Hallucinated after waking up! Whats happening to me?

Question

This morning when I woke out of bed, rather then the normal waking up, instead I experianced a frightening and inexplicable hallucination for about 5 or 10 minutes. It started out with a normal sound like ringing of the ear and then was followed by opening my eyes and finding out that my room turned into a bizzare cartoonish orange with slight hues of purple around it with incoharrent wisper like sounds floating in my head . It was accompanied with a slight feeling of confusion and a major feeling of worry and fright and heart pounding, it felt like an alarm was going off inside my head and that alarm felt it had something to do with my struggle with school work. I had no idea what the f*ck was going on and that strange psychic disturbance lasted about 5 or 10 minutes. I was so scared I was debating with myself if I should call 911 (which I probably should have). I am going to see a psychietrist or possibly a neurologist as soon as I can but in the mean time can someone explain.

Coincidentaly I have been strugling to adapt to college and been having a lot of stress about it, but it does not guarentee the relevence of the orange hues as it could just be coincidence.

It did not resemble hypnogia or hypopompia in any way, I did not feel paralyzed in fact I went out of bed to go to the bathroom to see If i looked ok, the hallways were orange (supposed to be white) floating around with faces and inexplicable fractal like figures. I was then rumaging around my room for my cell deciding about calling 911 and get an ambulence as I tried to ignore the strange faces while I repeated to myself they are not real, and tried to force a normal looking image of the hall in my head. In the bathroom was when everything started turning to purple. I was able to move and everything, it lasted about 5 or ten minutes and was able to breath ok until the last 2 minutes breathing came with minor difficulty not enough to unconfterble (may have been just from the panic)

Answer 1

Hi, im not completely sure but seeing colours the way you discribe can have certain meanings. For examples, seeing Orange has a few meanings but one which ive picked out for you is ADAPTABILITY. Do you feel like you are struggling to adapt to certain changes in your life?
Purple stands for POWER, SPIRITUALITY and MEDITATION.
I would say that you woke in a mediation state -like way. Your ears ringing was your spiritual body reconnecting with your physical body. This would also make you unsure, heart pounding and frightened more so if you have never experienced it before. I know this proberly makes no sence to you what so ever, and i will proberly get a thumbs down for this answer, however i now and again wake with the same sights and hearing as you have done. However I know what this all means to me.

I would suggest you see someone if you had just mentioned the ringing in your ears and feeling scared etc, but as you mentioned seeing colours ths changed my answer for you.

Answer 2

Hi! Just to be sure you should definitely go and see a health professional. There could be all manner of things causing this.

That said, one thing to keep in mind that people hallucinating after waking up isn't that uncommon. There's a state of being called a hypnopompic experience which is when someone wakes up only to remain in a half-dream, half-awake state. Do a web search for "Hypnagogia" and you'll see that waking up to a hallucination is not uncommon. I once woke up to find myself paralyzed with a five-foot wide spider on the roof above my bed. Weird, eh? This is one plausible explanation for people waking up to see demons/ghosts/whatever in their room (be immediately suspicious of things people 'see' immediately on waking).

That said, while I hope that explanation eases some of your stress, and while I'd lay a bet on the experience you describe being hypnagogic, please do go and see your doctor as soon as you can. No need to see a psychiatrist, I shouldn't think, unless the problem recurs and there is no underlying physical explanation.

Answer 3

i have no idea...maybe you were still asleep and dreaming a little? good thing you are going to see a dr.