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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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  • Thank you everyone who replied to my post here, I hadn’t appreciated how common they are so hearing your stories makes me feel a bit better. 

    Im teaching myself a technique to help go to sleep peacefully and without these events …. A therapist not so long ago did that guided meditation thing, too often their idea of a calm special place but definitely not mine. She helped me locate in my memories my truly special places and times, some are urban, some in nature, all dependent on who or indeed not with. So as I lie down I to sleep I fill my head with one of these places and times, last night it was on mum and dad’s canal boat cruising the Grand Union on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire border. So as these memories are completely real and quite detailed they push away the dark and troubled stuff, falling asleep I have less and less brain space for ruminating on negatives as the imagery and sensations and emotions of the time Im focusing on take over. And then without realising Im calmly asleep. Its early days but this focusing real positive memories instead of negative pasts is really helpin


    A xxx

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  • Thank you everyone who replied to my post here, I hadn’t appreciated how common they are so hearing your stories makes me feel a bit better. 

    Im teaching myself a technique to help go to sleep peacefully and without these events …. A therapist not so long ago did that guided meditation thing, too often their idea of a calm special place but definitely not mine. She helped me locate in my memories my truly special places and times, some are urban, some in nature, all dependent on who or indeed not with. So as I lie down I to sleep I fill my head with one of these places and times, last night it was on mum and dad’s canal boat cruising the Grand Union on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire border. So as these memories are completely real and quite detailed they push away the dark and troubled stuff, falling asleep I have less and less brain space for ruminating on negatives as the imagery and sensations and emotions of the time Im focusing on take over. And then without realising Im calmly asleep. Its early days but this focusing real positive memories instead of negative pasts is really helpin


    A xxx

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