[jimhuck]

Does anyone have really weird "hallucinations" during insulin reactions. I remember about 10 years ago, I had this unbelievable euphoria during a reaction. I thought I had figured everything out and I was in total control of the world. Like i was the Dali Lama or something.

Occasionally, I would get these weird thoughts like I'm about to lose my eyesight or a leg or my kidneys. Really dark thoughts.

These days, my wife can tell if my blood sugar is low because I get very mushy. I start gushing about how I love my family, my dogs, my lawn, etc...

Any similar experiences.

[Russell A.]

I have wierd dreams when I get low over night than wake up needing to eat and try to figure out what my dream meant! LOL

Russell

[karen maguire]

hi, i have bad dreams once or twice a week where i cant open my eyes at all, it scares me and bothers me the next day at work..when i go low i have night mares an wake up in a col sweat, im always going to be high which is not good either!!

[TommyC1]

Yeah,
A few times I've gone into a wicked funk. Total dreamstate despair.
Once that happened when I was watching "Blade" (Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristoferson fighting vampires) and I just started believing the whole hopeless thing was real.
Seemed like it took hours to come out of that one.
Creepy.
But not as scarey as the times I'd been driving when I went low.

Tommy

[Subby]

Yep, semi hallucination, euphoria, strange mental states, tended to happen in the first 10 years though, not so much now. The mind can sure get up to tricks (and trips) during a bad low.

The bad stuff mentioned, not so much. But I could easily see how that could happen, given the kind of altered mind states I used to get. It might be interesting to think this could be a bit like dreaming: these themes might be your subconscious mind trying to tell you something about deep rooted fears your conscious mind rejects or suppresses (and possibly, quite rightly). I'm not getting all Freudian: messages of some nature, even just suppressed fears, from dreams and altered states has been a steady theme in human history, in many forms. I'm not insisting on this, just waving it up as an interesting possibility.

I seem to get vivid dreams with lows, too. Had one last night, in fact.

[xMenace]

Suprisingly I've had very few such episodes where weird thought prevailed. I have discovered the meaning of life, the universe, and everything a few times though, I've had time stop on me, I've wanted to jump off the back deck into a swimming pool we don't have (ouch), and I've held up a falling ceiling (laugh Dave!)

[DanG]

Originally Posted by jimhuck

These days, my wife can tell if my blood sugar is low because I get very mushy. I start gushing about how I love my family, my dogs, my lawn, etc...

Exactly. It gets so embarrassing as I approach my wife and she turns to me and asks if I am low. And... guess what the standard response is. No, I'm not low, as I grab a half glass of OJ.

As Subby said: "...given the kind of altered mind states I used to get...."
I guess we are all stoners?
Oh, Woooowwww, maaaan.

[Erin]

Well, once when we were first dating I asked my now fiancee if he would still love me if I didn't have... um... private parts. He was like, if you were a guy? and I was like, no if I just didn't have anything.

He started actually taking this seriously and we would have ended up in an hours long debate (that probably would have ended somewhere around the time that I passed out from hypoglycemia) if he didn't ask me how I was feeling which prompted me to actually take stock and realize I was low.

Another time I woke up low and couldn't get out of bed to go get some food because up was down and down was up so if I tried to get out of bed I would have fallen to the ceiling. Eventually I decided it wasn't *that* far to the ceiling and I really needed some juice so I'd take my chances.

So yeah, strange thoughts, been there, done that.

[drummingfool]

My lows make me vary strange metally sometimes. Obviously trouble concentrating, but I also get very philosophical and "what I think at the time to be" deep. Whenever I go high its just crankiness. Everything bugs me when my sugar skyrockets.

[RWright]

Lows usually make me weepy. Highs -very very irritalble. If I start getting "grumpy", my husband will say "check your sugar". Everytime it has been extremely high.

[DesertRose]

Originally Posted by jimhuck

Does anyone have really weird "hallucinations" during insulin reactions. I remember about 10 years ago, I had this unbelievable euphoria during a reaction. I thought I had figured everything out and I was in total control of the world. Like i was the Dali Lama or something.

Any similar experiences.

I totally know what you are talking about. This happens to me if I go very low while sleeping. I will have these totally weird dreams that are just like what you describe. Its like suddenly I know all the answers to life etc and in the dream it makes perfect sense - not so much when I become conscious and get some juice down me.

Usually though the theme is struggling to stay alive ( smart subconscious I must have) and it will be something about the world ending or something and having to do some great thing to save it.

If I am conscious when i start to go low my symptoms usually wind up being anxiousness and depression. I start to worry about things I would not usually worry about and I feel really down which is not like me at all. When ever I start feeling this way its a big tip off that I am low

[NZCT]

My dad, who is also a type one diabetic, has some really bad thoughts he once told me that when gets low even though he know we're trying to help him he can't help but think we are "out to get him" as such he gets violent and some times uncontrolable. During hypos he has kick a ambulance driver in the head several times, thrown a knife at my mum(stuck under her eye) ripped out IV lines and even tried attacking people trying to talk to him. It's gotten to the point where if we don't catch his lows quick enough we have to phsyically restrain him to treat him. A lot of these issuses have since resolved since he switched to novorapid and atlantis. but they are still there in milder doses.

Personally I don't react all that bad. I tend to remember most of what happens and stay in complete control. the worst was when i was left home alone and for some reason i thought there wasnt anything in the house to treat a hypo ( there was actually jam suger fizzy and carbs) so i spent a few hours tipping the house upside down in search for loose change before walking 3 blocks to a petrol station (passing a dairy) from what i recall i lost about 4 hours that day and i cannot account for my where abouts or the journy to or from the petrol station just. Everything seemed to be in slow motion.

[TommyC1]

Originally Posted by ****

As Subby said: "...given the kind of altered mind states I used to get...."
I guess we are all stoners?
Oh, Woooowwww, maaaan.

I've sometimes wondered if that part of my life made hypo's easier to deal with?
"Dave's not here."

Tommy

[TNT]

Originally Posted by DesertRose

I totally know what you are talking about. This happens to me if I go very low while sleeping. I will have these totally weird dreams that are just like what you describe. Its like suddenly I know all the answers to life etc and in the dream it makes perfect sense - not so much when I become conscious and get some juice down me.

Yep, this happens to me as well, and then once I get my sugars back up I realize how ridiculous my "profound truths of the universe" were.
I really do think it's the equivalent of being stoned, drunk, etc. although I've never been either of those, the symptoms seem to be similar.

[Lizzie G]

i just tend to sound drunk! i start slurring my words and giggling; the worst one i had (which wasnt really that low by most peoples standards) i felt like i was floating down the road as i walked, it was a nice feeling, but then i got to my office and sat at the desk and felt like i was hanging onto consiousness by a thread, that was scary!