This kind of hallucination is super common in the general population!
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Hypnagogic hallucinations (hallucinating as you’re going to sleep) and hypnopompic hallucinations (hallucinating as you’re waking up) are wild! You can hear voices and see things or feel like youre floating or falling.
But it doesn’t mean you’re experiencing psychosis and are schizophrenic, it just means you’re one of the 70% of people who experiences it.
I’m diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. Fun fun.
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Only one I’ve ever experienced is I’ll be trying to fall asleep and my brain just out of nowhere goes OH SHIT WERE FALLING
YES THIS OMG
I've had the one with falling when falling asleep (lol) but a weirder one is when I'm drifting off to sleep and suddenly feel like i tripped over something? While laying down, in my bed
So I learned this in public school so take this lightly. But I was told that the falling one is super common and there's a hypothesis that it's an ancestral trait about us falling out of trees when we were sleeping. Like proto humanoid partial monkey type ancestors. Idk if this holds any water, but now when I feel the falling hallucinations I squeeze my blanket and remind myself I'm supported and let it drag me into sleep. It's weird but kind of fun
Yes. Quite a few hypnopompic ones. My name almost always called out. Bipolar, but not schizophrenic.
Yes!! I get this every night. I hear ambulance sirens, phones ringing, people talking to me etc
I have a long history of very vivid hypnopompic hallucinations since I was a young kid. Like seeing people and stuff and sleep paralysis related hallucinations as well. They happen relatively often, but they used to be very frequent when I was a kid. I always wondered if the high frequency of hypnopomic hallucinations were related to my bipolar or if it is an unrelated phenomenon. Hypnogogic hallucinations are a lot more rare for me. This is a very fascinating topic!
Agreed! I get them almost every night
That's my almost every night thing since adolescence. I even like it. Except for the exploding or banging sound that may be scary because it is way too loud and drags me out of dream. Once I told my psychiatrist about those thigs I experience when going to sleep, and she wrote in my med history that I had a psychosis (not even close, actually).
I get the loud bang hallucinations. It happens when I am awake too- I "hear" a LOUD bang in every way except feeling any pressure on my eardrums. The phenomenon can be related to PTSD (I have severe, chronic PTSD, according to my shrink) and it's called Exploding Head Syndrome in that context.
@@christinapalafox Yeah, I've read about EHS, but I never had this diagnosis. Usually, I hear sounds at night (which is for hypnopompic/hypnogogic hallucinations). I do have brief psychosis episodes from time to time for no apparent reason, but I don't see EHS as a part of it. And I hear other types of sounds too, not banging only. I've met one psychiatrist in another country who wrote in her papers that I have CPTSD (I didn't tell her about EHS-like symptom), but despite all, I doubt it. I suspect, CPTSD / PTSD is sort of overdiagnosed, even among those who had traumatic childhood or/and adult traumatic experiences. It takes some time, but adults mostly cope with all that pretty much fine, and even leave that all behind almost right away (otherwise it would be not easy for us to survive and evolve as a species). It is quite easy to mistake something else for PTSD, and even easier if a person goes to a specialist to work through trauma - the symptoms open up and actually may not be related to the trauma at all but may look like PTSD symptoms - especially if a specialist practices in PTSD. Same with overdiagnosing people with an ASD and many others. So, I rule out the PTSD for me.
Kind of related, one of my first hallucinations was going to bed, then hearing my parents argue and break stuff. It continued for what felt like hours, but I don’t know how long it actually was. I eventually realised it wasn’t real, but that made me even more scared, and I eventually fell asleep.
I had a dream just a couple of weeks ago where I was being hunted and me and another guy were hiding under a tarp, then I woke up and could still see the dogs tearing off my legs. Fun times
Thanks for the info. Two months ago, when i was about to fall asleep for my evening nap, i suddenly felt as if my room was filled with creepy translucent bugs. I saw them, i felt them , i think for total of three seconds. I pretty much ran to my mother's room immediately after that, and incoherently explained the situation to her. As i spoke, i realised how impossible it was and saw her worried face.
I thought my depression was finally affecting my mental processes, but i dont think thats the case now. I havent had another episode like that since.
Phew, sounds super scary! Glad it hasn’t happen since then!
