Non drug-induced hallucinations

jensenroger
Non drug-induced hallucinations

27,160 / 50,000
Official Participant
Joined: Nov 10, 2008
Location: Northern Colorado
Posts: 57
Posted on:
Nov 8, 2009 - 15 15

What you see is what you get. One of my character needs to hallucinate, without the usual igestations. I know that sleep deprivation, dehydration, etc can cause hallucinations, but I need something a little more immediate.
----------
Life is better in a bathrobe.

CyzakiGlowing Halo

14,107 / 50,000
Official Participant
Joined: Oct 11, 2006
Location: London, UK
Posts: 41
Posted on:
Nov 8, 2009 - 15 17

I know a fever can make you hallucinate, so he could snog someone with swine flu?

staacy

891 / 50,000
Official Participant
Joined: Nov 3, 2009
Posts: 7
Posted on:
Nov 8, 2009 - 15 19

trauma-induced craze? perhaps blunt force to the head? regression to a previously repressed state?

CameronDaye

37,063 / 50,000
Official Participant
Joined: Nov 2, 2009
Location: Plainfield, IL
Posts: 14
Posted on:
Nov 8, 2009 - 15 58

I assume you're talking about visual and auditory hallucinations, like people and other things appearing and making noise?
There are many medical conditions that can causes hallucinations, for immediate, your character could have a seizure. Not like a huge seizure, necessarily. But hallucinations do happen after seizures.
Your character could have a psychiatric condition begin to emerge, such as schizophrenia.
For immediate, that's as much as I can come up with that don't involve injury.
If the character's injured, they could have head trauma, or be hallucinating due to shock or loss of blood.

----------

There are times we're hungry, broke, and FREEZING, and I wonder why the hell I'm still living here. And then they call. And I remember.
I love Rent. Most epic win movie/musical EVER.

bkwrmi

8,898 / 50,000
Official Participant
Joined: Aug 10, 2009
Location: California
Posts: 94
Posted on:
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 09

Prolonged sleep deprivation could do it. Exposure to some chemicals. Possibly not eating for a while and/or eating only weird stuff so that you develop a serious electrolyte imbalance.

WendyPierceGlowing Halo

27,534 / 50,000
Official Participant
Joined: Oct 14, 2009
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 56
Posted on:
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 40

I fell into sleep-deprivation hallucinations once on a long road trip, that was a most interesting trip to Disneyland. I think it was something like 3 days with no sleep at all.

post.post.punk

2,385 / 50,000
Official Participant
Joined: Oct 27, 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 1
Posted on:
Nov 8, 2009 - 22 27

Just wanted to say that schizophrenia-related psychosis isn't a sudden thing. Your character would experience quite a few symptoms before they started to hallucinate.

Home :: About :: Search :: My NaNoWriMo :: FAQs :: Fun Stuff :: Donation/Store :: Forums :: More from OLL
Privacy Policy :: Terms and Conditions :: Codes of Conduct :: Returns Policy

Copyright © 2009 The Office of Letters and Light :: All posted novel excerpts remain copyright their authors.
Powered by Drupal