That happens to me on a nightly basis, one bight I head barking and Yelled at my dog to shut up, She jumped up and looked at me funny then I realized she had been aslepp and it wasnt her barking, it was all in my head lol. I've never heard the phone ring before but I get woken up by non-existent lound noises all the time.

I was diagnosed with narcolepsy four years ago and I have experienced this same problem. I haven't heard of anyone else who has before, so your post has made me feel like I'm not on my own.

I often hear (or think I hear) noises upon waking too. Usually, I think it's one of my cats that is meowing so I'll get up to see what's wrong only to find that they are asleep. Sometimes I think I hear the phone, occasionally I think I heard someone knocking on the door. My boyfriend is a very light sleeper and he never hears these noises.

I hope this helps you in some way - even if it's just to know your not alone & I understand how irritating it is =)

I can't tell you the number of times over many years I have made my husband get out of bed because of frightening noises I "knew" I heard. It is actually kinda' funny now to think it was all just ME. I only got my diagnosis in March. We will be married 20 years this coming January! I am sooo giggling now about this.
The visual ones are scarey though for me. Almost always a snake coming up at me from out of my bed. Sometimes a figure in all black standing over my bed.
Not funny.
Thats all though.
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yep. thats narcolepsy. had that for years. know how u feel. its so scarey sometimes, so real. hope u get sorted at the sleep study and get some meds. take care, keep us posted/ x

i've heard people i know talking but later found out the conversations never happened...that's without an N dx though, just IH

If I dream of home I hear my Mum singing down stairs sometimes when I wake up. She lives 350 miles away! It is so odd when it goes on even when you have worked out part of you is still asleep.
In the daytime I hear people calling me if I am having a very sleepy day.

I too hear people calling me if I have a very sleepy day. Also see (usually) big cats coming at me when I'm falling asleep! Srary.

I have experienced this too. I often hear the doorbell ring or the door knock. Last time I actually heard the door open and the security alarm beep beep beep.At fist I was so certain these things happened that I called the police at 2am, and told them someone was knocking at my door and running off!!!! Medicine has not made this go away for me. I have hallucination dreams too. Girlwith pearl.

wow! Thank you ALL for replying to my post. I haven't had this happen for awhile, but it has happened and it was pretty disturbing, to say the least! It's so good to know I'm not alone (not that I want anyone else to experience this). I will be very glad to get through the sleep test and hopefully get a diagnosis. This Thursday (Thanksgiving) we were at our daughter's house (with our new sil and our other daughter). After dinner (and even through dinner) I was so sleepy, I went to sleep at the dinner table. Everyone said it was the turkey, but I know better. I could not stay awake and finally went in the other room and went to sleep. It's like I'm drugged. It's getting worse. I hope medication will help. And, I must wake up 6 or 7 times at night. I know I'm not saying anything the rest of you don't know. What if it isn't N? What in the world could be wrong with me?

Well, I'll keep you posted. You have all been so nice!

Thanks!

Hynogogic hallucinations are one symptom associated with narcolepsy. I have PTSD and have had a long history of these hallucinations. They generally are very vivid, and include visual as well as auditory properties. Most people who have hynogogic hallucinations do report them to be very real and very terrorizing. 60mg of prozac every morning helps keep mine to a minimum.

Your symptoms sound like narcolepsy, but you won't be able to know for sure until you get the results of your sleep study. Many other illnesses share some of the symptoms of narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis occurs in everyone everytime they go into deep sleep but we rarely notice it. Our bodies go into sleep paralysis to protect us from injuring ourselves during sleep when we dream. Without sleep paralysis we would try to act out our dreams. If you ever watch dogs sleep you see them twitching off and on. This twitching occurs during the dream cycle or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep stage. We, like our canine buddies, go through a pattern of four different sleep stages throughout the night. These four stages are all necessary, but narcoleptics spend abnormal amounts of time in these different cycles, which is one of the main diagnostic measurements your doctor will use when analyzing your sleep study results. In general, there's a good chance you have narcolepsy if your test results show you are getting into deep sleep within 20 minutes of closing your eyes to sleep.

Stress, depression, and getting too little sleep can all cause symptoms similar to narcolepsy like EDS and audio/visual hallucinations.

I hope this helps. :)

From what I have read, and what the technician told me during my sleep study, there are 5 stages of sleep, REM being the last stage. It normally takes 90-110 minutes to complete the sleep cycle. Most people have 3 to 5 intervals of REM each night.

I had the polysomnogram beginning around 10:30 pm Thursday until 6 am Friday morning. Then, I had an MSLT Friday. I had 5 naps every 2 hours, each nap lasting 1/2 hr.

I don't know the results yet. However, the tech told me that I reached REM during the 4th nap, I fell asleep in two minutes during all 5 naps and I reached deep sleep in 3 of the naps. During the first nap, I was in stage 1 or 2. He didn't offer a diagnosis, of course. My first nap was at 8:30 am and the last one was at 4:30 pm.

So, I guess we'll see. Something is going on, but I don't know if its narcolepsy or not. Obviously, I will have to wait until I get a diagnosis. I see my neurologist again on December 28 to discuss the results of the sleep study.

Thanks for the information. I sincerely appreciate it.

I was diagnosed with narcolepsy a little over a year ago. Currently I take Provigil & Xyrem which help immensely, I just wish I didn't have the hallucinations. Most of my hallucinations consist of the doorbell ringing when no one is there, but I also get the very scary, frightening ones such as someone breaking in, etc. However last night was the worst one yet. In this particular hallucination I could have sworn aliens were there to get me. It was the strangest feeling, I can't even describe it, but it was so terrible & frightening. Does anyone have any ideas on how reduce or deal with these hallucinations if at all possible? Thanks.