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seeing things at night ? spiders and insects and people oh my !!
i posted this response in another forum , and am re posting them alone because i feel there are some aspects that are different from the other cases , such as the tremors ,and the length in which this is happening to me ... not only in how long these attacks last , but also in the amount of time in my life they have been happening .
there are also some other symptoms i would like to add . such as a low heart rate , that is increasingly lowered during sleep time . and arm and leg pains that only happen at night . ive had an mri , ekg, cat scan , worn a heart monitor , slept at a sleep study clinic , taken vitamins , gone to routine check ups . and there is nothing "wrong" with me . i am a healthly 26 year old female .
i think that its strange that every case i have read about everyone is seeing the same images , this leads me to believe and im not a doctor that these things are possible stemming form a part of the brain that would trigger these images . hundreds of people from all over the world that see spiders when trying to sleep . just seems odd that people wouldnt be seeing different things depending on the individual
i have been experiencing this since i was a child . when i was young i believed that there were people in my room at night standing over my bed watching me sleep . sometimes they would grab at me , i felt it as though it was really . my mother would tell me that i would wake up screaming in the middle of the night . but the funny thing was i wasnt asleep . i was only laying there ,sometimes i would wake up with strange scratches or marks on my body . the doctor said i was just a restless sleeper and it quickly got brushed under the table so to speak as night terrors , and i learned to live with it , as time went on and i got older the "visions" changed . i would see what you guys are calling spiders or insects crawling on the walls , only i think your brain is choosing to see it that way because its something its firmiliar with . i believe that its actually more like a ball of electricity (like those balls in science class you touch and the electric charges shoot to where your fingers are )..... the more i focused on them the more it would look like spiders or something i would naturally see crawling on walls . i also still see people standing in corners . sitting on my bed standing next to the bed . always the same things .and unlike when your eyes play tricks on you i find that when i look away from the image instead of it moving to where i look it stays in one place . my "visions" have started to last longer instead of seeing them for 10 seconds and closing my eyes and having them disappear , its lasting 30 seconds or more . giving me time to actually ponder what im seeing . i am also experiencing a different symptom non of you have mentioned . i sake , sometimes either before or after the visions happen my body trembles i thought it was fear , but now i think its as if its decompressing . its hard to explain . ive seen many doctors , had every test you can think of preformed ,done more then one sleep study . and the diagnoses is all over the place ive heard diet , mild narcolepsy ,sleep paralysis , and my favorite that im stressed . non of which i feel is correct im not excessively tired , i eat healthy , and dont consider my self suffering for any extra stress . i think its strange that we are all seeing the same things , the same 5 images , and that there is no study being done that this could be a completely isolated experience / disorder . i would love to have some answers
there are also some other symptoms i would like to add . such as a low heart rate , that is increasingly lowered during sleep time . and arm and leg pains that only happen at night . ive had an mri , ekg, cat scan , worn a heart monitor , slept at a sleep study clinic , taken vitamins , gone to routine check ups . and there is nothing "wrong" with me . i am a healthly 26 year old female .
i think that its strange that every case i have read about everyone is seeing the same images , this leads me to believe and im not a doctor that these things are possible stemming form a part of the brain that would trigger these images . hundreds of people from all over the world that see spiders when trying to sleep . just seems odd that people wouldnt be seeing different things depending on the individual
i have been experiencing this since i was a child . when i was young i believed that there were people in my room at night standing over my bed watching me sleep . sometimes they would grab at me , i felt it as though it was really . my mother would tell me that i would wake up screaming in the middle of the night . but the funny thing was i wasnt asleep . i was only laying there ,sometimes i would wake up with strange scratches or marks on my body . the doctor said i was just a restless sleeper and it quickly got brushed under the table so to speak as night terrors , and i learned to live with it , as time went on and i got older the "visions" changed . i would see what you guys are calling spiders or insects crawling on the walls , only i think your brain is choosing to see it that way because its something its firmiliar with . i believe that its actually more like a ball of electricity (like those balls in science class you touch and the electric charges shoot to where your fingers are )..... the more i focused on them the more it would look like spiders or something i would naturally see crawling on walls . i also still see people standing in corners . sitting on my bed standing next to the bed . always the same things .and unlike when your eyes play tricks on you i find that when i look away from the image instead of it moving to where i look it stays in one place . my "visions" have started to last longer instead of seeing them for 10 seconds and closing my eyes and having them disappear , its lasting 30 seconds or more . giving me time to actually ponder what im seeing . i am also experiencing a different symptom non of you have mentioned . i sake , sometimes either before or after the visions happen my body trembles i thought it was fear , but now i think its as if its decompressing . its hard to explain . ive seen many doctors , had every test you can think of preformed ,done more then one sleep study . and the diagnoses is all over the place ive heard diet , mild narcolepsy ,sleep paralysis , and my favorite that im stressed . non of which i feel is correct im not excessively tired , i eat healthy , and dont consider my self suffering for any extra stress . i think its strange that we are all seeing the same things , the same 5 images , and that there is no study being done that this could be a completely isolated experience / disorder . i would love to have some answers
I am in tears right now. I know exactly what you are going through! I just had a dream of a grey cat with piercing green eyes. It told me, "Now you cant move." I was paralyzed in my dream. The "cat" sucked on my neck and I started to shake; as in having a seizure and it felt real! I knew this cat was more than a cat. It spoke to me the way a human would, or a being...
