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Question about auditory hallucinations

Username88
Username88

Ok so I'll be posting this in the PTSD board too. I gotsta know....


Whenever I fall asleep  (not everytime, but it happens a lot). I doze off and I'm woken up by someone walking around or saying my name. They've screamed my name a few times. And once I heard "you're gonna die". 


It's more like sleep paralysis than a dream. And often times I even sit up and I'll still hear whatever it is that woke me up for a few seconds.



I guess my question is for those with psychosis. Has this ever happened to you, and what the fuck is it? Why is this happening?  It's gone on for months and it's driving me up the fucking wall. Like, can I please just get a god damn nap in? 

Community Leaderacuriousfish
acuriousfish
hi, it's a hynogogic hallucination - at least a third of all people get them at some point. They can be visual, auditory or tactile, maybe olfactory too.

They are either really frightening or really stupid (I was once attacked by a small fuschia bush under the bed covers).

Some meds can trigger more of them - but they have nothing to do with psychosis and healthy people get them.

https://patient.info/doctor/hypnagogic-hallucinations

they are also things of myth (c.f the old hag etc)
Username88
Username88
Thank you
OlderCPer
OlderCPer
Mine are visual, I get random shadowy or tricky movements out of my peripheral vision, I've had them for 28 years of BiPolar and psych meds...they've never gone away, stopped trying to make them go away a looonnnnggg time ago. They scared me for a while, then just annoyed me...and after awhile I just got used to it. I've done 47 different med combinations in the 28 years, so no way to tell what causes what, just live with it. I really don't notice them anymore unless I'm really tired and am trying to work or on the computer.

Hang in there and take care,
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