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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 21, 2017 12:17:15 GMT -4
Okay, so I know that this isn't a medical forum or anything, but before I go to try to get real help I thought I'd ask here first to see if anyone has any advice. There's about a 50% or so chance that I'm hallucinating and a 50% chance that my bedroom is the home of a black ant colony. Initially I thought the former but holy shit what's happening is just weird. Basically about two days ago I spotted an ant in my room and killed it. It's odd that there was an ant there because I never bring food into my room, but I thought nothing of it and went to my golf lessons as per usual. When I got back there were a few more ants, which I also killed. Weirdly enough some of the ant corpses went missing. The next day there was a train of about twenty or so ants after school and so I did the only logical thing to do and turned the air conditioning down to 10 degrees to freeze the ants out, locked the doors, turned off the lights and splashed water all over my floor (aside from where it would get my bedsheets and expensive rug wet, because that would be unnecessary and the ants weren't on those anyway).I then slept on the couch. The next day, thinking that they'd leave by then, they were still there, and in roughly the same numbers despite my attempts to crush them (though I was thoroughly covering my skin while doing so). Great, I have an ant infestation - but that's not quite it. You see, I'm starting to suspect that it's not a real ant infestation for the following reasons: - Whenever I kill an ant and look away for a suitable amount of time it's corpse is gone.
- There is no reason for there to still be an ant infestation - I never bring food into my room and it's significantly colder in there now than it is basically everywhere else.
- I have a number of symptoms also common among people who hallucinate regularly, including paranoia and regularly jumbled use of language (I'll forget and mispronounce simple words at random and yet other times manage to pronounce ridiculously complicated words with ease).
- It may or may not be just one of multiple hallucinations I may or may not regularly have; I often hear my name called out or footsteps stepped when there is nobody home to make a noise and I nearly jumped out of my skin twice due to footsteps.
- It might not even be the first time I'm hallucinating a place of mine being infested in ants; a couple months ago I completely freaked out because my desk was covered in ants (and I mean absolutely covered in the bastards) just all of a sudden out of nowhere in the middle of class before it turned out not to be there, and I regularly feel as if there's an ant crawling on my skin even if there isn't one that I can see (so I often end up hitting my wrists, ankles, etc., which must look odd to onlookers).
- The ants are not in any other rooms. I have seen them near the doorway of my room but never on the other side of said doorway, which scares the shit out of me.
- I have seen the ants carrying large crumbs and, as mentioned earlier, I do not bring food into my room.
- I am home alone and as such statistically more likely, apparently, to have hallucinations.
- It takes a short while after entering my room for the ants to appear, often as much as 30 seconds, and then they come out in large numbers.
That said, though, there's plenty of evidence to support the fact that they're real, such as the fact that they look real and are distinctly different to the random black specks that occasionally fly around and vanish in my vision. Additionally, they could have entered my room easily either via my new mattress or the dry cleaners, from whom I recently got back some trousers. This may sound crazy, but does anyone know of any test or something I can perform so that I can figure out if these are real or just a hallucination so that I can sleep better? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 13:59:12 GMT -4
put out ant traps where you see the ants most often and after a while see if the stuff inside it has been eaten or untouched?
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Post by happy on Jun 21, 2017 18:04:32 GMT -4
Why don't you, the next time you get in the room, just stare at the spot where you always see them? Then you can certainly tell if they're not real(i.e if they materialize or something).
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 0:41:42 GMT -4
Are there red ants on my laptop? I honestly can't tell what's real anymore. |
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Post by Pruz on Jun 22, 2017 0:47:42 GMT -4
I guess we won't know since the img won't show
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 0:54:30 GMT -4
I guess we won't know since the img won't show Quote the post and copy-paste the URL into your URL bar; it's hard to find a site that works properly on mobile devices. |
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Post by Τι κοιτάς ρε on Jun 22, 2017 0:58:03 GMT -4
Yes there are tiny red ants. You're not crazy.
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 1:00:36 GMT -4
Yes there are tiny red ants. You're not crazy. I don't know whether to be glad that I'm not hallucinating or scared out of my mind because of the ants. |
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Post by Pruz on Jun 22, 2017 1:04:23 GMT -4
I'm confused. Where's the URL? I only see a blank box. This is the same for computer too.
