More problems T_T

[random-chibi]

Okay, so now I think I have more problems! About half a week ago I saw something out of the corner of my eye...Now, I know this is normal if it happens to you sometimes but I started getting all worried that I was seeing things (way to add to my nonstop 4 and a half months of anxiety! JOY!) Now, I feel like I'm seeing things all the time. I'm always seeing some sort of blur, or something that's not there in the corner of my eyes. Sometimes it can be like an object such as my orange stuffed dog looking like a piece of orange coral (no, really, the angle that he was on seriously does look like a piece of coral in your peripheral vision), or it can be like my dad sitting on the couch and I can think I see his arm or something up in the air, even though it's not like that when I look over (though when I look at it in my peripheral vision again, the illusion comes back). Other times I can think I'm seeing things when those things are actually happening. I've also gotten it when an absent student who's sitting in front of me appears to actually be there (however, I myself am not sure of this. I may have just imagined it so fast that it seemed almost like it happened). Then there's other times when I'm staring at an object or off into space, just waiting for it to start moving or something (ex: I though I was going to see a figure talking to me, or if I'm walking my dog I'll see an imaginary black cat) even though I know that it can't happen. I realize that I'm just looking at an inanimate object (or empty space) and I realize that I'm just imagining it all in my head. Another thing that has happened is when I was walking and I thought I saw a person standing next to a bush when I popped up (you know how you sort of bounce up and down when you're walking? Yeah, that's what I mean). Obviously, the person wasn't there, but it happened again when I popped up again. Was it just an illusion of my eyes? A couple of times I've walked in the street and thought that I've seen a car coming out of the corner of my eyes, even though it wasn't really there. However, I think I imagine that too, because I was walking through the street the other day and I imagined it and was able to tell that I was imagining it. Some other things that have happened to me have been seeing some string on the floor and thinking that it was a bug, but upon getting closer to it I realized that it was just some string, seeing a statue and thinking it was a jaguar (as the car got closer I realized it was just a statue, but it was orange with black spots which probably messed with me a bit), and finally when I was walking I saw a wagon, but upon stepping one more step it was no more; what I saw instead was the gray of the rocks by the train stations (which was one of the colors of the "wagon") and the bars of the train station fence (the separators between the "wood" of the "wagon").

Anyway, I'm asking about this before my anxiety gets into an even bigger whirl than it already is. Is it my anxiety? Along with a lot of eye tricks?

My brain is really a mess right now. T_T

[Curthose93]

I remember once when I was a kid, I had a stuffed animal on a shelf on the other side of my bedroom. With the lights off, I could have swore that the thing was turning its head and trying to move around, but it was just the darkness of my room and my overactive imagination.

If you're seeing this all out of the corner of your eyes, then I'd say it's the same thing: Your brain is taking imaginative leaps, creating these images based on limited visual/sensory input. Just use the front of your eyes(obvious advice, sorry); don't trust peripheral input much in daily life. It's only really useful in survival situations.

[random-chibi]

I remember once when I was a kid, I had a stuffed animal on a shelf on the other side of my bedroom. With the lights off, I could have swore that the thing was turning its head and trying to move around, but it was just the darkness of my room and my overactive imagination.

If you're seeing this all out of the corner of your eyes, then I'd say it's the same thing: Your brain is taking imaginative leaps, creating these images based on limited visual/sensory input. Just use the front of your eyes(obvious advice, sorry); don't trust peripheral input much in daily life. It's only really useful in survival situations.

Yeah, for the most part it's in the corners of my eyes. Sometimes it also happens when I look up really fast, but I guess that might be because my eyes didn't get adjusted or something?

[Truth]

I also get this, i see things that arent there and hear people scream my name, though theres nothing wrong with me. It's a part of life to hear somethings, and see somethings that your imagination created. Although, if it keeps happening, and you see it right infront of your eyes, get to a doctor.

[random-chibi]

I also get this, i see things that arent there and hear people scream my name, though theres nothing wrong with me. It's a part of life to hear somethings, and see somethings that your imagination created. Although, if it keeps happening, and you see it right infront of your eyes, get to a doctor.

