I used to have hallucinations as a kid. They happened more frequently when I had a fever, but not always. They would always start with a certain "feeling" just as I was drifting to sleep. It felt like I was falling backwards with everything spiraling around me and lots of colors and then if I went to sleep from that state, I would "wake" with hallucinations sometime during my sleep. When I would wake I would be completely aware of what was going on enough to go get my parents, and tell my mom what I was seeing. I was always scared to death and would always try to "wake" myself up by getting water and splashing it on my face, or putting a wet washcloth on my face. They would last as long as 30 minutes or more and the whole time I could see things happening in my house that weren't there. They were the freaky scary crazy things you only see in dreams but they manifested out of whatever was around me in the house.
They were recurring for several years. I finally associated the feeling when I was going to sleep with them occurring and ever since, I've never had them again. I always force myself fully awake before I can fall to sleep in that state.
I also have very weird dreams.. more so than most people I talk to. They are extremely bizarre apparently, because when I tell people my dreams they often just kind of stare at me and don't say anything, then shake their head and say something like, "Dude, you are seriously fucked up" to which I can only reply, "Yah, I know"
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