Hypnagogic Hallucinations Simulation

1st person simulation of early morning hypnagogic hallucinations. Many people experience these visuals when half-asleep, usually in the early morning. Some report seeing shapes and colors or the feeling of falling. These are my own experiences recreated from my childhood.
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Directed and Edited by: Steal Adcock
Cinematographer: Steal Adcock
Dreamer: Steal Adcock
a HandintheBoxinc. production

[@IndianTrollface]

Sometimes when this happens I close my eyes and I can faintly see through my closed eyes idk why

[@MidnightBreezey]

It's your visual cortex projecting the image of your room from your memories. The same thing is common on hallucinogenic drugs.

[@bogus69]

Deetz the Raccoon that makes sense... I always wondered why that was.

[@MeowmeowAlexandra]

"Closed eye visuals"

[@Honorbright24]

I’m just a dude named carl i can see thru my eye too. At least I used to.

[@Tkay_One]

Me too wtf

[@schnibist]

the most common hallucination I get is seeing my room through closed eyes. the weirdest thing is that sometimes I see my extended arm holding my phone and I stare at the screen for what feels like hours until I realize that it's a hallucination only for it to immediately happen again. glad to hear others experience this as well. not really a pleasant feeling to say the least.

[@michaelperreault4239]

Duddee i get the same thing but like theres before seeing my phone, its like if theres a mist covering it and then revealing it

[@imsofly750]

Yeah it’s weird. I have that often mainly while drifting off to sleep or waking up.

[@PoPo-tn4tp]

I get those as well, one time I tried opening my eyes during it and all I saw was white.

[@gmodrules123456789]

When that happens, try to imagine yourself standing up out of bed. If you can do that, try to control yourself and go outside your room. Once you do, crazy shit will happen.

[@end_musix1636]

Yea sometimes ill think im holding onto something, ill be able to actually grab something like my phone in this state and as i wake up after, it literally feels like you can feel the phone vanishing out of your hand, sometimes it feels like something melted in your hand

[@Notyouraveragespider]

I wish mine was this abstract. I see people in the room or insects.

[@maewright1442]

Same! I see insects more than people but either way I’m always jumping out of my bed frantically trying to swat the bugs away and hiding in my living room. When I see people though I always run to alert my family while they try to reason with me. It’s always super embarrassing and when I start to see the reality of the situation I feel stupid for falling for it.

[@vicb2751]

Mae Wright I keep seeing clowns when I close my eyes lol. I’m not scared of clowns but it always males makes me feel uncomfortable. I keep a lot of tactile hallucinations as well, it feels like spiders and ants are crawling all over me. Sometimes I feel like someone is pinching me.

[@mintyman1413]

One time there was thousands of white bugs marching on my hand and the only way I got over it was to take a shower

[@KaiTheAussie]

I see things hanging from the walls (dream catchers and other cultral type hanging objects) and also commonly see things like a girl in a white dress or a clown

[@FractalNinja]

@@KaiTheAussie I tend to see a vague dark image of what I'm looking at in my room and it looks like shadow figures flying over me and getting close to my face sometimes :/

[@ChicaChickenlmnop]

i stay havin dumass hallucinations like jolly ranchers forming a pyramid on my floor

[@marlowe3414]

sameee bro once I woke up to voices yelling at me to go drink some olive oil

[@heidixl1101]

Lmao I had one this morning when I woke up. After I woke up from my dream, I heard someone say “I love you” then kiss my forehead and lips 😭😭😭 it felt so real so I was a little creeped out but wasn’t mad 🤭I was dreaming about someone giving me CPR before I woke up since I was drowning 😃

[@nimmernomma8830]

@@heidixl1101 it was the lady living in your attic

[@heidixl1101]

@@nimmernomma8830 oh damn 😃 too bad I don’t have an attic 😔💔

[@aceiam4370]

@@heidixl1101 creepy isn't it? 😂

[@kandy1643]

I have this but when it’s dark and I see scary faces

[@HandintheBoxInc]

It's much more potent in the dark

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

Me too

[@Tkay_One]

Mine to mine always even smile stair at me always smiling but evilu

[@bennu9343]

@@Tkay_One when you do have them do they happen every night or just sometimes

[@tonyjohnsen3160]

@@bennu9343 Speaking for me, usually if I look out into the room right after waking up, and I think more specifically right after waking up adruptly from REM

[@aprilcarter3712]

Mine is more auditory. Right before I fall asleep, or sometimes I jolt awake because I think something fell in my home or someone is breaking in. Just a loud crash. And it’s nothing. It’s never anything.

[@naomijenkins7848]

I think its called exploding Head syndrome i think i had it last night i hear really loud TV static or tv sounds and see bright lights

[@moazan]

ISTG HAPPENS TO ME SO MUCH

[@wowz3rs265]

IHATE THOSE SO MUCH

[@berliancahyadi279]

It was happened to me once. A very loud 'DHUARRR' sound just after wake up in middle of the night. But seconds after that nothing really happens.

[@aceiam4370]

Once, I heard a cat scratching the door at night but the thing is I don't have a cat. Then I called out for my mother she heard nothing. Yeah, sometimes hallucinations feel quite real.

[@rafaelbalsan4512]

I felt like I was becoming someone else in a different world, as if I was losing who I am in this Earth and becoming a character in a story world, and the fear of that happening unless I "woke up" was real.

[@mind_rock6464]

Makes me believe in the multiverse theory a lot more

[@sclerotium6012]

bro I had the fckin same feelings after takin lsd

[@rafaelbalsan4512]

@@sclerotium6012 Can you tell me more? I'm really interested. In my case I felt an overwhelming and VERY REAL fear of losing my "selfness" and having my conscience transferred to someone, somewhere else.

