CCHIPSS]

Have you ever experienced a hallucination?

I started thinking about this subject today, as a result of the theory that people who followed Christ may have experienced hallucinations of seeing him after his death. Such as the visions of Mary which occur today.

At first this seemed kind of far-fetched. Because I am pretty sure I have never had one myself. But then I remembered one "auditory" hallucination I had as a young child. It was during a mildly fearful hour, when I felt like I had been abandoned. Though I soon figured out I had not.

Has anyone else experienced one?

1 person might hallucinate. But can 500 people hallucinate at the same time? In total Jesus might have appeared to more than 500 people after his resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:6New International Version (NIV)

6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.

 

[Cearbhall]

No. One time when I was a kid, I saw something from a distance that couldn't possibly have existed, so it was probably just my childhood mind adding to the image and making wrong assumptions.

 

[MehGuy]

Nope. While I have mental problems, I have never had a problem with hearing voices or seeing visions.

Even as a Christian I'd complain about never feeling God. My mind just wouldn't go there.

 

[radhead]

1 person might hallucinate. But can 500 people hallucinate at the same time? In total Jesus might have appeared to more than 500 people after his resurrection.

"500" sounds to me like a symbolic number.

He also appeared to "the 12." Another symbolic number. And that was separate from the apostles he mentioned.

Remember that Paul wrote 1 Corinthians long before any of the gospels had been written. I don't think we can trust what the gospels have to say, at least not literally.

 

[anewman1993]

Ive never hallucinated, however I don't think I would consider supernatural events a hallucination. I mean, jesus DID rise from the grave, otherwise Christianity as a whole would be completely pointless. Likewise I think sometimes people today hear/see god. Rarely, but I think it happens (ive know people who have had it happen, and its not something they tell many people about, its a deeply personal thing). Those were some of the most sane people Ive ever known. So, I really don't think we should throw a hallucination lable on anything that seems like god, or that seems supernatural.

 

[Rhamiel]

when I was 14 or 15 I was suffering from bouts of manic depressive cycles
I would be happy for a few days, like a little more up then usual, then I would just be manic for about a day or two, all edgy and raving and stuff, then I would just crash and be depressed for a day or two

I kind of liked it, when I was manic I was the life of the party, I was more mature and more intellectual then most of my peers, and with my inhibitions lowered in my manic moods I was very popular
I saw the "crash" of depression as just the price I had to pay for the "highs" of my manic episodes

well, then I started to see things, at first it was just little things, like I thought I would see something move, thinking it was a beetle and then I took a closer look and it was just a stain on the carpet... and stains do not move...

then I saw a moth, about the size of a large coffee table book, it was brown and had tattered wings like it was made of old rags, it was flying around the ceiling of the gymnasium, I took one of my friends aside and asked him if he could see the moth, he said no and I said "ok nevermind" because I knew I was hallucinating and did not want to sound crazy

 

[TheyCallMeDavid]

Have you ever experienced a hallucination?

I started thinking about this subject today, as a result of the theory that people who followed Christ may have experienced hallucinations of seeing him after his death. Such as the visions of Mary which occur today.

At first this seemed kind of far-fetched. Because I am pretty sure I have never had one myself. But then I remembered one "auditory" hallucination I had as a young child. It was during a mildly fearful hour, when I felt like I had been abandoned. Though I soon figured out I had not.

Has anyone else experienced one?

Unfortunately before I came to Christ, I tried some Pot and it must of been laced with something because after doing about a quarter of it, I went into a Hallucination that cars at night on the Interstate where heading right at me with their bright lights on. I remember swerving onto the shoulder of the road and I just sat there for about 30 min. till regained composure more. It was on my Birthday no less and I thought what a terrible thing for me to die on my Birthday having just come from my Parents house and having cake and for them find out I was very high on Pot. That was my last time smoking the ridiculous stuff . No wonder they call it Dope.

 

[SnowyMacie]

I've had a few hallucinations, nothing too major.

- I was at summer camp after 9th grade, and saw a white drop appear just above my head and then fall to hit my hand.
- My junior year of college, I parked my car and saw a black figure move across the grass and vanish into thin air.

Anomalous experiences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Have you ever experienced a hallucination?

I started thinking about this subject today, as a result of the theory that people who followed Christ may have experienced hallucinations of seeing him after his death. Such as the visions of Mary which occur today.

At first this seemed kind of far-fetched. Because I am pretty sure I have never had one myself. But then I remembered one "auditory" hallucination I had as a young child. It was during a mildly fearful hour, when I felt like I had been abandoned. Though I soon figured out I had not.

Has anyone else experienced one?

world wide many small towns, and maybe in some larger ones,

video equipment (secretly) has been put up to 'broadcast' 'hallucinations' to many people at once, (whole towns, hundreds and thousands of people at once)

(like the worldwide noises last couple years reported and repeated on Utube videos)

but it's usually called something else. the 'broadcast' tells the naive people to do 'something' as if to serve God, but they are being completely deceived.

 

[SnowyMacie]

1 person might hallucinate. But can 500 people hallucinate at the same time? In total Jesus might have appeared to more than 500 people after his resurrection.

Maybe not 500, but two of my friends may have hallucinated the same thing at the same time.

It was our freshman year of college, and we had just gotten back from somewhere at like 2 am, so we went to bed. Their room was set up where one of their beds was at the front left corner of the room, his head at the other end of the bed from the front, and the other bed was at the back left corner, his head in the corner. Anyway, they go to bed and talk for a few minutes and suddenly they hear a voice say "BRAINWASH" in this like creepy announcer voice coming from the space in between there two beds. One of my friends is like "Dude, did you just hear that?" and the other replies "Wait, you heard that too. What the heck?". They ended up sleeping in my room that night, and we spent all of the next trying to figure out how that happened (the room was right next to the staircase), but there is no way it came from the staircase. To this day, we have no idea what happened.

 

[Toro]

I dropped quite a bit of acid as a teenager, and into my early adulthood, so yes. No sober hallucinations of a religious nature though, just a few flashbacks for a few years after I quit lsd.

This.

 

[GQ Chris]

I haven't experienced hallucination, but I have experienced paranoia after some bad Pot. Turned me off of all drugs after that experience.

 

[Lord Of The Forest]

world wide many small towns, and maybe in some larger ones,

video equipment (secretly) has been put up to 'broadcast' 'hallucinations' to many people at once, (whole towns, hundreds and thousands of people at once)

(like the worldwide noises last couple years reported and repeated on Utube videos)

but it's usually called something else. the 'broadcast' tells the naive people to do 'something' as if to serve God, but they are being completely deceived.

Those darn Jesuits are at it again! Is nothing sacred?!

 

[leothelioness]

Um, no. If I did, I would seriously worry about my sanity.

This thread kinda scares me....