I had never heard the term Hypnagogic Hallucinations, but I have definitely had them. Along with the falling one which hasn't happened in a while, the most common one for me now is hearing the doorbell ring loudly and clearly. It always happens right as I'm feeling like I'm about to go to sleep, and it always jars me awake. Thank you as always for a really interesting explanation!
Doorbells are actually a super common one! That and notification noises on phones. When they jar me fully awake it’s the worst because I was so close to sleep! And of course, thanks for this super thanks, I appreciate your support!!!! 🐝
@SchizoKitzo I remember a dream from my childhood, a hazy memory that feels just beyond my grasp. In that dream, I found myself staring through the rails of a 2 story balcony, the sunlight was shining bright above as I poked my head through the rails. Everything felt so safe and serene. But then, in an unexpected moment, the atmosphere changed. A weird feeling of worry surged through me, as I saw a giant tree appear and a man with a shovel on the ground below. My instinctive response to the change brought panic. Then I fell, plummeting into the grave below. It was like gravity pulled me through the rails and into the pit. But strangely, as I landed in the hole, I didn’t wake up. It remained dark as night. Instead, I found myself suspended, floating in a surreal state like I was falling. The grave was no longer a place of fear. It had transformed into a tranquil space, and then, the most astonishing thing happened. Multi-colored orbs began to appear little by little, swirling around me like gentle fireflies. These glowing orbs filled the darkness with their light, each one pulsating softly with vibrant colors of different blues, greens, reds, yellows, whites, pinks, etc. illuminating the space. They felt comforting, as if they were there to soothe me after my sudden fall. The warmth of the lights glow wrapped around me with a sweet embrace, and I felt an overwhelming sense of peace wash over me. It was as if the light was telling me that everything was going to be alright. I woke up, back in my cozy bed, but the peaceful memory of that dream lingered, even until this day. It took over 20 years for me to see to a spark what that dream meant. It was a delicate reminder, like a whisper of my childhood, echoing the innocence I once held, now intertwined with the weight of the world that had crept into my subconscious. The vivid lights of the orbs, were a source of comfort, even symbols of peace. As I awoke, I later realized how beauty can be so easily disrupted by the unknown. I still find myself reflecting on that dream, exploring its layers. The grave, once a frightening element, transformed into a metaphor for the fears we all harbor, the hidden depths of our psyche that we often avoid. It reminded me that even in moments of perceived safety, there can be lurking shadows, remnants of doubt and anxiety waiting to surface. The orbs of light represented the nature of tranquility, a reminder of the joy that illuminates our lives, even from the most unsuspecting places. If anything was a catalyst for introspection, it was definitely this dream. I realized that life is a series of contrasts: light and dark, joy and sorrow, peace and chaos. The orbs taught me that comfort is waiting to envelop us if we will receive it, but we must remain vigilant, because unsuspecting changes can emerge unexpectedly. It was a lesson on resilience not to be forgotten. Even delineating the importance of embracing the light while the shadows exist alongside it. From person to person, we all comprehend this understanding differently, but as I look back, I have noticed these themes reflect in my actual life. Moments of happiness would often be tinged with a hint of worry, like a soft undertone of music that plays in the background. I have learned to appreciate the beauty of fleeting moments, to savor the warmth of connection with others, while recognizing our fears and uncertainties are a natural part of our unique personal experience. Despite the complexity of our existence, there is strength within vulnerability, and beauty in the face of the unknown. How we use the comfort of grace as a guiding principle to navigate life’s challenges, makes a big difference in each moment’s potential for joy and stability of heart in the midst of uncertainty. 🌱May this seed of understanding fall upon good ground.🌻
@@SchizoKitzo hey schizo does olanzapine cause memory loss and i find it hard to concentrate on anything ? Is it normal ? My short term memory and focus are like gone please answer when you can cause im scared im on my two week of olanzapine.
@@AsMnex hello, I've never been under Oleanzapine but many others, and these type of meds have their share of side effects that frequently diminish with the time. Hang on and talk with the doctor that presribed you this molecule, but please don't stop taking it, for your own care. There're always ways to adapt your treatment further on.
I don't experience hypnogogic hallucinations, but I do get hypnopompic hallucinations which are hallucinations on waking. Mostly just shapes or patterns but occasionally sounds like someone banging or knocking at the door. Once I woke up to see my bedroom ceiling covered with thousands of little insects that were all moving rhythmically to create expanding ripples or waves, after doing this for about thirty seconds they suddenly all scurried towards a crack in my ceiling and disappeared. It's the most vivid hallucination I've ever had but I knew it was a hallucination the entire time so I just relaxed and enjoyed the new experience. Thank you for your videos, I enjoyed learning about the lives and experiences from other people!
i just had that the other day, i woke up and saw writing on the ceiling, like a paragraph of words in black paint. it wasn't floating in the air it was painted on the ceiling. i couldnt read it but it was incredibly vivid, it looked completely real to me. when i looked over to the wall it moved there and even adjusted for the perspective so it was slanted/foreshortened, like my brain automatically preserved the realism. then i looked back at the ceiling and it was gone and then i fell back asleep. weirdest thing
I have Bipolar 1 and I USED to have synesthetic delusions, that is, very strong perceptions in which sensory input becomes intense emotional experiences. For instance, sunlight or moonlight seem to enter and energize me. Is that "hallucinatory?"
I get hypnopompic hallucinations too. I’ve seen a tarantula crawling around on the ceiling a few times. I also occasionally hear vivid screams. When I was a kid, I would see colors and hear music coming from outside - I never realized what that one was until now!
I hear full on conversations when I'm really close to falling asleep, often finding myself in the middle of a discussion among people. Once I heard the voice of my best friend say "Go!", it was wild. All my life I've also felt this sense of agoraphobia nearly, like I'm suddenly in a room that's way too large. Like indescribably large, it caused me a lot of anxiety as a kid. I never feel agoraphobia usually, and it's such a strange sensation because rationally I know I'm covered by my blanket, safe inside a small bedroom, but I'm transported to this huge ever expanding room. Like not physically or mentally, just a sensation of it. Also the more tired I get the more I see this really purple flashing light, like a flash from a camera or something that pops into my vision and then disappears. How often? Very frequently. Me and sleep usually don't get along. By default I'm sleep deprived most of the time so hypnagogic hallucinations happen frequently for me. Another interesting video, btw. I've actually just recently done a ton of research on this topic myself, so it was wild to see this pop up by you too. What a coincidence. Loved it, though!
I have these - voices, primarily, but also sensations of spinning or falling (which are usually pleasant for whatever reason). These were actually the first thing I thought of when I encountered your videos, since they were my only reference point for hearing voices. I went through a stretch of severe insomnia and the voices were always a welcome sign because it meant my brain was finally starting to let go and that I would be asleep soon. For me, they are notably not coming from “inside.” It’s as though I am being spoken to or overhearing conversations. It’s a bit like hearing some kind of sound montage, with sound effects and characters with identifiable voices and personalities. Most of the time, I have a very persistent and loud inner monologue, so when this happens, it’s a sort of a relief. I don’t have to hear myself think anymore.
Hi kit, I was diagnosed with psychosis induced schizophrenia due to heavy substance abuse a few years back. I started hearing these external voices, went to a psychiatrist who gave me meds to control the symptoms. I have led a pretty normal life since then, but relapsed a few weeks back, that brought me to your channel, and back on my meds, but thankfully the symptoms are in check with the meds. My symptoms were un-controlled monologues about situations when I was alone, which seemed to disappear when I was with friends or other people, or outside or with family. I also used to hear mumbles outside of myself, but they were minimal. I appreciate the work you are doing here, and feel we have a lot in common, in terms of situations that you and me are dealing with coz of the illness. Kind regards.
Hey, feel free to ignore if you find this an unnecessary or insensitive question but what kind of substances were those? Does this happen only with hallucinogens or can other substances have this effect too? Because they also affect the brains chemistry? Also glad you're feeling mostly better, and if it takes medication then so be it 😊 no different than thyroid pills
Wow thank you so much for this video. I have experienced the lights, the sounds of people talking but also sounds like explosions which is extremely unsettling and scary. I have experienced floating, falling and spinning as well. Glad I'm not the only one!
Same. I found it relatively easy to wake up or will yourself over it. That lady entity, I think either apprehends or respects me I imagine. She just wanted to demonstrate herself visibly to a skeptic. Or she’s just Queen Toloache whom I know already is heavily connected with dreams and the witch or crone archetype.
I'm so glad you did this video, thank you. I haven't heard this term before, but I'm having these hypnagogic hallucinations quite often (at least twice a month) and sometimes it gets really intense. I've had both visual and auditory hallucinations and in the past also experinced the feeling of falling or floating. When I first started taking my meds (SSRI's) I had really disturbing flashes of images in my head like distorted faces and weird figures, it was kinda disturbing. But it was even more disturbing in that period, when I was really stressed and didn't have a healthy lifestyle, I often heard many voices that were talking to me, although they were most of the time very unclear - I couldn't understand what they were saying, sometimes it was pretty vivid and one of the voices screamed my name so loud that I would wake up and nearly jumped out of my bed. I thought that I was going crazy... These days they're mostly auditory experineces, but aren't as intervening as before, so I certainly appreciate that.
Thanks for sharing this story. I hadn't heard the term before. I will have to ask my mental health care team about it at my next appointments. We experience voices pretty much every night, doubly loud if we forget to take our meds. They rarely ever make sense, like you said, lots of mumbling. There is often music along with it. Sometimes I hear something I would describe as sharp. It scares us. In a startling and screaming kind of way. The voices are so regular we say goodnight to them when we lie down. I can't say I have had visuals, at least not from this. Though on rare nights there is a weird feeling of weightlessness that will jerk me back to fully awake. Hard to settle down after those. All of these symptoms were worse while we were on prozac. I had a reaction to it that made me feel permanently caught between waking and dreaming. So many hallucinations. I'm so going to pester all 3 of my psych docs about this.
oh this happens to me every single day (diagnosed psychotic disorder). never knew the term for them, though. this channel is truly like a gold mine! mine are mostly tactile, like most of my hallucinations (feeling things crawling on me or touching me/brushing against me that aren't there). sometimes i hear voices, but that's much less common and almost exclusively exists as a hypnagogic hallucination for me. visual/tactile are the majority of my hallucinations.
