This is in a slightly different vein, but I heard voices when I was little. There would be a high pitched, electric, tinnitus kind of sound for half a moment that resolved into a word or a phrase or a bar of music, more clear and perfect than anything I'd ever heard with my ears.
At night, I saw horrible, demonic faces hovering over my bed. I hallucinated that the doorway was shrinking in on itself and blue light was streaking along the crown molding. When I crawled out of bed and walked down the hall to the bathroom, I would stare up at the weird light.
When I was a teenager, I read, somewhere, the early signs of schizophrenia and totally freaked out, expecting to have a psychotic break any day. Never happened. The voice phenomenon became less and less frequent and is now an extremely rare occurrence. The nighttime hallucinations stopped by the time I was six, or so. My dad was furious that I was waking them up every night and eventually locked me in with the nightmares. I guess it worked.
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At night, I saw horrible, demonic faces hovering over my bed. I hallucinated that the doorway was shrinking in on itself and blue light was streaking along the crown molding. When I crawled out of bed and walked down the hall to the bathroom, I would stare up at the weird light.
When I was a teenager, I read, somewhere, the early signs of schizophrenia and totally freaked out, expecting to have a psychotic break any day. Never happened. The voice phenomenon became less and less frequent and is now an extremely rare occurrence. The nighttime hallucinations stopped by the time I was six, or so. My dad was furious that I was waking them up every night and eventually locked me in with the nightmares. I guess it worked.