Spider on DVDs

Staring at the book shelf full of DVDs (instead of books) for a moment, thinking of what to watch, I was wide awake. It was 12:45 in the afternoon, when all of the sudden, over the tops of the DVD cases crawls a medium-to-large black shadowy spider. It climbs face-down down the DVD case's spines and into the blackness of the shelf. It was so real that I gasped and asked my kids if they saw it or not. My youngest went and looked and said no, he could find no spider.

Hypnogogic / Hypnopompic Hallucinations

Last night, I was laying in bed and heard a distinct five loud knocks on the upstairs wall. Thinking the neighbors were miffed at us, I got up and looked around to see if it might happen again but it didn't. I asked my kids if they'd heard anything and they said no. When I say I heard them, they were clear as day, yes-they-happened woke-me-up hallucinations.

Turns out these are called hypnogogic hallucinations and happen when you are falling asleep. Why they were so vivid, I don't know, but they can involve the hearing, sight taste and a few other senses. Sometimes, I even feel like someone is violently shaking my bed!

This is a good explanation of the two common types of hallucinations that happen while going to sleep or while waking up.

Visual Hallucinations

Usually when I see bugs or animals they are distinct but fleeting. Just now I looked down at my leg while sitting in this chair and saw a large spider quickly run across my knee! I felt my knee with my hand but nope nothing there.

Just saw another long black bug on the couch that disappeared.

Now the side of my phone case seemed to be animated like a bug was underneath the side of the case. Things were quickly moving.

If I have any more of these, I will edit this post.

Hearing Voices

Hearing voices:

Last night:

Left Ear: Hear Talking on that side. Multiple voices.

Right Ear: Loud talking. Male voice.

Stikmen

Stikmen are found in various cities including mine. So far I've found three. They are aboutsix inches tall each. You can see they are quite distinct. They are found in the street in my town and also in San Francisco. They can also be bigger works of art.

Here are two articles about the Stikmen. Some are quite unique!

an article on the Stikmen

Mysterious Street Men

More Hallucinations

I'm still having hallucinations. Now, they are in front of reality and move like live animals/people. I see them on the ground, on my bed, on the road while I'm driving (which is very distracting). To me, they are real- until they disappear.

Snapshots

The last week, I've been having flashes of vivid images come before my eyes. They are bright, colorful, and last one to three seconds. They are images stopped in time; they are like a poster: colors and shapes in a snapshot. I don't know if these are hallucinations but they go just as quickly as they came.