<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBeef @ Jun 15 2008, 06:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I cant get a housekeeper, money is tight....the two main jobs are easy, I answer phones for a service company at night, so I mostly sit by the phone and then I listen to recordings of calls from a different company during the day and grade those(im somewhat of a customer service expert), the day job i can do from my home computer, which helps because i can be home with the kids and work at the same time....the third job is salvaging scrap metals with my dad on Saturdays and thats 8 hours of hell, but pays really well....put them together and Im working 88 hours a week and raising 3 kids and a handicap adult....im 31 years old and Im young enough that I can hack it when i can sleep, but right now Im reluctant to go to sleep becuase the hallucinations are so awful....I was hoping someone here had dealt with this and fixed it but i guess I may have to find time to go to the doctor....atleast I have health insurance....</div> I haven't experienced this in the "natural occurring" way, but it seems to be stress-related. Perhaps go and see a therapist, I doubt medication is a proper answer to this. You shouldn't pollute your body with that shit anyway.
And also don't give up Beef. Thats excellent that you're taking care of your family, doing all those jobs, etc. I'm pretty sure God will reward you for that somehow someway, for being so caring to your family and not giving up no matter what is happening or what you're going through. God bless you man.
Funny that you mention this because I had a similar experience just this week except it happened when I was was falling asleep. It was about 3 AM when I usually go to sleep in the summer but i was really tired from working and going to the gym that day. As I was falling asleep I saw a mosquito fly right over my face so I jumped up, grabbed a can of Raid (I've been waging an epic war with all bugs that enter my house since summer started so I keep this by my bed) and turned the light on to try and find the bastard. But nothing. When I saw it I couldn't tell if it was real or if I was like dreaming from being half-asleep so I waited a few minutes than just went back to bed. I figured I was probably just tripping from lack of sleep. So I try and go back to sleep again and I'm thinking about the damn mosquito as I drift off into BJM land and then I see a mosquito was up flying against my ceiling and I remember thinking "well I doubt its real its probably just a dream" and as it flew it disentigrated and was gone. Really weird but I'm guessing I was just asleep enough for it to be a dream because from my experiences in dreams it seems like as you think things they come to fruition (in the dream). As for legit hallucination's when I'm awake, can't recall anything. I've only used alcohol and weed, sometimes I hear stuff when I'm on weed but thats typical. I've been known to sleepwalk though. One time I woke up and walked to my front door and opened it and just stood in the door way for a few minutes, scared the SHIT out of my mom seeing me standing there in the wee hours of the night.
Hypnagogic hallucinations occur when you are falling asleep....I know how real that mosquito must have seemed....I had a rough one last night....I had 2 that I can remember, the 1st being a someone walking down the hall way in my house....the door was closed, so all i could see was shadows passing by the door....my kids are at my mothers house, so I know there was no one in the house....I kept calm though and didnt react, I think because I didnt want them to know I was awake....the 2nd one was horrific, I woke up to see a scarecrow standing in the closet holding a sickle....upon that, I freaked out and woke my wife who had to calm me....Ive done a ton of research on the net and a lot of people seem to have these type hallucinations but no one seems to know what causes them....one popular theory is alien abduction, but Im not buying that....
I don't buy that either Beef (the alien abduction). It probably has to do with not getting enough sleep and being stressful.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBeef @ Jun 15 2008, 01:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If aliens were abducting me that often, youd think id have a sore ass from all the anal probing....</div> lol, or they're not doing a good job with the abduction and cannot process it. haha
What a way to find out that your ass contains alien gold and they have opened up a mining operation....
The older I get the more I realize that laughter is the only way to get through the day....no matter whats going on, you can always find something funny to giggle about....
True man, laughter heals a lot of wounds. Personally I'm always smiling and laughing and at times have been accused of smiling too much. haha
I have had similar stuff before, when i was a child, very young, i was climing our sofa to put something on the window sill above it, as i reached the window there this man there looking right at me and i screamed and fell to the ground, knocked myself out, woke up and didnt remember a thing, mum told me what had happened cause she was there in the room with me. a few years later, when i was about 11 or 12, when i was about to go to sleep, i would here a tapping on my window, i would open the curtain and see this screaming man, just his face, just this screaming head in the darkness. ever since i have had sleeping problems, gone through insomnia on a few occasions. it happens most when im stressed, i cant fall asleep, i get really paranoid and start thinking people are outside my room. It happens the worst after truamatic experiences, my girlfriend cheated on me twice about 8 months ago, for the next 5 weeks after she told me, i couldnt sleep, started seeing people outside my window, there silhoutess on the curtains. What you've got to do is relax, its the key, see somebody about it, a proffessional and make the decision to stop your hullucinations, its all in your head, and all in your decisions. you can make them stop if you try hard enough.
I have one per month. One time I decorated my bathroom with bed sheets. When I woke go to go to bathroom I was like WTF!
This is scary shit. For TheBeef I'll bet its a combination of stress and exhaustion. If you're only getting 4 hours of sleep a night, that's trouble.
I believe the minimun amount of sleep for the average person is about 5 hours per night, but it's different for everyone. My step-dad has something like that, but I believe it is more of a "sleep walk". He gets up and goes to the wall and tries to fix something (he's a computer engineer) and some doctor said it was stress-related... Like Akira said: See a therapist, or get a massage once a week. Try different things.
I appreciate all the advice, but honestly, more rest, massages, even therapy cant happen....I already work 80+ hours a week and cant keep up with the bills....Im not doing any of it because I want to, I have to if my kids are to have a roof and food on the table....Im going to have a rough one today I think....I started Sunday morning at 5am and went from one job straight to the other one, so I will be going on 27 hours when I finally get to sleep this morning, then Im back up at 11am to start consecutive shifts that will take me through Tuesday morning at 7am....Im running on fumes now and thats when i get the worst hallucinations....
I just had to take a 9mm away from a close friend that was trying to kill himself....he was "locked and loaded" as they say....I wish today was a hallucination