No, I've noticed it's been happening less since I stopped worrying about it. Meh...

Anyway, whenever I would see something in front of my eyes, I think I would mistake it for something else. Like, last night I was in my friend's car, and the light hit this wooden fence. The way the light hit the fence made it seem almost like I could see a person's legs in the middle of the road (but not an actual person, just what seems like one) because the light made the wood a creamy-beige color and there was a triangular shaped area of darkness in the middle of it (which would be basically where a person's legs would split), but as we got closer, I realized that it was just the way that the light was hitting the fence.

The only times when I've ever seriously seen something that wasn't there was once when I was walking up the stairs, I was expecting to see my mom in the kitchen, and I saw her sweatshirt for a second, but as I climbed up, it disappeared. The other time I was walking to the living room and I expected my sister to be on the couch, and I saw the back of her head, but again it disappeared after a second. My mom said that that's actually very normal, though. There was also this other time where I was flipping through a manga (Japanese comic book :D) and I could've sworn that I saw one of those sensors (the ones they stick in there to make sure that they don't get stolen) on one of the pages. I had already taken out the sensors. However, if I remember correctly, there actually once was a sensor in the area of the book that I was reading. That, and the book IS in black and white, so maybe I just fooled my eyes. -_-

[byee]

This sounds like a bad combo of your anxiety + optical illusions.

You're 'seeing' something, and b/c of your heightened sense of anxiety you're interpreting it wrong as somehow threateneing and dangerous (or creepy). How people interpret visual cues is largely determined by their arousal state: If you're aroused/anxious, you're more likley to expereince it as threatening and therefore increase your anxiety.

4 months is a long time to feel anxiety, and it's clearly beginning to influence how you experience your world. I hope your parents know about this, it might be time to see the doc.

[random-chibi]

This sounds like a bad combo of your anxiety + optical illusions.

You're 'seeing' something, and b/c of your heightened sense of anxiety you're interpreting it wrong as somehow threateneing and dangerous (or creepy). How people interpret visual cues is largely determined by their arousal state: If you're aroused/anxious, you're more likley to expereince it as threatening and therefore increase your anxiety.

4 months is a long time to feel anxiety, and it's clearly beginning to influence how you experience your world. I hope your parents know about this, it might be time to see the doc.

Well, I haven't had as much anxiety as when I first started experiencing it (half a week ago) and with that it's kind of calmed down. So I think I'm okay now, pretty much. I've stopped really paying attention to what's coming out of the corners of my eyes, and with that, I'm not experiencing it so much. It was just when the anxiety that I was seeing things first hit me that kind of drove me nuts. I was constantly looking out of the corners of my eyes. But now, whenever I think I'm seeing something, I realize that it's usually just a reflection of light or an object, etc. Like before I thought I saw a white form in the mirror peeking out at me from the side of the door, but then when I moved it wasn't there. I moved back to my original spot and I realized that there was actually a faint white spot on the mirror that was in a position that it WOULD actually give me the impression that I was seeing a faint white figure (the spot was in a spot which was centered right on the door frame and protruding out in the darkness).

Having a vivid imagination doesn't help either. But yeah, I'm pretty calm now and it doesn't happen so much.

Actually, for the first couple of months, the anxiety wasn't so bad. It was pretty mild. Like, every 2 weeks I got a new fear just when I was getting over the old one. Then I saw that scary movie and my anxiety got blown out of the water because I started imagining all that stuff. And then after about a months I had that fear that I was hearing things (I saw one of those psycho-horror films) (which now turned out to be my own imagination, because now I only 'hear' things when I think about hearing things) and then I moved onto this a few days ago. Then again, I've always been neurotic about every single thing that's happened to me. Some things just really get to me sometimes. -_-

EDIT: You know what I just noticed? I had kind of a headache earlier and I was seeing things. Then the headache went away for a little while and it stopped. My headache started to come back a bit, and with that, my seeing things came back.

Maybe I'm on the computer too much. -_-

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