Connect
Electric shock and hallucinations while falling asleep
The last week I’ve felt like I’m either floating or getting an electrical shock through my body when I first fall asleep. My first thought is a stroke since I’m 65. I try to shout out to hubby for help but am paralyzed. After that I start hallucinating. Sometimes the door to my room looks closed then open then I feel a dark presence in the room. The hallucination continues as I see shadowy figures in my room. It scares me to death. I try to wake up hubby but can’t scream or move. It’s making me so scared I don’t want to sleep. I hallucinated my husband going to spoon but then realize it’s not him, it’s the shadowy figure holding me down where I can’t move. It happens almost every time I try to sleep. I’ve never had this feeling or seeing things ever before except for the fact that sometimes I can’t if I fall asleep during the day if my eyes have closed on me or the tv is off. A couple of seconds later and open my eyes and everything is fuzzy like there’s bushes or everything out of focus and I’m confused. Please help. I’m not one to believe in ghosts but this is really freaking me out. I’m terrified to fall asleep because of the electric shocks going through my brain and body making me think I’m stroking out, the paralysis and the hallucinations and shadowy figures
Like
Helpful
HugInterested in more discussions like this? Go to the Sleep Health Support Group.
Connect
I was reading some past posts and came across this one, what I realized is that I totally misread what you were saying, the electric shocks you mentioned are not the ones I thought you meant, I know it’s been a while since this post was made but I hope you’re doing better now with the sleep paralysis and feeling much better, best wishes.
I know this thread is old, but I want to chime in that I experience this exact same thing pretty regularly and recently discovered something that I haven’t seen anyone else mention. As many people are saying the experience of feeling awake but having dream-like hallucinations where you can’t move or scream or escape is called sleep paralysis. But I just recently learned that the additional part of feeling like there is a very loud buzzing in your head that you can’t stop is called “Exploding Head Syndrome”. This condition is much rarer than sleep paralysis but often accompanies it when it does show up. The problem is there is very little information on the subject and it is rather mysterious. If you look it up you will find various descriptions but the over all recurring trend is that people “hear” loud noises while falling asleep that are so disruptive they actually keep you from entering deep sleep. Mine feels like I have a buzzing phone in my head that won’t stop vibrating. It’s so loud I want to scream but I can’t. It can even be a physical sensation of an electric voltage in my brain, sizzling and crackling and sending shocks down my spine. Other times I hallucinate that someone is mowing the lawn in the middle of the night or that the phone is ringing off the hook. Sometimes the hallucinations figure into it where I think that a shadowy figure has implanted something loud in my head and it is quite frightening. It manifests in any number of different ways but they all keep me from having good sleep and I’ve rarely come across anyone who knows what I’m talking about until now. I’ve been told it is most likely harmless by a few Drs but I am also in an on-going search to find answers for recent seizures and debilitating brain-zaps while awake, so naturally I imagine they are related. They may not be.
@mebbiemiscel I am awakened abruptly after sleeping 2 to 3 hours then can’t go back to sleep. I suffer from terrible insomnia because of this.
I have suffered for years with tinnitus and it can be a constant swooshing sound almost rhythmic in nature and other times it’s a variety of loud noises or humming and buzzing sounds…it’s hard to put into words, it’s truly nerve wracking…sleep paralysis is not a part of the tinnitus but something entirely different, I had one experience with sleep paralysis and pray that it never happens again…it must be horrible to go through this and also have hallucinations, I have found that sometimes you can minimize the noise by turning on something quietly to cover up the sounds, I discovered by accident that running water helps with the noises in my head, some people listen to white noise or other sounds that make a difference for them to cope. Have you ever looked into getting sleep therapy because what you are experiencing is very troubling, I hope that you find some good help with this problem.