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I see things when I wake up at night, partially when I fall asleep

Hi there,
I'm a 16 year old male, and I'd Just like to share with you what's going on, hopefully to get some answers. So for as long I can remember, I have woken up at night and every night seen things that were not real. As a young boy, I thought I was seeing "ghosts" but as I got older I realized that waking up and imagining my dad waking around was spiritually and physically impossible(he was in bed of course) and I would see things that would be odd. Cats, animals. Saw a wizard once, but was tossing sparkly sand around. Seen people, seen a dancing tiger, see a flying dress. I dream every night. But it terrifys me waking up seeing things. Especially when sometimes it could be a person, animal coming towards me looking mean!! I have NEVER seen anything during the day, nor heard voices. It's all at night(never heard voices at night either) when I wake up I feel awake, I can hear, smell, think I can see fine, feel fine..  And awake, but I still see these things and I know this is bad, but I have started to take "drowsy" Meds to help me not wake up in the night and if I do, I put my covers over my head. Everyone says I'm just dreaming still, but what they don't realize is that I'm very scared when this occurs, I have almost cried before. I get tired during the day, very tired at times. I usually fall asleep in class. But my mom thinks it's just cause I watch a lot of movies so my brain has a lot going on before I go to bed, but I don't think that's it. I try to go to bed late so I don't wake up till AM. I feel like I'm crazy, but I don't have anything wrong during the day. Just night is so scary for me, if there's anything you think i should do it would be amazing.. Should I talk to my doctor? Am I just dreaming still? Am I crazy?!?
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Murph65, you should speak with your doctor about a referral to a sleep specialist. Usually this is a neurologist specializing in sleep disorders. If you dream excessively, have hallucinations and are excessively sleepy during the day you may have narcolepsy. It is diagnosed by undergoing a sleep study in a special sleep center. The overnight sleep study (polysomnogram) monitors your sleep overnight to see if there are any abnormalities in the quality or architecture, and a series of nap studies (MSLT - multiple sleep latency test) the next day checks both your level of sleepiness and whether you enter REM sleep during naps. Entering REM right after falling asleep is a sign of narcolepsy.

Even if you don't end up having narcolepsy, establishing a relationship with a sleep doctor now will better help you understand what is going on and possible treatments.

Also there are other sleep forums that have a larger community than this one appears to. I forget the names but if you just do some searches for sleep disorders or narcolepsy you will probably find them.
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Hi, I too am 16 but female, and I understand what you mean. I don't physically see things though. I see almost like a shadow in the dark coming after me or lingering in certain parts of my room. I am also awake very late at night but I don't wake up, I just go to bed very late cause I can't sleep. I hear noises however but I don't see things that often during the day. I hate when people just think you're messing or being stupid, I guess it doesn't help that we're teenagers, people don't take us seriously.You should look up schizophrenia and maybe sleep disorders. It might be good to check out lucid dreaming as well. If all that doesn't reassure you and you're still worried, I would say go see your doctor or a psychiatrist. I don't think you're crazy :) and it's those who don't think they're crazy that are crazy. Hope this helps somewhat. Let me know how it works out or if you find out what;'s wrong .  
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