Awake Hallucinations

**aperting** · 09-04-2011 03:24 AM

Hi there everyone, i have a question for a long time to wich i havent found the answer yet.

The thing is that I often fall asleep in my sofa and many times my mom would wake me up and guide me into my bed (Isnt that lovely?

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Well what happens is that while she is guiding me im "half asleep" but seeing clearly everything around me.

The thing is that many times I see "hallucinations" and i dont mean hypnagogic imagery, i mean literally leprechauns (happened once), little guys, balls of color...

And theyre so vivid that many times i get up and turn the light on to touch them to see if theyre really there, and guess what... they arent

But the thing is that this happens while awake, or atleast i think so, why this happens?Am i not awaken, but in a false awake?

thanks in advance

**yuppie11975** · 09-04-2011 05:09 AM

Maybe it's just because your really tired? Like, if you're super tired, your mind isn't that great, and you can see all sorts of weird stuff. For example, the guy who stayed up for 72 hours straight for a world record, had hallucinations about being a football player, seeing stuff, e.t.c all while he was just sitting down.

**siuol** · 09-04-2011 05:35 AM

probably hypnagogic hallucinations, but since you are abruptly woken up in a stage prior to full sleep they take a while to fade, and you didnt notice them before since you weren't concious. ive seen two bald cats, a wierd callender on my wall, flying bits of string, the grim reaper, and the most realistic was probably bright blue flames engulfing my fingers for about 15 secs.

**cytotoxicT** · 09-04-2011 08:30 AM

This happened to me for the first time ever last night. I kept dozing off and repeatedly snapping out of sleep. After one awakening I saw this big mesh pyramid thing hanging from my ceiling. I was confused because I knew that shouldn't be there. It lasted long enough for me to focus on it and see it vividly. There was a spider hanging from it. I looked around for anything close I could kill the spider with. Once I didn't see anything in arms-reach I looked back, and it was gone. I did like 8 RCs to make sure I was awake. The whole experience really freaked me out.

**Requiem** · 09-04-2011 08:45 AM

i've woken up in the middle of the night and saw a snake in the room a few times. one time there were ants everywhere and another time bees. i would wake up in another room because i ran away.

i don't know why this happens to you but its probably not a false awakening. speaking from own experience, its possible to have these hallucinations. i see you are new here. check out the Reality Check Tutorial if you haven't. good luck.

**aperting** · 09-04-2011 03:32 PM

So apparently is more common than i thought, great, also great to know i waasnt dreaming!.

the thing as some of you mentioned is that often i see things that should freak me out (I wouldnt like to see the grim reaper lol), but i dont really feel fear or anything, just curiosity it is indeed as if my mind was working "slowly".

Thanks for the link Requiem, i had already read it and do RC very often but it isnt bad to refresh them again.

thanks fir your experiences, and keep them comming

**Supernova** · 09-04-2011 03:59 PM

If she has to guide you to your bed, I'm willing to bet you're still asleep enough to be having hypnagogic imagery that vivid.

**Yosma** · 09-04-2011 07:21 PM

My mom used to do this too, but I wouldn't remember her doing it so I would wake up really confused.

**siuol** · 09-04-2011 10:06 PM

yes i do not usually feel fear, only curiosity, and usually i try to touch it. It's strange, it looks lifelike yet I know it is not real. I do not know exactly why, but maybe even though we may fear things like the reaper (i think the cats were scarier though, they had red eyes and stared at me for a while) if we ever saw one we would not believe it since we know it is only in our imagination. Or our subconcious may know that it is not real, or even remember it from before we woke up.