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This is how Aliens and obductions are made.
Seriously I watched some documentary and this was probable reason why are ppl "seeing" aliens & ghost or feeling them. I belive it was call sleeping awake, something like that.
Anyhow have you tried looking for some professional help? I seriously think this is very nasty problem you have here and need to check it out. Coz if your not using drugs or some sheat like that and this is happening then it can be indication of some serious illness or some sort of mental disorder in its roots. Just my thoughts.
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Sometimes I hallucinate mosquitoes flying around and trying to bite me. They are real half of the time.
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I had sleep paralysis a few nights in a row because of extreme stress/anxiety.
You wake up and you look around the room but when you try to get up your whole body just lies stiff. It literally feels like being tied down in a cast.
I remember the first time it happened I was totally dazed. It was totally dark but I could make out shapes by the starlight. I glanced to my left towards the nighttable and saw a white silhouette of a woman sitting an arm's length away.
After a split second the head quickly looked up at me as if startled that I could see her. I was fucking shivering in fear but no matter how much I wanted to run I was frozen. I started screaming but nothing came out; my mouth was wide open but no sound materialized. I closed my eyes and just started fucking rocking my body side to side as hard as I could as if trying to push the lid off a coffin. After 15seconds of the rocking and screaming (in my head) I finally was able to move.
I believe I ran to my parents room and just paced around for a few minutes.
I first thought the person I saw was a relative who had passed away very recently, but being that I dont really believe in that sort of thing I researched online. I read about sleep paralysis. Its a psychosomatic condition where the body falls asleep but the brain stays awake. So you can register aurally and visually the things around you but you are half asleep. The hallucinations are caused for that very reason, though I dont think there is complete understanding on why it happens.
Some people theorize that being in that state of half sleep allows one to enter the ethereal void; the middle of life and death or something like that.
All I know is that it was the scariest experiences I've ever had and the closest I've come to dementia/mental illness.
It is not fun......though some websites say you should take advantage of being in the ethereal state and do fun things, ie imagine flying through the sky....
I tried this the second night. I woke up in similar fashion, and prior to panicking, I quickly shut my eyes in fear of seeing scary shit. Problem was that my ears filled with white noise that increasingly got louder like a horror movie and I had to again shake my body awake.
Its pretty interesting from what Ive read about it. definately something I'll never forget.
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While I was going through alcohol withdrawal after about a year of daily abuse I'd see spiders and insects on my walls after waking from the light sleep I was able to get the first few weeks. It's a pretty common symptom of Delirium Tremens brought on by abrupt stopping of alcohol intake I found out...
Are you a heavy drinker?
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wow! that starts out really gross, but ends up cute :D
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Pretty sure your house is haunted.
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On January 13 2010 23:32 meegrean wrote:
Sometimes I hallucinate mosquitoes flying around and trying to bite me. They are real half of the time.
lmao... me too. Even when it turns out they're not real, its probably some other bug.
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I've had the same thing you have since I was young. When I was like 4 or 5 I was stung 14 times in the neck by wasps because I didn't see the nest when I was leaning over a window sill. Ever since then I would occasionally wake up over the years with various terrors of the kind you describe where I would see something and attempt to either get away from it or attack it. One time as a kid I woke up to see a bunch of bees flying above me so I freaked out and started swatting at them. (A lot of my hallucinations are insects/bugs etc and involve wasps or bees, I've never had the cockroach one if I'm not mistaken. I have had spiders though, but the worst is wasps for me.)
Another time .... lol this is going to seem funny but I saw a bear with a shotgun and my family ran in and I was yelling. My family said I was looking at this picture on the wall or something but it wasn't bears if I recall. Interesting part about this one was that it was in the middle of the day and the light was on in the room. I still woke up thinking I saw the bear with a shotgun where the picture was on the wall.
A few years ago I almost pulled my fan out of the ceiling because I thought there was something there. I'm not entirely sure what I saw, only that I realized in time I had ripped the cord off and was about to dislodge it lol.
