My Doctor Hallucinates People

By Leo Gura - January 25, 2026

A year ago I went to my usual family doctor to renew a prescription. We somehow got sidetracked in our small-talk and I matter-of-factly told him that I study spiritual stuff. He got excited and wanted my opinion on a strange phenomena that’s been happening to him. He proceeded to tell me that throughout his whole life he has experienced hallucinations that had a big influence on the trajectory of his life. People would appear in his life and give him life-changed advice, only later those people turned out to be full-blown hallucinations. But the advice they gave him was very beneficial. For example, one time in his youth in India a hallucinated person gave him advice to become a doctor. Which he followed. Another time, while he was finishing med school, another hallucinated person gave him advice to move from India to America. Which he followed. In both cases things worked out very well for him.

Then he told me that when he sleeps, a strange shadowy man appears in his bedroom and touches him. This has been happening to him regularly for decades.

Since I am into spiritual stuff he asked me what I make of all this. I told him I believed him. I told him that lots of spiritually gifted and neuro-divergent people experience strange and wacky spiritual phenomenon which is difficult to explain. I told him I don’t know what’s happening to him, but one thing’s for sure: materialism is false and all of life is just a hallucination. He’s never done drugs or psychedelics. He’s a decent, normal, sane, rational, certified doctor, not any kind of New Age quack. He’s been my doctor for over 10 years. If he hadn’t told you this story, you wouldn’t think there’s anything usual or spiritual about him.

How do you make sense of something like that?

I still can’t explain it. One thing I’m confident of is that he is not lying and he is not merely deluded or mentally ill.

I think there’s a lot of people out there like my doctor, but they never speak up because they don’t want to be seen as “crazy”, especially if they are professionals who need to maintain credibility. So they keep quiet, which makes materialists think that nothing spiritual exists. There is a huge stigma in professional culture against talking seriously about such things. It’s all just dismissed a bad for business. Which, again, is just survival bias. Has nothing to do with the truth of the matter. Materialists do not understand that spiritual experiences like this are actually quite common, they are just flippantly dismissed. Be careful what your mind dismisses.

Materialist explanations of such phenomena are completely unserious and unscientific.

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