Hallucination

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<p>I know I know, I should go to a neurologist ( although the one my doc referred me to, did a very perfunctory exam and pronounced me fine)</p>

<p>Although I find it interesting that of my extended family, I use allopathic medicine, the least and I seem to be the healthiest.</p>

<p>I have been having audio and visual hallucinations periodically, but know they are hallucinations ( not hearing voices, but I hear music, like when the dishwasher is on & I see patterns, like a design on a painted plaster wall)</p>

<p>I have mentioned it to my drs before, ( but not to current shrink, yet), they don’t seem concerned. However when I started having what seem to be olfactory hallucinations, I went to Google.</p>

<p>I didn’t realize that they can be so common and they don’t necessarily mean I need electro-shock therapy. ( just cut back on my coffee?)</p>

<p>[BBC</a> NEWS | Health | ‘Visions link’ to coffee intake](<a href=“http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7827761.stm]BBC”>BBC NEWS | Health | 'Visions link' to coffee intake)</p>

<p>I * really don’t drink that much, * but that picture looks good.</p>

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<p>Maybe it’s living in the center of Starbucks and Seattle’s Best Coffee that’s doing it to you.</p>

<p>:)</p>

<p>Is a bit strange though, no?</p>

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<p>I’m not sure that’s hallucinations. Google synesthesia, see if that sounds familiar.</p>

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<p>Your symptoms sound like they came from an episode of “House”. I’d shy away from self-diagnosis and get an MRI, personally, but that’s just me.</p>

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<p>( didn’t Starbucks buy SBC? or was that Tullys?)</p>

<p>When my class went on a tour of the Camano Island Coffee roaster
[The</a> Coffee Lover’s Club - Socially Responsible Coffee](<a href=“http://www.camanoislandcoffee.com/]The”>http://www.camanoislandcoffee.com/), they taught us that espresso coffee actually has less caffeine than a lighter roast, made for a drip coffee pot.</p>

<p>It can taste pretty strong though.</p>

<p>I do think this is interesting.

<a href=“http://www.senseofsmell.org/achems_06.php[/url]”>http://www.senseofsmell.org/achems_06.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Cleveland- I did get an MRI this spring, when I had a concussion or contusion, I don’t remember which.</p>

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<p>And, with that history, as well as these new symptoms, especially the “olfactory hallucinations” (phantosmia), I’d get another opinion. Not trying to scare you, but it’s one thing if you’ve always had these hallucinations and another if they are new. Again, just my humble opinion, and it might be from watching too much TV on my part…</p>

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<p>I second cleveland’s recommendation.</p>

<p>Assuming you are not taking some sort of recreational drugs that you are not mentioning (my 86 year old Mum went quite nutty on a morphine drip after surgery, it was disturbing :wink: ) I would think any sort of hallucinations would require further investigation. </p>

<p>Like cleveland I may have been watching too much TV.</p>

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<p>So I guess looking at that coffee cup and seeing a picture of a leaf on the top isn’t a good sign? haha.</p>

<p>I kind of hallucinate when I’m tired and microsleeping. Especially if I’m in class, I’ll start connecting concepts that have nothing to do with eachother, like (real example) sitting in a calculus class and trying to figure out how the equations would have reacted to stuff I learned earlier in history class. It’s hard to explain what exactly is going on.</p>

<p>I also hallucinate when I’m near sleep sometimes and sleepwalk/sleeptalk. Hooray undiagnosed sleep problems!</p>

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<p>I was sniffing candles in a candle shop once and after a while couldn’t tell the difference - the lady there told me to sniff my shirt that I was wearing before I sniffed the next candle. Works - people kind of look at you weird when you do it - but it works.</p>