[@sclerotium6012]

@@rafaelbalsan4512 I felt like a little devil who lives in a different world. Felt like special, almighty, as if i could do something terrible to this world. Then I looked at the mirror and saw absolutely different person, it was not me. It was smiling and staring at me with its large eyes and wide open mouth. Honestly, I was not scared, I just resigned myself, because I knew it was just a hallucination and soon it will pass. By the way, an hour before that, I got ego death: I forgot who I am, why i live and who my parents are

[@rafaelbalsan4512]

@@sclerotium6012 thanks, very interesting

[@nBodyResearch]

I was about to fall asleep and my thoughts were kind of drifting and I just randomly thought of a echoing sound as my inner voice and all of the sudden i heard what sounded like a computer program start up and then intense thumps that got louder and louder it was like I was in a simulation and I broke the program or something idk it was weird man

[@petterbarstad9395]

Warm Goat lettuce yeah, hate when it gets louder and louder. That really scares me

[@FractalNinja]

Dmt release? XD sounds like a trip sorta

[@unikeko96]

I've heard computer program sound too 😯🤨 Tf???

[@ethereal5914]

Wait ..what? That happened to me too..I heard some robotic simulation noises

[@vavacadoz]

I’ve had similar experiences. Very weird, man...

[@butwhateva]

The feeling of trying so hard to stay awake because the hallucinations scare you, I see things in my room form into faces, walls moving, hear whispering/voices, and the dreams are short and vivid.

[@ICEESAreFuckinGood]

One second I’m in my bed with my eyes closed and the next I’m having a realistic mini dream like in 2:19. They’re always very brief and have no context, I thought I was the only one.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

Oh yeah I've had those, it's really jolting sometimes but sometimes a peaceful transition mixed with my thoughts/memories

[@mastertrey4683]

@@HandintheBoxInc man i can relate. But the ones i remember is when im sitting in bed drifting asleep but i start thinking about something scary. And whenever i think about something scary while falling asleep it causes like almost an electrifying feeling its like tangible fear

[@SATISFYPLANET]

@Ivan Weidner dude, the scenarios you encounter with hypnogogic halluncinations can become so strange.... one time i hallucinated scrolling through my facebook feed, and as I was scrolling, I saw my friend posting disturbing photos of murders and dead bodies... and the photos specifically gave me a WEIRD sense, idk how to put it..... that's not even close to the most disturbing things ive seen.

[@jaden115_9]

@@mastertrey4683 I get this when I’m just sitting there seeing stuff like if I think it looks weird like scary it turns into like a scary person but if yu stop thinking about it it’s gone.

[@substreamer9266]

@@mastertrey4683 BRO I HAD THAT BEFORE But it only happened to me once it’s like sleep paralysis but you are feeling stuff

[@shadow15kryans23]

I encounter this EVERY NIGHT.... Just to more extreme extents i actually can see hear and feel stuff still, and sometimes when i talk i don't even talk because i am in such a weird dream/reality state

[@waqasmansoor7956]

so how do you manage it ? doesn't it cause insomnia ? for me it is causing insomnia as i tend to focus on these a lot .

[@shadow15kryans23]

@@waqasmansoor7956 I feel u bruh. 😭 Yeh. I have to have Diagnosed sleep meds just to get much sleep. Regardless tho. Due to my mental issues, my 🧠 is just hardwired to overthink even when it shouldn't be thinking. Sooo, For me I can't avoid it ahead of time. Buuuuut, If you got a more standard 🧠 layout. You can probs just follow circadian rhythm to increase likelihood very slightly to avoid this. ^ This method is highly questionable tho (aka unlikely to work all the time). And for example. With me, My brain has a EXTREMELY delayed Circadian rhythm, hence why this doesn't work well (I would be sleeping till 5-6 PM aka most of the day, and staying up at night *usually I end up doing this anyways btw LOL*) Soooo, For me at least. Even though I can't avoid it.... I can reactively respond to it, to manage it best! And this is probably your best bet here. 🤔 When your in a Hypogogic Hallucinatory state. USUALLY Your just awake + asleep enough, That if you close your eyes and focus on the Eigengrau backdrop behind your eyelids. You can go into a Lucid dreaming state! Just be wary. If you feel a almost "Fear-Like" feeling, I would recommend actually just momentarily waking up calmly (whilst staying in bed), collect yourself, and then go back to sleep. The reason I recommend this. Is because USUALLY this "Fear-Like" feeling can interfere with the Lucid dream, and evolve into a Lucid Nightmare-like state Instead. Or worse If you are a deep sleeper, Sleep Paralysis which sucks. 🥴 This last one which is "Sleep Paralysis" is extremely rare for me. Buuuut, I still need to be wary of Lucid Nightmares (Unless I'm feelin like a adrenaline junky ofc). (Edited in Note: If you feel like your floating, falling, vibrating, or spinning. Just know it is natural to have this feeling occur whilst transitioning from Lucid state to deep dreaming state. Soooo, If you feel this mid Lucid dreaming after pulling this off. It's best just to keep in mind that it is natural, and go along with this "current-like" weird effect for optimal sleep. AKA Playtime with Lucid dreaming is over by then ooof. Me: *Feels it* "My time has come" *goes into deeper sleep state* XD) *SUMMARY* : Sooo, Put into a 🥜 shell. Close your eyes, Try to ignore what you see via being as calm and relaxed as possible (Just Focus on your breathing or something like that), and focus on the back of the eyelids darkness to go into a Lucid dreaming state! After that, Just go along the sleep state as naturally as possible (aka don't think to much about it). This helps to turn this curse into a possible blessing. Hopefully that helps out! 😁👍

[@lumpymilk8280]

@@waqasmansoor7956 You should learn more about lucid dreaming. The hypnagogia is a state of consciousness that borders on dreaming, and with practice you can probably induce a lucid dream through the hypnagogia. Understanding these states of consciousness can help you to not feel afraid whenever it occurs.

[@ajahc5074]

For me i see scary faces floating in my room, hear a loud ringing and feel a strange sense of electricity going through my body- like a a static shock. I’m not sure if my eyes are open or not but when i do realize that it’s hallucinations it’s really hard to “wake up”

[@melvinrosendaal9795]

Thats sleep paralysis

[@thatlthatjiminhandedeverya1018]

I get these pretty often. Usually when I’m waking up. Typically I see plants growing from my walls and my pillows and they only last for a short moment. I get the occasional roach or spider crawling across my pillow and those aren’t too fun lol. I used to get them worse as a child. I just thank God I never had any terrifying ones, he has been good to me.