It's interesting to me though because you and I have exactly the same pattern it seems. I rarely remember my dreams. Sometimes I can get right back to sleep and other times when it's really severe I have to go sleep elsewhere. It hasn't happened to me in at least six months. I think the funniest and coolest one I had but I wasn't aware of was this time I was on vacation with family. I didn't remember it but apparently I ran into my sister's room woke her up and told her there was a zealot in the living room lol.
Sounds weird but it's nice to hear someone else shares this because I've never known anyone else that had it even in my own family.
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On January 13 2010 23:58 Alpine wrote:
While I was going through alcohol withdrawal after about a year of daily abuse I'd see spiders and insects on my walls after waking from the light sleep I was able to get the first few weeks. It's a pretty common symptom of Delirium Tremens brought on by abrupt stopping of alcohol intake I found out...
Are you a heavy drinker?
Yeah, my mum told the same stories when she worked at a mental hospital a long time ago. Alcohol withdrawal can be very psychotic, and people usually hallucinate and are terrified.
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Yea, I have these at times too - waking up in the middle of the night, seeing faceless toothy heads skulking behind my bed legside as I try to focus, or being absolutely sure there's snakes or spiders or any other form of poisonous animal in my bedsheets. The first one's getting me all terrified and lounging for the light switch for a few seconds untill my brain manages to realise I'm awake, while the second one is followed by frantic sheet and pillow-shaking, to get rid of those damn pests.
I can't remember how long I've had it happening - maybe just the last few years, really.
Edit: I'm not a heavy drinker, and I don't smoke or do any other kinds of drugs anymore.
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Gryffindor, this honestly sounds like the wasps incident as a kid caused you to have a case of PTSD that lead into a sleeping disorder. PTSD isn't that uncommon for children to develop but it isn't widely broadcasted or viewed the same way as the war vets people usually associate it with. The incident that I had which was very much like your shotgun bear time, I believe, was caused by the build up of stress with a new job that was physically demanding and I was providing for myself entirely for the first time along with my g/f at the time. I would not be very surprised at all to find that there are many more well documented cases of hypnogogic hallucinations caused by stress out there.
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Sometimes when I'm falling asleep, like right on the edge of sleep, I'll feel like I'm falling and a couple seconds later I'll shake violently like I'd just hit the ground (I think its a sort of reflex thing?). Never woken up hallucinating though. If it bothers you I'm sure you can find a therapist to help you with it.
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On January 14 2010 00:47 Gryffindor_us wrote:
I've had the same thing you have since I was young. When I was like 4 or 5 I was stung 14 times in the neck by wasps because I didn't see the nest when I was leaning over a window sill. Ever since then I would occasionally wake up over the years with various terrors of the kind you describe where I would see something and attempt to either get away from it or attack it. One time as a kid I woke up to see a bunch of bees flying above me so I freaked out and started swatting at them. (A lot of my hallucinations are insects/bugs etc and involve wasps or bees, I've never had the cockroach one if I'm not mistaken. I have had spiders though, but the worst is wasps for me.)
Another time .... lol this is going to seem funny but I saw a bear with a shotgun and my family ran in and I was yelling. My family said I was looking at this picture on the wall or something but it wasn't bears if I recall. Interesting part about this one was that it was in the middle of the day and the light was on in the room. I still woke up thinking I saw the bear with a shotgun where the picture was on the wall.
A few years ago I almost pulled my fan out of the ceiling because I thought there was something there. I'm not entirely sure what I saw, only that I realized in time I had ripped the cord off and was about to dislodge it lol.
It's interesting to me though because you and I have exactly the same pattern it seems. I rarely remember my dreams. Sometimes I can get right back to sleep and other times when it's really severe I have to go sleep elsewhere. It hasn't happened to me in at least six months. I think the funniest and coolest one I had but I wasn't aware of was this time I was on vacation with family. I didn't remember it but apparently I ran into my sister's room woke her up and told her there was a zealot in the living room lol.
Sounds weird but it's nice to hear someone else shares this because I've never known anyone else that had it even in my own family.
