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YSK: there's a type of common hallucination (often scary) that happens shortly after waking up. You can move and talk while seeing it and it can last between a few seconds up to a minute

It’s called hypnopompic hallucination.

Unlike with sleep paralysis, you can move and talk while still seeing it and it will last a few seconds up to a minute which can seem like an eternity.

It usually fades as soon as you turn on the light, but for some very few people it does not and persists even after turning on the light.

Here’s an example of someone who often experiences these and has started recording themselves: youtu.be/bEMGZNvETMQ

Why YSK: because it’s very scary and unsettling when it happens and since you can move you don’t believe it’s sleep paralysis and can’t explain it. This might explain many of the “monster or spirit at the foot of my bed” sightings that we often hear mentioned in horror podcasts.

cacheson ,
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Y'all have it rough. When this happens to me, it's pretty much always:

  1. I have a dream that there's a spider in my bed
  2. I startle awake, and see that there is a spider in my bed
  3. I stare at the spider until it fades out of existence
NeonWoofGenesis ,
@NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fi avatar

Same, though I’m more convinced and usually get up to turn the light on, and after a few moments realize it’s just a waking hallucination. Luckily I live in a country with no dangerous spiders and just one venomous snake species :D So that logic helps calm the mind down.

lwuy9v5 ,

Oh that’s what that is 😅 I have that a bunch - was hard to describe as it’s not sleep paralysis. It’s often… confusing… and occasionally disturbing but I’m a bit used to it at this point. It is so weird how it persists until the lights come on

I sat bolt upright in the middle of the night one time talking to the wall, kinda grumpily, and my partner was really disturbed… trying to explain to her that the customs officer wanted something didn’t really help that much.

Seeing bed bugs all over my whole body and everywhere in a grungy motel was pretty disturbing. And a hooded man in the corner, staring, during the middle of the night in a new persons’ bed.

Greenbubbleb0y ,

Huh I wonder if this is what happened to me a few weeks ago. I “woke up” I was sitting in my bed and there was this large squirming mass in my closet. It’s hard to describe but think millions of worms. It was moving towards me. I moved to the other side of my bed and could see things moving on the floor. These worms were also coming through the (concrete) walls. I then shot awake screaming while waking up. Turned on the lights and saw nothing. It is the strangest and scariest thing I’ve ever had happen while sleeping

Established_Trial ,

I’ve had this for as long as I can remember. Normally it’s with something like. It’s or snakes, but occasionally I’ll see a figure in the doorway, or think there something standing or floating by my bed.

It’s rather annoying, especially for my wife since I usually have to turn on the light fire my brain decides it’s ok.

wren ,
@wren@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh awesome, I already deal with sleep paralysis on a semi-regular basis, now you’re telling me there’s yet another thing to worry about? 😭

Tixanou ,

i thought i was the only one

MurrayL ,

Like some others in the thread, I get this occasionally. For me, without fail, it’s seeing hundreds of spiders crawling over the walls, ceiling, and/or bed - I’ve sometimes violently tried to throw the covers off myself to get them away!

Really unsettling, and it happens so infrequently that I’m never prepared for it at all.

wide_eyed_stupid ,
@wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t remember ever experiencing something like this…? Is it possible to forget about it, like a dream? Barely ever remember dreams. Or maybe some people don’t experience these hallcinations?

Soloduke ,

Found myself in a rabbit hole reading up about this. Thank you for posting.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I had a friend who told me he had a whole conversation with his girlfriend about the bikers in the bedroom while he was going to the bathroom right after waking up.

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