[@amandaharris2038]

Yeah I’ve gotten ones where I’ve seen millipedes and spiders crawling across my pillow, I wake up panicking come to find it was just a hallucination.

[@user-vm6yj8mn6d]

Schizophrenia?

[@diego.e.a]

Mine is similar, but with lots of geometric patterns and “melting” of my dreams into those patterns.

[@nixeterea]

Wow, it's like mine. A kind of hologram made with geometric patterns (reminds also a mandala) projected on the ceiling. They're in blue and last for seconds and i never remember of them in order to reproduce for example. It happened to me a couple of times

[@warrcoww6717]

Sound like DMT, my experience with it anyway.

[@bcbindle]

Mine is faces that look disturbing.. my brain generates more than I think I’ve ever even seen

[@daggerdworddaniil5834]

ayy not just me

[@termitesc.aardwolf3644]

I saw more than just specks. I saw things like eyeless human sized penguins looming over my bed, black cats covered in porcupine quills sitting in chairs, chimpanzees dancing around my bed, floating alligator heads with mechanical jaws, shopping bags hopping out of my dresser, octopus tentacles curling up and unravelling on my wall and at one point, even saw a ferris wheel with monstrous wolf heads for cars looking out my apartment window. All these hallucinations ended when I was a teenager.

[@alivingbreathingdrugpsa1383]

I have aphantasia and it is really interesting seeing what imagination looks like.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

I'm glad we could provide the experience for ya

[@zXJulianXz]

Aphantasics can still dream

[@chelidemi2863]

I have it too I really wish I could imagine things Dreaming is the closest thing I can get to it, but it’s usually nightmares :(

[@llamallama1509]

Hallucinations aren't imagination

[@enettehatchway9551]

@@llamallama1509 yes they are

[@HandintheBoxInc]

If you like this simulation, then you'll love this one. Watch my Lucid Dream Simulation here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpTEZINtpNakh5I

[@HandintheBoxInc]

Watch my 2nd Hypnagogic Hallucinations video here, kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3Pbg4mPaJp-a7c

[@TheBalancePod]

This is so spot on.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

Thanks

[@Awestar]

This is actually pretty accurate. It’s 4 in the morning and I can’t fall asleep thanks to these hallucinations

[@zirus377]

have you ever lost touch of reality while trying to sleep and thought you were actually in a "dream" while awake? Like being a character in a story and imagine events while trying to sleep but when you snap oit of it you realize you haven't been sleeping but having hallucinations

[@LayeredEgo]

This is somewhat of a perfect example of what happens during the hypnagogic experience random unexpected visions into random individual realities

[@TheBalancePod]

Emphasis on random individual realities. I thought I was looking through other peoples eyes. Very vividly as well. This is what separates this from dreams too, beside the face of being awake. When I dream, I’m always myself. During these, sometimes I’m other people, with the ability to look at my body, such as hands and legs, seeing I’m a different person.

[@LayeredEgo]

@@TheBalancePod that sounds amazing if you ever get the chance maybe you should look into lucid dreaming it's also an awesome experience

[@christ8289]

For some reason when this happens to be, I sometimes wake up to these noises that are just unexplainable, and usually I just see figures in each corner of my room for a brief second before they start to slowly fade away

[@shilpamahato2978]

I had a bad panic attack while I was hallucinating and the moment I woke up. Things I saw were so scary.

[@warrcoww6717]

I’ve had sleeping hallucinations, but never when sober. You play a dangerous game when falling asleep on heroin (8 months sober btw), here are a few examples: my first hallucination on heroin happened as I was falling asleep, my eyes were ever so slightly open, and I watched as a ghost of my friend phoebe rummaged through the stuff on top of my desk. I wasn’t put off by it at all, probably because the figure was so familiar to me, so I just stared at her, not even really conscious of what I was witnessing, and then I snapped back into myself, blinked hard, and she was gone. The next one wasn’t so much of a hallucination as it was an overwhelming sense of dread and panic. I was falling asleep, and before I know it I jump up yelling my brothers name like he’d just been murdered right in front of me, I don’t know what was happening in that dream, but the sense of dread stayed with me for a good while after I’d woken up. The last one is by FAR the most horrific thing that’s ever happened to me, so I was in a hotel with my dad and brother, and I only had like one bag left so I was really trying to fall asleep before I ran out. I shut my eyes, although I was unaware of that because in my dream I just went back under the covers and kept watching the same KZbin video for a good while. I felt a sort of tension build in the room, and the air went cold. I looked out from under the covers, very much believing that I was awake mind you, and see a tall shadowy figure start to form around the clock, with the clock as it’s head. It then stepped off of the wall and loomed at the foot of the bed for a while, this motherfuckers arms were like 6 feet long. I was totally frozen in fear, and then it reached out and proceeded to use those arms to grab me by the ankles, rip me from the bed and slam me against the wall at which point I woke up completely drenched in sweat. P.S. aren’t you supposed to not be able to see phones when dreaming? In all my other dreams that I can remember my phone is just a blur. That was the only dream I’ve ever had where my phone looked exactly the same as it usually does. Freaky shit.

[@Looj]

Ive been having these for almost a year now. For me I often experience family members, usually looking hurt and or dying. Last night it was my mother hanging from the ceiling. The noise at 1:20 is very similar to something that i experience too, like a fan going out of control. Luckily after a blink these hallucinations disappear but often leave me shaking or having screamed out loud. If these trouble anybody else like they do me, stay strong, they can’t hurt you.

