Hypnagogic Hallucination is paired with sleep paralysis. If she is able to move while having these hallucinations, then it's most likely not HH. That's not the say the psychic is correct, either, but it's worthy of more serious examination. |
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My wife has had some very odd sleep habits. Every few days when she falls asleep she wakes up abruptly, usually sitting up, and looks across the room. She sometimes will shout "there it is" or "look" and sometimes will even point. She used to scare the crap out of me, but now it just disrupts the night. |
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Hypnagogic Hallucination is paired with sleep paralysis. If she is able to move while having these hallucinations, then it's most likely not HH. That's not the say the psychic is correct, either, but it's worthy of more serious examination. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Actually, I disagree with this. Hypnopompic imagery can actually stick with you, for quite a few seconds after the rest of your body has awoken. I've had quite a few experiences with this. Your body does not have to be in SP for you to experience hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations. |
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Interesting, the most post-paralysis hallucination I've ever gotten is static or swirlies, never full fledged figures. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Oh yeah. Believe me. They can be much more potent than that. I've had both residual imagery and auditory hallucinations, even moments after I've actually woken up and had been sitting up in bed. I've written about a couple of them, here at DV. They can be pretty damn scary. |
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Last edited by Oneironaut Zero; 10-23-2011 at 03:27 AM.
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Well she has seen a sleep doctor and her regular one and everything is fine with her, as far as they know. |
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Does she see them only after sleeping? Or can she see them other times as well? |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
She could very well be having something of a mild bout with "night terrors" (Link). They are much less common in adults, but they are an extreme case of what I was talking about (as far as the experience). It works the same way, in that people who have night terrors can still be technically 'awake', but still seeing nightmarish images from their dream, even though their eyes are wide open. |
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Is the purpose of this thread to just share some weird experiences, or are you looking for ideas to somehow help your wife? |
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Thanks for all in insight so far. Kilpikonna you are right in what I am looking for. I am interested to know what others have experienced but ultimately I am looking for a reason this is happening or a way to stop it. I am not even sure I believe in ghosts, but this is all starting to have a creepy vibe to it. |
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Yeah. Definitely sounds like a classic case of dream imagery (as opposed to anything supernatural), though I'm no somnologist. Doesn't seem like something so uncommon as to call it 'paranormal'. I would think her dreams are just bleeding over. If she sleepwalks, it's a tell-tale sign that her body has trouble 'turning off the dreams', before becoming mobile, so it only makes sense that she would sit up in bed and still be dreaming. |
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I agree with O on this one, especially if it doesn't happen when she's wide awake. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Recently someone told me experiences she had when she was young shortly after her uncle died. At first, on her shelf she saw a skull with a sword entering from the top with a snake wrapped around the sword. When she looked outside she would see her uncle sitting on a swing in her backyard. She was quite frightened by all of this. She would see her uncle often and it bothered her and her family. They resolved it by asking him to go away. Not sure if they contacted the invisible man or "prayed" but after they asked it never happened again. |
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Last edited by Dthoughts; 10-25-2011 at 01:44 AM.
This is interesting; my friend told me the same thing happened to her last summer! So it was 2016, in Croatia.. At first I was shocked to hear that, but skeptical.. She told me she woke up in the middle of the night to go to bathroom. Her small room was completely dark but suddenly even darker woman figure appeared floating above her bed making a circle thru her room. She was in a state of shock and couldn't scream or say anything, but she had to go so she pulled herself out of bed to go to the toilet. When she came back, her cat standed at the door of her room and hissed to this black ghostloke figure. Then my friend went to bed, closed her eyes and took a deep breath to go to sleep. |
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WHen did this 'ghost' tell her, her name is Mary? is it something she heard when she was a kid, maybe its something she made up to cope with the situation and then it stuck? |
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Maybe relevant, maybe not: I think that most 'ghosts' are real in some sense, but are not spirits of dead people. Maybe they're other people's unfulfilled thoughts or something. Some portion of those would belong to dead people. Some people are a lot more sensitive to these things than others, but a large number of people have these kinds of experiences at least a few times in life. There isn't a clean line separating what's real from delusion though, the vision is usually a mental projection of something sensed, and it can be misinterpreted. In that sense it is a hallucination, but something partially real is stimulating the hallucination. |
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