How did you rule out a depression connection?
Lol I get these a lot and they’re funny when they happen midst me conversing with people bc I’ll start talking to them in response to a dream I’m having while still a wake? And I’ll just interchange between responding appropriately and to what I’m seeing in my dream. It’s crazy
OMG I thought I was the only one!!! It happened way more when I was younger but it’s like someone is changing radio stations in my head when I’m falling asleep. I thought something was seriously wrong with me lol
i hear gorgeous orchestral music before i fall asleep it’s always really intense and beautiful
That happens to me sometimes too! I wish I could record it :(
@@SchizoKitzo EXACTLY I COULD BE RICH, I’D have so many record deals!!!
I have definitely experienced the falling sensation and things when I am waking up. I always just assumed they were extensions of a dream. Thank you for the words for them. And you are right they are fun words.
So fun!
Yep, i've had that. It was annoying each time but not harmful.
The visual stuff happens to me every so often, i was worried, thank you for the explanation
So there is a name for me waking up every single day with a new song in my head. I was just talking to my daughter about this. I experience all of the other things, but not as frequently. Every single morning i wake up with a song. It's literally my first conscious thought. And i have no control over what song it is.
OMG SAME IM SO GLAD IM NOY ALONE
I hear family members calling my name when I’m falling asleep pretty regularly. One interesting thing about them is my dad always uses my deadname when I hear his voice. I haven’t spoken to him since well before I changed it, so it makes sense lol
i get these really often, and they freak me out... i get them both when falling asleep and waking up. i usually see spiders/bugs or monsters
I experience this quite a bit actually. I most often get the flashes of light in my eyes, but sometimes I do hear a voice, usually i think i heard my mother calling me. I also occasionally experience very loud bangs and shaking like something falling over
Ive literally never experienced this but I do experience random auditory hallucinations
I experience this sometimes even when im not about to sleep.. like i’ll be home alone, chilling and then i hear my mom call my name even though she’s not there. Or hear or even feel a notification on my phone and then i check it and nothings there. Or just the feeling that someone is breathing on my shoulder and then i turn around and no one is there
While I was still in psychosis at the ward, I had seen colors (reflection of the light) on the floor so bright and vividly.
I have expensive both. I sometimes experience flashes of lights before bed. One time, I experienced the last one, and I heard a song i used to listen lot to. I heard it from the beginning until the end.
i hear gorgeous orchestral music before i fall asleep it’s always really intense and beautiful, i love it and wish i could record it, i’d be the next beethoven
I do!! Sometimes when I'm in that in-between state waking up or falling asleep. Usually for me it's footsteps and/or doors opening and closing, like people are walking around the house, even when I know no one is home. Sometimes it worries me and I force myself fully awake, and then of course it stops.
I get it when I wake up with sleep paralysis. I didn't know it wasn't real though. When it first started I thought there were people in my room and I couldn't move or open my eyes. It was bad when the voices said nasty things.
Those are some really fun names! (and I love knowing that there are words for the things your brain cooks up when you're falling asleep and waking up). One of the coolest hypnogogic hallucinations I've had is the sensation of floating in water as I drift off.
Omg I’ve had that one too, it’s rather pleasant!
I get them a few times per month, especially if I'm tired/stressed. They're usually just noises and I've found that music kind of cancels out the 'sounds'. The sounds I usually hear are:
Children playing (the laugh/squeal younger kids do in partial)
A Clown car
and Clanging (like pots and pans or the crowbar from Half-life when you hit a wall funny and crash the game. That one's especially annoying)
I often experience auditory hallucinations like that when im really tired and about to go to sleep, its always been my sign that its time for bed.
Often before falling asleep I will see very bright detailed images that sort of blur the line between dream, imagination and reality. I do not control their content but I think it's still pretty neat
I get those all the time, as well as sleep paralysis. It's a weird experience, but it's still quite fascinating to me.
I always hear music when I fall asleep lol. Starts with just a song in my head and eventually it's like "wait huh"
OHHHH SO THATS WHAT THAT WAS. one time i had a nightmare that was like a full on horror movie and when i woke up from it i heard the like. little creepy song from the nightmare and it was SO CREEPY
I used to have very vivid ones when falling asleep as a kid. It literally sounded like the TV was on. I sometimes still get them when taking naps.
