Posted by night-time nutter on August 30, 2007 at 00:16:05:Hi all fellow sleep disordered folk. I was wondering if anyone has the same type of sleep 'experiences' that I have as I've not yet met anyone who does! I hallucinate at night in such a way that I see people that I am convinced are there so I interact with them, talk with them, make them a drink etc. Sometimes they are nice people, like the old lady who wanted to buy my house or the netball team of girls in the spare bedroom but other times they are intruders etc. As a child, in one house I lived in, I saw a hooded monk on a regular basis who lived in our attic and he scared me alot. I've had so many encounters, not just people but ants, spiders, a pig in the bedroom, the wall falling on my bed as an axe came through, mushrooms growing on my pillow - episodes too numerous to mention! I am convinced at the time that the whole event is real and whilst, after years of experience, I try to convince myself that its just another hallucination, they seem so real at the time that I believe that, this time it IS real. In the morning I can remember the whole event and find pots of tea, cups of squash on the tray that I made for the netballers etc that confirm my nights adventure.
I have done this since I was a young child at boarding school, also sleep walkinging, sleep talking and grinding my teeth at night. Now as a mother of 2 children I still do strange things at night, the whole family are used to it and my husband usually sleeps through the whole thing! I have often tried to drag him from the bed to protect him or tried to wake him to get him to see off the intruder.
I have now started in the last 5 years to suffer from sleep terrors - I wake from a deep, non-dream sleep, leap out of bed terrified and start to run. Usually I feel I have to rescue the children. It lasts about 30-45 seconds then I collapse in a sweaty, trembling heap with my heart racing and asthma attacks not uncommon.
So is there anyone else out there who interacts with their hallucinations and remembers them clearly in the morning or am I alone with this one?!
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