A lot of times we will hear people say "i'm hearing voices at night, ringing or weird sounds, sometimes voices, I'll smell things that aren't there, and I'll see bursts of white lights".
And in reply to this, I'd see people say things like "could be a tumor"
Well, When I started to experience this first hand it caught me off guard and was just shocking, scary, and just so over whelming, I have a deep knowledge into the medical field as I was born with a spinal cord defect and have had to get many operations and so forth, so my mind didn't really wonder and think it was something paranormal, my mind actually went right to "oh my god I have a brain tumor" I had all the symptoms and so forth, so one night the head aches and eye pain increased and my head actually began to swell with spinal fluid.
They did some MRI's and CT scans and checked the discs in my eyes and it turned out that I have something called a Pseudo cerebri Tumor, pretty much means My body thinks I have a brain tumor so it is going into all the motions that a person who has a brain tumor would go through, and making more spinal fluid for protection.
This is crazy to me for so many reasons as, I see where the people who say they see and hear these things, how they can actually think it is real, because it is very real unlike anything else I've ever felt, it's like my brain took over my free will and created what it wished, and it made me realise that when someone says they see something outlandish or a little crazy, IT IS REAL TO THEM, them being the ones who think and feel they've seen and felt something not the ones trying to get attention, but I could see where they are coming from for sure, it's just very odd when you no longer can tell reality from little blips in the brain.
2nd I always thought it was some what funny when a person would be snide and reply with this comment just because they didn't believe what they read, they don't typically say it with concern just sarcasm and now I see it as horribly harsh and rude, and put yourself in that situation if you were seeing and hearing these things, and if it actually were a brain tumor, or what I have that's nothing to make light of nothing to make fun of, nothing to be rude about because if your a decent person you wouldn't wish that upon anyone, and if you knew what true pain and suffering were like and illness you'd never make snide remarks.
And 3rd, your body it pretty effing strange, It's hard to wrap my mind around the fact that my body actually thinks there is a tumor inside my head, it's just what the eff, I can't even put it in words to explain how strange, amazing, and mind blowing what are bodies are able to do, and how it can be our own worst enemies at times and instead of protecting us it hurts us, it's just really strange to me.
Sorry if no one gets where I am coming from in this post, All I'm trying to say is for most people when they post something, most often they are going through something that is very real, but may be presenting it's self in different ways, and just because it may not sound true to you, it is more real than you can ever imagine to the person who is dealing with it.