Hallucinations at Night

I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced any Hypnogogic (just before falling asleep) or Hypnopompic (just before your properly awake) hallucinations of any kind? Sounds or anything. Basicaly, if you open your eyes at the point just before you wake up or properly fall asleep, you will see really vivid hallucinations, which apparently at times can be quite scary. It might sound a bit crazy but its hard science. Once I was about to wake up, and I opened my eyes before I did and I saw a big tunnel of fire near my bed with a big dark figure standing in it....and then I heard the words ''Its Christmas'' lol. At first I thought this was like some demon or something lol, then I realised it was just a hallucination because it made no sense. I had probably eaten too much sugar or something the night before. Anyway, anyone else seen wierd hallucinations and stuff like that?

Reply 1

music__lover

yeah i've had that, once right before i was about to go to sleep i could hear someone coming up the stairs, and i was in the house alone at the time, and i could see someone standing in the doorway. it was only when i tried to scream that i realised it wasn't real! so it's not exactly a weird hallucination, scared me half to death tho!

Reply 2

rjm

I have had this, I believe its fairly common. Quite often mine involves seeing scary twisted faces coming at me or someone I knows face slowly dissolving into a grusome grimace. I usually just shrug them off.

The scariest thing that ever happened to me, and its happened twice is Sleep Paralisis or the Night-Hag.

Anybody else suffer with night-hag?

Reply 3

Richy_Boi

12

Yeah had this.

Once every few weeks i'll become suddenly awake and speak to people that aren't there, yet i think they are. Kinda like i'm semi in a dream.

It's wierd but oh well. :smile:

Reply 4

Caster Troy2

Never had this and by the sounds of it I never want to!

Reply 5

toastie

music__lover

yeah i've had that, once right before i was about to go to sleep i could hear someone coming up the stairs, and i was in the house alone at the time, and i could see someone standing in the doorway. it was only when i tried to scream that i realised it wasn't real! so it's not exactly a weird hallucination, scared me half to death tho!

That sounds really freaky.

Reply 6

TKR

15

yeah have it fairly often

Reply 7

Kate85

8

rjm

I have had this, I believe its fairly common. Quite often mine involves seeing scary twisted faces coming at me or someone I knows face slowly dissolving into a grusome grimace. I usually just shrug them off.

The scariest thing that ever happened to me, and its happened twice is Sleep Paralisis or the Night-Hag.

Anybody else suffer with night-hag?

My Mum has had this a few times, the first time she thought she'd had a stroke in the night and had become completely paralysed because she couldn't even open her eyes or mouth.... :eek:

Really hope I never get it because it sounds terrifying!

Reply 8

Mr @

1

Maybe someone is spiking your food/drinks with acid!

Reply 9

Shreerac1

10

jermay88

I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced any Hypnogogic (just before falling asleep) or Hypnopompic (just before your properly awake) hallucinations of any kind? Sounds or anything. Basicaly, if you open your eyes at the point just before you wake up or properly fall asleep, you will see really vivid hallucinations, which apparently at times can be quite scary. It might sound a bit crazy but its hard science. Once I was about to wake up, and I opened my eyes before I did and I saw a big tunnel of fire near my bed with a big dark figure standing in it....and then I heard the words ''Its Christmas'' lol. At first I thought this was like some demon or something lol, then I realised it was just a hallucination because it made no sense. I had probably eaten too much sugar or something the night before. Anyway, anyone else seen wierd hallucinations and stuff like that?

Too much nutmeg *

Reply 10

ForumFreak

9

I once woke up and saw Darth Vader at the end of my bed. The weird thing was that I wasn't at all freaked out, I just thought "Oh look Darth Vaders in my room,".

Reply 11

wendizzle22

1

I've had sleep paralysis a few types, I hate it!
I think the hallucinations you're talking about probably account for a lot of 'ghost' sightings.

Reply 12

Smile04

1

Ive had hallucinations when waking up quite a bit recently, only for brief seconds though, but it still makes me jump lol

Reply 13

Cheer up

I'm told I used to get them when I was a kid, but I don't remember any of them. *shrug* Now if I'm tired I will just do stupid stuff, but not really have any hallucinations as such. For example, a couple nights ago, I was stroking my "cat" for a good few minutes next to me before I realised it was a crumpled up t-shirt. I decided to go to bed at that point.

Reply 14

ForumFreak

9

wendizzle22

I've had sleep paralysis a few types, I hate it!
I think the hallucinations you're talking about probably account for a lot of 'ghost' sightings.

Yeah I knew someone who thought her bedroom was haunted because she saw something when she woke up in the night. After I told her about Darth Vader she calmed down a bit.

Reply 15

Nikolas

1

what drugs are you people on? Something in the water, perhaps? :laugh:

"open your eyes a few seconds before you wake up" - presumably the minute you open your eyes you have then woken up. And if I try and open my eyes the second before I go to sleep, all I see is darkness :/

Reply 16

zav

14

Nikolas

what drugs are you people on?

Everything

I get this quite a lot i see deformed people or weird things like portals and stuff. Dunno what causes it but i think it might be in your dream but you have not quite left/entered it yet. Never seem to be nice things though so i am not really sure why this is.

Reply 17

toastie

svidrigailov

I had sleep paralysis for the first time recently, ghastly experience. I was absolutely exhausted from travelling and napped in the afternoon, which I never do; when I came to, I was conscious and awake, but I couldn't move any of my limbs, and I felt that I was being crushed by something or someone.

I've had that a couple of times. I've been awake, but unable to move my body. The first time, it freaked me out, but now I do a motionless shrug and go back to sleep.

Reply 18

jermay88

OP

2

For all you that have sleep paralysis, the only reason you get 'night hags' and stuff is because you freak out! If you wake up and realise you cant move anything except your eyeballs, try not to freak out, and then you wont get night hags, or get scared. When your in sleep paralysis, if you freak out then because your half asleep still (even though you feel fully awake you are infact half asleep), your mind will make it 10x worse. It will feel like a nightmare that is real.

Reply 19

loopymeg

13

Yeah, I regularly suffer from Hallucinatory Sleep Paralysis, and it drives me insane.

Read about it here.

Hallucinations at Night

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