I see people on or near my bed and that makes me wake quite brutally, kicking and screaming. I also hear voices and my bathroom door creaking even though nobody's there and I also experience someone blowing wind into my face. Hates it.
I have not been diagnosed with schizoaffective or schizophrenia, but I have been diagnosed with autism, adhd, and c-ptsd. I experience hypnagogic hallucinations more times than not. It often sounds like I am in the middle of a busy crowd. Like 20 different people speaking all at once. I can grasp some of the things that they are saying if I focus hard enough, but it usually doesn't have context and it makes it hard to understand. Another one that I have gotten (only once) was a man's voice VERY LOUDLY in my ear saying my name. Almost like he wanted to get my attention and wake me up. It scared the crap out of me. I also often feel like I am falling when I fall asleep, and it will make me jolt awake, trying to catch myself.
Thanks for the video. I learned the term from a psychologist on youtube. Now you. I started to get them the last 5 years ago. When I try to sleep, it happens when I am awake. It's a combo of voices and sounds. I can understand most of them, and most of the time, it's random words or sounds. But when I hear them, it's my que to know I am falling asleep. Even though I don't feel sleepy. The voices or sounds are never evil. They are more like they have tourettes. Thanks again.
Today I heard a lot of conversations that weren’t happening, but ever louder than that I heard heavy rain. It would go away when I’d force my eyes awake, and come back immediately when closed
Thank you for shedding light on hypnagogic hallucinations and sharing what they're like for you. The main one I've experienced is the sensation of floating on water (like in a tube or canoe) and feeling the movement of the waves beneath me. But it rarely happens - usually I don't have any hypnagogic hallucinations at all. It's interesting that you experience them so often, especially knowing that schizoaffective disorder makes them twice as likely to happen. Hearing voices from both the inside and the outside as you're drifting off to sleep sounds like it could be super chaotic if you weren't expecting it, LOL. Thanks again for such an informative video!
I didn't even realize these were hallucinations, but it makes sense now. Sometimes when I go to sleep I see a glare in my eyes as if im pointed at a very bright light. It doesn't flash and if I move my head the light stays stationary. But when I open my eyes the light is gone. I also often feel like I'm falling or have dreamish sequences where I'm moving and I inevitably fall over or get injured which jerks me back to full consciousness.
I have had walking up hallucinations when I started on meds for bipolar disorder. They were linked to trauma for me. It's in that in between awake & asleep. Some people call them lucid dreaming when aware that dreaming. But had intense sensory component plus intense emotional reaction. They are quite common to experience & doesn't mean someone has a psychotic disorder.
Hearing people screaming before sleep (cause of stress or bullying) or images that change right before I'm sleeping. It can be like good images or neutral mostly
Thank you for these videos as they help those new to dealing with the new diagnosis I know they’ve helped me over the past few years here while getting adjusted popped up in my 20s
My husband forwarded me this video because he has hypnagogic hallucinations before falling asleep and really couldn't explain them. He said he sees brief scenes of people with no context. One notable one was seeing a man walk into a house saying "I'm really hungry". Next he saw a man licking a skull. That was it. Rather disturbing. No wonder he was Googling hypnagogic hallucinations.
I have some kind of psychotic disorder, I’m not sure which one, but during psychotic episodes I get hypnagogic hallucinations very often. Outside of my episodes I tend to not remember WHAT I hallucinated (I’m unsure if this coincides with other psychotic folk as well, but it’s common for me) (or, maybe I just don’t remember/“notice” hallucinating). A certain one I remember is while reading on my phone, I saw a lot of colours and shapes between the text and even replacing it, maybe worth mentioning I didn’t realize I was falling asleep either - and I know I’ve had more but I can’t remember them. For auditory hallucinations, because you mentioned them, weird thing is I hear a lot of them and crisply as well - but I can almost never discern the contents. It’s usually some kind of garbled speech as well.
This happens to me A LOT. Mostly when I am trying to sleep and daydreaming. My daydream gets sharper I can see what I think vividly and hear voices. If I keep on my body lockes and I start to hear really loud white noice thingy. Of course every time I freak out and break that lock by will I guess and wake myself up
I enjoy these alot, they tend to be calming for me. I wish the voices I hear through the day were as pleasent as the colorful images I see as I am drifting off to sleep. Idk if it is like this for you, but the more tired I am, the worse my auditory hallucinations get as far as intensity.
I've never talked to a professional about hypnagogic hallucinations but have gotten the feeling of gravity changing around me in daydream sort of states similar to the feeling of falling before sleep. It sometimes startles my body and is like dipping my toes into an episode. These symptoms seem like their a good way to bridge the description of psychosis to people who haven't experienced schizoaffective disorder.
I've experienced both since at least high school (a while ago). Mostly auditory. Falling asleep or waking up, I usually hear a voice saying something. It's not a monologue. Usually a word or phrase. And typically sounds like someone is close to me in the room. Thanks for this topic.
I just got diagnosed with schizoaffective this spring, and I started having "nightime" only hallucinations the summer of 2022, my "daytime" hallucinations started this spring when I officially got diagnosed. It happens pretty much every single night and it's similar to yours, just multiple different voices constantly before I fall asleep! Sometimes I'll hear screaming or ones that sound straight up demonic and that's when my eyes fly open and I'm like "hellll nah I am not going to bed in these conditions" 🤣
Yes! I have schizoaffective disorder and, like you, I experience these nearly 90% of the time that I am falling asleep. My biggest hallucinations are radios playing music or broadcasting in another room, crowds cheering (like at a football game), and muffled voices talking outside my door. I do have one terrifying one that I haven’t figured out how to get rid of, of a man walking into my room and standing over me. That happens around 5 days/week. I also get the sensation of falling. I knew they were “normal” for most people but I also knew mine were abnormal.
I have no real significant psychiatric or affective disorders, but I have had sleep paralysis about 3 times in total, and only in my living room. And 1 of those times I actually saw the infamous Night Hag entity literally walk down my stairs and she was, like snarling or something on the way down. Dead, blueish-almost skin complexion. Almost inhuman teeth. Distinctively unkempt and long, dark black hair. Her eyes were not visible though. It also felt less relatable to a bad or eerie dream/nightmare or hypnagogic phenomena, and felt more rather like actual explicit harassment.
i've absolutely experienced these, albeit VERY rarely ! the most common one is auditory; sometimes i hear a knock, or the doorbell, or the kettle going off, or the door opening. i also have experienced the "falling" one and jerking awake, but i mostly had that when i was sleeping on the top of a bunk bed. and i have once or twice had the bright flash of white light "behind" my eyes. i do not have a psychotic disorder or otherwise experience hallucinations in my daily life, but i do have a a dissociative disorder! so thoughts or feelings can come into my head but not *feel* like me. i don't experience internal communication as full words or sentences; it's more of an idea/emotion/impression/image. but when i do "hear" someone else, it's entirely internal. whereas, when i've experienced auditory hypnogogic hallucinations, they have always felt external, like they're coming from the appropriate space -- usually the door to our bedroom. but i'd say i experienced them less than 1% of the time i'm falling asleep!
I definitely experience falling and hitting the ground from time to time, but nothing else similar to this type of hallucinations. Hope you're doing well in the conference Kit, I'm sure we're all cheering for you :) :) :)
I'm on Seroquel now so I don't have them as often. But I used to have hypnogogic hallucinations paired with sleep paralysis almost nightly. I would hear voices and sounds like people in my house, or yelling outside. Most often I would see shadows moving in my room or feel like someone I couldn't see was touching me. It always came with a sense of fear and dread. They were horrible. I was afraid to go to sleep but the less sleep I got the worse they were. Seroquel saved my life. It didn't stop them entirely because I still have them if I'm too tired or not feeling well. But it has allowed me to step back and not be overwhelmed with the fear. I can stop and say this isn't real I just have to wake up all the way. I also now have mild ones like feeling like I'm floating or spinning, or seeing lights. Those don't come with the paralysis usually and that makes them much better.
I’ve had these forever, and thought everyone did. I see snippets of a scene and a part of conversation. It’s usually nonsense stuff or it’s like something on tv but sometimes I’m in the tv. Same thing happens when I meditate, though then it’s mostly people talking and someone is channel surfing. They say I have bipolar disorder “unspecified” (haven’t decided on a brand yet) sometimes with psychotic features, but they usually come in the form of paranoid/persecutory delusions.
Update: Just realised this is specific to falling asleep - though for me it's often when waking up. Interesting enough, I developed waking hallucinations as a result of being on medication incl. Seroquel (though Lexapro probably got the ball rolling). Usually just see things on the ceiling or the texture of a wall or ceiling would look different. That said, I have had experiences of literally feeling something that's not there (e.g. feeling a bump on the back of my phone that then vanishes soon after). All in all, though, the hallucinations would only last 10-15 seconds maybe and are less frequent now.
I used to see various lights slowly drift down onto me before falling asleep as a child. During the onset of my psychosis in 2022, I saw what looked like a giant being with a hat in the clouds driving something that was towing a chamber from which rain was pouring down in the area. The scariest part was seeing people with zombie eyes. They looked dead inside.
I have heard voices since I was a kid they never go away they are constant with my medication they are manageable I also have visual hilucination every so often either way I like your videos they are very informative and it makes me feel like I'm not alone thank you for making them
I do have them once in a while. Usually then it is a loud sound that wakes me up. But what I find interesting is that I get hallucinations in the winding down phase. When I am 100% awake and just overthinking most of the time. I'm pretty sure that these are not hypnogogic hallucinations but actual hallucinations. I sometimes write down what they say and it's the strangest things and sometimes even singing. It's so clear. And it sounds like it's coming out of headphones. I'm diagnosed schizoaffective too. The interesting thing is that I only have these hallucinations when I'm laying in bed, trying to sleep and over thinking stuff. I almost never hear these during the day.
