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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’ve been getting sleep hallucinations over the last six years or so, mostly after settling down to sleep but some are early in the morning.

    The hallucinations are visual but often there is a voice that is giving me a command or telling me to do something. The voice would say something like “turn around” or “put the box on the table” and it would repeat the command and get louder which causes me to wake up. When I wake up, the visual part of the hallucination doesn’t relate to the voice but then the details disappear from my memory. The memory of the voice stays with me for a while. It has never felt threatening, unlike nightmares which are horrible. 

    I had been wondering about these strange states so your post inspired me to check them out. It’s reassuring (for me) that they have a name and that others experience them.

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  • I’ve been getting sleep hallucinations over the last six years or so, mostly after settling down to sleep but some are early in the morning.

    The hallucinations are visual but often there is a voice that is giving me a command or telling me to do something. The voice would say something like “turn around” or “put the box on the table” and it would repeat the command and get louder which causes me to wake up. When I wake up, the visual part of the hallucination doesn’t relate to the voice but then the details disappear from my memory. The memory of the voice stays with me for a while. It has never felt threatening, unlike nightmares which are horrible. 

    I had been wondering about these strange states so your post inspired me to check them out. It’s reassuring (for me) that they have a name and that others experience them.

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