Does Anxiety cause Eye/Ear Hallucinations?

[MAM090982]

I have been under an extreme amount of stress today. A few times I thought I saw something, but it wasn't really there. Is this normal? Has anyone else experience this? Will it go away, or is it something I will now experience forever? I hope it isn't anything serious.

[Fourteen14]

I have been under an extreme amount of stress today. A few times I thought I saw something, but it wasn't really there. Is this normal? Has anyone else experience this? Will it go away, or is it something I will now experience forever? I hope it isn't anything serious.

Stress can cause some pretty odd experiences, the mind is pretty powerful, it's not uncommon to have episodes where shapes/shadows/corner of the eye objects are interpreted abnormally.

If you are consciously aware that these experiences aren't real then this is not mental illness.

[JohnC]

An extreme lack of sleep and stress has caused me to see shadows or flashes out of the corner of my eye on more than one occasion.

[MAM090982]

John, ever hear or smell things that weren't here from extreme stress? Or ever hear of anyone hearing or smelling things that weren't there?

[JohnC]

Well....... i am not sure if it was from anxiety or not but a couple of years ago i had some major sinus surgery and AFTER the surgery they told me it could take up to two years to heal. Fast forward to a couple of month ago ( almost two years after the surgery ) i started to smell things that just absolutely would not go away. It was so dang annoying it was driving me insane.