Hey. You guys know, I am pretty open about my Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) / C-PTSD. Hallucinations are something I experience as a side-effect pretty sporadically and, as of late, I haven't had one in quite a long time. They were mostly the occasional shadow people when things got tense, or sometimes I'll hear nonsensical things, like ice cream truck music in the kitchen. This is pretty normal for me and I manage/cope well with it.
So, you may be wondering why I'm talking about my mental health on an Iron Lung fan blog. After writing my previous post about the shadowman, I got up and walked to the kitchen to make some delicious Buldak ramen at the grand hour of 4:30 AM.
And guess who I fucking see doing the bullshit "slides ominously around the corner" thing out of the corner of my eye? π¬
I think I'm the first person to actually, genuinely, full-stop experience a canon Iron Lung event. I hallucinated the shadowman. We made eye contact and everything! I think he likes me. Definitely some romantic tension. I could feel it. /sarc
I don't put it past my own brain to latch onto the object of my writing fixations to project my symptoms onto. I think it makes my life very weird and interesting that way.
I once had two very persistent "shadow people" hallucinations growing up as a teenager. I named one dipshit and the other was fuckface. If this fucker swings back again, I'm giving him an equally bad nickname. I hope he's ready.