I remember being asleep and hearing someone say my name, which woke me up with a start. More recently I’d fallen asleep on the couch with tv on. I think I could still hear the tv but then I heard knocking like someone was knocking on my front door. I thought I was awake and panicked because I thought it was a neighbour telling me to turn my tv off as it was 3am. I was frantically pressing buttons on the remote trying to turn the tv off. No response. I’m still trying to work out if the tv is too loud when I then wake up properly, turn the tv off easily and am almost too scared to check my door is locked in case the knocking person is still there.
A few years ago before I started a prescription for ADHD I'd get hallucinations waking up. I remember a beautiful emerald green network of nodes and edges on my computer screen, which was off. Another time there were all these psychedelic 2D worms in the bounds of this strange window above my dorm room door. Since I've stopped my ADHD meds, they've come back. The other day I woke up and there was this floral pattern of changing numbers and letters on my sheets, which are white. The last few days I've been getting this repeating fractal colored patterns. The interesting thing is that they're always in a specific part of my visual field, and they seem to have "object permanence". I can move my head, and they're still there (though they disappear faster then), in addition to generally being constrained in a specific area. Like I just had these waking up (which is why I decided to look up UA-cam videos on it) and there was this moving 2D fractal pattern that was so intense I couldn't see anything through it, but only in a specific spot, with a hard cutoff around the edges of which the rest of reality was perfectly normal.
i hadn't heard of this! when i'm nearly asleep i often feel like i'm spinning or rotating, as if I was lying on a giant turntable that was slowly spinning round. i also get flashes of images that are often disturbing, and this is extra weird for me because I have aphantasia, which means when i'm fully awake, i can't visualize or create images in my head at all! the brain is a fascinating thing.
Yeah, I have them pretty frequently. I haven't been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, however I tend to see images in my vision as I'm on the edge of sleep. I never hear things though.
I’m not sure if my experiences are this or not but I think they might be. Whenever I spend a lot of time in the ocean during one day, as I am falling asleep at night I notice that I feel like my whole body is moving up and down as if being lifted and dropped by the waves in the ocean. One other thing that happens I actually just experienced about an hour ago. I had finished warding dinner and was feeling tired. So I laid down on my couch. I wasn’t intending to fall asleep but gradually started falling asleep. As I did I suddenly found myself in a brief conversation with my husband about something he was working on. I began to ask him a follow up question out loud which startled me back awake. Looking around me I realized that my husband was still in the shower and I was alone.
My mom has a light hallucination too. She will see the entire room fill up with light and then it slowly dissapears and she belives she is seeing a spirit.
I never knew these were hallucinations! It makes sense, now that I think about it. I used to see sparkling lights travelling in the space around me as a kid, could actually touch them and move them around; was always looking forward to going to bed and tried to make myself see them. Doesn't happen to me as an adult anymore, but I do hear voices just as I'm about to fall asleep, like a cacophony, snippets of people talking. I always presumed it's just a scramble of dialogues I've had throughout the day..? My brain processing them? Sometimes they belong to folks I've actually talked to, but they feel "echo-y". And I used to get the falling sensation quite a lot when I was younger, but that hasn't happened in a while. Well, this is definitely interesting. I never experienced any psychotic symptoms (other than sometimes seeing bugs or something flying just outside my field of vision when I'm sleep deprived) even though I'm massively unhealthy in other ways. Weird learning I've actually experienced hallucinations and never thought twice about it
I am schizoaffective bipolar type, and I had hypnagogic hallucination where it sounded like I was in grand central station with all these various voices around me. Needless to say, it was an auditory hallucination.
I don't have a psychotic disorder, but I'm experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations quite often, and they are much like the ones you describe - indistinct voices when I'm falling asleep, and the sensation of falling that wakes me up.Those voices are always of a single person, uttering - rather loudly - a short word I can't make out. When I'm starting to hear those things, I know it's high time to go to bed. On two occasions I've also experienced a visual hallucination: first was when I was in the bathroom before going to bed, and I was looking at a white towel hanging from a dryer. At some point I started to see on it a picture of an ape wearing an armour and holding a human head. When I realised what I'm looking at, the picture disappeared. The second time was after waking up in my bed: in a greenish spot of light at one point in my field of vision I saw a bird's eye view of my kitchen with an overweight bald man wearing a striped blouse sitting at the high chair that stands there.I thought that maybe some trick of light casted the reflected image on my retina. When I realised this was impossible, the image disappeared.
Sometimes I'm startled awake when falling asleep because I hear an explosion or something moving in my room, for example the chair rolling around, but I know there was nothing like that happening, it was just a hallucination. Sometimes I can also hear a small scream or vocalization in the same manner, but it happens very rarely, maybe once a year. The weird part about it is that once it happens, it tends to happen several times before I fall asleep successfully. I believe it's stress related.
I was in psychosis for a while & one of the ‘plot lines’ was a train sound & a man yelling last stop in my head right before I fell asleep for like a week
I'm not diagnosed nor suspect having a psychotic disorder, but the falling hallucination is so pretty common for me it has become a sign that I'm falling asleep when the chronic asthenia gives me excessive somnolence and I don't notice I'm falling asleep that well.
In my case, I've had only auditory ones. It'll sound like someone shouts my name/just some random words & in the moment, it sounds like it's right by my ear so it usually startles me awake. Happens a lot when I'm sleep deprived or delirious
No one has ever told me I have a psychotic disorder, so as far as I am aware I don’t have one, but I do take an antipsychotic. But I’ve felt my body was turning or slowly tilting back and forth or like it’s floating while falling asleep or even just while closing my eyes while laying down for as long as I can remember. That one was pretty frequent, every night. Ever since starting my current antipsychotic meditation, these have sharply decreased, so it’s much more rare now. Also on occasion (a few times a year), I will hear a voice, usually they just say my name or maybe a random word. Not very remarkable otherwise I loved this video! I’m really happy to hear more information on this subject, I never knew that feeling weightless or spinning and tilting around was a type of hallucination, I always just thought everyone experienced that before sleeping 😅
On rare occasions, I'll wake up on the middle of the night and the "dream" will keep going and I'll worry about the situation of the dream, like I am taking a test I'm unprepared for. I'll try to logic my way out of it but that generally doesn't work.
@@justicebeginstoshine8069I once told my self before I went to bed that I was going to remember to realize I'm dreaming the next time I dream, I closed my eyes and focused on myself walking in my house downstairs and going out the back door to my backyard. Then all of sudden as I was falling asleep I saw a lil vision of my back door and it just open by itself but funny thing was in my mind I knew the door was not in the right place as real life and it brung me back to consciousness then I had the urge to scratch which you are supposed to ignore but I didn't and fell asleep after that. Was I almost in a lucid dream?
I get hallucinations as I’m falling asleep and as I am waking up…sometimes they will wake me up all the way they’re so LOUD. I don’t have schizoaffective but i do have a disorder similar to narcolepsy, which causes them.
Because I do a lot of news reading/watching during the day, I have issues at the edge of consciousness where I hallucinate news reports. They're convincing enough that I spend about an hour trying to do some reality testing. I'm so afraid that one day I won't be able to tell the difference
When I lay in bed in the dark I often get a feeling that my head and body is a lot larger than it actually is. It’s such a strange feeling and confuses the hell out of me. I do see the “shadow people” as well, which also happens in the day.
For me I experience hallucinations on waking associated with sleep paralyzis, seeing insects or people (family members that I live with) or feeling things mostly tickling
I'd never heard the term, but when I'm not taking my seroquel for sleep I experience flying through the solar system and occasional falling. Every once in a while I while vividly see colors and red will send me off like a warm sunset.
The sound I am sometimes hallucinating when falling asleep is always paired with some sort of sleep paralysis and it's not a specific noise, rather than it's just a lot of noise(s)...Kinda like white noise or a plane engine but waaay too loud. Uncomfortably loud. It's also not only a noise but also a feeling in some sort of way. Sometimes the noise is also short and even louder, like a gunshot or a lightning bolt running through me and is also felt (forgot the term for that) and not only heard. Another hypnagogic hallucination (also always paired with sleep paralysis) I get, is this demonic screaming or screaching. And another fun one is the feeling of melting and dripping into nothingness, in all the bad ways lol. Kinda like loosing the grip on reality and never being able to come back. Thankfully hypnagogic hallucinations happen rarely to me because its absolutely terrifying.
I have to put on some music, TV, or UA-cam to sleep. Otherwise, hynqagogic halucinations will startle me awake nearly every night, just as I am on the cusp of sleep. For me, it has always been like being in a room with 6 to 12 people having a variety of conversations. Sometimes one conversation or another will come into focus, and all the words are understandable, when they are in English. I also took German for 5 years, and often the voices speak German, as well, but I can only pick out about 3/4 of the words or phrases (I was never fluent), but it sounds like actual German. A few years after moving to the Southwest, the voices now speak Spanish a good part of the time. I can pick out a few words here and there, as I can while awake, but most of it is incomprehensible to me. I have always found it kind of amusing, but when I mentioned it to my psychiatrist about 20 years ago, he seemed concerned.
I was on vacation with my family and I had this scary hallucination. I woke up in the middle of the night and I saw my dad standing at the bottom of my bed. It was dark but I could see him staring and smiling creepily at me. It was pretty weird to say the least.
I used to have hypnopompic hallucinations for a time when my sleep was really bad. These happen when you wake up. I saw mold patterns on every surface when my room was lit and saw a floating black cobweb when it was still dark, and they faded in roughly one or two minutes. It happened like once or twice a week. I was scared when it started, but luckily they ended after a few months.
