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“Hallucinations” at the wake-sleep and sleep-wake boundary, does anyone else get these?

Alice-nice-Alice

They started around 2017 whilst caring full time for my mum. I went to my gp who basically dismissed them as “harmless”, her word, and that the correct terms are hynopompic and hypnogogic hallucinations (I can never remember which is which), and sent me home with no treatment, other than the usual leaflet on “sleep hygiene” (I hate that phrase).

Well I don’t regard them as harmless, and recently theyve been getting worse again. Does anyone else suffer with these? If so I would be most interested to hear your experiences and if anything helps minimise them?

They are I think part of a group of symptoms known as parasomnias, Ive tried several times to get NHS help but no one will discuss them with me, I dud succeed in getting a sleep clinic referral but they, inevitably, didn’t happen the nights they wired me for tests. 


Thanks

A

  • I can relate to having hypnogogic hallucinations.

    Twice I was hallucinations in daylight, while going to the shops. Nobody helped me. 

    Last year I had to move my notice board and mirror in my bedroom as was hallucinating in the night. 

    Recently I was hallucinating. 

    Some people think it's a joke by laughing at me and not understanding.

    One day I may have an accident by walking into the hallucinations. 

    Think mine is down to tiredness.