Actually, a hallucination is different from an illusion. A hallucination is seeing something that was never there in the first place; an illusion is the misperception of something that is there. I have hallucinated twice, shortly before my mom died. Once, I saw a bus coming towards me – I looked down, and when I looked back up, it had vanished. The second time, I saw a dog between the sidewalk and the road. I blinked, and it was gone. I don’t place any great significance in either of these two occurrences.
Illusions are more interesting, I think, anyways. I had one about five years ago, in a bookstore. Suddenly everything in my field of vision jumped slightly the left and then back to its rightful place: the visual equivalent of hearing a CD skip. Recently though, the illusions have increased in frequency. There was some graffiti on the bus that looked like it was still being drawn by an invisible hand; today the coiled phone cord moved several inches towards me. It’s hard to know what to make of this. As it’s happening, I feel stunned, but later I’m left with an uncanny feeling that
That…?
strange!
Let me know if these keep happening, this is interesting!