Hypnagogic hallucinations for me feel like borderline psychosis I experience visual impairment and might have auditory hallucinations but more so the visuals. I just tell myself to go back to sleep but I’m afraid I’ll start having full blown hallucinations and go into a manic state and start wandering the halls of my apartment. I used to think more along the lines of the occult and that hypnogogic hallucinations / sleep paralysis were a failed attempt at “ astral projection “ sometimes I would see shadow entities and I just figured it was my own consciousness projecting itself while I was frozen in place literally afraid of my own shadow ( figuratively and psychologically). Sometimes I would wake up and punch these entities but usually this was caused by mice being active inside my old farm house in the middle of the night and influencing my perception sometimes I’d feel like I was being attacked because they would “ pitter patter “ around me and over my head.
I’ve had some hallucinations usually they are sounds or sometimes voices. Also sometimes I see faces that are of dead people when I confront them it becomes all emotional. I would never admit to it though.
I´ve been an occasional lucid dreamer for years and lately I´ve started to experience hypnopompic hallucinations, when I wake up in the middle of the night. Sometimes they begin on their own and sometimes I invoke them on purpose while lying in bed and wondering if it would be possible. Often it is. Last night I even managed to "command" one of the voices to say a concrete sentence (can´t remember the words now). I think it´s very interesting to explore these possibilities. Not sure where it leads though... :)
As someone who used lucid dreaming to try and deal with night terrors, I've done some research that implies that these types of hallucinations are your body's alarm when you're falling asleep to stop you from slipping into a state of unconsciousness. They can kind of go along with like your leg jerking or the "falling" sensation, it's your brain telling your body not to fall asleep. Trying to alert you. For me I get them when falling into that sleep paralysis phase. Like I'm hearing people around me try to get my attention and I try to wake up but I can't because my body has already gone into that state of "rest" so usually for me when I get this stuff it's super stressful. It happens often for me but I also have Bipolar, OCD, and horrible insomnia, anxiety, and ptsd so... I might just be more sensitive because my mind is always tense and sleeping / falling asleep is incredibly hard for me unless I'm super medicated.
That's interesting, I've never heard of hypnagogic hallucinations before, or experienced them. I don't usually know when I go from being awake to asleep. (It used to be that almost every night my body would jolt awake as I was dozing off, and with that out of the way, I knew I could go to sleep. Thankfully I figured out how to stop that from happening. But that's not what you're talking about.)
I had once in my school years a hypnogogic experience. We were outdoors, playing a Finnish variation of baseball called "pesäpallo" with the boys of my school class. - I was watching the sky to see when the ball would come. Then while watching the sky I probably went to the state of mind between wake and sleep, I heard voices from the featureless sky, mostly they were calling me by my name. It was not scary, just bewildering. It was only a short episode of time.
This is common for me most evenings I hear a band that I describe as a good local band. I can't make out the songs but I often enjoy them. I'm schitzoaffective
Very familiar, at least since my pre-teens. Almost every night. It's mostly unfamiliar voices talking, or rather saying separate words, but also a loud bang, a tune and a feeling of something moving under my mattress.
That's crazy, I also hear a lot of strange sound effects and voices right before I fall asleep! My brain also just knows that it's a sign that I'm about to sleep. I thought that was just me!
Definitely the falling thing. In fact everyone I knew well (college roommates, etc) experienced this. And I’ve had sleep paralysis multiple times. I have a terrible time being able to move or speak. I can eventually wake myself up by trying to scream. It takes all my effort to get out the faintest whisper, but eventually it will bring me out of it.
I LOVE my hypnagogia I find entertaining and almost relaxing? bc it’s a sign that my fast loud active mind is taking a step back for once, what a relief 😅 it “sounds” like flipping between channels, just very random snippets of conversations and moments, sometimes just voices and sometimes imagery too. Sometimes I find myself speaking it out loud? which, when it’s funny, makes me laugh out loud and then wakes me up lol 🙃 I think whatever the part of my brain is that discerns reality from non reality is able to know that it is meaningless babble/static, which I’m grateful for given my instinctive my pattern seeking tendencies - I imagine it would be frightening to find yourself seeking meaning and msgs from something so neutral that you can’t control
I have also sometimes heard a voice like if i was listening the radio or tv news it was a external voice 'not inside my head like a thought ,and although i could understand the words they said ,it didn't have sense listening all together..like a newsreader talking without stopping Once i woke up and thought it was my 📱but soon i realized my 📱 doesn't have radio it was in my head and listened like interferences..and a change of frequency
I have them, but since I’m on an antipsychotic, I don’t experience them anymore unless I fall off my medication routine. It typically looks like loud random sounds, but typically voices.
I didnt know other people got this. That between waking and sleeping place has always been really hard for me. I couldnt sleep for years because i couldnt stop seeing the most horrific, gorey, gross things my brain could think of. Even as a little kid, i saw bugs on the walls and people standing by my bed. My brother always teased me mercilessly because i told him every night before going to sleep I heard a bunch of voices Whispering all at once. And then there was a period of sleep paralysis and then for many years i woke up seeing things in my room, hearing voices, there was always some white or black shape hovering above me and it was so real and terrifykng that i slept with the lights on throughout most of my early twenties! They all stopped happening, though, when I went on my meds.
Happens all the time. People want to live in these states…especially people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (sometimes) They’re pleasent and often just are those creative 💡bulb moments. It’s episodic, declarative memories sometimes of specific personalized events that have happened or childhood memories.
I get those. Over the course of my AE getting worse this started happening more and more. Right when I wake up and I’m usually in a state of sleep paralysis but not always. I usually see bugs. Either regular size bugs or gigantic bugs on the ceiling the size of my chandelier and right when I’m about to scream my ever loving head off it just disappears like ✨poof✨. Sometimes I will see shapes like neon shapes or giant balls of light. It’s pretty unsettling. I usually also have difficulty breathing and I’m usually choking when this happens which probably means that I might stop breathing when I’m sleeping so maybe that also contributes to this I don’t know 😂 I also have a lot of hypnic jerks (the whole waking up to the feeling of falling) I’ve had those ever since I was little it’s so unsettling 😂 you know it’s so weird for the longest time I thought I couldn’t possibly be experiencing hallucinations or nobody else probably experiences these things but it actually is quite common. Especially with psychotic disorders or even just sleep disorders. But there’s still such a stigma surrounding psychosis that you don’t see with illnesses such as depression and anxiety. I’m really glad you’re one of the people changing that. ❤
I have had these my whole life, when I was a kid I thought that my brain was intercepting radio waves or maybe telephone calls. I sometimes hear entire sentences. Sometimes there are many layers of voices and they are impossible to understand. And the falling thing still freaks me out. The anti-psychotic meds don’t seem to reduce these experiences.
Whatever dose of antipsychotic I am on also doesn’t affect them. I still get them all. The. Time. Thanks for sharing this knowledge and I hope you have a great day!
Waking up i heard a loud wind, and steps and felt a presence. I didn’t look out of the sheets coz i was scared. I waa very lucid. I had it 2 or 3 times, next time it happens i will look but never happened again
Thank you for doing this film, I have recently had 2 episodes of what I think are Hypnogogic hallucinations. The second one was a bright cheery hello from an unseen lady ( there was nobody near me, I had just laid my head on my pillow ), but the first was more disturbing, basically a black featureless adult human like entity crawled into my bed from the bottom, it scared the living daylights out of me, I got downstairs in 2 seconds ! Would that have been a hypnogogic hallucination do you think ? I am awaiting a psychiatric assessment( I may have schizophrenia). I have another question, are you able to drive with your condition please, losing my drivers licence is a big worry. Thank you, your channel Is very helpful. Adrian 😎
I went cold-turkey off of gabapentin last week. 2 nights ago I experienced withdrawal, I heard ambient music coming from my room fan. I was also having this weird facial tic in the form of a physical “cringe” that would happen 2 or 3 at a time.
You have my sympathy. Gabapentin withdrawal is horrible. I hate what I call the poofs, little exploding feelings in your brain and nervous system. Good luck.
I sometimes get a flashback to a previous dream or part of it in that moment before going to sleep. Is that also a hypnagogic hallucination. And I also get that falling feeling sometimes and my body does jerk when it happens.
I get this except I hear people whispering to me and feel the sensation of falling. Sometimes the flashes of light. I'm a new subscriber and I ALSO have Schitzoaffective disorder bipolar type and you have taught me things about my own disorder that I didn't even know. I wanted to ask: what were your first symptoms of Schitzoaffective disorder? Whether you realized It or not. When you were a kid did you also have a "imaginary" best friend who felt so real you could hug them? She was never malevolent to me. She was a comforting presence oddly enough.
I used to experience a falling sensation every night. And occasionally, I would hear music. Now I sleep with rain sounds or audio books, and I have stopped experiencing both.
I had never heard the term Hypnagogic Hallucinations, but I have definitely had them. Along with the falling one which hasn't happened in a while, the most common one for me now is hearing the doorbell ring loudly and clearly. It always happens right as I'm feeling like I'm about to go to sleep, and it always jars me awake. Thank you as always for a really interesting explanation!
you are such a good person
Doorbells are actually a super common one! That and notification noises on phones. When they jar me fully awake it’s the worst because I was so close to sleep! And of course, thanks for this super thanks, I appreciate your support!!!! 🐝
@SchizoKitzo I remember a dream from my childhood, a hazy memory that feels just beyond my grasp. In that dream, I found myself staring through the rails of a 2 story balcony, the sunlight was shining bright above as I poked my head through the rails. Everything felt so safe and serene. But then, in an unexpected moment, the atmosphere changed. A weird feeling of worry surged through me, as I saw a giant tree appear and a man with a shovel on the ground below.
My instinctive response to the change brought panic. Then I fell, plummeting into the grave below. It was like gravity pulled me through the rails and into the pit. But strangely, as I landed in the hole, I didn’t wake up. It remained dark as night. Instead, I found myself suspended, floating in a surreal state like I was falling. The grave was no longer a place of fear. It had transformed into a tranquil space, and then, the most astonishing thing happened. Multi-colored orbs began to appear little by little, swirling around me like gentle fireflies.