[@conjurecorpse8209]

Been having these continually as of recently. It definitely earns its rightful spot as a player in the already common sleep-consciousness disrupters like waking nightmares and sleep paralysis. 100% the physical hallucinations can’t lay a single finger on me but it doesn’t change that my mind views them as reality by instilling inevitable fear in me

[@deejay7339]

Mine are peaceful wtf lol

[@whatif2336]

I kept waiting for my “Dark Figures” to come up and terrify me during this usually followed by my scream that wakes me 😰😰😰😢

[@HannibalOrJustRex]

I've been experiencing this kind of thing since I was a kid. For me it's a lot louder and frantic feeling. Usually I feel like I'm in an exact replication of my bedroom or any bedroom that I have lived in from the past. Everything feels very real and I feel like I could interact with the environment if only I could move. I feel like I'm moving my head around and looking at my surroundings, but I'm somehow aware that in real life I'm not. I realize somehow that I'm in that halfway point of sleep and consciousness. One time I watched as my wife picked up my hand and bit into it. I felt the teeth puncture my skin, but it didn't hurt. It's always accompanied by loud sounds. Sometimes that sound of a large crowd of people talking where you can't pick out any specific conversation, but usually it's just a loud frying sizzle noise. It gets so loud sometimes that it gets physically painful to my ears which is odd since the noise is obviously originating from my brain. It was terrifying the first several times it happened, but I find it fascinating now and try to play with or manipulate the experience whenever it comes around.

[@brvhandromeda6685]

SAME i also see all the people i feel really connected to

[@bluetoothbasstester]

Thats sleep paralysisblol

[@gnejserna1545]

I relate to the sound part

[@Not_infintinum]

Once I had this it felt like I was dragged down

[@Prodby_Sean]

fr, I'm so fascinated by it now. Its creepy and disturbing, yet also pretty cool and interesting at the same time

[@grungeblight]

This is pretty well done. Especially that green red ash snow stuff and purplish ripple stuff.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

Thanx, I appreciate it

[@mastertrey4683]

The feeling of waking up during one is such a relief but whenever you close your eyes and fall back asleep it happens again and again. Eventually you either just push through it or it makes me wake up because im too scared to fall asleep. But these things are really really crazy man its like the most intense fear jolts through your body and forces you to wake up

[@CommonCentrist82]

Omg... never knew why this happened or that it was a thing. This happens to me sometimes. I notice that when it occurs, I'm more likely to have sleep paralysis when I begin waking up. I always see the floaties, but mine look more like spiders or insects. It's so weird, that others have this. I started experiencing this in my early 20s, but it's gotten more frequent over the years. It really scared me because my younger brother has schizophrenia and I thought I was developing it too. Sometimes my body tingles and my head starts to throb during these hallucinations.

[@stephenstrange1719]

I've been getting this a lot frequently. Once I saw a circuit board like pattern on my wall, it was like a neural network of some kind, and knew once I touched a spot on the wall, a light would radiate outward from that point through the pathways like a ripple. But also knew if I actually moved my arm, I'd wake up. Another time I saw celtic runes on my window frame. They disolved away once I opened my eyes to look at them better And many times I jolt awake feeling like my body is vibrating, about to fly off somewhere.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

Hearing all these now, I never realized how different each person's experiences were. That's really interesting. That 1st one kinda sounds like the beginning of a lucid dream, common in the mornings. Have u had lucid dreams before?

[@stephenstrange1719]

@@HandintheBoxInc I've had many lucid dreams. Even as a kid, I saw myself run up to me yelling "you're dreaming! Wake up!" And then I'd wake up. This happened a couple times. And so many dreams as a kid where I could fly, and I'd tell myself "I can't wait to do this when I wake up". But then I'd wake up and remember it's not gonna happen. XD Another time I was so tired I went right into dreaming. I was still in my room, but once I realised I could float, I was dreaming. So I flew out of my room and transitioned to another scenario. There were also a few times I could switch dream scenarios if I focused. And much more. I recently was learning telekinesis and how to bend some elements. Also feeling certain I could take this skill back with me when I woke up. XD

[@HandintheBoxInc]

@@stephenstrange1719 That's pretty cool, lucid dreams are fascinating. It's like living a 2nd life while asleep. Not to sound like a stereotypical advertisement but I made a film about Lucid Dreaming called Solipsism. It's about Lucid Dreaming and I thought you might find it interesting. You can find it on my youtube channel. it has a lot of dreams in it, more intense than this video. I even got lucky with a film festival and they screened it

[@CrankyRayy]

you see that on mushrooms lol

[@lilkp982]

I usually see abstract shapes and faces and weird sounds ranging from screaming, laughing, white noise or everything combined and it freaks me the fuck out

[@simulacrum1824]

Jesus... I thought I lost my mind and was the only one seeing this type of stuff. I regularly see shadowy human-like figures crawling in the corners, hear knoks on the window (I live on the second floor, and no one can reach it without a ladder) and human footsteps in the room (while everyone is asleep (even my cat)). Pleased to know that it is just something that happens sometimes.

[@kahvikuppi8410]

I've had stuff like this happening to me since the 7th grade. Today I wanted to find out what it really was and I first tought it was exploding head disorder, but it's morelikely this.

[@staylufffted]

Literally same it got more vivid that I searched it up in a different context and it feels this way

[@blaiseoffury4866]

I’ve seen my ceiling fan slowly sliding down towards my face, random janitors in blue suits mopping up nothing, spiders on every square surface of my room, balloons floating around, or bats slamming into my bed, also the hat man

[@megphillips7488]

Holy shit, I see the ending visual too when I'm inside. I learned not to focus on it too long because it becomes a portal for this tall ass fast moving demon that attacks me

[@HandintheBoxInc]

Didn't expect this much praise Thanks everyone! I'm coming to you all with a new Hypnagogic Hallucinations video soon. (Editing as I type)

[@beckywaytoomuch]

It's a subject we all want to try and understand more! Thank you for taking time to post this.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

@@beckywaytoomuch No prob, I'm glad you like it. My 2nd video of this phenomenon is up. You can find it on my channel. Working on a lucid dream one next

[@shadow15kryans23]

I have this every night, just instead i see people and actually have conversations with them.

[@oidodsonidosonido2754]

Doesn’t it scare you?

