Thread: What Happends If You Are Having Sleep Paralysis With Hallucinations And You Close Your Eyes?

I cannot say much about the paralysis part, but if you are hallucinating with your eyes open, then you close them.. I'm guessing there is a huge chance you will still be seeing them. The hallucinations are created by your mind, so it won't matter if you open your eyes or not, as long as you're thinking it, it will show up. If you close your eyes, you might even just be seeing your room still, as if you're still opening them.

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It might depend, a visual hallucination is a glitch/artefact in the visual processing center of your brain, a number of things can cause a glitch like this, in some cases stopping all input might infact stop the misprocessed stimuli but of course some hallucinations can be bought about by a lack of visual stimulation (Sensory deprivation ect) in which case you'd continue to experience the hallucination eyes open or shut.

on a more personal level only a minority of my hallucinations possess only visual elements, most are muti faceted, Tactile, Spacial positioning/motion, Auditory, aswell as visual, in those cases where I've stopped the visual feedback it often makes the other aspects of the hallucination more intense.

So once when sleep deprived I had a hallucination of falling forwards towards the end of the street, there was a visual element of tunnel vision and seeming falling. before I thought I was going to hit the wall at the end of the street I closed my eyes in addition to falling it then felt like I was tumbling and spinning out of control faster and faster until I opened my eyes again.

When experiencing sleep paralysis closing my eyes only exaggerated the sensation of begin strangled and pinned.

Usually if I close my eyes...the auditory hallucinations ramp up...which in turn lead into closed eye visual hallucinations. I really don't think it makes much of a difference. But I have also discovered that blocking the sound to my ears by, for example, sleeping with one ear in the pillow and covering the other ear with my blanket usually works well at stopping any super intrusive auditory hypnagogic hallucinations, which in turn prevents any corresponding visual hallucinations and dampens the SP experience greatly. The downside, it's not a comfortable way for me to sleep (I get hot very quickly).

When Im in SP and close my eyes I can see my room with my eyes closed but since im not afraid of what may come I dont see those black hooded people with red eyes, but I believe they are not hallucinations.