These glowing orbs filled the darkness with their light, each one pulsating softly with vibrant colors of different blues, greens, reds, yellows, whites, pinks, etc. illuminating the space. They felt comforting, as if they were there to soothe me after my sudden fall. The warmth of the lights glow wrapped around me with a sweet embrace, and I felt an overwhelming sense of peace wash over me. It was as if the light was telling me that everything was going to be alright.
I woke up, back in my cozy bed, but the peaceful memory of that dream lingered, even until this day. It took over 20 years for me to see to a spark what that dream meant. It was a delicate reminder, like a whisper of my childhood, echoing the innocence I once held, now intertwined with the weight of the world that had crept into my subconscious. The vivid lights of the orbs, were a source of comfort, even symbols of peace. As I awoke, I later realized how beauty can be so easily disrupted by the unknown.
I still find myself reflecting on that dream, exploring its layers. The grave, once a frightening element, transformed into a metaphor for the fears we all harbor, the hidden depths of our psyche that we often avoid. It reminded me that even in moments of perceived safety, there can be lurking shadows, remnants of doubt and anxiety waiting to surface. The orbs of light represented the nature of tranquility, a reminder of the joy that illuminates our lives, even from the most unsuspecting places.
If anything was a catalyst for introspection, it was definitely this dream. I realized that life is a series of contrasts: light and dark, joy and sorrow, peace and chaos. The orbs taught me that comfort is waiting to envelop us if we will receive it, but we must remain vigilant, because unsuspecting changes can emerge unexpectedly. It was a lesson on resilience not to be forgotten. Even delineating the importance of embracing the light while the shadows exist alongside it.
From person to person, we all comprehend this understanding differently, but as I look back, I have noticed these themes reflect in my actual life. Moments of happiness would often be tinged with a hint of worry, like a soft undertone of music that plays in the background. I have learned to appreciate the beauty of fleeting moments, to savor the warmth of connection with others, while recognizing our fears and uncertainties are a natural part of our unique personal experience.
Despite the complexity of our existence, there is strength within vulnerability, and beauty in the face of the unknown. How we use the comfort of grace as a guiding principle to navigate life’s challenges, makes a big difference in each moment’s potential for joy and stability of heart in the midst of uncertainty.
🌱May this seed of understanding fall upon good ground.🌻
@@SchizoKitzo hey schizo does olanzapine cause memory loss and i find it hard to concentrate on anything ? Is it normal ? My short term memory and focus are like gone please answer when you can cause im scared im on my two week of olanzapine.
@@AsMnex hello, I've never been under Oleanzapine but many others, and these type of meds have their share of side effects that frequently diminish with the time. Hang on and talk with the doctor that presribed you this molecule, but please don't stop taking it, for your own care.
There're always ways to adapt your treatment further on.
I don't experience hypnogogic hallucinations, but I do get hypnopompic hallucinations which are hallucinations on waking. Mostly just shapes or patterns but occasionally sounds like someone banging or knocking at the door. Once I woke up to see my bedroom ceiling covered with thousands of little insects that were all moving rhythmically to create expanding ripples or waves, after doing this for about thirty seconds they suddenly all scurried towards a crack in my ceiling and disappeared. It's the most vivid hallucination I've ever had but I knew it was a hallucination the entire time so I just relaxed and enjoyed the new experience.
Thank you for your videos, I enjoyed learning about the lives and experiences from other people!
i just had that the other day, i woke up and saw writing on the ceiling, like a paragraph of words in black paint. it wasn't floating in the air it was painted on the ceiling. i couldnt read it but it was incredibly vivid, it looked completely real to me. when i looked over to the wall it moved there and even adjusted for the perspective so it was slanted/foreshortened, like my brain automatically preserved the realism. then i looked back at the ceiling and it was gone and then i fell back asleep. weirdest thing
This almost sounds like hallucinations related to form constants
I have Bipolar 1 and I USED to have synesthetic delusions, that is, very strong perceptions in which sensory input becomes intense emotional experiences. For instance, sunlight or moonlight seem to enter and energize me. Is that "hallucinatory?"
I get hypnopompic hallucinations too. I’ve seen a tarantula crawling around on the ceiling a few times. I also occasionally hear vivid screams. When I was a kid, I would see colors and hear music coming from outside - I never realized what that one was until now!
@@shadesofpurple-k3w ,Mine are always symbols and words that I can't read as well..glad I'm not the only one that experienced these .
I haven’t heard the term, but I’ve certainly had the feeling of falling during that “almost asleep” period, and startled myself awake.
I hear full on conversations when I'm really close to falling asleep, often finding myself in the middle of a discussion among people. Once I heard the voice of my best friend say "Go!", it was wild.
All my life I've also felt this sense of agoraphobia nearly, like I'm suddenly in a room that's way too large. Like indescribably large, it caused me a lot of anxiety as a kid. I never feel agoraphobia usually, and it's such a strange sensation because rationally I know I'm covered by my blanket, safe inside a small bedroom, but I'm transported to this huge ever expanding room. Like not physically or mentally, just a sensation of it.
Also the more tired I get the more I see this really purple flashing light, like a flash from a camera or something that pops into my vision and then disappears.
How often? Very frequently. Me and sleep usually don't get along. By default I'm sleep deprived most of the time so hypnagogic hallucinations happen frequently for me.
Another interesting video, btw. I've actually just recently done a ton of research on this topic myself, so it was wild to see this pop up by you too. What a coincidence. Loved it, though!
Glad the video could help! And thanks for sharing this!
I have these - voices, primarily, but also sensations of spinning or falling (which are usually pleasant for whatever reason). These were actually the first thing I thought of when I encountered your videos, since they were my only reference point for hearing voices. I went through a stretch of severe insomnia and the voices were always a welcome sign because it meant my brain was finally starting to let go and that I would be asleep soon. For me, they are notably not coming from “inside.” It’s as though I am being spoken to or overhearing conversations. It’s a bit like hearing some kind of sound montage, with sound effects and characters with identifiable voices and personalities. Most of the time, I have a very persistent and loud inner monologue, so when this happens, it’s a sort of a relief. I don’t have to hear myself think anymore.
Hi kit, I was diagnosed with psychosis induced schizophrenia due to heavy substance abuse a few years back. I started hearing these external voices, went to a psychiatrist who gave me meds to control the symptoms. I have led a pretty normal life since then, but relapsed a few weeks back, that brought me to your channel, and back on my meds, but thankfully the symptoms are in check with the meds.
My symptoms were un-controlled monologues about situations when I was alone, which seemed to disappear when I was with friends or other people, or outside or with family.
I also used to hear mumbles outside of myself, but they were minimal.
I appreciate the work you are doing here, and feel we have a lot in common, in terms of situations that you and me are dealing with coz of the illness.
Kind regards.
Hey, feel free to ignore if you find this an unnecessary or insensitive question but what kind of substances were those? Does this happen only with hallucinogens or can other substances have this effect too? Because they also affect the brains chemistry?
Also glad you're feeling mostly better, and if it takes medication then so be it 😊 no different than thyroid pills
For me they sound more like a loud sound in my brain rather than something I actually hear like how I hear other humans
falling yourself awake from that liminal space, yeah absolutely.
Wow thank you so much for this video. I have experienced the lights, the sounds of people talking but also sounds like explosions which is extremely unsettling and scary. I have experienced floating, falling and spinning as well. Glad I'm not the only one!
The sharing of these experiences is fascinating and enlightening
I've experienced these in moments of sleep paralysis. I am somehow able to snap out of it quickly
Me too!!
Same. I found it relatively easy to wake up or will yourself over it. That lady entity, I think either apprehends or respects me I imagine. She just wanted to demonstrate herself visibly to a skeptic. Or she’s just Queen Toloache whom I know already is heavily connected with dreams and the witch or crone archetype.
I'm so glad you did this video, thank you. I haven't heard this term before, but I'm having these hypnagogic hallucinations quite often (at least twice a month) and sometimes it gets really intense. I've had both visual and auditory hallucinations and in the past also experinced the feeling of falling or floating. When I first started taking my meds (SSRI's) I had really disturbing flashes of images in my head like distorted faces and weird figures, it was kinda disturbing. But it was even more disturbing in that period, when I was really stressed and didn't have a healthy lifestyle, I often heard many voices that were talking to me, although they were most of the time very unclear - I couldn't understand what they were saying, sometimes it was pretty vivid and one of the voices screamed my name so loud that I would wake up and nearly jumped out of my bed. I thought that I was going crazy... These days they're mostly auditory experineces, but aren't as intervening as before, so I certainly appreciate that.
Always see fractals, always moving and changing 😊
Thanks for sharing this story. I hadn't heard the term before. I will have to ask my mental health care team about it at my next appointments. We experience voices pretty much every night, doubly loud if we forget to take our meds. They rarely ever make sense, like you said, lots of mumbling. There is often music along with it. Sometimes I hear something I would describe as sharp. It scares us. In a startling and screaming kind of way. The voices are so regular we say goodnight to them when we lie down.
I can't say I have had visuals, at least not from this. Though on rare nights there is a weird feeling of weightlessness that will jerk me back to fully awake. Hard to settle down after those.
All of these symptoms were worse while we were on prozac. I had a reaction to it that made me feel permanently caught between waking and dreaming. So many hallucinations.
I'm so going to pester all 3 of my psych docs about this.
oh this happens to me every single day (diagnosed psychotic disorder). never knew the term for them, though. this channel is truly like a gold mine! mine are mostly tactile, like most of my hallucinations (feeling things crawling on me or touching me/brushing against me that aren't there). sometimes i hear voices, but that's much less common and almost exclusively exists as a hypnagogic hallucination for me. visual/tactile are the majority of my hallucinations.
