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@Jake. I don’t take sleeping pills other than melatonin every now and then.
@rogueone lmao, I love that 
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All of my hallucinations are scary and/or demon-like. Sometimes it is just glowing red eyes staring down at me from the ceiling when I’m laying in bed trying to sleep, with the occasional whisper in my ear, “I’m coming for you!” What makes it even creepier is I feel the slight wind of the breath in my ear like there is literally a physical person doing it… not just a voice in my head. 
Sounds like you’re having tactile hallucinations. I have those. Where you feel something touch you but there’s nothing there. I’m sorry you’re going through that btw, best thing you can do is try not to give power to it. Treat it as if it’s mundane, maybe it will try to do something new that’s easier to deal with.
I used to get this before I settled on my current meds (Zyprexa). Especially on Seroquel. I’d get horrible mutilated images or clown images in my mind’s eye or behind my eyelids while in bed. It was very scary.
Zyprexa seems to have eliminated the half-asleep hallucinations. I think they’re called hypnagogic?
Yeah, I think falling asleep are hypnogogic and waking up are hypnopompic. I had a hypnopompic one once.
I’m not allowed to get into my whispering dreams/night terrors/lucid dreams. Better left alone.
Odd that they’d be called hypnopomps. The deities that attend spirits to heaven after death are called Psychopomps.
I try not to write or talk about the negative experiences as well. I would rather talk about the good ones…for me it helps to keep up with hygeine both physical and mental. I also use aromatherapy scents like sandalwood, vanilla, or rose. and burn palo santo…take epsom salt baths. It doesn’t happen when Im on top of this…and I need to avoid industrial/gothic music that can put those ideas into my subconscious mind.
I usually just burn incense but candles and incense can be fire hazards and the smoke from the incense sometimes gives me headaches…it does help me with sleep.
I might light some incense now because I cant sleep.
I was drawn to this and found it at a local herbal tea shop. It got rid of the sleep paralysis and nightmares for me not saying it’ll work for everyone.
This is an interesting idea. I wonder if smelling something pleasant while you’re going to sleep would put you in a better mindset and possibly decrease the bad thoughts/images? I think I’m going to try this.
Sandalwood and Frankincense are my two favorites…try to keep them going at all times 
Hmmm… that’s been a hard one for me, because I listen to and also play industrial, not so much gothic, but the inherent negativity can be a strain. I am more interested in the aggro aspect, and for myself the psych textural and granular sounds, not particularly interested in anything chill or mellow. But it’s a trap: trying to create the sounds I want without them webbing me in and dragging me down. The more I try to describe the undertow the deeper it sinks into me.
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