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 1:13:08 GMT -4
I'm confused. Where's the URL? I only see a blank box. This is the same for computer too. It's in the BBCode; you need to quote the post first. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2017 1:29:58 GMT -4
Are there red ants on my laptop? I honestly can't tell what's real anymore. fixed sadly, the ants is something i cannot fix, but for future reference: left click a photo, open image in new tab. copy the url. that's how you make it show. |
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Post by Not WiFi on Jun 22, 2017 1:44:47 GMT -4
let them bite you and if your hand hurts they are real.
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 2:20:24 GMT -4
Are there red ants on my laptop? I honestly can't tell what's real anymore. fixed sadly, the ants is something i cannot fix, but for future reference: left click a photo, open image in new tab. copy the url. that's how you make it show. You can't do that on an iPhone and, for obvious reasons, I can't open my laptop. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 2:59:01 GMT -4
I have managed to reclaim my laptop and phone charger, but my headphones and laptop charger may be lost for good to the ants.
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Post by happy on Jun 22, 2017 10:19:46 GMT -4
I have managed to reclaim my laptop and phone charger, but my headphones and laptop charger may be lost for good to the ants. There were only two tiny ants on your laptop though. Were you seeing more? |
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 10:24:58 GMT -4
I have managed to reclaim my laptop and phone charger, but my headphones and laptop charger may be lost for good to the ants. There were only two tiny ants on your laptop though. Were you seeing more? There were two when I took the photo but there were more that arrived later. |
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Post by happy on Jun 22, 2017 17:40:56 GMT -4
There were only two tiny ants on your laptop though. Were you seeing more? There were two when I took the photo but there were more that arrived later. Okay, well, I guess they're real then. But that doesn't explain the disappearing corpses? |
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Post by Dinguskhan on Jun 22, 2017 18:18:04 GMT -4
You guys realize ants recover and bury their dead, right?
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Post by Pruz on Jun 22, 2017 20:28:15 GMT -4
They really bury them?
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Post by happy on Jun 22, 2017 20:57:37 GMT -4
You guys realize ants recover and bury their dead, right? How would they bury them in a house with floors like that? Also, how would they leave no trace of the bodies? |
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 22, 2017 21:03:16 GMT -4
You guys realize ants recover and bury their dead, right? How would they bury them in a house with floors like that? Also, how would they leave no trace of the bodies? That image wasn't the floor, that was a mattress on a day bed. My floor is hardwood or marble, depending on which room it is. |
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Post by happy on Jun 22, 2017 21:21:37 GMT -4
How would they bury them in a house with floors like that? Also, how would they leave no trace of the bodies? That image wasn't the floor, that was a mattress on a day bed. My floor is hardwood or marble, depending on which room it is. Yeah, so how would they bury bodies in hardwood or marble? |
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Post by Dinguskhan on Jun 22, 2017 21:37:17 GMT -4
You guys realize ants recover and bury their dead, right? How would they bury them in a house with floors like that? Also, how would they leave no trace of the bodies? They cart them off to their hive and bury them in a mass-grave, not in a house they've infested. The dead ants are coated with "death pheromones", and so if a living ant is coated in these chemicals, they'll be forcefully buried alive. Repeatedly, even if they dig their way out. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Jun 23, 2017 0:36:23 GMT -4
How would they bury them in a house with floors like that? Also, how would they leave no trace of the bodies? They cart them off to their hive and bury them in a mass-grave, not in a house they've infested. The dead ants are coated with "death pheromones", and so if a living ant is coated in these chemicals, they'll be forcefully buried alive. Repeatedly, even if they dig their way out. Can we use death pheromones to spray a hive and force all the ants to bury eachother? |
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Post by Dinguskhan on Jun 23, 2017 1:51:50 GMT -4
They cart them off to their hive and bury them in a mass-grave, not in a house they've infested. The dead ants are coated with "death pheromones", and so if a living ant is coated in these chemicals, they'll be forcefully buried alive. Repeatedly, even if they dig their way out. Can we use death pheromones to spray a hive and force all the ants to bury eachother? If you have the money and contract a chemical company, then probably. It'd be cheaper and more effective to just buy pesticide, though. |
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