[@shadow15kryans23]

@@oidodsonidosonido2754 At This point no... In fact do to me letting it happen it is becoming more and more dream like.... This does cause issues with me usually not knowing wether I actually woke up or not during the morning, or if someone is actually talking to me during the morning or night which makes me confusion often when tryna wake up in the morning.... But, Weirdly just like a dream... It became soooo frequent that just like someone in a dream I just accept it as it is.... Think about it this way... When you are dreaming... If someone in your dream told you that you are dreaming you would look at them like they are mad in your dream... The main reason why is cause your body gets soooo used to the dreaming that your body decides to accept you dreaming as it's current state of reality.... In a weird way reality is the same way do to Relativity, but imma not get to side tracked with that concept.... The main idea of it is that at this point my body is soooo used to Hypnogogic hallucinations that it just isn't scary anymore.... And, Sometimes depending on how realistic the hallucination is, I just weirdly accept it as reality at that moment in time. Which means if I wake up and start talking to my Shadow Friend next to my sister at night when the lights are off and they both look like shadows, I most likely would just stare at my sister in confusion if she told me I was hallucinating... Some hallucinations are realistic enough to that someone can wake me up normally during the morning and I will think there is 2 family members in my room when there is only 1... Do to this my parents actually gave up on normally waking me up do to becoming scared from my usual reaction to talking to other non existent people, sooo now I just let my normal circadian rythym wake me up. Conclusion: Hopefully this comparison with dreams can help you get an idea what it is truly is like. 😁😁😀 Do To this is is more of the afterthought of it thinking stuff like "What if an intruder enters my home and steals stuff I probs will write it off as a hallucination". Other then that though hopefully this explains why it's scariness isn't preasent, do to the lines between reality and these hallucinations blurring together pretty smoothly over time once getting used to it.

[@MeowmeowAlexandra]

You're straight up having conversations with people who aren't actually there, every night? Dude wtf

[@shadow15kryans23]

@@MeowmeowAlexandra Yep 😑 edit: Sometimes unaware of it though XD

[@kingzen407]

I often suffer from hypnagogic hallucinations as well I remember years ago I was seeing a person when I was waking up at the foot of my bed and I will have these auditory hallucinations I will hear thunder just like in the vid and dog barks sometimes even gunshots or someone telling me to wake up I remember also seeing my dog laying down in front of me meanwhile my dog was outside so I got the courage to touch whatever I was seeing and it was just my pillow but thankfully I realized that I was just hallucinating, it’s honestly crazy how our brain works while we sleep

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

This past summer I had a strange one. I have a wasps' nest just outside my bedroom window, but I had a new fly screen on it, and no larger insects went through it the entire summer. But even when I sleep I can hear them in the morning, because my window is slightly open. One morning I heard a wasp very loud, like just beside my head, so I opened my eyes, still half asleep, and saw it right beside my head, crawling on my pillow. I jumped out of my bed, swatting at it.... but there was no wasp. I visually and audibly hallucinated it in my hypnagogic state.

[@alisezgin2134]

This is a very realistic simulation of what I am going through. I mostly see figures moving in dark corners of my bedroom. I can see that they are persons of some sort but I can never realize what they are. When I was a kid they used to terrify me but I learned to differ whate is real and what is not eventually. Except when I moved in to a new house had two very vivid hallucinations. Once I woke up to seeing two pair of legs, standing right next to my head near my bedside. I moved back and saw a kid standing right next to me. As I gain my consciousness it slowly faded away right in front of my eyes. Second one was waking up to see someone running right to me. I literally screamed and almost passed out from fear on the second one. I got used to the house I live in so I hardly see anything that lively now. I realized that sleeping after some daisy tea or some light reading reduces these stuff.

[@minniebritton6893]

I had a very similar thing with the first one where my room was being done and there was no door, so a mere sheet was in place instead, then I woke up and saw a pair of legs just stood there behind this sheet (from the ankle down) and I was talking to it saying “hello?” Because I was so confused. That was about 4 years ago now and I still get hallucinations and I really wish I could figure out a way for it to stop :/

[@minniebritton6893]

I also get that thing where you see something, you look at it for a bit, look closer and it literally disappears by fading away ! So strange

[@iwascamping]

Recently within the last month or two I’ve been getting this if I’m super tired, Or had any energy drinks during the day. I’ll close my eyes before bed and literally see demonic sinister faces forming smiling at me or laughing, It was happening so often one night that to help calm myself I just giggled at it to help make light of what I was seeing. It’s crazy what your imagination can create.

[@LexiGoreLovesYa]

I have narcolepsy and experience full hypnagogic hallucinations just about every night. Sometimes it's things in my room, random full-on solid visuals that are basically indistinguishable from reality; if my brain wants there to be a corpse or a horse in my room, it's there and may as well be real. Other times I'm transported or hallucinate occurrences. Memories at random, seeing a little green-haired girl in a white dress sitting in front of a pyramid under a red sky or telling my husband I was really comforted when he forgot something before going to work, came home unexpectedly and gave me a hug. Didn't happen. Needless to say, .living with narcolepsy can be horrible on several levels. It used to fuel art when I was younger, not so much these days. Just neurologically ground to a nub I think.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

I can't imagine that, sounds difficult. Mixing reality with dreams almost

[@beckywaytoomuch]

I know its exhausting, but write them down and listen to them if you can. Fearing them seems to make them scarier. When you cal. Down they actually can full of useful info and enhance your "waking" life. I know how confusing and scary it can be. But I'm pretty convinced we can control how traumatizing it can be.

[@grainnepower5351]

Hi sorry to bother you but just wondering did you ever act out any of ur dreams or interact with the things or people you see and think they were real and it was normal until someone else tell you it isn't? I hope that doesn't sound too weird🙈😬

[@Conzetle]

Pretty cool to see that a lot of people experience this, in so many different ways too. Personally, mine vary but are much more visual and feeling based. I dont think Ive ever had auditory hallucinations (besides distortion or something like that), but that may be because I usually listen to some kind of music when I go to bed. The visuals usually correspond to things that have left their impressions on my mind throughout that day. If its a video game, then itll be a game. If its space, then itll be something in space. Nature, city, art, etc. That is how theyll start and the vividness can range from feeling like Im thinking of it more than Im seeing it, to a vivid dream but while Im awake. Since I listen to music, the events correspond usually to the music (the visuals and the audio blend together a lot) and Im an observer most of the time. Kind of like u have no clipping on in some game. Even then, as I get further in and the impressions of the day wear off in my mind, more abstract visuals will take its place, this can flip-flop tho so like I said it depends on the day. Landscapes of shapes/colors, random stuctures, etc. Its not just visuals with these, but I can usually feel like im there through breathing, touch, consciously, etc. Sometimes I also can see through my eyelids as well. Especially when I wave my hand in my face since my brain kind of wants to see my hand move but cant.

