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Mental Health What the FUCK just happened to me?

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

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I know there is probably no medical advice, and I'm going to call my doc first thing in the morning... but the weirdest thing just happened to me.

Last night I had a terrifying experience during sleep that has never happened before. After sleeping for 90 minutes I had a vivid nightmare, I woke up, tried to sit up in bed and was having a buzzing in my body and minor to moderate loss of motor control and muscle jerks, visual hallucinations of arms grabbing at me and auditory hallucinations. I was very scared and very confused. This lasted approximately 10-15 seconds before completely going away. I stayed awake and felt normal, looking on the internet for answers but could not come to a conclusion.

I went back to sleep and within seconds again had extremely vivid nightmares with buzzing in the body and jerks. I would wake up scared, then go back to sleep. This repeated several times, each time having a nightmare and the physical symptoms. I gave up trying to sleep. I am tired, worried and a bit confused but other than that I feel fine when I am awake.

I have never experienced this before in my life and having nightmares is a rarity for me.

I am thinking this may be related to my heavy G use the day before.... but I don't know (this didn't happen the night after the heavy g, I only had a mild nightmare that night which I considered normal and was nothing like this). I'm tired as fuck but sure as hell not going back to sleep.

The only drugs I used yesterday were 7g of kratom in the morning and literally a tiny dose of GHB maybe .2ml to sleep

Definitely going to the doctor. That was fucking terrifying man holy shit


erowid:

"I knew it was the G and I thought that maybe I was having a nightmare when I was passed out and somehow I woke up while it was still happening. "

"I slipped in and out of consciousness; they had me on massive doses of Ativan and I was having extremely scary, hallucinatory nightmares. They transferred me to the psych ward, where I ended up for four weeks."

apparently symptoms of this nature occur in GHB withdrawal... but just 1 day of heavy use?
 
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I find the whole idea of G just so scary. I’ve never tried it and I have very open mind to new experiences but I think I shall pass. I hope things check out ok with the doctor. Are you going to tell them what you had taken?
 
Atelier3 said:
Are you going to tell them what you had taken?
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Of course, I told him about all my drug use when I went in for liver failure not too long ago


IDK guys I'm still pretty shaken up about this... I was going to trip today but that's cancelled and I might start taking my antipsychotics again
 
Really sorry to hear you are so shaken. By your description it sounds pretty freaky scary. I don’t know what time it is there or your neighbourhood but would going outside for a walk help you chill back down? Seems like trying to sleep again might be out of the question but you don’t want to get stuck ruminating on it.
 
"patients took 2.25-3.0 g of GHB two or three times a night (i.e. upon waking) [38]. Within the first few weeks of treatment, many of the patients reportedly felt more alert during the day and there was a reduction in hallucinations, cataplexy and sleep paralysis (although this did intensify on the first or second night). "
 
Deru said:
A touch of sleep paralysis and sleep apnea, maybe?
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Yeah, I'd hedge my bets on this being the cause - sleep paralysis + nightmare. The first few seconds before you become fully conscious can feel fucking weird like you're hallucinating (cos you kinda are...)
 
Man I'm really tired guys... I only slept like 2hrs last night... I want to take a nap but I am literally scared to go to sleep right now 😥

I was resting my eyes and having hypnagogic hallucinations again...

maybe I should take an antipsychotic but i really don't want to
 
I'm happy to report that I took a very nice 4 hour nap with no disturbances. I'm fairly sure what happened last night was just a one off experience caused by the GHB use. No longer scared to sleep. Might be dosing tonight after all :p
 
This is sleep paralysis and it would often happen to me after abusing benzos. I bet GHB would trigger it too.

Now that it has happened once expect it to happen again in the future. I went through a period in my life where I was terrified of sleeping because it was happening so often. That period was when I had a heavy opioid/benzo polydrug use habit. I finally figured out that the benzos (xanax mostly) was triggering it. If I took heavy doses of xanax I'd have sleep paralysis in the next couple of days. Once I got clean I'd still get random episodes of it for many years. Now for whatever reason xanax doesn't seem to cause it but I keep my doses very low now (no more than 1mg at bed and 2mg a day only a couple of times month).

I wrote a trip report about this but it has been deleted now. Wish it was still around so I could link you to it. When this would happen to me I'd attempt to fight it and try to wake up/get out of my bed. I'd think I was up and walking in my house and keep teleporting back to my bed. I once slid off the end of the bed head first and fell right through my floor. Things would be in the room with me. One in particular bothered me a lot. It was a huge black blob in the shape of a man that would stand over the end of my bed. Things were always just out of the corner of my eye staring at me. A lot of them were blacker than the dark room.

I had a brief episode about a year ago where something was invading my dreams. It would take the appearance of old girlfriends and lovers. I was having sex with it nearly every night for a month in my dreams. It would transform into an ugly troll like thing in the middle of the act. One time I woke up and it was sitting on the dresser laughing at me. I cleansed the house with sage and drove it away. It never came back but did visit a housemate the next night. I made sure to cleanse the entire house the next day instead of just the floor I was living on. As far as I know he never saw it again.

I'm a man of science but I don't exclude the paranormal. I do believe some things come and take advantage of us while we're dreaming. I think they typically prey on people when they're at their weakest. If you've been going through problems with addiction and depression maybe they've taken notice of you recently. My problems with sleep paralysis begun and ended with my phase of heavy addiction. When I've relapsed they've always came back.

Even if you don't believe in any of that stuff give this a try. Next time you're falling into sleep paralysis and you think something is in the room with you DEMAND that it leave you alone and invoke the name of Jesus Christ. You might be surprised at the results. It worked for me.
 
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