I woke up and their was "the spider"
A black tarantula. I looked at it for a good 15 seconds and then it was gone. PLEASE EMAIL ME at ***@**** ASAP! I have more information on what I believe it really is.Thank you!
I woke up and their was "the spider"
A black tarantula. I looked at it for a good 15 seconds and then it was gone. PLEASE EMAIL ME at ***@**** ASAP! I have more information on what I believe it really is.Thank you!
oh my god It dosen't matter wether its the morning or night i for some reason always pick up my phone and check the time.....or look at a clock and its always 8:23 my birthday.........its so strange....even the new gico comercial mensions the time 8:23...........and i always find myself checking the clock and it be 9:11..........I wanted my father in law to record the voice for me so i could come over and watch it and guess what time he started recording it ....at 8:23 so trust me i know what you meen i have always wondered if it meens anything but i dunno if its an internal clock that gets on a routine of knowing exactly when a time is that you decide to check the time....that gets on a very precise schedual....i don't know and am not sure either....if you get any answers on this as well pleassssssssse let me know. I am very curious
I've been seeing weird things too in the dark (whether before falling asleep or upon waking up any time in the night afterward) but always with either a tv or computer monitor on. (I'd wondered if it was some weird interaction with the scanning of the screen or something!?) This has been going on for years and is repeatable enough that I also noticed when I shined a flashlight on the mosquito swarm, patch of crawling bugs, spider, whatever it was that it immediately disappeared in the steady white light, only to reappear when I switched the flashlight off (and I could repeat that cycle as many times as I liked.) Just last night I tried closing one eye at a time, and could see whatever it is just as distinctly with either eye or both. I also noticed if I try to touch whatever it is, my hand/finger goes right thru it without disturbing it. One of these nights I'll attempt a long exposure with my camera using existing light. Wouldn't that be awesome to have pictures for all the naysayers!? :p
Please post if you learn anything! Thank you.
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I have no history of PTSD, trauma or abuse and I have had these issues since I was a young teenager. I have seen everything from a dark shadowy man picking up a chair and running toward the bed to people standing at the foot of my bed, side of my bed, in the corner of my room, etc. They are usually very clear images that I can describe in detail, although sometimes they are dark shadowy figures.
I have no history of PTSD, trauma or abuse and I have had these issues since I was a young teenager. I have seen everything from a dark shadowy man picking up a chair and running toward the bed to people standing at the foot of my bed, side of my bed, in the corner of my room, etc. They are usually very clear images that I can describe in detail, although sometimes they are dark shadowy figures.
Thank you so much for your posting. What you said made perfect sense to me and I am booking an appointment with my primary care doctor right now! I have been terrified since childhood of the "people" I see standing at the foot of my bed, in the corner and even hovering over my head as I look up above myself - very plain and clearly. I wake up screaming and scaring my husband and kids. This is frequent for me and I actually fear sleep.
Although this has plaqued me since childhood (I used to walk in my sleep as a small child incidentally), I had no idea it was a sleep disorder. I honestly thought it was either something spooky or that perhaps I was ill emotionally and either way until I stumbled onto this website I was too afraid to tell anyone at all. Thank you again!
Although this has plaqued me since childhood (I used to walk in my sleep as a small child incidentally), I had no idea it was a sleep disorder. I honestly thought it was either something spooky or that perhaps I was ill emotionally and either way until I stumbled onto this website I was too afraid to tell anyone at all. Thank you again!
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