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What were the first dementia signs you noticed?
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The first thing I noticed was that he was acting out his dreams, or waking up thinking what he had dreamed was real. He woke me to say there was a cat in the house, and I searched the whole house in case he was really right, but there was no cat. He did it again a few months later. Then it got more frequent - He would think he had lost something in the bed - his glasses, the TV remote, a radio, his dentures - when those objects were in their normal places for the night. Then he started doing it in the daytime when he hadn't been asleep. He didn't know who I was. He thought we were at the doctor's office instead of in our own living room. I thought he was just having hallucinations and in between he was himself again, but the cognitive test the doctor gave him showed that he wasn't thinking normally even when he seemed normal.
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My husband has started doing the hallucination thing, too. Not too often so far. He falls asleep in the recliner a lot, and it's usually been right after he wakes up. Sees an animal out the window, for example, when none is there. And he'll continue to insist there's one there for ten or fifteen minutes after he wakes up. He's also told me a couple of times that someone was looking in the bedroom window during the night or that a dog was outside that window. We're on a peninsula in a forest, so Peeping Toms are not likely. I figure it's some carryover from a dream.