That's pretty funny because this happened to me once before i woke up in the middle of the night with a grizzly bear standing up in the middle of my room it scared the crap out of me i just stared at it for a good 10 seconds until it seemed to just shrink away into my closet. But there was no picture or anything it was just completely random.
I've never hallucinated mass bugs but my little sister used to wake up screaming saying her bed was covered in bugs that obviously weren't there.
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On January 13 2010 21:49 Catch]22 wrote:
I dreamt that I woke up and took a shower once... Imagine my dissapointment when it turned out that I had to shower AGAIN once i woke up.
I dreamed that I woke up and walked to my next class, which was like a kilometer away... then I woke up again and I was very annoyed and packed all of my stuff again and was about to go to the class again, and I woke up. So I had to pack my bag and walk the kilometer again T_T.
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Lucid dreams happen while one is actually asleep. What people are describing here is something completely different and falls more along the lines of hypnagogic hallucinations.
On January 14 2010 01:35 canucks12 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 13 2010 21:49 Catch]22 wrote:
I dreamt that I woke up and took a shower once... Imagine my dissapointment when it turned out that I had to shower AGAIN once i woke up. I dreamed that I woke up and walked to my next class, which was like a kilometer away... then I woke up again and I was very annoyed and packed all of my stuff again and was about to go to the class again, and I woke up. So I had to pack my bag and walk the kilometer again T_T.
These are examples of lucid dreams.
On January 14 2010 01:06 Lexpar wrote:
Sometimes when I'm falling asleep, like right on the edge of sleep, I'll feel like I'm falling and a couple seconds later I'll shake violently like I'd just hit the ground (I think its a sort of reflex thing?). Never woken up hallucinating though. If it bothers you I'm sure you can find a therapist to help you with it.
This is a hypnagogic jerk or hypnic jerk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
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I get this sometimes. Not in my bed with me, but across the room from my bed. I just assumed (afterwards) I was still sleeping and only imagined I'd woken up. It's funny though, I knew exactly what this thread would be about just from the title. It's a big spider for me too, like some tarantula climbing up my closet. I'm not really alarmed by it though, because I still have the awareness that it's not real (or maybe even if it were, I wouldn't particularly care... lol).
It's also possible that it could just be sunspots on your eyes, and that in the dark your imagination is able to transform them into lifelike things.
Wouldn't worry about it either way. I wouldn't call it a hallucination, just your eyes playing tricks on you (a hallucination, I think, is something your brain creates all on its own. This is more your eyes just not being adjusted to the light yet).
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On January 14 2010 01:37 Scorcher2k wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2010 01:06 Lexpar wrote:
Sometimes when I'm falling asleep, like right on the edge of sleep, I'll feel like I'm falling and a couple seconds later I'll shake violently like I'd just hit the ground (I think its a sort of reflex thing?). Never woken up hallucinating though. If it bothers you I'm sure you can find a therapist to help you with it. This is a hypnagogic jerk or hypnic jerk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
Oh whoa. Thanks man, very interesting 0_o
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On January 13 2010 22:22 Foucault wrote:
Oh alright, but how often does it happen then? Do you drink coffee? Supplement with any specific vitamins? etc.
I see. So you have these sleep hallucinations but don't recall your dreams much otherwise? lol I sound like a doctor. Anyways, it's interesting.
Why do you guys wake up seeing spiders? Sounds so random that you have a similar experience. Maybe it's the cobwebs when you open your eyes that create spider-like images and your sleepy mind project these images as spiders
it varies on how often it happens. sometimes it'll happen once and not happen again for another month, than several days in a row etc. i don't drink coffee or any vitamins. even when i had mono it happened and i was barely eating or drinking anything.
i don't only see spiders, but spiders are probably the most frequent. i've never had any experiences where i was traumatized by some insect or spider, so it isn't that. i'm not afraid of spiders or anything that i see, i just freak out when i think it's in my bed while i'm sleeping. i'm sure most people don't want a large spider or snake in their bed.
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