I see people on or near my bed and that makes me wake quite brutally, kicking and screaming. I also hear voices and my bathroom door creaking even though nobody's there and I also experience someone blowing wind into my face. Hates it.
I’d hate that too! Thanks for sharing!
I have not been diagnosed with schizoaffective or schizophrenia, but I have been diagnosed with autism, adhd, and c-ptsd. I experience hypnagogic hallucinations more times than not. It often sounds like I am in the middle of a busy crowd. Like 20 different people speaking all at once. I can grasp some of the things that they are saying if I focus hard enough, but it usually doesn't have context and it makes it hard to understand. Another one that I have gotten (only once) was a man's voice VERY LOUDLY in my ear saying my name. Almost like he wanted to get my attention and wake me up. It scared the crap out of me. I also often feel like I am falling when I fall asleep, and it will make me jolt awake, trying to catch myself.
Thanks for the video. I learned the term from a psychologist on youtube. Now you. I started to get them the last 5 years ago. When I try to sleep, it happens when I am awake. It's a combo of voices and sounds. I can understand most of them, and most of the time, it's random words or sounds. But when I hear them, it's my que to know I am falling asleep. Even though I don't feel sleepy. The voices or sounds are never evil. They are more like they have tourettes. Thanks again.
Today I heard a lot of conversations that weren’t happening, but ever louder than that I heard heavy rain. It would go away when I’d force my eyes awake, and come back immediately when closed
Thank you for shedding light on hypnagogic hallucinations and sharing what they're like for you. The main one I've experienced is the sensation of floating on water (like in a tube or canoe) and feeling the movement of the waves beneath me. But it rarely happens - usually I don't have any hypnagogic hallucinations at all. It's interesting that you experience them so often, especially knowing that schizoaffective disorder makes them twice as likely to happen. Hearing voices from both the inside and the outside as you're drifting off to sleep sounds like it could be super chaotic if you weren't expecting it, LOL. Thanks again for such an informative video!
I used to hear murlocs from World of Warcraft when I was very tired, like consistently, but it randomly stopped at some point a few years ago
I didn't even realize these were hallucinations, but it makes sense now. Sometimes when I go to sleep I see a glare in my eyes as if im pointed at a very bright light. It doesn't flash and if I move my head the light stays stationary. But when I open my eyes the light is gone. I also often feel like I'm falling or have dreamish sequences where I'm moving and I inevitably fall over or get injured which jerks me back to full consciousness.
I have had walking up hallucinations when I started on meds for bipolar disorder. They were linked to trauma for me.
It's in that in between awake & asleep. Some people call them lucid dreaming when aware that dreaming. But had intense sensory component plus intense emotional reaction.
They are quite common to experience & doesn't mean someone has a psychotic disorder.
I often feel like I'm falling during these hallucinations and I absolutely love it. It's very exciting.
Oh what an interesting perspective! I find it so annoying!
Hearing people screaming before sleep (cause of stress or bullying) or images that change right before I'm sleeping. It can be like good images or neutral mostly
Thank you for these videos as they help those new to dealing with the new diagnosis I know they’ve helped me over the past few years here while getting adjusted popped up in my 20s
My husband forwarded me this video because he has hypnagogic hallucinations before falling asleep and really couldn't explain them. He said he sees brief scenes of people with no context. One notable one was seeing a man walk into a house saying "I'm really hungry". Next he saw a man licking a skull. That was it. Rather disturbing. No wonder he was Googling hypnagogic hallucinations.
simaller to mine!
I have some kind of psychotic disorder, I’m not sure which one, but during psychotic episodes I get hypnagogic hallucinations very often. Outside of my episodes I tend to not remember WHAT I hallucinated (I’m unsure if this coincides with other psychotic folk as well, but it’s common for me) (or, maybe I just don’t remember/“notice” hallucinating). A certain one I remember is while reading on my phone, I saw a lot of colours and shapes between the text and even replacing it, maybe worth mentioning I didn’t realize I was falling asleep either - and I know I’ve had more but I can’t remember them.
For auditory hallucinations, because you mentioned them, weird thing is I hear a lot of them and crisply as well - but I can almost never discern the contents. It’s usually some kind of garbled speech as well.
This happens to me A LOT. Mostly when I am trying to sleep and daydreaming. My daydream gets sharper I can see what I think vividly and hear voices. If I keep on my body lockes and I start to hear really loud white noice thingy. Of course every time I freak out and break that lock by will I guess and wake myself up
I enjoy these alot, they tend to be calming for me. I wish the voices I hear through the day were as pleasent as the colorful images I see as I am drifting off to sleep. Idk if it is like this for you, but the more tired I am, the worse my auditory hallucinations get as far as intensity.
I just hear my name... but it rarely happens
I've never talked to a professional about hypnagogic hallucinations but have gotten the feeling of gravity changing around me in daydream sort of states similar to the feeling of falling before sleep. It sometimes startles my body and is like dipping my toes into an episode. These symptoms seem like their a good way to bridge the description of psychosis to people who haven't experienced schizoaffective disorder.
Talk about morning/wakeup hallucinations… PLEASE!!!!!
I've experienced both since at least high school (a while ago). Mostly auditory. Falling asleep or waking up, I usually hear a voice saying something. It's not a monologue. Usually a word or phrase. And typically sounds like someone is close to me in the room. Thanks for this topic.
I just got diagnosed with schizoaffective this spring, and I started having "nightime" only hallucinations the summer of 2022, my "daytime" hallucinations started this spring when I officially got diagnosed. It happens pretty much every single night and it's similar to yours, just multiple different voices constantly before I fall asleep! Sometimes I'll hear screaming or ones that sound straight up demonic and that's when my eyes fly open and I'm like "hellll nah I am not going to bed in these conditions" 🤣
Great video as usual! Hope you're having a great weekend! 😁👍❤️
Yes! I have schizoaffective disorder and, like you, I experience these nearly 90% of the time that I am falling asleep. My biggest hallucinations are radios playing music or broadcasting in another room, crowds cheering (like at a football game), and muffled voices talking outside my door. I do have one terrifying one that I haven’t figured out how to get rid of, of a man walking into my room and standing over me. That happens around 5 days/week. I also get the sensation of falling. I knew they were “normal” for most people but I also knew mine were abnormal.
I think I've had them when I was under constant stress, or just stress, in general. No, I'm not schizophrenic, and/or schizoaffective.
I have no real significant psychiatric or affective disorders, but I have had sleep paralysis about 3 times in total, and only in my living room. And 1 of those times I actually saw the infamous Night Hag entity literally walk down my stairs and she was, like snarling or something on the way down. Dead, blueish-almost skin complexion. Almost inhuman teeth. Distinctively unkempt and long, dark black hair. Her eyes were not visible though. It also felt less relatable to a bad or eerie dream/nightmare or hypnagogic phenomena, and felt more rather like actual explicit harassment.
i've absolutely experienced these, albeit VERY rarely ! the most common one is auditory; sometimes i hear a knock, or the doorbell, or the kettle going off, or the door opening. i also have experienced the "falling" one and jerking awake, but i mostly had that when i was sleeping on the top of a bunk bed. and i have once or twice had the bright flash of white light "behind" my eyes.
i do not have a psychotic disorder or otherwise experience hallucinations in my daily life, but i do have a a dissociative disorder! so thoughts or feelings can come into my head but not *feel* like me. i don't experience internal communication as full words or sentences; it's more of an idea/emotion/impression/image. but when i do "hear" someone else, it's entirely internal. whereas, when i've experienced auditory hypnogogic hallucinations, they have always felt external, like they're coming from the appropriate space -- usually the door to our bedroom. but i'd say i experienced them less than 1% of the time i'm falling asleep!
I definitely experience falling and hitting the ground from time to time, but nothing else similar to this type of hallucinations. Hope you're doing well in the conference Kit, I'm sure we're all cheering for you :) :) :)
Thanks so much! It was fun!
I'm on Seroquel now so I don't have them as often. But I used to have hypnogogic hallucinations paired with sleep paralysis almost nightly. I would hear voices and sounds like people in my house, or yelling outside. Most often I would see shadows moving in my room or feel like someone I couldn't see was touching me. It always came with a sense of fear and dread. They were horrible. I was afraid to go to sleep but the less sleep I got the worse they were. Seroquel saved my life. It didn't stop them entirely because I still have them if I'm too tired or not feeling well. But it has allowed me to step back and not be overwhelmed with the fear. I can stop and say this isn't real I just have to wake up all the way. I also now have mild ones like feeling like I'm floating or spinning, or seeing lights. Those don't come with the paralysis usually and that makes them much better.
So glad it’s improved for you as sleep paralysis sounds so terrifying! I’ve never had it and never want to. Thanks for sharing your experience here!
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I’ve had these forever, and thought everyone did. I see snippets of a scene and a part of conversation. It’s usually nonsense stuff or it’s like something on tv but sometimes I’m in the tv. Same thing happens when I meditate, though then it’s mostly people talking and someone is channel surfing.
They say I have bipolar disorder “unspecified” (haven’t decided on a brand yet) sometimes with psychotic features, but they usually come in the form of paranoid/persecutory delusions.
Sometimes I get quick dreams where I close my eyes then dream for 30min only to open my eyes and realize that not even a minute passed 😂😂😂😂😅
Update: Just realised this is specific to falling asleep - though for me it's often when waking up.
Interesting enough, I developed waking hallucinations as a result of being on medication incl. Seroquel (though Lexapro probably got the ball rolling). Usually just see things on the ceiling or the texture of a wall or ceiling would look different. That said, I have had experiences of literally feeling something that's not there (e.g. feeling a bump on the back of my phone that then vanishes soon after). All in all, though, the hallucinations would only last 10-15 seconds maybe and are less frequent now.
I learned something new today thanks Kit
Glad to hear it!
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I used to see various lights slowly drift down onto me before falling asleep as a child. During the onset of my psychosis in 2022, I saw what looked like a giant being with a hat in the clouds driving something that was towing a chamber from which rain was pouring down in the area. The scariest part was seeing people with zombie eyes. They looked dead inside.
