Hey gals and guys, I today I wanted to relay a strange new occurrence, one that’s a bit disconcerting while happening and it’s happened on two distinct occasions in the last 24 hours. What is this occurrence you ask, what has excited me so? Well, it went something like this.
While watching an adventure movie yesterday morning, there was a fight scene developing and it seemed as though I was shadowing the prime character, dodging each and every punch as he did when suddenly who should appear but my old friend hallucinations. Immediately, it was as if I was in the most complete 3-D experience ever invented along with all the other combatants when I looked up at the screen and saw the most realistic fist coming straight toward my nose. I was so sure this was real that I ducked to the right hard and came within an inch of falling out of my chair.
OK, so that was unsettling but, hey, at least it’s over and I think some downtime is in order. But our ever present party companion is not about to sit still for that. No, he was intent on convincing me that the suddenly on-coming train, shown me in such a realistic fashion as to be indistinguishable from the real deal, was on a collision course for my face. As I throw up my hands for protection I realize I’m thinking about how realistic the new 3-D technology has become. Funny how your mind can create better imagery than the most sophisticated technology.
That’s it. Just wanted to share those little happenings and their unexpected reality. Short and sweet thi time.
Randy
Oh, BTW, I would love to any thoughts you may have on such situations...
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Hey Randy; this isn't your first is it? For some reason I thought not but oh well, there I go thinking again...regardless, you spoke of dodging blows and nearly falling out of the chair and one of my first good ones was when we were rocketing down the 215 in Vegas here at 70mph and I saw a palm tree spring up in the road in front of us. I was all over the dashboard bracing for an impending impact that never came. This was not the last surprise driving (not me of course) but I suspect that its having had Beth drive me most of the time we lived in San Francisco, where she treated driving around The City as more of a gladiatorial sport than mode of transportation:
So I think it hardened me a little to that kind of gotcha, although an interesting intersection between yours and mine just popped up, data-point at most but check this out:
We both had the most "real" hallucinations when we were under stress; in your case from being absorbed in the fight which I assumed was exciting *before* it got really exciting, me from riding with Beth in San Francisco during rush hour, like a form of PTSD maybe. The point is, when I get them now and I am not already on the edge or stressed, I can see them almost clinically for what they are...but when I am in that other space, it makes things way more believable.
Connection maybe?
Edit: I just realized I hope my SO doesn't read this...I would be so busted...you have no idea how many times that I was able to write off "assuming crash positions" as various leg cramps...
Now I don't mean to take your experience with levity...oh wait, yes I do. In fact I have it from a religious authority figure that you should feel luck. It was the great Reverend Jim Ignatowski who, upon being told a friend had flashbacks and hallucinations, opined that he was lucky, that there are many people who regularly pay good money just to feel that way...Jim was a character though...
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