Night time Psychoses

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RedVelvet wrote: My husband with AS wakes up every morning at 4am, he talks in bed about his worries and things that have happened to him. If I leave him to talk he will continue till it's time to get up around 7:30.
This has happened for nearly 25years. The other morning I let him talk for about 15 minutes then told him to go back to sleep,he did. But he doesn't hear voices.

Does your husband have ADHD because mine does and he used to do this to me all of the time when he was younger and more hyper! Drove me nuts!! Thank God he's getting older and slowing down! (mine would never shut up, no matter what I said and if I moved to the couch, he'd follow me! That was my night-time psychosis!!)
(what a nightmare!)

For We need to learn from each-other do We not together.

Yes, Kevv, I did learn many things from our nighttime tirades but unfortunately, I forgot them all because I WAS TOO TIRED TO REMEMBER!! ! (how dare you side with my husband)(of course, you are a man and you guys have to stick together due to the 'Nazi-feminists' and all of their male-bashing)

I hear like...voices in my head when I'm trying to sleep. And other stuff, I don't remember what. Is that night-time psychosis, or am I schizophrenic? It's just at night, not during the day, and it doesn't happen all the time.

I hear voices before sleep--random, ordinary conversations that sound exactly like I'm listening in to some stranger's phone call. They are very specific and filled with details--the people who are talking seem to know each other. I never recognize the voices or the situations--it seems to have nothing to do with me, like I'm just an eavesdropper--except, of course, it's all in my head.

I find it hard to fall asleep most of the time and at night my problem with being too sensitive to sound seems to get worse. Normal house noises, my husband or dog snoring, traffic noises--all drive me nuts.

I also see something like an endless slideshow of images--they appear to be random and not related to anything I've seen during the day.

Sometimes when I'm on the edge of sleep I'll hear a loud crash, but I can tell it came from my head and not from the outside world.

There are times when I hear a harsh voice saying something threatening, and than I'll hide under my covers.

Definitely hypnagogia.

They say that people affected by AS have sleep difficulties, which is definitely true for me.

As a child I had night terrors that horrified my poor parents. I would seem to wake up but saw things that weren't there and cried from the sight of them, although I would not or could not disclose what I saw.

There were also similar incidents that remind me somewhat of lygophile's description, in which something was smooth and rough simultaneously. I felt like something was sliding from me and I lost touch with time. These incidents were accompanied with more lucidity in which I could describe to my parents what I was experiencing, and which they dubbed, "marshmallow dreams" because of something that I said comparing them to marshmallows crushing me.

Insomnia is also a problem, as is somnambulism and talking in my sleep.

Sleep paralysis and hallucinations are the worst, though. Hypnagogic hallucinations generally involve feeling and seeing things, such as someone standing over my bed, and voices.

A difficulty is that even though I am able to recognize that these are hypnagogic hallucinations, the knowledge doesn't exactly help in the midst of the experience. I generally have to engage in another activity to sidetrack my brain before attempting to sleep again. And while I rationally know that what I am seeing is not there, the terror of seeing is very real.

Other sensations are a deafeningly loud rushing noise that pulses, whirs and vibrating sounds, and a feeling of moving my limbs while actually holding them still. I'll think my arm is raised to the ceiling, snap out of it, and realize my arm is actually under the covers.

If I take one or two melatonin pills before bed time, I'm able to sleep through the night, with no troubles. I also take Risperidone every night, as well. If I don't take that melatonin, that's where I run into a lot of problems. I have night terrors, and I refuse to go back to bed, for the rest of the night. I do get 4 to 5 hours of sleep, but that's not enough, for me to function, during daylight hours. My apartment is also facing the street, as well. That also makes a difference. I've been having such problems, since last July, when that girl was nasty to me.