I have heard voices since I was a kid they never go away they are constant with my medication they are manageable I also have visual hilucination every so often either way I like your videos they are very informative and it makes me feel like I'm not alone thank you for making them
Glad I can help 💪
I do have them once in a while. Usually then it is a loud sound that wakes me up. But what I find interesting is that I get hallucinations in the winding down phase. When I am 100% awake and just overthinking most of the time. I'm pretty sure that these are not hypnogogic hallucinations but actual hallucinations. I sometimes write down what they say and it's the strangest things and sometimes even singing. It's so clear. And it sounds like it's coming out of headphones. I'm diagnosed schizoaffective too. The interesting thing is that I only have these hallucinations when I'm laying in bed, trying to sleep and over thinking stuff. I almost never hear these during the day.
I remember being asleep and hearing someone say my name, which woke me up with a start. More recently I’d fallen asleep on the couch with tv on. I think I could still hear the tv but then I heard knocking like someone was knocking on my front door. I thought I was awake and panicked because I thought it was a neighbour telling me to turn my tv off as it was 3am. I was frantically pressing buttons on the remote trying to turn the tv off. No response. I’m still trying to work out if the tv is too loud when I then wake up properly, turn the tv off easily and am almost too scared to check my door is locked in case the knocking person is still there.
A few years ago before I started a prescription for ADHD I'd get hallucinations waking up. I remember a beautiful emerald green network of nodes and edges on my computer screen, which was off. Another time there were all these psychedelic 2D worms in the bounds of this strange window above my dorm room door. Since I've stopped my ADHD meds, they've come back. The other day I woke up and there was this floral pattern of changing numbers and letters on my sheets, which are white. The last few days I've been getting this repeating fractal colored patterns. The interesting thing is that they're always in a specific part of my visual field, and they seem to have "object permanence". I can move my head, and they're still there (though they disappear faster then), in addition to generally being constrained in a specific area. Like I just had these waking up (which is why I decided to look up UA-cam videos on it) and there was this moving 2D fractal pattern that was so intense I couldn't see anything through it, but only in a specific spot, with a hard cutoff around the edges of which the rest of reality was perfectly normal.
i hadn't heard of this! when i'm nearly asleep i often feel like i'm spinning or rotating, as if I was lying on a giant turntable that was slowly spinning round. i also get flashes of images that are often disturbing, and this is extra weird for me because I have aphantasia, which means when i'm fully awake, i can't visualize or create images in my head at all! the brain is a fascinating thing.
Great video! never knew what they were called but i do have them all the time😁
Yeah, I have them pretty frequently. I haven't been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, however I tend to see images in my vision as I'm on the edge of sleep. I never hear things though.
I’m not sure if my experiences are this or not but I think they might be. Whenever I spend a lot of time in the ocean during one day, as I am falling asleep at night I notice that I feel like my whole body is moving up and down as if being lifted and dropped by the waves in the ocean.
One other thing that happens I actually just experienced about an hour ago. I had finished warding dinner and was feeling tired. So I laid down on my couch. I wasn’t intending to fall asleep but gradually started falling asleep. As I did I suddenly found myself in a brief conversation with my husband about something he was working on. I began to ask him a follow up question out loud which startled me back awake. Looking around me I realized that my husband was still in the shower and I was alone.
My mom has a light hallucination too. She will see the entire room fill up with light and then it slowly dissapears and she belives she is seeing a spirit.
I never knew these were hallucinations! It makes sense, now that I think about it. I used to see sparkling lights travelling in the space around me as a kid, could actually touch them and move them around; was always looking forward to going to bed and tried to make myself see them. Doesn't happen to me as an adult anymore, but I do hear voices just as I'm about to fall asleep, like a cacophony, snippets of people talking. I always presumed it's just a scramble of dialogues I've had throughout the day..? My brain processing them? Sometimes they belong to folks I've actually talked to, but they feel "echo-y". And I used to get the falling sensation quite a lot when I was younger, but that hasn't happened in a while.
Well, this is definitely interesting. I never experienced any psychotic symptoms (other than sometimes seeing bugs or something flying just outside my field of vision when I'm sleep deprived) even though I'm massively unhealthy in other ways. Weird learning I've actually experienced hallucinations and never thought twice about it
Yes I have them sometimes it's voices that sounds so real like they are there with you
I am schizoaffective bipolar type, and I had hypnagogic hallucination where it sounded like I was in grand central station with all these various voices around me. Needless to say, it was an auditory hallucination.
I don't have a psychotic disorder, but I'm experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations quite often, and they are much like the ones you describe - indistinct voices when I'm falling asleep, and the sensation of falling that wakes me up.Those voices are always of a single person, uttering - rather loudly - a short word I can't make out. When I'm starting to hear those things, I know it's high time to go to bed.
On two occasions I've also experienced a visual hallucination: first was when I was in the bathroom before going to bed, and I was looking at a white towel hanging from a dryer. At some point I started to see on it a picture of an ape wearing an armour and holding a human head. When I realised what I'm looking at, the picture disappeared. The second time was after waking up in my bed: in a greenish spot of light at one point in my field of vision I saw a bird's eye view of my kitchen with an overweight bald man wearing a striped blouse sitting at the high chair that stands there.I thought that maybe some trick of light casted the reflected image on my retina. When I realised this was impossible, the image disappeared.
Interesting! Kinda wild what other people experience in this vein
Sometimes I'm startled awake when falling asleep because I hear an explosion or something moving in my room, for example the chair rolling around, but I know there was nothing like that happening, it was just a hallucination. Sometimes I can also hear a small scream or vocalization in the same manner, but it happens very rarely, maybe once a year. The weird part about it is that once it happens, it tends to happen several times before I fall asleep successfully. I believe it's stress related.
I was in psychosis for a while & one of the ‘plot lines’ was a train sound & a man yelling last stop in my head right before I fell asleep for like a week
I'm not diagnosed nor suspect having a psychotic disorder, but the falling hallucination is so pretty common for me it has become a sign that I'm falling asleep when the chronic asthenia gives me excessive somnolence and I don't notice I'm falling asleep that well.
In my case, I've had only auditory ones. It'll sound like someone shouts my name/just some random words & in the moment, it sounds like it's right by my ear so it usually startles me awake. Happens a lot when I'm sleep deprived or delirious
No one has ever told me I have a psychotic disorder, so as far as I am aware I don’t have one, but I do take an antipsychotic. But I’ve felt my body was turning or slowly tilting back and forth or like it’s floating while falling asleep or even just while closing my eyes while laying down for as long as I can remember. That one was pretty frequent, every night. Ever since starting my current antipsychotic meditation, these have sharply decreased, so it’s much more rare now.
Also on occasion (a few times a year), I will hear a voice, usually they just say my name or maybe a random word. Not very remarkable otherwise
I loved this video! I’m really happy to hear more information on this subject, I never knew that feeling weightless or spinning and tilting around was a type of hallucination, I always just thought everyone experienced that before sleeping 😅
While most people have experienced at least once, it seems to be a common occurrence for a lot of people! Thanks for sharing this.
On rare occasions, I'll wake up on the middle of the night and the "dream" will keep going and I'll worry about the situation of the dream, like I am taking a test I'm unprepared for. I'll try to logic my way out of it but that generally doesn't work.
I think you’re on the verge of lucid dreaming 🛌 💤
@@justicebeginstoshine8069I once told my self before I went to bed that I was going to remember to realize I'm dreaming the next time I dream, I closed my eyes and focused on myself walking in my house downstairs and going out the back door to my backyard. Then all of sudden as I was falling asleep I saw a lil vision of my back door and it just open by itself but funny thing was in my mind I knew the door was not in the right place as real life and it brung me back to consciousness then I had the urge to scratch which you are supposed to ignore but I didn't and fell asleep after that. Was I almost in a lucid dream?
I get hallucinations as I’m falling asleep and as I am waking up…sometimes they will wake me up all the way they’re so LOUD. I don’t have schizoaffective but i do have a disorder similar to narcolepsy, which causes them.
Because I do a lot of news reading/watching during the day, I have issues at the edge of consciousness where I hallucinate news reports. They're convincing enough that I spend about an hour trying to do some reality testing. I'm so afraid that one day I won't be able to tell the difference
When I lay in bed in the dark I often get a feeling that my head and body is a lot larger than it actually is. It’s such a strange feeling and confuses the hell out of me. I do see the “shadow people” as well, which also happens in the day.
For me I experience hallucinations on waking associated with sleep paralyzis, seeing insects or people (family members that I live with) or feeling things mostly tickling
I'd never heard the term, but when I'm not taking my seroquel for sleep I experience flying through the solar system and occasional falling. Every once in a while I while vividly see colors and red will send me off like a warm sunset.
The sound I am sometimes hallucinating when falling asleep is always paired with some sort of sleep paralysis and it's not a specific noise, rather than it's just a lot of noise(s)...Kinda like white noise or a plane engine but waaay too loud. Uncomfortably loud. It's also not only a noise but also a feeling in some sort of way. Sometimes the noise is also short and even louder, like a gunshot or a lightning bolt running through me and is also felt (forgot the term for that) and not only heard.
Another hypnagogic hallucination (also always paired with sleep paralysis) I get, is this demonic screaming or screaching. And another fun one is the feeling of melting and dripping into nothingness, in all the bad ways lol. Kinda like loosing the grip on reality and never being able to come back. Thankfully hypnagogic hallucinations happen rarely to me because its absolutely terrifying.
I have to put on some music, TV, or UA-cam to sleep. Otherwise, hynqagogic halucinations will startle me awake nearly every night, just as I am on the cusp of sleep. For me, it has always been like being in a room with 6 to 12 people having a variety of conversations. Sometimes one conversation or another will come into focus, and all the words are understandable, when they are in English.
I also took German for 5 years, and often the voices speak German, as well, but I can only pick out about 3/4 of the words or phrases (I was never fluent), but it sounds like actual German.