Oh yeah totally! When im in a light sleep ill often 'hear' the voices of people i know talking loudly as if we were in a parking garage. Not addressing me though, just talking, although i usually cant remember what they were saying.
I hear weird noises sometimes before going to sleep - I used to be part of a youth orchestra, and every night afterwards, I’d hear the sounds of the orchestra warming up and I couldn’t sleep until it finished 😂
Some of my meds cause a lot of trippy hallucinations when I'm waking up. I often see patterns on the ceiling. I once woke up to see a cartoon crocodile next to my bed lol.
I recently started experiencing “flashes of light” hypnogogic hallucinations and panicked the first couple of times because I did not know what they were or that they were normal😅
I completely forgot until recently that I used to have auditory and visual hallucinations very regularly. The auditory ones were mostly just notification sounds or similar, but the visual were very uncomfortable. Seeing a therapist and getting meds helped a lot!
Every single time. It's probably related to my seizures.
This information is part of how my sister helped me understand what it's like for people with hallucinations that do amount to a mental health diagnosis. She also said she would tell the same thing to some of her clients to help them understand that brains aren't as reliable as they might think and nudge them towards accepting things they experience vividly enough to believe them real as not real. One step in a journey towards a better quality of life, she would say. But she also had clients that had a higher quality of life with their extra experiences than the ever could without. For them she concentrated mostly on making sure they had protections against other people taking advantage of them.
First step to working with people in tough situations is safety. Then comes the rest, whatever that might look like to help them live as high a quality of life as possible.
sometimes i hear my own voice before i fall asleep
A few times a month, I'll see either morphing colors or some flip-book like animations when I close my eyes to sleep. They're always fastimating to me. The color morph is the easier of the two to describe to by partner. He's constantly amazed by how different my neuro-spicy brain works
The only one I experience is falling, and it’s so funny everytime it happens because the dreams never really add up to the situation. One time I got that falling sensation from tripping over a rock in a dream, and its other small things like that that I dream about that trigger the falling sensation for me.
Nice, thought I was going crazy, especially when my friends couldn't relate.
I get them nightly and when I meditate. It's so frequent and disruptive that I wonder if I have a sleep disorder.
Sometimes it feels like my bed is spinning right before I fall asleep. It’s a bit jarring
Mine like falling and drawing ugly disfigured faces sometimes 😅
yes to all. music is more common but not when i sleep/wake up i can hear music or a person talking in a crowded room of voices. im so use to them its a comfort. i see shadows alot, and sometimes when i lay down the walls turn red as like a light made them turn red or sometimes one side will be red the other blueish/white light, in a pitch dark room. my name i've heard not common, maybe a handful of times in my life like just above a whisper. a lot more other things.
Can I ask you some questions? My sister, though never diagnosed with schizophrenia, had very serious delusions. It's unfortunately too late to help her, but if someone else that I care about goes through that again, I want to do better at supporting them the best I can. I asked my psychiatrist and read a lot about what to do, but there is no substitute for the insight from the feelings of someone who has been there.
If it's too personal or whatever, I understand. Either way, it's very brave of you to speak out about your issues and I have no doubt that your voice is a great comfort to others who have suffered in silence for too long.
When I finally realized what was going on with her, the ideas had been stewing in her head for years, maybe decades. I was terrified. I had no earthly clue how to approach the topic. I had been taking her venting at face value the whole time until I heard her explain why her harassers were not showing up on her security cameras, that the abuse came in the form of making her apartment smell like various things that I couldn't personally smell, drugging her with drugs that only worked on her, the extent of the ring of harassers, and the amount of time and effort they committed to her misery. I tried to be as delicate as I could be, but at some point I had to say that I didn't think this was really happening, right?
Is there _anything_ I could have said or shown her that could have shaken her out of these beliefs? Is there any way to broach the topic without making her feel defensive or judged? How do you wish people would have told you when you first learned that you were seeing or hearing things that weren't there? How did/could your loved ones express that they were only speaking out of genuine concern and support, not attacking you or criticizing you? All I managed to do was lose her trust.