[@stuartstovall2849]

Awesome, this is very similar to my experience. I wish I could enter it on command every night. Just mind blowing, ever-changing and morphing objects, shapes, colors, lights, incredible complexity, spontaneous construction and deconstruction of things I’ve never seen (but appear real), the processing-speed of new visual information - it’s so fascinating and never gets old. Feels like I’m only 1% in control and the other 99% is being forcefully transmitted to me. I can’t command the visuals... I may can muster up the tiniest mental suggestions, but ultimately have little willful influence on the experience. Just along for the short, but vast and beautiful ride

[@abraham7330]

How long should I stay up for im try it tonight but I just want to hallucinate

[@Prodby_Sean]

YEAH, just happened to me a little while ago tonight. Was playing soccer with a friend today, so tonight I had a quick mini dream while dosing off, replaying what happened earlier in the day. Funny thing is that when I woke up, I swear the soccer ball was literally in my room then slowly faded away

[@zadregang2037]

Something like this started happening to me 3weeks ago, I was once cleaning my room and in mistakenly stepped a glass ,then I decided to lay down back, for me to open my eyes and see that all those stuffs never happened 🤦🏾 I just smiled and was confused

[@hush3956]

I have this, it's usually not vivid tho. Usually it's a glimpse of something. like in the corner of my eye seeing a man in my shower watching me, or turning around and seeing a person in my bedroom looking at me for a couple secomds

[@goldengarbage9646]

mine is like waves of intense tingles going through my body and when i feel them i lose my ability to move. and then i start hearing things and having scary ass visions. the last time i had one i was so paranoid after i woke up i couldn’t leave my room

[@joevilestinor8409]

i started to have hypnagogic hallucinations the first time i got stoned and it haven't stopped since then. every night i hear voices screaming at me; it was disturbing at first but it eventually grew on me. what's weird now is that if i can't hear the voices i can't fall asleep.

[@sleeve0]

i get this every now and then. i just had one and looked it up. it was pretty vivid i was in the club and just dancing with people

[@Slumberiscool]

the most accurate part of the video has to be like the random sequence where you fade into a dream and it doesnt last long yet the short dream looks like it has so much more context behind it like you started playing a movie like halfway through, and you watch for a minute and just snap out of it.

[@iammiserykidd]

Whenever I'm falling asleep I just hear someone telling a joke and funny sound effects, helps me fall asleep sometimes; I find it entertaining!

[@enettehatchway9551]

I had waking hallucinations many times before. Once, I opened my eyes halfway and looked up at the top of the curtain that separated two rooms, one which I was sleeping in; at the space between the ceiling and the top of the curtain I saw these ghoulish-looking hands that were seeming to try to grab at something from within reach or seemed to be throwing an invisible object, and they filled the gap between the ceiling and top of the curtain. It looked like zombies hands that are fevershly trying to get at something and I even heard the sounds of the hands hitting the air as they did that. I sat up in bed, blinked, they were still there but as I kept my eyes on them I saw them slowly fading away and so did the noise. I was totally awake now, I turned my head to the side to look at my mom who was sleeping in the bed next to me and called out to her in a scared tone of voice. My voice was shaky. I had told her what I saw, the image of the zombie-looking hands long gone then, and I was calm the rest of the night.

[@leefart9690]

Mine are usually extremely vivid situations that i can feel hear AND see. My least favorite is reoccuring, and its where i wake up with a bright white screen in front if my eyes like a VR headset. I try to take the headset off but i cant and i freak out cause it hurts, like i can feel the headset being too tight

[@endymion30]

aside from the little particles its the sudden sounds or voices i end up hearing, sometimesi actually start to dream however they are always in a fantasy form

[@fabricio-agrippa-zarate]

Sometimes when I'm half awake in the morning I hear noises very loud or oddly distorted. Once I thought it was raining, I was hearing wind super loud like a storm but when I woke up completely I realized it was the fan from the room

[@bridget948]

I had one where I was walking through my middle school and every once in a while it would flash back to my room

[@stefanhall3038]

I see geometrical shapes as a pattern or formation of circles or rings when waking up in the morning (6 am to 8 am, sometimes later up to 9am) also, occasionally I see like a pixelated vision when I first open my eyes after waking up from my sleep, can't tell if that is also part of the Hypnagogic Hallucination symptoms.

[@daggerdworddaniil5834]

same it's like small circles covering my whole vision and they change colour and recently I started seeing geometric patterns

[@0Honey_Nut_Cheetos0]

My sleep schedule has been weird these past couple weeks and at least two times I’ve abruptly woken after shortly falling asleep and saw some worm like figure waving or moving above me or to the side of me. It felt and looked so real that I would immediately jump across my room to turn the light on. I would then feel like I wasn’t the one who just experienced what happened and stand in confusion and disbelief for a second. When I see the hallucinations I can’t tell if I was already awake when I saw them or not. Very strange what lack of sleep does to you.

[@dude099]

I'm relieved now that it was explainable. I thought I was touched by some entity, a feeling that something or someone is sitting on your body, just can't move, barely breathing and was like fighting for my life by pushing my body to the side, interestingly, I am awake all in that moment. I was so scared my heart beats so fast and my senses are like hightened, small movements and sounds scare me, just can't sleep again for a while and glad that I managed to be calm trying to make senses on that experience, then, I found the right term for it, hypnagogic hallucination.

[@huntercaylee3648]

My dreams continue when I wake up, and sometimes the people in my dreams will appear in my room and “it” just stands there looking at me with bright white eyes. It’s 100% the most frightening thing I’ve experienced.

[@marjanek1]

Mine are never this scary (or maybe they are but I'm not scared by them at that moment). What I usually experience is one of these three areas: 1) Music playing, that I'm able to compose/direct; 2) Urgent voices, fragments of heated conversation; 3) Head-on vivid mixture of dream and reality, that gets broken very quickly (similar to the bee scene). What feels different is my tinnitus. As I fall asleep it kicks in really hard. I became recently aware of this phenomenon: when I focus on that high pitched sound it works like a direct link to the sleep paved with hypnagogic hallucinations...

