I definitely did tell my doctor thank you for telling me that as that is good advice. This hallucination "episode"was two years ago. I had a psychiatrist at the time. He immediately took me off of the Effexor, and said he's never heard of side effects like that with it. Getting off of course helped the severity of my synptoms, but what I saw that day has followed me ever since. Meaning I can still see it. In the ways I describe above. I am unmedicated. Sounds like I need to take a trip back to a psychiatrist. I don't want to get out on psychotropics though for a lot of the same reasons other people do but I need answers.