Has anyone else had the form of sleep paralysis where you can’t wake up from your dream??

I literally was stuck in my dreams until 3pm today it was AWFUL! And I can recall every single one 😩

We woke up in the middle of our sleeping period because the fan was off and the sound of everyone else in the apartment talking at normal levels disturbed us. So we just got up, drank some water, turned the fan on, and went back to bed. This isn’t the dream, just setting up what happened.

Then, as we were lying in bed trying to fall back asleep, we heard the continued conversation of our girlfriends over the fan with the sudden added sound of an entire convention center full of people yammering away.

It was like someone had turned on a video of some news coverage of a convention. We could almost understand some of the words.

So, we roused ourselves to get up to investigate and the sound went away entirely, replaced with the fan.

We figured out immediately that it was an auditory halucination linked to the sound of the fan, and we could even feel what part of our brain it was coming from.

So we lay in bed and turned the hallucination on and off again by accessing and ignoring that part of our brain a couple times before finally going to sleep.

It was kind of fun! And it felt kind of like we were experiencing some inworld activity, like it was a real convention that a bunch of us were having that us bridge crew got to hear bits of.

I have a lot of night time hallucinations. I'll open my eyes to see a skeletal claw reach out for me from the other side of my headboard or I'll see a...a being sitting in the corner near the ceiling, watching me. But mostly, I see aliens, or rather UFOs made of every imaginable material zip by on their way to do some task. Some made out of paperclips, some made out of dragonfly wings, some made of barnacles...they never stop too long to care about one wide-eyed human watching them fly past.

The weird thing is though, every single time, I just can't believe that I didnt see what I saw. Every single time, I ask myself, wait, was that just a hallucination? And I say no! I just saw it! How could that have been a hallucination? And I wrestle with myself for long minutes, recalling each detail of what I've seen, asking myself how it could be a hallucination if I'd seen each detail. It's as if I believe that hallucinations take place in the Dream Haze where details are obscured by fog, and somehow I never learn, but in that state of mind, I know that they are real and frightening. And it's not til five minutes later when the brain hormones have re-equilibrated and I finally recognize them for what they are.

That or my room is a UFO runway.

Could be either, I suppose.

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Me waking up to the 6th Hypnopompic hallucination of a bug today:

nightmares

couldnt get to my t appointment because i was forced to do random social events? like go to a starbucks where you dont have to pay as long s your a good customer and teach this kid i hate smth ?? then i couldn't physically get to the dr office and i dont have needles and i was forced to read this book that had pages falling out and a black cover with the spine taped together. the buildings kept getting closed down and i kept screaming and running trying to get in but everything was so big and so spread out i couldn't get to it

anyway i have a t appointment today at a time when the dr office is usually closed lol !

HYPNOPOMPIC, MAYBE HYPNOGOGIC.

The burst of imagery startled me, either as I fell asleep or was waking up. I wanted to make an animation of the little mind-movie for practice.

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Bro I had a terrifying hypnopompic (waking up) hallucination this morning. I wouldn’t call it sleep paralysis? Because I saw it after I had just woken up, when I turned my head. But like I turned to my right in bed and there was a figure in a brown coat and a black hood standing over me. When I screamed, it vanished. But my heart was pounding and my breathing was fast for minutes after. Why do our brains have to be so spooky wtf.

The spiders are back.

I wake up and see a spider the size of a dime a foot from my face. It stays still then starts scurrying towards me. I swipe it away, go back to sleep.

I awake again some time later, the spider is back.

I slam my fist down atop of it, but nothing is there when I raise my hand.

They call it hypnopompic hallucinations. They may be right. What if they aren't?

I wonder what will happen if I let the spider come to me next time.

Sleep Paralysis, Explained

Have you ever hallucinated getting out of bed, only to find out later that you’re still asleep? How about multiple times in a row? Ben Rein, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, has had that jarring experience many, many times.

For people who experience sleep hallucinations, the period between consciousness and REM sleep is shorter. These fits can plague people with narcolepsy, in which a person enters directly into REM sleep - they’re awake, and then they’re suddenly partially conscious and dreaming. This situation is comparable to a hallucination before reaching a true dreaming state.

“Hypnopompic hallucinations, on the other hand, happen while you’re waking up. They are connected to sleep paralysis, which can be downright scary.

“What happens is in sleep paralysis, during REM sleep, when you’re dreaming, your body is paralyzed, you have your brain intentionally disconnected from your body so that you’re not moving around acting out your dreams, for obvious reasons, of course.” (Naturally, you wouldn’t want to inadvertently punch your sleeping partner in the face while acting out a fight scene in your dream. Or go running into traffic, or so forth.)

However, for people who experience sleep paralysis, during this rapid shift from REM sleep to wakefulness the brain-body disconnection doesn’t necessarily happen.

“So you end up remaining body-locked and paralyzed because your brain thinks, ‘I’m still dreaming right now.’ But you are conscious enough to recognize that you are awake.”

Because your brain is still hovering at the border between dreamland and wakefulness, you are not only paralyzed, but also hallucinating. You may even think you’re being attacked - a horrifying experience some people call sleep-paralysis demons. “These are actually hypnopompic hallucinations, because the mysterious things happening in the dream world are leaking over into real life. And so it seems very real, but it’s still really a dream.”

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anywya. had a hallucination the other night where i heard someone whispering to my right and when i looked over there was a small crumbling tower on my nightstand. i screamed because it startled me/i was confused by it and the whispering and it went away.

Question from a page in general clearly looking for psychotic experiences: Do you sometimes hear sounds that others can't hear?

Me, an autism: Yes, but probably not in the way you're thinking

one note i have for the paranormal podcast "for skeptics" i listen to: if you have some down time, please learn a few things about sleep disorders and how they manifest.

so. err. there's this thing that happens when people physically wake up, but their brain is still in "dream mode," so to speak. the clinical term for this is hypnopompic hallucinations, and as disorienting and scary they can be, they aren't paranormal.

what makes it very weird to me that this host is not asking more follow-up questions is that he's talked about having hypnopompic hallucinations before. even the one everyone who deals with this has, where the room is on fire and it basically goes away when the penny drops and you notice you don't feel heat on your skin.

there are so many stories on this show that honestly just seem like the interviewee having a sleep disorder. like why dude.

Wanna know what hypnogognic/hypnopompic hallucinations feel like? (At least for me)

This morning I was going back to sleep after waking up for no reason. My eyes were closed and then suddenly i saw an image of email notifications on my phone, one of them from my building's management company about my latest service request. I was going to open my eyes and check my notifications. But I was able to catch it and remind myself that those were dream emails and my phone was on do not disturb.

At our last place we had a doorbell and a neighbor who asked for our help a lot. I would hear phantom doorbells while falling asleep or waking up at least once a week and get startled awake by them.