[@nokatpalac5568]

When i was sleep deprived and in school i would fall asleep and suddenly i am in my room sleeping on my work desk and i know im not there but i just keep sleeping.I only once had auditory and visal hallucinations mostly in morning and i would be kinda paralised once had an experience that i was elevated.

[@francic20]

I get intense feelings of being thrown around with some crazy spirals or fractal visuals, outside sounds affect the visuals

[@hikaruyume901]

I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet but when I get my hallucinations it’s while my eyes are closed and when I’m between that state of consciousness and sleep. For a couple days now, my arms and legs paralyze for a bit as I’m “half dreaming”, usually I panic and try to move and it eventually works. It also feels like this giant boulder is sitting on my chest, it makes it really difficult to sleep eeeee

[@lucciano7412]

I'm pretty sure that's called sleep paralysis

[@Theendlessriver77]

I sometimes will have the hallucinations during my sleep paralysis. It’s usually always large spiders crawling on my walls and/or ceiling.

[@gwenerator7288]

for me, I don’t really see solid things. i sense stuff. like even though I can’t “see” it, I can tell that something’s there. sometimes when I’m “looking” everything goes black and I can see it in my minds eye. they’re like on the verge of being in reality.

[@dc5863]

I see weird colors and shapes right when im falling asleep, it always happens when im on a bad sleep schedule

[@pyropenguino]

I suffer from from fear of drowning, suffocation, and similar crowded or stifled feelings in these episodes of sleep paralysis. I’ve been yanked across rooms, floated across the globe, many things like this. My dreams are extremely vivid, so much that I realize it’s a dream and I snap out of it, or I take control and start doing what I want but just then I realize the control and snap into either paralysis, another dream or just wake up all together. Luckily in my paralysis I know what it is and I take a large breathe and pretend to jerk my body out of the position I’m stuck in, like I’m bound or in a bag trying to scoot. But what intrigues me the most is the green writing on the walls. Some old persian, Mayan, phonetic, and all sorts of other characters glow and float or jump around. I don’t know, feels like someone trying to show me something. But I’m fine with sleep deprivation and hallucinations as an answer. Lol

[@intrestingthings1002]

dealing with this rn on a school night, i finally managed myself to wake back up and im happy for it but im scared to go back to sleep😭

[@S4V.]

I have these when I'm going though moments in my life. Just last night I woke up at 3 AM feeling vibrating sensation behind my neck, ears were ringing, and heard muffled crowd of females talking. I was well aware that these are hypnagogic hallucinations but it still freaks me out during the episodes

[@harshita6009]

Yuppp ... Almost same happens with me ..Those noises and sensations feels like real 😳... Damm scary ...

[@G0REKITTEN999]

Its kinda like this but i also see flashing scary white faces with like stretched mouths and whispering coming from inside my head.

[@AndrewDrewJamison]

I remember once I was falling asleep and loud techno music started playing and my wall transformed into Bart Simpson wearing a red hoodie and having a void white head color. I quickly snapped out of it and realized it was a red pillow lining up with a white door

[@zogozogy98]

I get auditory hallucinations alot. They never get accompanied with visuals. It can be so lucid at times that I question wether I said it myself lol.

[@Isaiah11p]

Sometimes I feel like I’m sinking into or falling into sleep/ unconsciousness and when I try to “get out of it” I’m paralyzed

[@deejay7339]

I see rapid events switching in my mind. Some recognizable. Some things i don't comprehend. Once my awareness is heightened to the dream state the images go away and i see psychedelic geometries in motion. If I'm able to open my eyes the geometries are overlaid on my vision momentarily. However the geometries are too complex to draw but I'd say they are symmetrical in my vision.

[@ElvenBlossom]

I see dead relatives, Anubis, white horses, shadow people, a different location like castle hallway, occasionally I’ll close my eyes and i see the room I’m in with my eyes closed or I’ll also feel things sometimes rather than see, or I’ll hear music I’ve never heard before. Recently I got sleep paralysis too and it hit lots of senses rather than the one. I was in a castle dungeon surrounded by whispering shadow people. Happened like 5-6 times in a row.

[@siryeshe]

I experienced some form of this a few nights ago while drifting off to sleep, 3 times in a row. Felt as though I was being strangled, and my whole body felt light and tingly. It was very strange. Had sleep paralysis experiences in the past and they were different.

[@ruzzo9350]

when I get this, i usually only hear high pitched noise from the ear (the noise you hear when there's absolute silence), and see past things happen. For example, if i sleep in front of a TV, a sleep paralysis will let me see the TV on, and it would keep showing what it did when i fell asleep, as well.

[@Chadcel564]

I’ve had these weird things where I’m about to fall asleep and I can’t fully get to sleep and i suddenly can’t move and my eyes are barely open and I start hearing things from all around me if it were screaming or what and I have to jolt myself to get out of it

[@keatonsmith5669]

The audio cutting in and out is so surreal.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

That's when I know I'm about to enter a dream, still happens to this day

[@sergioreyes298]

You've done a good job in recreating what may be typical hipnagogic images. I can attest to the rapid and startling changes from one type of image to another accompanied by grating or loud sounds that are indeciferable. The only thing that I have seen and is missing from your video is the sight of grotesque human faces, especially when I am extremely tired from physical activity. Have you continued to make more of these hypnagogia simulation videos? I hope you have and will share them.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

I plan to make more soon, I’m gonna finish the final cut of my horror movie this weekend then I’ll be back to making KZbin short films

[@kimmym2937]

Oh my god! I thought it was just me that saw horrible human faces when falling asleep! I have likened them to faces that look like they've been made out of putty and then pushed and pulled to be distorted. I blink or shake my head to get rid of them

[@sergioreyes298]

@@kimmym2937 Yea, I've seen these kinds of faces since I was a kid. The more physically tired I am, the more weird and grotesque they appear. But I don't have any fear or other negative emotion. They simply are there but I don't feel any threat or danger, thery'er like any object, a chair say. And the sudden noises, they're also just there, no big deal. I think if you simply let it go and accept them instead of fighting to get rid of them, you will be better off. Just my two cents.

