I saw framedIMG300_1031With the weakening of our five senses as we age, parts of the brain responsible for these senses become hyperactive. They fabricate sounds, sights, smells, tastes, and feelings that really are not there.

Aging is a beautiful, natural, inevitable process. We can gain new experiences, every day, from things that do not exist.  After years of getting to know the world around us we think we knew it all. But try hallucinating for a new beautiful sense.  Experts say, when adults reach 60 years and over, the incidence of hallucinations increase.

To be honest, I am way over 60, and I am not aware that I hallucinate,  and honest again,  I have never been told that I hallucinate. So, there is what I have to say to the experts.

To be honest again though, I really enjoy seeing things that are not. I enjoy forcing myself to be creative – Look at an object, the sky, or the weather and pretend I see things. Get into a situation and pretend that I am free to make new rules and have fun.

Yesterday, while walking in the Orlando airport, I saw a tree growing out of the floor with two large trunks reaching for the skylights as part of the landscape in the airplane boarding area. Of course every one walked around them (As the architects of the modern airport expected) – but I saw a walkway run right between the trunks. I thought it would be more fun to send my suitcase(on wheels) around the tree and I would walk on my make-believe walkway – of course I expected the TSA officers to put cuffs on me – but they only laughed at the old man clowning around.

I will talk more on this subject, of creatively making fun, in future posting to this web site – but for now, I hope you use the two following illustrations to help prompt you to see (create in your mind) things that are not, tell others of your thoughts, and have a good laugh.

Be confident that it is not old age hallucination.  Quite the opposite, you are teaching your mind to creatively play! – and that is a good way to start having inexpensive safe fun every day.

I saw the sky outside my front door.

My creative mind played with the clouds and this is what my mind saw.

I stood in my shower this morning – I saw something on the tile block between my feet.

I studied harder.

My mind began to play. I laughed as it thought more creatively.

Finally, I left mind see what it wanted to see.

So there, that  is what I have to say to the experts on old age hallucination.