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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 did not have exactly the same issue as you but did have a phase when my dreams felt so real they caused me distress when I woke up.

    At the time I was recommended to try lucid dreaming - a technique by which you learn to identify when you are in a dream state even when asleep and can use your conscious brain to control the dreams, stealing their power to affect you and giving you the ability to chose your own storylines with practice.

    There is a decent article about it here:

    https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams/lucid-dreams

    I would recommend speaking to your GP at the least before you consider trying it and being aware that it can take many attempts to get to be good at it.

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  • I did not have exactly the same issue as you but did have a phase when my dreams felt so real they caused me distress when I woke up.

    At the time I was recommended to try lucid dreaming - a technique by which you learn to identify when you are in a dream state even when asleep and can use your conscious brain to control the dreams, stealing their power to affect you and giving you the ability to chose your own storylines with practice.

    There is a decent article about it here:

    https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams/lucid-dreams

    I would recommend speaking to your GP at the least before you consider trying it and being aware that it can take many attempts to get to be good at it.

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