Hallucinations and sleep walking

Looking for some other people who may hallucinate or sleep walk still!
I started hallucinating while sleeping when I was little. As a child and teenager I would wake up in the night and sleep walk, which I know is common. The only issue is I would be partially aware of it and would be seeing people or things that were not there during. My family began dead bolting the doors because I would go outside with people that were not there and had to lock my window because I almost fell out while having a conversation with my sister who was on the back porch (she was not).

As an adult it's progressively gotten worse. I've had bad sleep problems for a few years now and tend to wake up in the middle of the night to people in my room. Sometimes there will be people everywhere, sitting in my bed and around the room. They usually want me to do things for them and it stresses me out because I know I'm dreaming and I want them to go away but they won't. It's difficult to wake myself up despite the fact that I am sitting or standing, moving, talking. I will often times see the room around me but it is altered in many ways. When I am very VERY stressed out about work I have the typical hallucination of bugs or snakes in my bed. I can't sleep with a shirt on ever because it causes me to hallucinate (no clue why).

These last few nights I find myself panicking when my SO comes to bed. I go to sleep before him and when he gets in bed I have been jumping out and panicking about him seeing me in the nude and try to find clothes. My eyes are closed and I am searching and he has had to remind me that he's my SO and I'm imagining whatever is going on. When we first moved in together he experienced my episode for the first time when I got out of bed and told him I had to go home. I was buck naked and he had to remind me that we lived together. Poor thing thought I was breaking up with him until he realized what was going on!

I'm just wondering if anyone else experiences episodes like this? I've googled and googled but can't seem to find anything of relation. My doctor brushed me off when I tried to explain so I gave up. Apparently my lack of sleep isn't a big deal to him

Even if you don't hallucinate like this, does anyone still have sleep walking episodes as adults?

Intense anxiety may be causing this. See a sleep specialist or a therapist.

I have this. It might be something called REM sleep behavior disorder. I also wake up to people in my room. I see dead family members and am actually very comforted by them. The strangers scare me though. I will sleep run out of the room when it happens

A lot of the time I find myself out of bed frantically looking for a frivolous object in my room that is not even There.

I sleep eat too. Even keeping candy in the other room does not work because I will eat a lot of it. Sometimes if we had French fries for dinner I will sleep walk down the stairs and grab a handful and then go right back to bed I rember the incidents but it is very hazy and I do not remember actually walking places.

Had a nasty incident a few nights ago where I ended up falling down the stairs because I had a dream where my HR manager was chasing me. Ironically I called her the next day to call saying I couldn't go into work. I had no problems talking to her.

Do you have social anxiety too? I was told today that you could be feeling great all day but at night you just lose control of your anxiety without realizing it until you have a nightmare.This happens to me and the only time I get downright scared is at night. I got tramatized by Forensic Files when I was very young.

I have had symptoms of REM sleep disturbance since 2012 but the sleepwalk night terrors did not start until my doctor raised my lamictal from 100 to 200 milligrams

I can relate to you 100%. You are definitely not alone.

I was researching this last night and I found out if you co sleep with a dog it can be tremendous help with the nightmares. I bought a mostly black lab puppy and I am planning on training it to be an emotional support dog. I have bad anxiety about being in the house at night without my mom there but my puppy has been a big help. I plan on letting him sleep with me when he is housebroken and more behaved

I hope this helped.

Hi,
First let me say that I have never sleep walked. I have however known others who have and heard of one that got seriously injured from it. So why am I posting here?

When I read your post, an intuitive thought popped into my head about the Monroe Institute and a theory I have. So I'll babble on here for a bit and, if you're interested, you may pursue it. If not, then simply ignore what I say below.

Have you ever had an out of body experience where you are totally conscious? These can be life changing for some people. I've had three such events in my life.

My totally untested and hypothetical theory is that sleep walking is a partial out of body/lucid dreaming experience. One is out of their body but yet still in their body.

In the 1950's to 1990's a man named Robert Monroe was a very successful businessman who lived in New York. However, he had a problem...he kept leaving his body. So he went to a number of doctors who assured him he wasn't crazy. He decided to go with his experiences.

This in turn lead him to creating a place where out of body experiences could be analytically studied; the Monroe Institute. He then began to apply his knowledge or waves, he made his first success in the radio industry.

He created these electo-magnetically isolated chambers and then had people lie in them with monitoring attachments and began to experiment with sending wavelengths of one frequency in one ear and a different frequency in the other. He learned that by doing so, the brain interprets the delta difference. He found he could assist people into the theta state and achieve out of body experiences which he could easily do unassisted.

He patented the technology calling it "hemi-sync". There have been literally thousands of people who have gone through the Monroe Institute achieving out of body experiences.

