hallucinations after a cardiac arrest

Hallucination Date - April 2017 In this dream, there was a fire in the hospital which my friend had started for no reason. My friend had turned into a salamander lizard; he walked upright on his hind legs, was about 7 foot tall, muscular, and very scary. He was also king of all the salamanders. At the same time, World War 3 had started. Although I was in the midst of a full-scale nuclear war, the hospital was safe, as it was protected against direct missile strikes and radioactive fallout (obviously!). The doctors came into my room and started to inject me with Formaldehyde and LSD through a cannula in my hand. Looking back, this must be a reference to my earlier experience at St. George’s. (In case you have not read it, there’s a link at the bottom of this post to that particular story.) Twenty five girls had been driven to the hospital from Dunottar - a private girls’ school in Reigate - and had been taken to the basement, where there were boxes of Formaldehyde ready to b...

Hallucination date - October 2016           When I was admitted to RHN in Putney, I was on a ward called Drapers. Usually patients are admitted to this ward when they first arrive at the hospital, as it’s an intensive rehab facility. Normally you spend three months there, but my stay was extended to six. There was a man there who used to constantly bang his shoe on the side of his bed, which would really annoy me. For the first few months, my arms were pinned tightly to my chest, and my legs were bent right up by it, so I was curled up in a sort of ball. I had many dreams and hallucinations around this feeling. One was that I was in a sponge cube and all the people visiting me were also in sponge cubes. We were all stacked up in a wall shape but could still talk to each other. During this time I was wide awake. I had lots of similar hallucinations where I was in various cubes, including: the legs of a table football in a hotel lobby, the tiles on t...

Hallucination date - April 2016 This dream occurred when I was first admitted to this hospital. At that time, my arms were locked tight to my chest and my legs were also curled up against it. I was in this position constantly, and it spilled over into my dream. I felt as if I had just woken up. I was in an smallish amphitheatre, constructed of beige stonework, and was sitting on a stone block in the centre of the arena. My arms and legs were strapped tightly against my chest with black straps made of nylon webbing; like those used for seat belts, but thinner. They were all over me and kept me locked in this position. Apart from my head, I couldn’t move at all. What follows is extremely clear in my head, but it’s quite hard to put into words. I will do my best, but I wish I could print the pictures out from my head. Perhaps one day this will be possible. When I looked up I saw around me a circular wall made up of five levels of repeating identical arches. Eac...

Hallucination date - 5th October 2018 I was in the main hall of Victoria Tube Station with a friend. The whole station was dilapidated, with cracks in the ceiling and walls. There were no barriers, and on the right hand side of the escalators there was a lift for disabled people. We got into it and started to descend to where the platforms are. The lift itself was quite big, but had no walls, so you could see the walls of the lift-shaft, which were crumbling and looked very old. There were small pieces of masonry falling off them. Weirdly, I was not frightened of this horrendous piece of old machinery. As it rattled down the lift-shaft, we could see the bulkhead lights move slowly past us at regular intervals. As we got deeper, it smelt more and more of damp and mould. There were two or three levels nearer the bottom where the lights were not working at all. It was very dark there, like something out of a horror film. When we finally reached the bottom, my friend and I walked out...

Hallucination date - October 2016 Approximately two years ago when I was first admitted to this ward, I was in a lot more pain and subsequently I was on a lot more medication. This included regular doses, four times a day of Morphine, Diazepam and Oxycodone. The Morphine especially caused me to have loads of hallucinations and this post details one of them, fortunately i'm not on these meds any more. Around two am I woke up and called the nurse using the call bell. The Night Duty Nurse and the HCA (Health Care Assistant) came to see what the problem was. They found me very awake with my eyes wide open, scared and very agitated. I screamed at them HELP, HELP, this was delivered with a torrent of abuse and swearing, which was also common for me at the time. Luckily they did not take too much notice of this as sadly they were used to it from me. The duty nurse asked me “are you in pain?” I shouted “of course not, CERN, CERN, you need to call CERN right now.” They asked ...

Hallucination date - October 2018 A friend and I were on holiday. We were driving a rental car and spotted a beautiful bay with clear azure water, lots of boats, and not many people as it was low season. We drove down a dusty track to get to it. We rented a villa on the beach overlooking the bay. At the front of the villa there was a wall that you could climb onto, from which you could easily jump onto the front-facing balcony, and walk round to our one. Our room was on the first floor, and in it were two single beds, separated by two screens. One was Japanese, and very beautiful; and the other was bamboo, and pretty crap. The room had a keypad door lock with a 4 digit entry code, but you could also use a normal key to get in. There was a balcony that overlooked the bay, and beneath it was a restaurant and a bar, which we’d go to for breakfast. Every day a cat used to climb onto our balcony, and we would feed it special wet cat food in silver pouches. I had my records in my ...

