Running a fever earlier this week, in pain and dreaming. My long dead beloved grandfather is sincerely telling me the only way to survive the huge poisonous snakes in my bed is to fill the mattress with bowling balls. Made perfect sense.

Luckily Kitty was there when I woke up to reorient me.

I, recently, have found myself drifting in and out of sleep, believing I am holding/touching something that is simply not there.

Like I think I am holding a $5 gold piece and can see every detail about its engraving then suddenly I realize I am just holding onto my blanket. This goes on several hundred times a night. The detail with which these false feelings instill in me is what scares me. I can see every detail in the false sensation. Pure Hallucination, but it is so detailed and at the same time so irrelevant.

sounds like the kind of hallucinations my daughter was having. sleep paralysis episodes where she was dreaming, but not asleep.
she was dx'd as having narcolepsy.

Night to experience this thing. It used to be that I only had bad dreams, but then I as least gut my 8 hours of sleep, now I have both good and bad and seem to realize that neither can help or hurt me. I am relatively unconscious for a second and then know it is not really there. Come at me with a knife and when it is just about to sink in , I just say, "it is not really there and poof! it is gone. As you might you tell a small child. It works!

Drift off for a few seconds and the next one starts. Again, not all or bad. I is the detail that effects me. My mother's voice is perfect but so is the voice of someone I never met. The hallucinations started as a visual a trick of the shadows from between the curtains making shapes that turned into 3_D detail. Then the audio and/or physical sensations started and we have a blockbuster movie of quirk shorts.

Luckily, I can sleep in after my restless nights.

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On your daughter's condition that could be a possibility(I don't know the root causes). My mother died last year and I have not taken it well. Not taking very good of myself. I know I have been physically weakened so perhaps neurologically as well? Hope I is temporary for both of us.

and when I'm awake I day dream about being asleep .

seriously sleep is a big problem with depression/anxiety paradox .