Sometimes I'll think I'm scrolling on my phone for like half an hour and then it'll die suddenly and I'll realize it was never in my hand. I'm not dreaming during this, I'm awake and it feels real it's so weird
I am Bipolar 65 y,o.I went through the most extreme ups and downs but I didn't know that I was suffering it all life long and experienced all kinds of synthoms...
When I was younger I used to be able to tell how close I was to falling asleep because the moving lights behind my eyelids would go from random swirls to a "bouncing on a trampoline" sensation.
When I was young my sister and I would have what we called “dream projections” where we’d see our dreams playing on the walls of our bedroom. For me it was like watching my dream play out on a bunch of little screens like when spy movies would have a surveillance room and for my sister it was one big screen! I still have hypnagogic hallucinations but I grew out of this one.
i've only had the falling ones, they're not common for me at all but they're kinda fun ngl
I always get a rush when that happens to me! Like whoa!
I had the falling sensation and loud sounds sometimes. The sounds scare the shit out of me, but the falling sensation is just annoying.
Don't think I ever heard music before tho. I only heard muzic when I was more awake, but I think that's just my Adhd being like "hey, do you remember this song?" right when I'm sleeping.
I experience this when really tired and unable to fall asleep. It's usually very scary cause i usually hear people screaming, fighting, shouting.... it defenetly not help with trying to fall asleep.
I did not know though that you could have visual hallucination, but i think i actually experienced that once when i was yonger, a morning waking up. But it was odd because i was actually experiencing this hallucination together with my twin! We were describing to each other what we were seeing!
Also, there is another txpe of hallucination I experience falling asleep, but i came to realise it wasn't my brain playing tricks on me, but my eyes. When i was younger, I enjoyed sleeping with my door open. It made it so that the door was the only source of dim light in my room, and i was usually staring at it. And often, when i was falling asleep, i was seeing the door slamming shut, startling me awake, but the door was still open. I came to realise that my eyes were transitioning from "night vision" (where you mainly see with the gray light receptor on your peripherical vision) to a day light vision (with the color receptors and on the center of the vision). This transition made it seem that the door was closing because the amount of light i was seeing was diminishing, due to the fact that the gray receptor are more photosensitive than the color receptor.
I don't know if this is really what happens in my eyes, but that's the best interpretation that i could come up with
Have both types everynight and everytime i wakeup can be quite jarring
When im going to sleep and i hear a loud and unexpected noise (or hear my heartbeating), my vision goes from completely dark to white and then slowly gets dark again, and my ears ring. And yes, I've had sleep paralysis for years. But, it's like a mix of lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis. Im pretty sure i got it from my trauma as a child because as far back as i can remember, i was five.
I've had this happen a few times while I'm waking up. I'll be waking up and grab my phone to check the time and notifications and all that, and I remember doing those things very clearly, but then in the blink of an eye my phone is gone and back where I was before I "grabbed" it. I also get the falling thing while falling asleep, sometimes I do it on purpose for fun.
oh god, this one time I woke up suddenly and my garndmother’s disembodied head was lying on the pillow next to me
i was in utter shock and disbelief.
as I was looking at it slowly faded away.
nothing like that ever happened to me again
I see psychedelic shifting colors every time I'm in a room that's dark enough
Wild!
Sometimes ill be falling asleep and then ill hear people i know CALLING MY NAME 😭😭😭 one time it was one of my old teachers who passed away last year
I have narcolepsy and experience hypnogogic hallucinations pretty much daily. The ones my friends knew about were when I was falling asleep playing dungeons and dragons and suddenly id be flipped out and scared because I could hear all my bones breaking. I think back in the 2010's the internet was calling it "exploding head syndrome". Now it's less scary and I don't experience it as loud and jarring as it used to be. The scarier ones are when I'm driving near train tracks and I swear to GOD I can hear the train coming and the bells of the road gates closing, but when I get there there's no train. I've fully pulled over and taken a video of the tracks and watched it back to double check. I'm in stimulants now so it's pretty contained to within my home these days, way less scary. Usually just ends up with me buying a solution to a problem that doesn't exist on Amazon. Last time I bought guar gum 🤷♀️ could be worse but definitely an exhausting way to live
When I woke up one morning I heard my own voice in surround sound saying "she's never waking up again, that's all I wanna do". I'm on meds that occationally gives me incredebly vivid nightmares. I just assumed whatever part of my brain comes up with them was also responsibe for that
I get these n smelling things that aren't there 24/7 yay hypersomnia lol
I was ordering food at 3am and heard talking so i thought my mom was home. So i ordered the food to be delivered later and realized when i went to the door to grab it that I was completely alone.
