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Posted by Phil on September 18, 2013, at 20:53:02
Last night I said to myself...screw this just beat this stuff.
When I dozed off a whistle blew and a dog was barking outside my bedroom door. I don't have a dog.
I stay up till three and the exhaustion is the only way to sleep.next chapter
bipolar in all its glory, stops by to say hello.
I have no idea what tonight's hallucination will be because they are all different. My bedroom has become a scary place for me. If I see Linda Blair in makeup...god, no exorcist.
I'm going to sign up for a sleep study. It could be very interesting. OK...
Posted by Phillipa on September 18, 2013, at 22:07:13
In reply to no more hallucinations please, posted by Phil on September 18, 2013, at 20:53:02
I call them nightmares. Last night I was in a psych hospital in my dream and someone gave me Effexor which I've not taken? So what's that mean? Phillipa
Posted by sigismund on September 18, 2013, at 22:14:48
In reply to no more hallucinations please, posted by Phil on September 18, 2013, at 20:53:02
G'day Phil
I have just has an operation and am listening to the Marriage of Figaro and am able to say 'Callerte! Quiero disfrutar mis medicamentos.' Augmented in my case not by Panadol and ibuprofen but by a tequila and a joint.
What were you saying before I started?
OK. Due to the usual wear and tear, I sometimes wake in a start an hour or so into sleep with the thought/experience 'This time it *is* a stroke', because it feels like lightning in my brain. And am always surprised that it has not been one. As yet.
After that I sometimes take a little prazosin and a benzo. And if I had (say) low dose dilantin maybe that? What you described sounded different but similar. You think?
It would be nice to have you around for a chat. I could talk at you, for hours even.
Posted by sigismund on September 18, 2013, at 22:24:09
In reply to Re: no more hallucinations please » Phil, posted by sigismund on September 18, 2013, at 22:14:48
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. It's
'Ya callerte. Quiero disfrutar mis medicamentos.'
The ya makes all the difference. Shut up already. So forward thinking I can see now.
But enough about me. Jajaja.
So easy to misinterpret everything, especially if you insist on being obscure.
Posted by Phil on September 19, 2013, at 11:26:01
In reply to Re: no more hallucinations please » Phil, posted by Phillipa on September 18, 2013, at 22:07:13
hypnagogic hallucinations
A nightmare is looking at a scary picture of a demon in a magazine. A hallucination is having that demon so close to your face that you can feel it breathing.
A nightmare is thinking the cia is after you. A hallucination will have them in your room talking.
A nightmare is soon forgotten. A hypnagogic, which people see spiders everywhere even under their skin and dogs walking up walls and are in your ceiling. A nightmare is dreaming that there is a dead relative in your room. A hallucination is seeing the relative come to your bed and they out their hand on you(tactile hallucination.)
A nightmare is scary. A hallucination will make people, so scared, that they run to get out of the house and breaking bones cause it's dark.
Hallucinations can go on nightly for years. Nightmares come and go.nightmare--3 on a scale of ten Hallucination-- on a scale of ten.
Trust me Phillipa, if you ever get this you'll know fear like never before. Go read some sleep forums.
A nightmare is thinking your house is about to be robbed. A hallucination is seeing and hearing them coming in a window. You see and hear it.
A lady that had a severe hallucinatory, she's bipolar also and didn't sleep for 7 day.
Her house and my bedroom are scary places to be now.
Posted by Phil on September 19, 2013, at 12:11:30
In reply to Re: no more hallucinations please » Phil, posted by sigismund on September 18, 2013, at 22:14:48
I was getting hardly any sleep and these are every night. I used to go to bed around ten or eleven. But when these started I stuck to my sleep schedule but ten minutes and awake/and sleep the hallucinations began. I get up, play on the computer till 3 a.m. totally exhausted.
Also I have been on 300 mg of Seroquel and other meds. I went to 450 for a few days then to 600. I slept hours 12 hours last night, no demons.
Posted by Phil on September 19, 2013, at 12:30:31
In reply to Re: no more hallucinations please, posted by sigismund on September 18, 2013, at 22:24:09
Sorry Sig, I don't understand your post. Could you simplify it?
Thanks
Posted by sigismund on September 19, 2013, at 17:02:39
In reply to Re: no more hallucinations please » sigismund, posted by Phil on September 19, 2013, at 12:30:31
Yeah sure. I had an operation and was enjoying the pain relief.
The quote is from Burroughs 'Shut up already. I wanna enjoy my medications'. (Ya callerte. Quiero disfrutar mis medicamentos.) To Australian ears the 'already' there is strange, because if you had already shut up you would not need to be told to do so. I wonder if it is from the Spanish, a literal translation, where it is more normal.
Still sore,especially when I move.
Posted by baseball55 on September 19, 2013, at 20:01:40
In reply to Re: no more hallucinations please » Phil, posted by sigismund on September 19, 2013, at 17:02:39
I've never had that happen, but it sounds very scary and upsetting. What I do experience a lot is sleep paralysis. It terrifies me. I am half awake and feel that I can't breathe or move. I also walk and talk in my sleep. My husband will say he found a light on that had been turned off and I must have gotten up and turned it on, but I have no memory of getting up at all. Both my husband and daughter have found me wandering at night. Once my daughter was home for a few days and I came into her room (she stays up late), and told her there was a door I needed to find, but I couldn't find it. She walked me back to my bed. I have no recollection of this. I was fast asleep.
The previous owners of our condo put a child guard gate at the top of the stairs. My husband pulls it over at night, worried that I might fall down the stairs.
Posted by Phil on September 19, 2013, at 22:47:09
In reply to Re: no more hallucinations please, posted by baseball55 on September 19, 2013, at 20:01:40
If Medicare will pay for it, I think they will, I'm getting a sleep test done.
You should find a 'test' online to see if you should have one. I think sleepwalking can be one indicator. Not sure.
I'm scared to even walk by my bedroom now. I have to remind myself that there's no one there...it's in my head. Very scary stuff. This is the last thing I want and I have no idea how long these episodes last. A month, ten years?
No one could invent a more efficient way of scaring the crap out of me.
Stay safe...
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