Seeing things in my room

[hectorrouge]

I've been having illusions as though animals or objects are in my room, its been happening over years of my life. When it started I was very young and it scared me, but as I grew older it disappeared. Now its almost the same, but the only difference is it actually is doing me damage. When I was 7 I woke up and attempted to go get some water, when I began to sit up out of bed I was knocked back down; it felt as though a dog had just attacked me, it continued like this, me hiding and hearing barks and feeling things hitting me until I finally yelled.

Though just yesterday I had another one, this one managed to even traumatize me, I don't want to go back to bed, I can't take it, I think it may be insomnia but I don't know. Yesterday as I was trying to go to bed when I saw a pitch black figure move across my bed it quickly became a black snake. I could reason I was being irrational, swinging my blankets and even my pillow at it; I soon regained my head and leapt off my bed and intot he hall way, then turned the lights on to my room, but there was nothing there. Its 3:00 AM in Texas now and I can't bring myself to go to bed, it scares me to much, please help!

 

[Ezzay]

Just watch TV until you pass out.

Ive done it more than once when i couldn't get to sleep, for an entirely different reason to you though, but it might just work.

 

[LogicNProportion]

I need noise to go to sleep. Or else my own thoughts keep me awake at night. Yet again, I'm also proven to have minor schizophrenia and anxiety disorders.

 

[Chiddy]

ok.......

how many hours a day do you play video games/watch tv

 

[vampirekid.13]

I've been having illusions as though animals or objects are in my room, its been happening over years of my life. When it started I was very young and it scared me, but as I grew older it disappeared. Now its almost the same, but the only difference is it actually is doing me damage. When I was 7 I woke up and attempted to go get some water, when I began to sit up out of bed I was knocked back down; it felt as though a dog had just attacked me, it continued like this, me hiding and hearing barks and feeling things hitting me until I finally yelled.

Though just yesterday I had another one, this one managed to even traumatize me, I don't want to go back to bed, I can't take it, I think it may be insomnia but I don't know. Yesterday as I was trying to go to bed when I saw a pitch black figure move across my bed it quickly became a black snake. I could reason I was being irrational, swinging my blankets and even my pillow at it; I soon regained my head and leapt off my bed and intot he hall way, then turned the lights on to my room, but there was nothing there. Its 3:00 AM in Texas now and I can't bring myself to go to bed, it scares me to much, please help!

heh, sounds like how my sleep apnea started.

go to a doctor that specializes in sleep disorders and tell him everything. ask him to do some tests on your sleep. chances are you are missing breaths while sleeping due to your airways collapsing, causing you to not be able to breathe, and suffocate in your sleep slowly.

while its not deadly it does disrupt your sleep greatly.

i have it too, i cant sleep on my belly or on my back w/o suffocating.

it all started with me having seeing stuff like you did in your sleep. one night it was someone choking me, another night it was a phoenix attacking me, another night it was a tiger stomping my chest with all its might...


anyway, get checked out, and look further into sleep apnea, that might be the issue.

 

[IxionIndustries]

Maybe you shouldn't have buried Mittens in the Pet Cemetery..

Maybe you shouldn't have built your house on said cemetery.

Maybe you shouldn't have put your toilet over Mitten's grave.

........................

Maybe you shouldn't live in Texas...

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Look at the puppy.
All will become better in due time.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I actually know how you feel.
I see spiders and insects and I once saw a crab which I tried crushing. My last one was people breaking into my room, a lad and lass around my age. I kept jumping up to look out the window.
Most nights I have panic attacks so I'm too scared to go to bed too :/
A quick solution for me is sticking in my iPod and listening to calming music.
I'd suggest telling your doctor. It may be nothing, it may happen to quite a lot of people when growing up.
Mental illness runs in my family, but I'm too scared to see my doctor because I don't want them to section me.
Good luck anyway, I'm sure we'll pull through.

EDIT: I wrote this a while back. Hopefully it'll give you a better understanding of what I go through and if you're the same. I haven't shown it to my friends.

