Hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations- anyone get this?

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Because I often go days without sleeping at a time I get Hypnagogic hallucinations quite often. Sometimes they can be quite scary. I have a phobia of moths and sometimes I hallucinate that moths are flying around my face. One time I saw my whole bedroom tip sideways. Most times they are less bizzare and more like seeing black figures out the corner of my eye (that happens daily whether or not I've slept).

i often have them a few times a day, and they tend to be pretty hilarous. they often keep me from falling asleep while doing something important, because they get so bizzare that i start to laugh and wake up. i love them XD i sometimes wish i never was awake.

and i once saw a ghost when i was a kid! i knew im 'dreaming' but i wanted to chase her but when i jumped out of bed i fell asleep :o i woke up on the floor in the morning and got like "YAY a ghost" and i was telling everyone that i was seeing a ghost because i though its so cool XD (even though i know it was just a kind of dream)

most of my friends think i'm narcoleptic because i fall asleep almost every time i have some free time, always having hypnagogic hallucinations while doing so and always waking up in when i have to. i guess you could call that 75% alseep, even though im dreaming im always sensitive to what happens outside and i can wake up immediately if something cathes my attention. (for example i fall asleep when commercials in tv start and wake up when they end, or fall asleep at the bus and wake up just before my stop)

No, but i do have missing time and a feeling of not being real

Kris94, have you been diagnosed with depersonalization/ derealization disorder or another dissociative disorder? Those are very common symptoms in that kind of thing.

Although I am an insomniac I have alot of trouble sleeping.
The feeling is alot stronger while i'm tired.

Once I dreamt I got hit by a train, then when I woke up my leg physically hurt. Does that count?

Yes, I get hypnogogic ones but I like them. They are usually benign, like seeing a rose on my pillow and watching it open. If I am having trouble falling asleep I just focus on the hallucinations and they seem to pull me into deeper sleep. Not always, but usually it works.

Except for the one that feels like falling. That wakes me up every time.

Yes - I have had a few hypnopompic hallucinations.

Yes, I have had both types. Is this something that happens to us autistics a lot? I used to think our house was haunted, but now I think it is this hallucination thing. I just had an episode of these a few minutes ago---then I decided to search under hallucinations and found this post. For example, I was listening to a favorite youtube clip and was getting sleepy. Then I heard knocks on the wall---which may have been the house popping. But then, I saw a figure move past my bedroom doorway---and no one there. That was an hallucination. A few weeks ago right before falling asleep I saw a figure move past my bed. I actually wasn't frightened because I think I was about asleep and therefore attributed it to an hallucination. Had it been a real ghost (if they do exist) then I think I would have jumped out of bed and ran downstairs---or covered my head under the blankets.

Many years ago, I thought early one morning when I awoke that I heard my name called by an unfamiliar voice. Then I heard footsteps come into my room and something heavy sit on my bed. Then I felt a hand grip my arm. Then it was gone. But again, I was not scared. So I now see it as an hallucination---otherwise I would have been scared silly.

But I have done this many times. And again, I am wondering, is this real common amongst we that are autistic?