Lately, my psychotic symptoms have begun to increase. This usually happens after a few months on an antipsychotic, so I am always being put on new medications. I have been on a regiment of Serequel and Risperdol for about 6 months. The Serequel works well at keeping my auditory hallucinations under control. The Risperdol was prescribed to aid me with visual hallucinations and thought processes. I say this because over the last couple of months, I have been experiencing strange hallucinations at night. I wake up several times during the night thinking that someone is walking in the hall, talking in the closet, or moving around in the bathroom. I also have seen shadows in the corners when I look around. I attribute this to my meds becoming ineffective. I asked before if dreams can be hallucinations because my dreams have become very frighting and confusing as well. I have dreams where I seem to be having a nightmare, then it seems that I wake-up and experience a hallucination. Then, I DO wake-up, but it seems as if the dream is continuing, and the hallucinations from the dream continue. I think that I "hear" and "see" what was happening in the dream, but I am not sure if I am still dreaming. I am having a very hard time telling reality from my dreams. A couple of nights ago, I have a dream where I was dreaming, then woke up and started hallucinating, I woke up and the monster from my dream was standing in front of me talking to me, or so I thought. I screamed, and jumped, waking up my wife up. She tried to console me, but the monster was still there, and I was thrown into a full psychotic episode. We knew that I was awake, but the monsters were still there. I am scared and confused as to what is happening. I am having more and more difficulty telling my dreams from reality, and my sleep is becoming increasingly compromised.