What is the remedy for Hypnagogia if i am getting all the sleep i need with little or no stress?

Question

I haven't been getting much sleep lately, but what can i do to stop these hallucinations if they don't go away?

Answer 1

There's a conflict here: you ask what the remedy is if you are getting all the sleep you need, but then you admit you're not getting much sleep lately. So, which is it?

There's a number of things you can try. First, when it happens, you need to tell yourself that your dreaming is still going on, and that what you're seeing is just a dream, and you can wait it out. Usually it goes away in a few minutes. Or, you can try thinking the following when you go to sleep: "I will stop dreaming before I wake up. My dream cycle will stop and then I will awaken." Try that for 21 days and see if it helps. Otherwise, you might try asking your doctor for a prescription for Trazadone, which will help you fall asleep and stay asleep, but it won't leave you groggy the next day. Good luck!

Answer 2

Hypnagogia (also spelled hypnogogia) are the experiences a person can go through in the hypnagogic (or hypnogogic) state, the period of falling asleep. Hypnopompia are the experiences a person may go through in the hypnopompic state, the period of waking up. The term hypnagogia often encompasses hypnopompia as well. Hypnagogic sensations collectively describe the vivid dream-like auditory, visual, or tactile sensations that can be experienced in a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state. These sensations can be accompanied by sleep paralysis, the sensation that the body is temporarily paralyzed after waking or before falling asleep.

During the hypnagogic state, an individual may appear to be fully awake, but has brain waves indicating that the individual is technically sleeping. Also, the individual may be completely aware of their state, which enables lucid dreamers to enter the dream state consciously directly from the waking state. Many artists, musicians, architects, engineers, and others demanding creativity to be successful have benefited from hypnagogia, where the mind can be free and open to creative and new ideas

An experience of the hypnagogic state is not an uncommon occurrence with 30 to 40 percent of people experiencing it at least once in their lives.However, it could be a sign of a sleep disorder, such as narcolepsy and insomnia, or associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.

The hypnagogic state can be accompanied by or associated with anomalous phenomena such as alien abduction, extra-sensory perception, telepathy, apparitions, or prophetic or crisis visions. This conduciveness to anomalous phenomena can be correlated with the initial increase of alpha and the later increase of theta brainwaves.

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What is the remedy for Hypnagogia if i am getting all the sleep i need with little or no stress?
I haven't been getting much sleep lately, but what can i do to stop these hallucinations if they don't go away?

Answer 4

Yes, I imagine there are people who get to a point where they're tired of life due to frustrations and stress. The way I see it is the best way a person can combat that is to not get to that point. IMO, the main reason for this is time management. If a person is getting to that point it's probably because they either have too much time on their hands or not enough. Either way it's something one must fix for themselves by looking inward at their own life and adjust accordingly.

Answer 5

It is not even conclusive that hypnogogic phenomena are pathological. I used to have them when I was young and working but now that I'm 75 I never do. The best cure, I think, is to not worry about them and treat them like any dream.

Try this article: "Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations: pathological phenomena?" Found in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Just type "British Journal of Psychiatry" into Yahoo! search and look it up in their journal archive index.

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