I tell you this since I felt it would be a good idea for you to know this. My untested theory is that if you can tune into yourself more, you will likely easily have OBE's and thus reduce or eliminate your sleep walking.

Bob Monroe wrote three books which I suggest you read. Even more pertinent is a suggestion from me to you to read some of William Bulhman's books. He too is an man who's had thousands of OBE experiences. If you read some of his early books, you'll see he talks about parallel worlds to our own where things are similar but not...just as you've experienced.

Further, if you read Jurgen Ziewe's "Multi-dimensional Man" you'll find he to experienced similar things as you have done.

Do you meditate? If not, then I also suggest you do this. There are many, many different ways to meditate. On my free website "learningfrommydreams" dot com is a whole section devoted to different ways to meditate.

My theory is that meditation can also help you eliminate sleep walking experiences since you will be more in touch with your inner soul.

Now I am going to suggest something that may seem way out in left field...perhaps the people sitting on your bed are there to assist you. I "feel" they are some of your other lives.

I have learnt that I have incarnated at least 2,000 times or likely more. I call them my "other lives". They and I are teaching ourselves about ourselves if this makes sense. By learning to listen to them, from your dreams, meditations and out of body experiences, your need to have sleep walking experiences will likely diminish or end.

If i have intrigued you, then I also suggest you ether post a dream you've had that really stands out in your mind or, send it to my privately. I will then happily assist you with an interpretation of your dream as if it was mine.

I hope that if you try these suggestion above, they work for you.

With kind regards,
Guy

I actually have had lucid dreams before and find it difficult to get into it when I want to. Fun little tidbit: When I was a child, I had terrible nightmares. People dying, monsters chasing me. They were never ending. My father came up with a plan. We placed a glass of water on my bedside table before I fell asleep. As I would fall asleep I would remind myself that the water was there. The beside table and water would go into my dreams with me. When monsters were chasing me or someone was dying, I would see this glass of water and it would remind me I was dreaming. But I was a child at the time and I would wake up shortly after.

I dabble with Buddhism and have practiced meditation. It's difficult for me as my mind is never ending. Shutting down is the hardest thing I've ever tried.

I love your ideas, it's extremely interesting! I might go google into it!

As for the first response, thank you so much! I wish I was able to sleep with a dog but my SO is not a dog person and our cat is evil. Like, hump your leg while sleeping evil.

Thank you both for your repsonses!

Hi,
A side note to you. In meditation, the key is keeping your conscious mind occupied. This sort of flies in the face of what most people think of when they try to "empty their mind".

About 3,000 or so years ago, Hindi's wanted to have out of body experiences. They learnt they could do this by keeping their conscious minds occupied. They way they did this was by contorting their bodies which keeps the mind busy and occupied. Today this is called....yoga.

Buddhists also developed techniques where they sing a chant "OM" which keeps the mind occupied.

There are also old Taoist ways where they give themselves an insolvable problem which again occupies the mind.

About a ear and a half ago, I felt compelled to put up on a website what I have learnt. So I created "learningfrommydreams" dot com. If you go there you'll find a whole section dealing with different meditation techniques. I tell people to find one that resonates for them.

On the resources page are many links to all sorts of different ways of viewing the multiverse we live in.

Changing tack...

Those are very interesting experiences you had as a child. From me to you, I suspect you are very spiritually gifted. For what it's worth, I suspect this has bene bubbling away inside you, wanting to in effect get out and letting you know via your nightmares, lucid dreams and sleep walking.

Trust your intuition and see where it takes you.

With kind regards,
Guy

I think anxiety may be causing you this

I have sleep walking hallucinations nightly.

Usually i jump up just as i am going into a deep sleep from any small noise in the room. Then later i hallucinate things in my bedroom. Even though the room is dark i can make everything out clearly. I think my eyes are open and see all these different objects, people and events happening in my room. Years ago it was monsters and spiders falling from the roof, i hurt myself a few times jumping out of bed from those. Luckily it is not so scary these days. But it is generally the same theme which is - I am not supposed to be in the bed or room that i am in. I am usually looking under my window blind or getting out of bed. My wife always directs me back to bed. It happens so often that she even does it in her sleep. she doesnt always remember telling me to go back to sleep.
I had a sleep study done but didn't really find anything unusual. With so many things attached to you and in a foreign bed during this test no wonder. it was pretty uncomfortable sleep and they are generally testing for sleep apnea.
I've tried so many different ways to try and stop these hallucinations from happening but have never found anything that works. The sleep Doctor didnt seemed to concerned because i was unlikely to hurt myself or others. I tried melatonin. That didnt really work but sure does make you sleepy. I didnt want to try anything stronger.

Have you found a way to stop these nightly episodes from happening?

People always link it to stress and anxiety but it seems to happen when i am not as well.