It happens when I'm depressed or manic. It isn't something slight. I see things that are not there. My hallucination (a random dude) literally shot me in the chest and disappeared. Sometimes It's just noices or shadows.

I'm not paranoid at all and my thoughts do not try to hate or kill me (usually). 

I always know almost instantly that these things are not real. Maybe because of that I'm not that alarmed by them. It's like 'oh, nevermind'. 

But It still feels incredibly strange and afterwards sometimes I want to sit/lay and cry alone

My therapist told me that I can control my bipolar well enough due to my high IQ. 

But I don't think/feel that It is a bipolar thing. I mean, I have bipolar but these kinds of hallucinations just don't seem to be related to bipolar


Maybe I am wrong, what do you think?