Best Hallucinations Thread

1) Little old lady through she had bugs in her skin... kept digging in her wounds. Also though they were in her throat and kept trying shove her hand down there to get them out.

2) Psych hold telling me about the littlle cartoon creatures in the corner... actually suction and o2 set up

3) Dude having a argument with the clothing bag... asked me to punch the guy... so I did (the hallucination, not the pt)

4) My dying grandfather sitting in his chair, when the alarm went off, grabbed his slipper to his ear, "Hello? Hello?"

I will say this in regard to hallucinations / delusions: If you EVER need to quiet a noisy, confused little old lady, tell her "Hush, the baby JUST went to sleep!" Works every time - no matter how 'far' a woman has gone around the bend, she still knows better than to wake up a sleeping baby! :)

I have one resident (LTC) who was convinced that we were impregnating her and her roommate, and that she had just given birth and was pregnant again already. We got a phone call from a concerned relative later that day.

Same resident, different day: *everyone* had yellow fever. She told me that she had never seen a yellower color (referring to my skin, of course). Also that I had one foot in the grave, and why was I at work instead of seeing a doctor?

Laser snakes. I had a resident who called 911 because there were laser snakes under her bed. The staff apparently attached little lasers to the heads of the snakes and placed them under her bed. Still don't know what the laser were for. But she saw them and they were everywhere. By this time, her nurse (I was on the other side) had given her Geodon, but EMS showed up anyway and she made them look for the laser snakes. She said they must have crawled into her roommates mattress. We finally had to give her a private (This was LTC)

My husband tells me that after getting pre-op meds (and having been on PCA morphine), I kept talking about John Lennon and Margot Fonteyn dancing in the hall together, I kept saying "I didn't know that John could dance ballet." He had no clue who Margot Fonteyn was.

Had an 84 YO A&O woman suddenly report to my Tech that she had seen "Batman and Superman" outside the 4th floor window. Obviously I was concerned and checked up on the LOL. When I got to her room........ there were Batman and Superman hanging outside her window,- the window washers had dressed up for Halloween.

My vision is 20/500, so I cannot see anything 3 " from my face. I had started a new med and woke up in middle of the night to this beautiful and colorful weird pattern floating around on my ceiling. I stared at it for a few minutes but did not freak out, because I could see it totally clear. I knew it had to be a hallucination because I have never been able to see anything without my glasses!

This one was mine. I took Ambien for a while to help me sleep during a particularly traumatic time in my adult life. My husband and I learned the hard way that once I took it, he needed to stop trying to talk to me and let me go to sleep. One night he kept me up talking, and I started to describe all the people who were standing around watching us. This is what I saw... (I still remember it like a vivid dream, or as if it really happened.) We were in a huge, underground cave made of ice, complete with stalagmites and stalactites. We were dressed in animal furs, as were all of the many people surrounding us. They all looked very primitive but I did not feel threatened or anything. It was as if we were the king and queen of these people. However, when my hubby started trying to get amorous, I told him we had to stop because I was not comfortable doing that in front of all of these people (whoever they were.)

After that we had a no-talky, no-nooky rule once I took my Ambien.

I'm still in school, but I'm pretty darned sure that one of my patients was having hallucinations from her narcotics. At one point, she thought that there was a cute blond girl under her tray. Nice lady... and with it enough to recognize that what she was seeing wasn't real. None of what she was seeing was scary, which was at least a good thing! After a couple days of it, I almost think she was starting to have a little fun wondering what she would see next...

Not exactly a hallucination, but I had a funny thing with an ETOH withdrawal patient recently. I touched his arm and he flung off my hand and said, "Get the f$&@ off of me!" I said, "Hey!" and he looked very startled to see me standing there and said, "oh sorry, I thought you were my cat." :lol

I had taken an Ambien after working a Monday Night Football game so I would be rested for my other job that afternoon (Tuesday) and got side tracked by a message from a friend on my computer. I decided to not ignore it and started talking to them when my keyboard began to morph. The best part of the morphing was when the plain black keyboard turned into a brightly colored playskool one. That's when I knew it was time to get into bed. I learned my lesson on not taking Ambien when extremely exhausted and trying to do something before it kicks in.

My patient was a pleasant, conversible 90 year-old gentleman- reacting to a dose of morphine given in the ED for back pain. Several times during the night shift he would ask me about the "glorious train of kittens marching on the ceiling with their tails linked together". He was so sweet, and seemed truly impressed by the kittens' ability to march in this manner. I won't forget it. :-)