Can anxiety cause hallucinations?

[MCook2120]

Hello, I've been wondering about a vision or mental problem I've had for as long as I can remember.I'm a 19 year old female by the way. I have also started to see someone for pretty bad anxiety recently and am wondering if anxiety has anything to do with it A lot of the times to varying degrees things in my field of vision move even though they aren't moving. For example when reading the word and lines I'm not immediately focused on appear to glitch or other times look as if they're moving in an underwater fashion. Another example is also objects appear to drift or stretch. They don't actually move like they don't look like they're moving any farther in relation to everything else, but they look like they are. The best way I've come up with to describe this effect is when you look at one of those optical illusion photos for 30 seconds and look away it's very similar to that, but most of the time not as intense. Or surfaces seem to "crawl" like someone was constantly sliding the surface or texture of it up. I'm dyslexic so I had always chalked these odd vision tricks as part of that. Recently though I was told that the term "floating letters" in regards to dyslexia wasn't literal. That things for dyslexics don't actually seem to move. While it is almost always happening in some part of my field of vision to some degree it get much more intense if I haven't slept, am really stressed, and if I was drinking the night before. When I first wake up and for a portion of that day (after  drinking previously) it's more intense.

[Paxiled]

Ever seen an ophthalmologist for this?  Not everything is anxiety.  It could be an astigmatism, for example.  

[AnxiousNoMore]

You said you are starting to see someone so is it a therapist, or psychologist? I would ask them what they think, since they are experts and you have one on one with them.