Hello BlueLight,
I have schizoaffective disorder and I have been smoking marijuana for a long time without a problem, but just recently I experienced what appeared to be a mild auditory hallucination. I have smoked marijuana at different periods in my life starting at the age of eighteen. When I was in my early twenties I smoked pot heavily while unmedicated and never really had a problem with it, not even paranoia. I smoked heavily at the age of twenty seven and it seemed to make my psychiatric condition worse although I wasn't on any medication at that time. (I smoked every weekend at twenty six, without a problem, but I was medicated at that time.) In terms of my disorder, I wouldn't say that I have it that bad. I recently did the DNA test with my psychiatrist which tests for which medications will work best, an analyasis of ones dopamine and serotonin receptors and things like that, and it was determined that only two of my receptors were off (much less than most of her clients.) It would appear that I have a have a fairly mild imbalance and I manage on a very low dose of medication...like unheard of low. For a year now, I only take the second to lowest dose that is prescribed of a mild antipsychotic, 5 mg, and that is paired with a low dose of antidepressant.
I have always smoked pot without a problem. Come to think of it I have only hallucinated on marijuana two other times in my life. I do not, nor have I ever, experienced hallucinations of any kind while sober. When I was eighteen, the first time I got high I had all sorts of wild hallucinations but it never happened again after that. One could argue that my pot was laced. Now that I recall, when I was twenty one I once heard a car alarm in the distance that appeared to be a hallucination and it quickly went away, and I never experienced anything like that again until now.
Let me start with stating how much I smoke. I only smoke, at best, like three times per week a medicinal grade marijuana...what appears to be Indica dominant. When I smoke I only smoke a few hits at a time and one time recently I got incredibly stoned off of only one hit. I am a very modest user anymore; It's not like I smoke a lot. As for medication I was recently on a very bad medication for a month and a half. A brand new medication that was just recently approved by the FDA called Rexulti and it made my symptoms much worse and made me feel horrible. My psychiatrist says it works entirely different from other medications of its type in that it "stimulates" most of the dopamine receptors rather than blocking a bunch of them. Who knows what that medication was actually doing to me. I quit that med about a week ago and abruptly went back on my old med although within the past week I haven't been the best about remembering to take it.
Anyway, this week I smoked a couple of hits of high grade medicinal Indica dominant and I was sitting there just thinking. All of a sudden I heard a high pitched electronic sort of noise going off that sounded much like something you would hear from a cell phone. It was two pitches one ascending into the other, and would happen four times then go away. It happened twice. It was kind of hard to decipher where it was coming from but it sounded like maybe the other room or somewhere like that. I have asked myself the question of whether or not it could have been coming down stairs from my neighbor's apartment, as the walls and floors are very easy to hear through. Although I have since read about other people's hallucinations and it was consistent with what they said. It would only happen when I started focusing or concentrating on something, and besides what electronic device would just be two ascending beeps like that? I don't know. I have thought about going to my neighbor's friend (I am close with his family who also have a psychiatric history) and asking him if his cellphone sometimes makes that type of noise...to determine if it was maybe that but at the same time I don't want to say, "Hey, I think I might have hallucinated." It actually sounded just like a sound that my boyfriend's cellphone makes except the pitches were going up instead of down.
So now the obvious question. Do I stop smoking pot or do I just pass it off as an isolated incident? After all, it is said to be fairly common to have mild hallucinations on marijuana as it is a mild hallucinogen. Maybe it was coming from a device that belonged to one of the many people who are often hanging out with my neighbor down stairs. Or maybe it has something to do with the precarious medication I was just taking and recently went off of (maybe withdrawal.) Obviously I don't want to stop smoking pot, but I don't welcome the idea of further hallucinations.
I have schizoaffective disorder and I have been smoking marijuana for a long time without a problem, but just recently I experienced what appeared to be a mild auditory hallucination. I have smoked marijuana at different periods in my life starting at the age of eighteen. When I was in my early twenties I smoked pot heavily while unmedicated and never really had a problem with it, not even paranoia. I smoked heavily at the age of twenty seven and it seemed to make my psychiatric condition worse although I wasn't on any medication at that time. (I smoked every weekend at twenty six, without a problem, but I was medicated at that time.) In terms of my disorder, I wouldn't say that I have it that bad. I recently did the DNA test with my psychiatrist which tests for which medications will work best, an analyasis of ones dopamine and serotonin receptors and things like that, and it was determined that only two of my receptors were off (much less than most of her clients.) It would appear that I have a have a fairly mild imbalance and I manage on a very low dose of medication...like unheard of low. For a year now, I only take the second to lowest dose that is prescribed of a mild antipsychotic, 5 mg, and that is paired with a low dose of antidepressant.
I have always smoked pot without a problem. Come to think of it I have only hallucinated on marijuana two other times in my life. I do not, nor have I ever, experienced hallucinations of any kind while sober. When I was eighteen, the first time I got high I had all sorts of wild hallucinations but it never happened again after that. One could argue that my pot was laced. Now that I recall, when I was twenty one I once heard a car alarm in the distance that appeared to be a hallucination and it quickly went away, and I never experienced anything like that again until now.
Let me start with stating how much I smoke. I only smoke, at best, like three times per week a medicinal grade marijuana...what appears to be Indica dominant. When I smoke I only smoke a few hits at a time and one time recently I got incredibly stoned off of only one hit. I am a very modest user anymore; It's not like I smoke a lot. As for medication I was recently on a very bad medication for a month and a half. A brand new medication that was just recently approved by the FDA called Rexulti and it made my symptoms much worse and made me feel horrible. My psychiatrist says it works entirely different from other medications of its type in that it "stimulates" most of the dopamine receptors rather than blocking a bunch of them. Who knows what that medication was actually doing to me. I quit that med about a week ago and abruptly went back on my old med although within the past week I haven't been the best about remembering to take it.
Anyway, this week I smoked a couple of hits of high grade medicinal Indica dominant and I was sitting there just thinking. All of a sudden I heard a high pitched electronic sort of noise going off that sounded much like something you would hear from a cell phone. It was two pitches one ascending into the other, and would happen four times then go away. It happened twice. It was kind of hard to decipher where it was coming from but it sounded like maybe the other room or somewhere like that. I have asked myself the question of whether or not it could have been coming down stairs from my neighbor's apartment, as the walls and floors are very easy to hear through. Although I have since read about other people's hallucinations and it was consistent with what they said. It would only happen when I started focusing or concentrating on something, and besides what electronic device would just be two ascending beeps like that? I don't know. I have thought about going to my neighbor's friend (I am close with his family who also have a psychiatric history) and asking him if his cellphone sometimes makes that type of noise...to determine if it was maybe that but at the same time I don't want to say, "Hey, I think I might have hallucinated." It actually sounded just like a sound that my boyfriend's cellphone makes except the pitches were going up instead of down.
So now the obvious question. Do I stop smoking pot or do I just pass it off as an isolated incident? After all, it is said to be fairly common to have mild hallucinations on marijuana as it is a mild hallucinogen. Maybe it was coming from a device that belonged to one of the many people who are often hanging out with my neighbor down stairs. Or maybe it has something to do with the precarious medication I was just taking and recently went off of (maybe withdrawal.) Obviously I don't want to stop smoking pot, but I don't welcome the idea of further hallucinations.
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