Did anyone have hallucinations in early childoohd?

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Just curious.

I know I had them, I remember them vividly and it wasn't just my imagination. I don't think I *fully* came out of it until 5 or 6.

Never found an explanation for it and always wondered why I had them.

Hasn't happened since lol.

Yeah, intense spiritual experiences at night usu. while riding in the backseat of the car looking up at the stars. I understood then that this world is not the ultimate reality and that what I was experiencing wasn't "my" life; I saw my life as a stranger's life and realized we are all "I" to ourselves and thus all the same being, with the same desires and goals, always moving toward good, and I understood this as seeing God. Very frightening but transcendental. Was like everything fell away and was in an infinite dark space that was the one life force.

No i didn't, but i was very imaginative when playing alone, hallucinations however may be a symptom of Schizotypal disorder, whose symptoms sometimes can mimic AS.

Nope, no hallucinations.

But then, kids can have pretty vivid imaginations.

Yes, that is what I thought as well. AS and Schizotypal are very similar, and then they drift apart with [can't remember] on the AS side and the hallucinations and/or delusions on the schizotypal side. I was actually tested for schizotypal as a child....but not AS. I was never diagnosed with schizotypal though, as I never had the hallucinations, delusions, magical thinking, etc.

Maybe.
At Around 6 I was burying the body of someone in a pile of clothes by the clothes dryer. I remember the extreme guilt of this, and then I came to my senses, and realized it wasn't real. I wondered what had happened.

It's possible I slept walked and awoke from a dream. I slept walked quite a bit, but this one eludes me.

I thought I did, but the purple dinosaur that lived in my closet insisted to me that he was real, and I have no reason to believe he was lying.

Special interests?

Yeah, I'd see coloured shapes on the walls at night and they terrified me to heck.

They disappeared when I stopped fearing them.

This was a period of three or four months when I was five.

I didn't have hallucinations as a small child.

Nope. Not compared to these days.

I wonder if this a connection between epilepsy and autism. Temporal lobe epilepsy is characterised mostly by hallucinations. And if you've ever seen a simple partial seizure it looks a lot like stimming.

Anyway, lately there's been giant bugs climbing around the place.

That is one of them, but there is more than that as well.

I remember a man with a big smile and curly dark hair would sometimes talk to me when I was v. young (5 or so). I still remember how he looked but nobody believed he existed and my parents told me it was my imagination. I stopped seeing him after a year or two.

I had auditory hallucinations. I also remember things that my mom said to me that she claims never happened. I had LOTS of vivid dreams and horrible phobias of mundane things too.

I once thought I saw monsters moving behind the trees near my house. It was freaky.

I experienced a whole day of hallucinations when I was about 10yrs - this was then only time I had them. In school, my hands were shaking uncontrollably, so I was sent home and my Mum asked me to try to sleep on the settee. The settee had brown dots and they became eyes and the label on the quilt became a snake. I could see faces on the wall (all of one particular person I recognised from a TV show). He presented a religious programme and I found him quite scary. In my hallucinations, he was actually the devil and he re-appeared like that in a few nightmares. I think I had a virus and I was fine the next day.