A few years after moving to the Southwest, the voices now speak Spanish a good part of the time. I can pick out a few words here and there, as I can while awake, but most of it is incomprehensible to me. I have always found it kind of amusing, but when I mentioned it to my psychiatrist about 20 years ago, he seemed concerned.
I was on vacation with my family and I had this scary hallucination. I woke up in the middle of the night and I saw my dad standing at the bottom of my bed. It was dark but I could see him staring and smiling creepily at me. It was pretty weird to say the least.
I used to have hypnopompic hallucinations for a time when my sleep was really bad. These happen when you wake up. I saw mold patterns on every surface when my room was lit and saw a floating black cobweb when it was still dark, and they faded in roughly one or two minutes. It happened like once or twice a week. I was scared when it started, but luckily they ended after a few months.
I don’t really get hypnapompic ones, but I know someone personally who has them quite often and finds them annoying. Thanks for sharing this!
Hypnagogic hallucinations for me feel like borderline psychosis I experience visual impairment and might have auditory hallucinations but more so the visuals. I just tell myself to go back to sleep but I’m afraid I’ll start having full blown hallucinations and go into a manic state and start wandering the halls of my apartment. I used to think more along the lines of the occult and that hypnogogic hallucinations / sleep paralysis were a failed attempt at “ astral projection “ sometimes I would see shadow entities and I just figured it was my own consciousness projecting itself while I was frozen in place literally afraid of my own shadow ( figuratively and psychologically). Sometimes I would wake up and punch these entities but usually this was caused by mice being active inside my old farm house in the middle of the night and influencing my perception sometimes I’d feel like I was being attacked because they would “ pitter patter “ around me and over my head.
I’ve had some hallucinations usually they are sounds or sometimes voices. Also sometimes I see faces that are of dead people when I confront them it becomes all emotional. I would never admit to it though.
I´ve been an occasional lucid dreamer for years and lately I´ve started to experience hypnopompic hallucinations, when I wake up in the middle of the night. Sometimes they begin on their own and sometimes I invoke them on purpose while lying in bed and wondering if it would be possible. Often it is. Last night I even managed to "command" one of the voices to say a concrete sentence (can´t remember the words now). I think it´s very interesting to explore these possibilities. Not sure where it leads though... :)
As someone who used lucid dreaming to try and deal with night terrors, I've done some research that implies that these types of hallucinations are your body's alarm when you're falling asleep to stop you from slipping into a state of unconsciousness. They can kind of go along with like your leg jerking or the "falling" sensation, it's your brain telling your body not to fall asleep. Trying to alert you. For me I get them when falling into that sleep paralysis phase. Like I'm hearing people around me try to get my attention and I try to wake up but I can't because my body has already gone into that state of "rest" so usually for me when I get this stuff it's super stressful. It happens often for me but I also have Bipolar, OCD, and horrible insomnia, anxiety, and ptsd so... I might just be more sensitive because my mind is always tense and sleeping / falling asleep is incredibly hard for me unless I'm super medicated.
Same here
That's interesting, I've never heard of hypnagogic hallucinations before, or experienced them. I don't usually know when I go from being awake to asleep. (It used to be that almost every night my body would jolt awake as I was dozing off, and with that out of the way, I knew I could go to sleep. Thankfully I figured out how to stop that from happening. But that's not what you're talking about.)
I had once in my school years a hypnogogic experience. We were outdoors, playing a Finnish variation of baseball called "pesäpallo" with the boys of my school class. - I was watching the sky to see when the ball would come. Then while watching the sky I probably went to the state of mind between wake and sleep, I heard voices from the featureless sky, mostly they were calling me by my name. It was not scary, just bewildering. It was only a short episode of time.
This is common for me most evenings I hear a band that I describe as a good local band. I can't make out the songs but I often enjoy them. I'm schitzoaffective
Very familiar, at least since my pre-teens. Almost every night. It's mostly unfamiliar voices talking, or rather saying separate words, but also a loud bang, a tune and a feeling of something moving under my mattress.
That's crazy, I also hear a lot of strange sound effects and voices right before I fall asleep! My brain also just knows that it's a sign that I'm about to sleep. I thought that was just me!
Omg nice! 😎
Definitely the falling thing. In fact everyone I knew well (college roommates, etc) experienced this. And I’ve had sleep paralysis multiple times. I have a terrible time being able to move or speak. I can eventually wake myself up by trying to scream. It takes all my effort to get out the faintest whisper, but eventually it will bring me out of it.
I’m glad you have a way to get out of and hate you have to experience it at all. 😔
I LOVE my hypnagogia I find entertaining and almost relaxing? bc it’s a sign that my fast loud active mind is taking a step back for once, what a relief 😅 it “sounds” like flipping between channels, just very random snippets of conversations and moments, sometimes just voices and sometimes imagery too. Sometimes I find myself speaking it out loud? which, when it’s funny, makes me laugh out loud and then wakes me up lol 🙃 I think whatever the part of my brain is that discerns reality from non reality is able to know that it is meaningless babble/static, which I’m grateful for given my instinctive my pattern seeking tendencies - I imagine it would be frightening to find yourself seeking meaning and msgs from something so neutral that you can’t control
I have also sometimes heard a voice like if i was listening the radio or tv news it was a external voice 'not inside my head like a thought ,and although i could understand the words they said ,it didn't have sense listening all together..like a newsreader talking without stopping
Once i woke up and thought it was my 📱but soon i realized my 📱 doesn't have radio it was in my head and listened like interferences..and a change of frequency
I have them, but since I’m on an antipsychotic, I don’t experience them anymore unless I fall off my medication routine. It typically looks like loud random sounds, but typically voices.
I didnt know other people got this. That between waking and sleeping place has always been really hard for me. I couldnt sleep for years because i couldnt stop seeing the most horrific, gorey, gross things my brain could think of. Even as a little kid, i saw bugs on the walls and people standing by my bed. My brother always teased me mercilessly because i told him every night before going to sleep I heard a bunch of voices Whispering all at once. And then there was a period of sleep paralysis and then for many years i woke up seeing things in my room, hearing voices, there was always some white or black shape hovering above me and it was so real and terrifykng that i slept with the lights on throughout most of my early twenties! They all stopped happening, though, when I went on my meds.
Happens all the time. People want to live in these states…especially people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (sometimes) They’re pleasent and often just are those creative 💡bulb moments. It’s episodic, declarative memories sometimes of specific personalized events that have happened or childhood memories.
I get those. Over the course of my AE getting worse this started happening more and more. Right when I wake up and I’m usually in a state of sleep paralysis but not always. I usually see bugs. Either regular size bugs or gigantic bugs on the ceiling the size of my chandelier and right when I’m about to scream my ever loving head off it just disappears like ✨poof✨. Sometimes I will see shapes like neon shapes or giant balls of light. It’s pretty unsettling. I usually also have difficulty breathing and I’m usually choking when this happens which probably means that I might stop breathing when I’m sleeping so maybe that also contributes to this I don’t know 😂 I also have a lot of hypnic jerks (the whole waking up to the feeling of falling) I’ve had those ever since I was little it’s so unsettling 😂 you know it’s so weird for the longest time I thought I couldn’t possibly be experiencing hallucinations or nobody else probably experiences these things but it actually is quite common. Especially with psychotic disorders or even just sleep disorders. But there’s still such a stigma surrounding psychosis that you don’t see with illnesses such as depression and anxiety. I’m really glad you’re one of the people changing that. ❤
I have had these my whole life, when I was a kid I thought that my brain was intercepting radio waves or maybe telephone calls. I sometimes hear entire sentences. Sometimes there are many layers of voices and they are impossible to understand. And the falling thing still freaks me out. The anti-psychotic meds don’t seem to reduce these experiences.
Whatever dose of antipsychotic I am on also doesn’t affect them. I still get them all. The. Time. Thanks for sharing this knowledge and I hope you have a great day!
Waking up i heard a loud wind, and steps and felt a presence. I didn’t look out of the sheets coz i was scared. I waa very lucid. I had it 2 or 3 times, next time it happens i will look but never happened again
Thank you for doing this film, I have recently had 2 episodes of what I think are Hypnogogic hallucinations. The second one was a bright cheery hello from an unseen lady ( there was nobody near me, I had just laid my head on my pillow ), but the first was more disturbing, basically a black featureless adult human like entity crawled into my bed from the bottom, it scared the living daylights out of me, I got downstairs in 2 seconds !
Would that have been a hypnogogic hallucination do you think ?
I am awaiting a psychiatric assessment( I may have schizophrenia).
I have another question, are you able to drive with your condition please, losing my drivers licence is a big worry. Thank you, your channel
Is very helpful. Adrian 😎
I sometimes hear a loud voice say something completely random, whereas, like you said the usual voices are mumbling and nondistinct.
I went cold-turkey off of gabapentin last week. 2 nights ago I experienced withdrawal, I heard ambient music coming from my room fan. I was also having this weird facial tic in the form of a physical “cringe” that would happen 2 or 3 at a time.
You have my sympathy. Gabapentin withdrawal is horrible. I hate what I call the poofs, little exploding feelings in your brain and nervous system. Good luck.
I sometimes get a flashback to a previous dream or part of it in that moment before going to sleep. Is that also a hypnagogic hallucination. And I also get that falling feeling sometimes and my body does jerk when it happens.
I get this except I hear people whispering to me and feel the sensation of falling. Sometimes the flashes of light.
I'm a new subscriber and I ALSO have Schitzoaffective disorder bipolar type and you have taught me things about my own disorder that I didn't even know.
I wanted to ask: what were your first symptoms of Schitzoaffective disorder? Whether you realized It or not. When you were a kid did you also have a "imaginary" best friend who felt so real you could hug them? She was never malevolent to me. She was a comforting presence oddly enough.
I used to experience a falling sensation every night. And occasionally, I would hear music. Now I sleep with rain sounds or audio books, and I have stopped experiencing both.