I don't have the hypnogogic hallucinations so much -- I get auditory stuff, especially as I'm falling asleep: I think people are calling my name, hear music, think I overhear conversations. There was one frightening thing where I kept waking up, thinking I heard a BANG. Although it's benign, it's called "exploding head syndrome" -- lovely! It went away after a while. I think it's related to stress, migraines, whatever. Sometimes when I wake up I think I hear someone moving around in the room, or calling my name, but that's less common. Sometimes I do get visual stuff, but it's always very muddy and unclear, and usually unpleasant. They're more annoying than anything else.
Does he talk about migraine 'hallucinations'? That was in his book on migraines -- he talks about how maybe saints were seeing migraine paintings, has migraineur artwork, &c. (I find it very disturbing -- I can't look at it for more than a few seconds, or it starts to cause a headache.) I remember the first time I saw the floating glowy checkerboard that's the classic symptom of migraine, in my twenties (in graduate school at the library). I had no fucking idea what it was and thought I was having a stroke. (Interestingly enough some of the doodles I did as an adolescent look just like some migraine art -- spiky, sharp, disconnected little scotoma-like things -- altho it wasn't conscious at all.)
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Date: 2013-02-02 03:47 am (UTC)I don't have the hypnogogic hallucinations so much -- I get auditory stuff, especially as I'm falling asleep: I think people are calling my name, hear music, think I overhear conversations. There was one frightening thing where I kept waking up, thinking I heard a BANG. Although it's benign, it's called "exploding head syndrome" -- lovely! It went away after a while. I think it's related to stress, migraines, whatever. Sometimes when I wake up I think I hear someone moving around in the room, or calling my name, but that's less common. Sometimes I do get visual stuff, but it's always very muddy and unclear, and usually unpleasant. They're more annoying than anything else.
Does he talk about migraine 'hallucinations'? That was in his book on migraines -- he talks about how maybe saints were seeing migraine paintings, has migraineur artwork, &c. (I find it very disturbing -- I can't look at it for more than a few seconds, or it starts to cause a headache.) I remember the first time I saw the floating glowy checkerboard that's the classic symptom of migraine, in my twenties (in graduate school at the library). I had no fucking idea what it was and thought I was having a stroke. (Interestingly enough some of the doodles I did as an adolescent look just like some migraine art -- spiky, sharp, disconnected little scotoma-like things -- altho it wasn't conscious at all.)