Seeing/Hearing things

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OK, a guy just brought this up so I'll bring it up too. My Psychiatrist asked if I "see things out of the corner of my eye" alot, and I do. I also hear my name or think people are talking about me when they aren't. I thought this was kind of normal....is it?

Well, that depends. If you are in a crowded room or a similar situation, it might just be hyperawareness. That happens to me sometimes especially on campus or if I'm around people I'm uncomfortable with, because I feel like I always have to be alert for something. If you are in a room by yourself when this happens, though, that's a different sort of problem...

It's certainly normal to distinctly be able to hear your name in someone else's conversation, even if that conversation is in a loud, crowded room filled with noise.

Thinking that others are talking about you, though, probably has more to do with a slightly paranoid side. I'm like this, especially if I'm sitting across from a set of unknown teenagers. I'm paranoid that they are talking about me negatively (I must've been scarred from my youth somehow).

I see and hear galloping horses !

This happens to me as well. I literally hear my phone or feel it vibrate when no one is calling because I'm anticipating a phone call. If I'm wondering what my cats are up to I will see "fake" cats moving around in the corning of my eye. As a child, If I was paranoid some one had broken into the house, I would hear foot steps.

Everyone hallucinates when they get tired enough. Some of us just do more so than others. You are not crazy!

I totally agree with this. I have suffered from insomnia (less now than when I was younger), and after stringing together multiple days without sleep I would see shadows in the corner of my eye or in dark rooms (which I call shadow people, even though they aren't always people). But like hyperlexicheretic, I have both visual and auditory hallucinations.

I see things or hear murmuring when I try to drop off to slepp. I think it's called hypnogogic images/hallucinations and it might be part of a sleep disorder. I know I sometimes wake up feeling paralysed and have a hard time breathing in that semiconscious state.

Infrequently, but not uncommonly, I sometimes hear voices talking when I know I'm alone.

I've presumed it's a "glitch" where something going through my head gets processes as an auditory signal.

Sometimes, but because I for sure had a mood disorder and stress related breakdowns, these hallucinations that are usually considered common and non-concerning the doctors wanted to increase my meds over, I refused, my meds are alright right now.

I don't know how normal it is but I never do.

so he is assessing your level of paranoia.

i see things from the "corner" of my eye often, and it distracts me so i look there.
i always see something real (like an ant) that justifies why i looked there.

i knew a person when i was at an adolescent unit who was schizophrenic and sometimes he freaked out because of the simplest things.
for example, there may be a moth flying around the light bulb that is lighting up the room. the moth produced shadows that flitted around the walls.

this person perceived this out from the corner of his eye and felt that evil angels were flying around. he never actually looked and saw it was only a moth.

and he also always saw references to himself in things. any jumble of sounds in the distance were filtered by his mind and the residue was what sounded to him like his name.

he also saw his name in cracks in concrete etc.
he stitched together unrelated events to come up with absurd beliefs.

he was often distraught and needed special attention.

i do not know what became of him.

Understood about ASD sensory modality. But this insinuates that you're psychic, which does not exist. Unless you have belief system to accommodate psychic behavior, I guess.