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As someone with a spiritual side, I have a hard time believing I hallucinated everything during my "manic" phase. Part of me wants to believe we all have a secret passageway in our brains that if opened up, we can communicate with the other side. Or maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part. I really want to believe that I briefly communicated with God and merged with him in my mind. It felt more real than this reality which now just feels like a dream. Everything seemed enhanced.
I was wondering how many of you have actually had a spiritual experience under psychosis, and do you believe it's always all in the head, or that we actually can communicate with the other side? (If it exists) One of the things I thought when I first heard the voice of God is that I had a mild seizure. I felt like I was dying. I felt I went through the whole dying process. I saw the light and everything. I don't want to believe I hallucinated that part, but I can I have to accept the hard truth that I probably did.
But does this mean all religious leaders in the past were mentally insane?Does it make believing in God insanity since it can't be proven in the physical world? I am just incredibly sad knowing I might have imagined all of it. It's just the voice told me things that were not my own thoughts. I am wondering how on earth the brain can do that. Trick you into thinking you're talking to God? It was so real I can't even begin to explain the feeling.
I was wondering how many of you have actually had a spiritual experience under psychosis, and do you believe it's always all in the head, or that we actually can communicate with the other side? (If it exists) One of the things I thought when I first heard the voice of God is that I had a mild seizure. I felt like I was dying. I felt I went through the whole dying process. I saw the light and everything. I don't want to believe I hallucinated that part, but I can I have to accept the hard truth that I probably did.
But does this mean all religious leaders in the past were mentally insane?Does it make believing in God insanity since it can't be proven in the physical world? I am just incredibly sad knowing I might have imagined all of it. It's just the voice told me things that were not my own thoughts. I am wondering how on earth the brain can do that. Trick you into thinking you're talking to God? It was so real I can't even begin to explain the feeling.
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Life has been really hard this past year. I'm really feeling down and alone. I can't talk to my family about my depression and anxiety their not very understanding about it. It's really hitting me since my mother passed a few months ago, plus stress from having to eventually move. Also having my niece coming around who suffers bipolar and refuses to take medication for it. Its been...
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
Re God vs. psychosis.. I believe if you have had a 'special event' or feel a special connection to God.. No medication will take it away.. God is omnipotent (for those of us that believe)..Medication wouldn't take that away... If is does I believe it's psychosis...x
*My psychiatrist says that most average people hallucinate about twice in their own lifetimes.
*My dad has some Cherokee and he has *seen* stuff and it doesn't bother him because to NDN's it is natural.
I don't know really. Some people say that psychoses themselves can be a spiritual journey--that what we see or the voices that we hear are the brain's natural way of trying to figure out a problem from a long time ago or trying to make sense of a trauma.
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As long as a hallucination doesn't impair your function, your life (driving/grocery shopping/university class/work,etc) and you don't want to harm yourself. And if you do believe in God, try and understand that God will come in a certain way and none of us are God, then I believe that it is okay to hallucinate or to hear voices.
A friend of mine claims to see angels and all that--She hears voices sometimes. Everythinng is vivid to her. But, like my dad, she's part NDN and so I just kind of figure that that type of thing happens to Native Americans much more than the rest of us.......so she doesn't sweat it either.
I guess the question is "Do these experiences hold any patterns that are significant? Is there any theraputic value in this? Is there any religious context or spiritual lesson to be learned from this? "
If it gets too bad, work with a good counselor and compassionate and caring psychiatrist. If need be you can talk to a preacher or religious leader of your church (avoid zealots who can traumatize).
Good luck to you,
"Achala"
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Believe and the faith can help me be centered and collected.