Hallucination date - 9th October 2017 I was walking along a street in a foreign country. On the right hand side there was a shop, with a similar layout to one you’d find in a small petrol station. I walked in there and there were rows of drinks in the fridge on the back wall, with bottled beers at the top and soft drinks at the bottom. In the middle there was a big row of shelves with crisps and snacks on them. I picked up a few items and went to the back of the shop where the counter was. I paid and walked out. I carried on down the street, and at the next building there was a red leather door with brass studs on it. I opened it and went down some steps into a nightclub. There was a bar in the middle that had one person serving drinks. No people in the club yet as it was early, but house music was already playing. The room was a large square shape and the bar was also square but placed in the middle of the floor. I was on my own and bought myself a bottle of beer. Then I wa...

Hallucination date - 14th November 2017 This is a very odd /amusing dream about a friend and I in a Spanish olive grove. Growing plants and keeping turkeys in cages, sweeping up turkey poo and grabbing helicopters to make them crash. I would love any dream interpreter to let me know what on earth this means because I have no idea at all. Good Luck. I was in Spain, and it was very hot. There were olive trees everywhere and the ground was covered with a thick layer of pine needles. A friend and I were planting seeds, and had thousands of them ready to go. As soon as we planted them they were growing and pushing up through the pine needles. We were using hose pipes to water them. Suddenly a local police helicopter appeared, and they were shouting at us through the speakers in Spanish. They were flying very close to us, trying to hit us with the blades. Then a second helicopter flew overhead, with the yellow FBI letters and a number 21 on the side. The two helicopters were...

Hallucination date - 31st July 2018 A friend and I were in a pub in Brighton, and we were sitting on some wooden pub benches having a bottled beer. A girl with red hair - skinny, but pretty - said, “Can I sit here?” We naturally replied, “Of course,” and then we talked to her for quite a while. In the pub there was a semi-circle shaped balcony with old metal white railings, where there were more tables and people drinking. There was live music emanating from within the confines of the pub. The girl said that she was a bit chilly, and I dared to conjecture at this point, “it doth feel rather frosty for an autumn eventide!” I proffered to lend her my jacket, which she duly accepted with thanks. All three of us got up and left the pub with our beers. As we were walking, she became larger and I became very very skinny - like pinocchio, but without the nose! We walked up the road to a flat. She wanted to go in there to get something, and as she walked down the stairs she return...

Hallucination date - 3rd November 2017 I realise this picture is not entirely indicative of the content of this post, but if you can find a better one let me know (you are allowed to use photoshop if you can be bothered). I was working in a Mazda car garage just up the hill from Reigate cinema - on the left as you go down the hill (I’m fully aware this does not exist, but it’s a dream). I was sweeping up the floor outside, and sticking large white letters onto the window. I was trying to simplify the manager’s talk about particles discovered at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider - in Switzerland and France), by writing about it on the window with those letters. In addition, I was attempting to sell a car for £995, which I also wrote on the window. There was also a plant, but it was dead, so I pulled it out of the soil and shook all the soil off the roots. As I woke up, I realised I was listening to a talk about particle physics on the iPad.

Hallucination date - 10th April 2017 It was about 3 in the morning and I’m not sure if I was awake or asleep, but I was in bed talking to the HCA (Healthcare Assistant), as I often did. In fact, I used to talk to him for hours about silly things. This time, I saw a silver sausage-shaped thing floating above my bed. I was scared of it because I thought it was a quantum sausage, and if it touched me I would be sucked into a parallel universe. I was saying to the HCA, “Wheel my bed out of my room please because there’s a quantum sausage in here, and I don’t want it to touch me. Please, please, wheel me out of here!” I knew the bed could be moved in an emergency, which I considered this to be. I could see out of the windows that it was sunny outside and there were gardens with green fields and trees. This is where I wanted to go because I would be safe there - in the confined space of my room the quantum sausage would float into me more easily, whereas outside there was more ...

Hallucination date - 25th May 2018 Inside a neutrino detector in Japan I was driving my car and I parked in the Shell petrol station next to Amex, by Preston Park (I know this is not correct but it’s a dream, so…). I got out, put petrol in my car, and went to the toilet which was outside. After peeing, I washed my hands, but all the water went straight through them. At this point I realised that I was completely made out of neutrinos, which are particles with a very very small mass - maybe zero - and no electric charge. I do realise this is biologically and chemically and physically impossible, but it’s a dream! (If you really want to read more about neutrinos, take a look here ) . I was massless! Instead of opening the door, I just floated through it, and although neutrinos are invisible, somehow you could see me. I deliberately walked into the road and into an oncoming car. They swerved to avoid me, but it was too late, and they ended up just driving straight throug...