I very rarely have any hallucinations
Only dreams and the hypop stuff a few times
I would hear and see my parents/sister at my door as a kid due to these hallucinations. Weird as fuck
I do get pretty regular sleep paralysis, but I handle that well enough. What I can't deal with is the spider ones. Only when I'm laying down to sleep in a kind of lighter room, and I hear a rustling, I see a spider that is like massive, and visible even without my glasses. (which I would NOT be able to see)
It scares me so badly I tend to jump out of bed and flee the room, which scared my roommate really badly lol. After I wake up a little more I check and realize nothing is there. I suppose that is a hypnogogic hallucination. It convinced me so much once I ran to my mom and asked her to get it off my ceiling. Only thing freakier than seeing a 3 foot wide spider is looking again and it's Gone!
Luckily, it really only co-occurs with migraines. (Unfortunately those happen weekly.) I just sleep with an eye mask so I immediately know that my SP or spider is not real. 😊
Oh gosh yeah I've got that. Usually it's just stuff i expect--I'll hear my night music when it isn't playing, my phone going off, every now and then like my mum yelling at me (usually to wake up or just my name) or my animals making noise. I also see things, in part because i have really bad eyesight (-11) and usually it's very creepy. I did have sleep paralysis once and that one was wild. There was a big dobie in my house, could never decide if it was like aggressive or whatever it was just standing there and like somehow i also saw it outside i dunno it was very bizarre and surprisingly scary. One've my worst times though was laying there looking at a glass cupboard (the back was open) and thinking i saw one've my cats in there which was like "huh that's funny I've never seen them go in there" and i was trynna figure out who it was and I'm staring at it in the dark as i slowly realize that all of my cats were laying on me. I had a whole ass panic scramble like borderline hyperventilating trying to get my phone light on and my glasses on and--it was just a plastic bag. A plastic bag i Knew was there and had been there for months. But my brain was convinced it had eyes and teeth and shit lmao. Which i know is more about the whole seeing faces in everything thing humans do than hallucinating but it feels relevant 😂
I've experienced both miltiple times throughout my life, still happens but as i get older i think its becoming more infrequent
I see objects in neoncolors. Sometimes things i can see what they are and Sometimes Its just flashing rings or random shapes. The worst is when things come at me. That scares me
They can be pretty freaky at times
One time I accidentally hit myself in the face bc of a hypnogogic hallucination lmao
I have this like almost every night.
I occasionally have visual hallucinations when im very tired, or my brain will fabricate a cat in my peripheral vision every so often (which makes sense because I have a lot of them) but im gonna assume that those are normal cause I have no reason to believe otherwise.
If i stare at a blank surface like a piece of paper i see yellow and blue moving around in elementary school i would stare at paper for fun because of this
Sometimes if I sleep somewhere (like sleepovers or anywhere out of my bed), I involuntarily make a noise right before I fall asleep. Is there a specific name for this?
I have all of those and see them even when I close my eyes
I rarely get this. Once I had heard a voice (internally) saying "THE MOST AWAKE HOUR?!" and then I woke up. I don't know if it counts when I had a dream and seamlessly at the end of it the person in the dream said "It's time to get up and go" and I woke up. Rarely I have these and the falling sensation
I experienced this very often. I would say I experience both very equally when waking up and going to sleep I received very vivid images but also as if their scenes like people are moving they are talking or they deliver a certain type of message so recently I've been dealing with a certain set of insecurities and fears so sometimes when I'm going into a sleeping state or coming out of it I received images or videos that correspond to those things. It's currently very scary and odd because sometimes it's stuff that has to relate to my life in a very abstract meaning way. But to look it up and see that it's common kind of brings down my anxiety. It has been something that I have experienced ever since I was younger but I feel like as I've gotten older especially now that I've reached my twenties it has become very more intense.