[@kimmym2937]

@Sergio Reyes That's exactly how I feel. They're simply there! I'm also the same, it happens more when I'm tired or also when I'm stressed. I'll also often see very clear faces but then it's as though they melt in front of me

[@losiniciadosdecalifornia5484]

i got this yesterday i seen a transparent person walking towards me and i got up and turned on my lights and it was hard to sleep

[@yuhbabe8281]

If I fall asleep on my back I wake up a few hours later to my fan being completely black to the point it looks unrealistic and the blades are stretched out across my walls. I have also seen centipedes and other things but the fan for some reason freaks me out the most and it gives me really bad panic attacks

[@LMI101]

Just hallucinated for my first time during a nap. There was a tv on playing sports newscasters and cheering, it was annoying so I kept trying to open my eyes to see if the tv was off. Then my sister was sitting next to me just staring at me. Things started flashing from color to inverted black and white and I could hear the sound of falling like I was falling past a bunch of tubes. When it would happen with every loud whoosh my back would be being pushed with the rhythm. Then I could see myself on my phone in a different position than I was laying. I felt my body in that position. I could hear lots of voices, one was talking about how she could hear laughing and crying and screaming. One said they died in Brazil. And one just simply said, Arizona. 😂 I could hear my son talking in his crib in real life and just as real were all these other sensations and sounds.

[@Harryw007]

I'll be seemingly half-asleep, randomly open my eyes subconsciously and then fixate on a random object and then my mind will twist it to a threat - usually causing me to see a demonic face - which then causes me to feel extreme fear and anxiety causing me to literally scream. I will then wake up and realise I am screaming and literally have to consciously make myself to stop screaming. This happens a couple times a year for me and it is always such a weird experience because while I am half-asleep for most of it I remember it all clearly. They seem like almost a mix between hypnagogic hallucinations and night terrors but you're not supposed to remember night terrors. They also occur literally just as I've fallen asleep.

[@BlenderInGame]

This is how the vivid hallucinations happen for me. I start by seeing phosphenes forming shapes and patterns without any stimulation. My near-sleep brain then turns those shapes into pictures and eventually animated pictures. Once I notice, the images go away and the responsible phosphene cluster fades after being caught red-handed. They usually never take more than a second to fade out. I'm super aware, so I can observe a lot of the process before the dream actually begins.

[@ENZO-rm4qz]

I have these every time I wake up. This morning I seen my phone on the wall and started to fall on my face and somehow I recorded a videos!

[@mariouploaded]

Idk if I have this or not but I always wake up sweating a lot and feel out of touch with reality. At least for a while…

[@pixoes]

Oh i keep experiencing this a lot

[@TheSnapback]

I have hypnagogic hallucinations as I am falling asleep. I feel as I am still awake but my eyes are closed. I feel a presence in the room with me and someone climbing into my bed. Then this voice starts to talk to me, but my eyes are still closed. This presence feels so real but it feels like I am still awake, still in my bed and everything. I open my eyes and the hallucinations go away, but now I am in sleep paralysis. I stare at my alarm clock as I try to move and I can't, but after waiting what feels like 5 minutes I finally snap out of it and wake up. I encounter this nearly every night.

[@violets1654]

I’m having this but only when i have slept like 4 hours or 2 like a small nap and i have been awake for like 4 hours and then go sleep, i 70% hear voices and when i close my eyes i start to vivid dream while im still half awake and get anxiety and then i make myself to open my eyes and see stuff and still hear but once ive done it like 6 times it goes away

[@RexoryByzaboo]

I once almost fell asleep in class and saw my sister offering me chicken nuggets right in front of me.

[@Prodby_Sean]

I find this stuff so creepy and disturbing, yet also cool and interesting at the same time

[@HandintheBoxInc]

Thanks

[@Yukikaze617]

Imagine experiencing this in VR

[@HandintheBoxInc]

If I had a 360 camera, I'd definitely make that

[@MeowmeowAlexandra]

It just in real life lol

[@unenchant668]

I have this but i see geometric shapes and hear like a basketball dribbling

[@astrid2737]

I used to see very realistic humans walking in my room when I was little (5-7 y/o). Sitting next to me, staring at me from a corner, dancing, flying out the window, entering the window again... I was confused & my parents played it off like it was nothing. They thought I lied, telling me my imagination was wild... it scared me n they never helped me. So plz, to any parent out there, take things like this seriously. Don't laugh it off. It's confusing and scary to go through.

[@HandintheBoxInc]

I can’t imagine how scary that was to go through

[@gustavolond2485]

Once I was having nightmares with spiders, so when i woke up i saw a spider on the sealing, it was rapidly falling towards my face so i got really scared and covered quickly, i stood there for a while thinking it was actually real, once i took courage to get up, i looked for the spider to kill it and found nothing, I am almost sure it was an hallucination but since today i makes me have goosebumps, the nightmare i was having was bizarre too, and it was happening at a house i used to live in a while ago.

[@Ialannak.Annaitak]

hey ! I experience hypnopomic hallucitations, they have been happening for years and recently on two ocassions I have been able to interact with them, the last one it was a little bearded guy, I usually blink until they are gone but this time I stared at it without blinking and the guy got scared of me and started shaking and turned off a lamp. I know it sounds crazy but it happened. Can anyone relate at all?

[@UTAHtheN0bleBirthright-]

So the elf actually turned a lamp off in your room? I guess when people take DMT they often see little elves. Wonder if it’s similar..Look up “Machine Elves”

[@cavareouschisenga]

Which craft

[@regnopaabut8332]

I am having some pictures from the same day, I mean by that memories from that day. Also, I am seeing weird eye all the time from mandala, but there's no mandala. It gets very creepy when I see some bloody faces and they jumpscare me. Also i have 4-5 second scenes, but they're like pictureslides not video.

[@MeowmeowAlexandra]

How old are you

[@liontrust8842]

I woke up and saw a sworn or insects flying around I could actually hear them buzzing and they slowly faded away I another time i saw random letters and numbers sliding down my curtains.