During the morning, I feel like crap. I don’t generally hallucinate at that time, though. Most of the day is also generally quiet. During the evening I get calm conversations and the occasional pleasant image. When I try to fall asleep, however, things get chaotic and random. Voices will say things that make no sense, I’ll see horrific images, or I’ll hear random noises like dogs barking or car alarms going off.
Do your hallucinations change when you try to go to sleep?
Yes, I get more of them at that time.
I’ll be fantasizing before I fall asleep. Then the images in my brain start to seem real, and they develop a life of their own. Lately I’ve been dreaming about tornados a lot. There are usually multiple tornados in my dream, and I will have what I think is good shelter, but then on subsequent review I think it might not be as safe as I think. The tornados have been coming closer lately.
As I get tired they ramp up, the stress of lack of sleep. I normally fall asleep to a TV or music to distract from the voices.
Shadow people and closed eye hallucinations I just have to suffer til I fall asleep. Thankfully my nighttime meds help me fall asleep fast
Mine are different. When I’m watching tv in the sitting room and things are quiet my mind will listen for voices and its then when I will hear faint voices. They will leave when I get distracted enough. The same thing happens when I go to bed but their even more faint. I’m very lucky. I also have voices which come when I get stressed and their more distressing because I’m usually doing manual labor when these occur and they keep talking about what I’m thinking, again their faint but louder than the whispering and I can make out words here and there.
I usually see things that are scarier at night,
Then again, I’m afraid of the dark.
I’d say my symptoms are worse during the evenings,
Especially now that the time has changed and its dark around 5 o’clock now.
Thanks for the responses, it makes me feel better knowing I’m not the only one. I’ve become better over time at ignoring them as I fall asleep. It’s sometimes easier knowing I’ll have some peace and quiet in the morning.
Oh man, cherish that quiet in the mornings. I’ve got a bad habit of waking up with voices already going strong. Waking up to bullies. It sucks.
Either way, wishing you some relief!
That reminds me of one of the schizophrenia simulation videos I’ve seen online, that sounds rough I’m sorry you go through that 
I get so happy from every form of break I get from this disease, I wish everybody else could get them too.
I hope you get some relief too, and hopefully the forum helps. If I’m up I’ll usually be on the Say Anything thread and am always up for a chat if it would help.
Thank you, that means a lot.
I use the forum on my phone, so I literally have you guys in my pocket at all times.
Hit me up any day dude. I’m usually welcome for a chat
I occasionally or maybe even regularly get hypnogoggic hallucinations at night. Auditory. I don’t particularly like that.
It’s like I’m thinking but I’m not kind of thing. Swift thoughts fluttering through my brain quite quickly
i get the basic images if i have been outside all day skiing i’ll get little people on chair lifts… if i pick broccoli all day - psychedelic flashes of broccoli plants
or fish if i went snorkelling etc
I’m more prone to seeing demons at night. Also, for whatever reason, my TD is worse then. Maybe because I’m stressed from the demons? Not sure.
Often times it’s like scenes from tv commercials or someone flipping channels …
Often I think of my childhood wondering if the problems I’m dealing with as an adult never could have happened by staying in the house I grew up in.
I wonder the same thing, too. My dad essentially abandoned me and my sisters. My mom was too busy and depressed to deal with us. We were all teenage parents. We lived in a rotten neighborhood and often didn’t have basic things like quarters for the laundromat. I was the oldest to get married four months after I turned 18; my sisters married at 14 and 16.
My folks also split it far later - I just miss the years I was together with friends and control of my mind and being mentally stable.
I get images and general feeling of things crawling to my bed, staring in my window and the like. Not every night.
Mine were always worst at night, as I was lying down and trying to sleep.
Mine always get worse as the day goes on. I haven’t been hallucinating much as of late, but when I do, it happens in the evenings or at night.
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