Mine have defintely gotten more common over time and I get them almost every night. I’m like “ah there are the voices, I was almost asleep!” Kind of thing.
It scared be bejeebus out of me when I one night heard a giant boom out of no where while heading to bed… realized it wasn’t real and calmed down but OOF
Oh those are the worst!!!!
I will sometimes hallucinate that someone is touching me, and it freaks me out. One time, I had woken up early morning on vacation to a weird, rumbling noise, and then when I was finally about to fall asleep, I was laying on my side with eyes closed, and felt something put its hand on the bed right behind me, and breathe all over my face. Thinking it was my brother being a jerk, I threw my elbow back and nothing was there. Still freaks me out, but I like to laugh it off
I have the same one all the time where I’m standing on something and it breaks and I fall then I jolt up ☹️ I absolutely hate it
I get falls too, it’s intense at times I’m like, “I’m trying to sleep here, brain!”
Ive experienced both of them, and like you said i just assumed it was part of a dream, i experienced the falling sensation alot, like over and over, but i knew deep down i wasn't really falling, ive also had light flashes. Its so interesting knowing the name of the phenomenon
Yeah! I love telling people about it offline too
@@SchizoKitzo thanks for making content, I genuinely appreciate the education along with your first hand experiences, it's so interesting and education is incredibly important in the steps to stop the stigma.
Great video! 😁
Oh my god a couple of stories I HAVE to share-
One time when I woke up at like 3 am, I saw this tall female figure in my doorway saying my name. I literally said out loud “go away, I’m trying to sleep” and just… went back to sleep??
Another time I woke up, I had been sleeping on my arm so it was completely numb. Well me in my half awake state looked down, felt it was numb, and saw my own arm as a noodle??? Idk it was weird😭
I’ve had these during sleep paralysis and it’s scary when it sounds like demonic voices 😖
Cool when it’s music and I’m creating it with my mind
And AWESOME even I’ve heard passed loved ones talk to me ❤️ was it actually them no clue 🤷🏻♀️ did the voices that claimed to be them say they loved me and were at peace definitely 🙂
When I’m not in sleep paralysis I hear nothing besides an inner monologue which is basically just my thoughts 🤷🏻♀️
I'd be interested to watch a video from you about these types of hallucinations
It’s on the list!
I see sometimes hallucinations from the side of my eye kind of, they dissapear after a fraction of a second, I don't think they psychotic but would like it kind of to know
All the time before the sleep i see flashes of light like its sun under my eyelashes when it's absolutely dark in the room . Always chacking if it forgot to turn off the light 😂 and sensation of falling is there sure. Snd durung the day sometimes i feel like water drop in my leg or arm - but if course no water there as im in clothes and nowhere around water
Idk i wanna see my hasulacion again but they are also scary
When I was a kid, I would often hear a TV in the other room as I woke up. For a long time, too - up to half an hour (which was the freaky part - usually when I hear or see things, its only for a second). But when I finally got out of bed and left my room to check whoever was awake, there was nothing. I'd check all the rooms, too. Nothing.
For some reason it doesn't happen anymore. No idea why. However, increasingly often now, I feel like I'm falling when going to sleep.
Unrelated, but as a kid (4 ish years old?) I'd get the feeling that my body was going too fast and time was going too slow. It's hard to explain, but basically I'd feel like my heart rate was fast and my thoughts were fast but my body was moving slow ("time" is slow). If anyone knows what that shit was about lmk 💀
These are extremely common if you have Narcolepsy as well.
Fun fact: Life is just an extension of a dream. 🎉
I always thought it just ghosts, and that made me feel more at ease, because it allowed me to not feel alone.
When i was 12 and half asleep i heard my mom shout what was for dinner because my dad made some but when i walked downstairs she was already sitting by the table and never asked anything 💀 im actually pretty sure i was up and walking when that happened though so...
Sure thing had those experiences usually they are subtle. Hypnogogic, dreamlike states are very interesting.
O I have the falling thing a lot.
Yes I used to wake up in the middle of the night and see the shadow outlines of people in my room. Scared the shit out of me and I thought I might have the 6th sense for a while 😭😂😂😂
Yes I have.