[Moose72]

Last night, I was laying in bed and heard a distinct five loud knocks on the upstairs wall. Thinking the neighbors were miffed at us, I got up and looked around to see if it might happen again but it didn't. I asked my kids if they'd heard anything and they said no. When I say I heard them, they were clear as day, yes-they-happened woke-me-up hallucinations.

Turns out these are called hypnogogic hallucinations and happen when you are falling asleep. Why they were so vivid, I don't know, but they can involve the hearing, sight taste and a few other senses. Sometimes, I even feel like someone is violently shaking my bed!

Thank you for sharing your experience Moose. That is very interesting. I too have been woken up by strange stuff that seemed real but wasn't. It's unsettling but would be worse if it was actually happening.

[UpDownAround]

I was reading about those the other day in an article about psychosis. It said the DSM specifically excludes them as a diagnostic indicator because over 1/3 of the general population has experienced at least one instance that they vividly remember; same with the waking one (I forget what that one is called). I am pretty sure the night terrors I have experienced (none recently, but I had several over the course of a year or so about 15 to 20 years ago) were hypnogogic hallucinations because of the timing. Once I got my wits about me and looked at the time, it was inevitably just a few minutes after I laid down.