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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. 


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A

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  • 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. 

  • in reply to Vardaguyn

    Thanks V. My mind can make crazy visions out of shadows or the blinds catching the wind. Mostly I find sleep unpleasant, often just broken to pieces with nightmares too. I prefer to sleep in the light, daytime if possible, but with gentle lights at night if not. Unfortunately my wife is one who needs pitch darkness. We have a compromise sorted but were I not retired now working would be completely impossible. Incidentally it really began in my early years, I took children’s bible stories and victorian drawings in for instance Alice in Wonderland very literally and often sat in my bed in the dark convinced the devil would smash through the glass window and drag me down to hell. Sob

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  • in reply to Vardaguyn

    Thanks V. My mind can make crazy visions out of shadows or the blinds catching the wind. Mostly I find sleep unpleasant, often just broken to pieces with nightmares too. I prefer to sleep in the light, daytime if possible, but with gentle lights at night if not. Unfortunately my wife is one who needs pitch darkness. We have a compromise sorted but were I not retired now working would be completely impossible. Incidentally it really began in my early years, I took children’s bible stories and victorian drawings in for instance Alice in Wonderland very literally and often sat in my bed in the dark convinced the devil would smash through the glass window and drag me down to hell. Sob

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