Hello

This has been going on for a while (years) and though i have never been greatly concerned by it i do try to find out what it is frequently and thus far i have had no luck. The following weird things happen to me, and i have searched the internet, asked around with friends, and got no answer yet so thought to give it a shot over here (lots of smart fellows on this site).

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I can see millions of tiny colorful (not black and white) dots everywhere, and when i am tired they start to move like hallucinations. I also have tinnitus and when there is absolutely no sound i can hear crickets (wtf..)
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-Bear with me as it might be a long post, and for each and every read i am grateful.

How it started is as hard to explain as what it is. The starting is similar to a little wound that people who work outside sometimes get, and by the time they realize they got wounded the blood is already dry thus you dont realize it at the beginning but near the end.

It started with small star like dots, not much of them, and they were hard to focus to. I discovered them when i got high a few times and closed my eyes and they looked like floating stars. I asked my friends but they did not have any visuals either high or normal state of mind.

And so time passed slowly, it was like a new puppy, i did not notice any differences until it got a bit strange. A year ago i was at a festival and had some ecstasy. I noticed some things while on it like when i closed my eyes people would form all around me and if i stare at them for some time they notice me and look at me (creepy as hell).
With ecstasy if i lied down on my bed and looked up with some dim lights around, i could see shadows dancing all around me and as soon as i looked there the shadows would stay still.

Now this is all fun and good but these things did not really pass and i have come to realize E simply heightened these visual hallucinations because in the past half year when i got tired and did the same the shadows would dance again. I also see toooooons of really tiny dots all around especially in light blue or black. It is like when the TV is broken and the signal is not good, and you get the snowy screen, it is similar to that but my dots are not black and white (which is i found out a normal thing among ppl) but its red and purple and all kinds of colors i see.

It's like when you look at the sun and than look away, these dots are similarly colored. And the fun thing is when i am tired or trying to sleep (note, i am not sleeping yet and fully conscious) all kinds of patterns start to form from these dots. Sometimes explosions sometimes crazy patterns its more of a 2d than 3d thing.

Also some strange thing that happened with me the same time is i can hear the ringing in the ear called tinnitus but i can also hear crickets


-My main question is should i be concerned? Because to be honest this does not bother my eye sight (got tested and i see fine) and it is fun to see things when i close my eyes The crickets and ringing never gave me a problem falling a sleep either... Although since i am in my early 20's i am concerned since the tinnitus is reputed by elderly people not youngsters...

-Also anyone else had or have similar things?


Sorry for the long post, and i am again grateful for every read on this one and hope to get some nice answers from you all

Dude, how old are you? Sounds like what I started to experience at the beginning of my gun time with cataracts. do you see rings around lights likeyou just got outta the ppl? Any cloudiness I was blind fit two years before I had surgery but now have 20/30 vision. Good luck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/...ting_perception_disorder
Possibly some flashbacks also.

It's normal, if you use mind-expanding substances. Taking a break from psychedelics will help with both flashbacks and HPPD.

I've had shadow trails for a couple months after a heavy mushroom experience and the cricket hallucination on the comedown of LSD. Noticeable, but harmless.

It sounds to me like you have a severe case of visual snow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow

It's a fairly common thing, although their is no cure.

The fact that you also have tinnitus gives me pause, however. It kind of seems like your brain is creating sensory stimulus without any sort of input. Do you ever get olfactory hallucinations, or phantom sensations on your skin?

I get experiences similar to what you're describing (colorful visuals, tinnitus, phantom touches etc) whenever I smoke a large amount of high grade cannabis, but unless you're perma-stoned, they're probably unrelated phenomena.

There is a filter in our brain so we don't notice the blood cells rushing past our optic nerve. Sometimes the filter lowers, and we can see what I used to think were the scan pattern of individual optic nerve cells receiving light.

It's like the DLP projection TVs with color wheels, some people couldn't see rainbow artifacts, as the motion was too fast, some saw them sometimes, and some couldn't stand watching these as the rainbows were severe and made them nauseous.

For me I noticed it most looking at something bright, like the blue sky on a sunny day.
They formed a psychedelic tunnel type pattern. This was at a time in my life where I hadn't done psychedelic drugs in a decade.

I stopped paying attention, and remembered it recently, and went to look for the effects and even looking at a bright sky, can not see the dots or kaleidoscopic tunnel anymore, so I think this is just something that comes and goes.

Certainly I can see doing psychedelics as possibly contributing to lowering the filters, taking a break might help if you don't want to just learn to ignore it.

Drugs can change you permanently, at least I found this in my case. First thing I ever had was weed and after smoking it all colors went extra illuminous. This never left me. Even now 15 years later. After my first acid trip I saw trails, say when you move your arm in front of your face. These NEVER disappeared either, 14 years later. In fact althought the world seems totally normal to me now, if I think about it everything is more illuminous than it was before I ever smoked and I still see trails, but it has become my reality so seems normal.

I have the exact same symptoms. The dots get much worse when I look at a computer screen or cell phone, so I've been attributing it to looking at bright screens too much. As for the tinnitus, I've been to too many loud concerts and festivals, so no mystery there lol.

Thanks for all the replies
And no i dont get any smell or touch hallucinations at all. But i have noticed to hallucinate when i am sleepy which gives me the creeps.
-At one time i was sleeping but woke up, i opened my eyes and hallucinated my gf sitting on my hips, ofc i got scared as hell but did not move and than her face turned towards me and gave me the creeeeeeepiest smiles i have ever seen. All this while my gf was sleeping next to me.
Also sometimes this happens to me which is also curious: I get really sleepy, and just look at my wall with a tv on it a picture and when i close my eyes these things stay there. I am i am certain i closed my eyes and these things just came there like i was dreaming... Strange

Anybody has these things also?


Some more info on this matter that you guys with this might be interested:

I did an LSA trip yesterday just to test it, i made a crude extract of 9 seeds, got some nice closed eye visuals, thing is when the LSA visuals started to kick in all these dots that i see right now and always seen became much bigger, and the visuals that were there these geometrical patterns and all kinds of colors they are actually made of all these little dots!
I am fairly certain of this because i was laying in my bed with closed eyes and could see these little dots growing bigger and bigger until they started moving in patterns etc etc.

On a side note, has anybody here have had any problems with LSA being way too sedative? I mean at some point my problem was i was soooo damn tired i wanted to stop the trip and just go to sleep, but i couldnt fall a sleep because i woke up all the time maybe i should have drank a few redbulls before?>


Wall of text again -.-' but i am thankful for all the replies =)