 

[rickthetrick]

One time I woke up in the middle of the night and had that half awake thing going on. I swore there was an old man sitting on my dresser smoking a cigarete and pointing at me. I had to wake my wife up to make sure I wasn't actually seeing this thing. Needless to say she was pissed and I didn't get any for the next couple of nights

 

[New Troll]

I constantly feel spiders on me while in bed which is mostly due to my arachnaphobia. I know most if not all of them are not real, not there, but a lot of times I can't help but shake my arm/ leg/ blanket/ whatever just to make sure. I know there's spiders everywhere, and there's probably one living only yards, probably feet, away from me, but I prefer not seeing them. Then they're okay.

I'm not a huge sleeper to begin with, so I almost always have something playing to help me tune out, wether it be music or a TV show like Big Bang Theory. Just something I enjoy but isn't new so as to need my attention.

 

[fulano]

I've been having illusions as though animals or objects are in my room, its been happening over years of my life. When it started I was very young and it scared me, but as I grew older it disappeared. Now its almost the same, but the only difference is it actually is doing me damage. When I was 7 I woke up and attempted to go get some water, when I began to sit up out of bed I was knocked back down; it felt as though a dog had just attacked me, it continued like this, me hiding and hearing barks and feeling things hitting me until I finally yelled.

Though just yesterday I had another one, this one managed to even traumatize me, I don't want to go back to bed, I can't take it, I think it may be insomnia but I don't know. Yesterday as I was trying to go to bed when I saw a pitch black figure move across my bed it quickly became a black snake. I could reason I was being irrational, swinging my blankets and even my pillow at it; I soon regained my head and leapt off my bed and intot he hall way, then turned the lights on to my room, but there was nothing there. Its 3:00 AM in Texas now and I can't bring myself to go to bed, it scares me to much, please help!

Dude, it's nothing. But if it was something it would be so awesome. Worthy of a movie.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

objects are in my room.

I have objects in my room.

Anyway, go see a psychiatrist. Maybe he could help you out. Eiher that or a doctor who specialises in sleep. One or the other.

 

[goatzilla8463]

You should get a friend to knock you out with a baseball bat.

You won't be waking up from that for a long time.

 

[Fat Hippo]

What the hell do we know? If this has happened before, get help. Or booze. Booze helps with everything.

 

[Abedeus]

I constantly feel spiders on me while in bed which is mostly due to my arachnaphobia. I know most if not all of them are not real, not there, but a lot of times I can't help but shake my arm/ leg/ blanket/ whatever just to make sure. I know there's spiders everywhere, and there's probably one living only yards, probably feet, away from me, but I prefer not seeing them. Then they're okay.

I'm not a huge sleeper to begin with, so I almost always have something playing to help me tune out, wether it be music or a TV show like Big Bang Theory. Just something I enjoy but isn't new so as to need my attention.

That's not arachnophobia, that's paranoia.

Although my arachnophobia shows when every time I go inside a new room or place I've never been to, I check the corners to see if anything is lurking there. And if there is, I can't concentrate.


OP - It's not you that's crazy, it's the TV. AREN'T YOU, TV!! ARENCH!!

 

[El Poncho]

I need noise to go to sleep. Or else my own thoughts keep me awake at night. Yet again, I'm also proven to have minor schizophrenia and anxiety disorders.

I need noise to go to sleep aswell

Maybe you should go see someone about your illusion things maybe your having those nightmare things when your still awake.

 

[TaborMallory]

This used to happen to me, but it was never anything disturbing like this. I would just see... things.
Not scary things, but just... unexplainable things.

My suggestion is that you watch T.V. or a movie until you fall asleep. Whenever this happens to me, I just watch something and set the sleep timer in case I doze off. Sometimes I listen to classical music, too. Both help greatly.

 

[PsykoDragon]

Spoiler: Look at the puppy.

All will become better in due time.

ARGH!!! FREAKY PUPPY!!!

srsly tho, drink a bottle of cough syrup. You'll see vivid hallucinations but everything will be mellow, to the point that you'll see your friends' faces looking demonic, but not care.
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Do not, repeat DO NOT take this seriously. Cough syrup is theorized to cause brain damage & exhausts the liver.

 

[New Troll]

That's not arachnophobia, that's paranoia.

It's paranoia due to my arachnaphobia. If I wasn't afraid of spiders, I wouldn't have cause to be paranoid.