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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
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i have been researching online all this morning, trying to make sense of what happened last night.  i was about an hour into sleeping when i woke up suddenly and opened my eyes to find this big solid black ball with wispy long thin tentacle thingy's. it was probably the size of a baseball  i sat up and turned around where my head was on the pillow and the black thingy was still there, like it didnt move.  i ran out of my bed room into the living room and my heart felt like it was going to pop out of my chest, not to mention my head was going a mile a minute, i thought i was going to pass out.  i eventually went back in my room and it was no longer there. that was the first time anything like that had ever happened to me.  i have seen things before but nothing like that.  its usually like something from the corner of my eye or when its dark in my room i will sometimes see dark figures.  i always just passed it off as weird lighting effects, figured if i didnt acknowledge it, it didnt really exsist or would go away.  kinda like hiding under the blankets because you think nothing can see you.  please tell me im not the only one who has seen this big black thing. thanks
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Hi my names Sarah.
I’m so glad other people have what i have, it started for me when a was 7 or so and i woke up and saw my mum and sister laying on the top of my wardrobe. I’m 20 now and I’ve been seeing thing again the last 2 month, it started with me having a dream about a spider on me, then i wake up and start franticly bashing my bed. Then i saw a guy friend in the corner of my room, i sat up and asked him what her was doing here then he despaired into a shadow. last night i woke to see a angry face coming at me fast and it grabbed my shoulders and i felt i shock on the tops of my arms, i was freaking out and shaking, i couldn’t get back to sleep after that, i felt like someone was in my room. Please help me!
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I am a 23 year old male and I have panic attacks and other anxity problems. I have been seeing spiders and people in my room that are not there for as long as i can remeber i have kind of got use to them thay don't bother me like thay use to but i notice thay don't happen when the sun is up so I tend to go to sleep at sunrise
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25 m spider people too lol
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Studys show floride, n sodium an othere things crystalize on pineal gland allowing less amounts melatonin seratonin dmt flow out, making people amounts all very , this is very bad I think cuz melatonin helps r sleep an seratonin controles r happyness , so I'd stay away floride water , most city got it in r water an toothpaste an what not, i'd try stay away from it if u can, some people medatate to get there pineal gland active again so it doesn't crystalize up,  another cool thing iv heard from documentry an book was all these solar flares from the sun 2012 will cause humans an are pineal glands evole, some tribes belive this will happen, the tribes that new about 2012 said it be big change in time an r lives , they didn't say it be bad thing happening like every one things, so I'd much rather belive this seems better haha, what u all think ? Ps ur all fine nothin wrong with u just ur pineal gland active letting out small amounts dmt
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Cuz at night ur pineal gland in ur brain opens from darkness in ur eyes so it realese melatonin an dmt in ur brain dmt is chemical in ur brain that makes u dream at night, just ur pineal gland opening befor u fall a sleep or still open if u wake up in middel night, being healthy probly why it happens, when monks medatate there trying to active there pineal gland to get visions an talk to the gods u could say, dmt is also found in plants around the world tribes around the world made drinks with some these plants with dmt ayhausca is one the drinks they made to vision quest on to cure an pure the body, they some times see spiders snakes or w.e animals or gods/people , they say there's meaning behind the stuff but no science doesn't no y we see spiders an stuff I don't think they no yet at lest,  so is this dmt really some body and mind curing chemical really is what people think it is ? Science doesn't know yet or at lest there saying, some people belive dmt started religion from people high dmt amounts in there brain they had visions of Jesus an in some case even healing them, (just like the tribes said ayhusca(dmt drink) is sposs to do heal mind an body while some seen "gods", also some people belive UFO alien sighting an stuff are caused by dmt in our brain not much studys I could see on that tho, people studying dmt extracted dmt from plants an smoked it giving them vision for 20 mins of geometry patterns or like mushroom high x100 when smoked enough like 50 mg they can see spiders or w.e or even Passover to another world an see aliens an be back to normal in  20 mins an it's hard for them to remember it all just like a when u dream an night an wake up cant remeber the dream any more , iv heard of case when people say they seen UFO or aliens an can't remeber much is this maybe link to dmt , so this powerful chemical in plants an naturl to our brain we don't no much about an I think people should think about where dmt plays part in humanity or look into some info, east Indians an budda an so on have some what right idea there very much about the pineal gland  an the the sun always worship , sun produce seratonin melatonin dmt an so on in ur body brain, so something link , anyways look into it or ask, what do u all think about it?
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