One of my uncles once dreamed so vividly of being in the way of an oncoming train that he threw himself out of bed hard enough to knock over his bedside lamp, bash his face on the nightstand, and bruise an elbow and a knee on the floor. We still tease him about it.

Wow, lisah! I had that when I was a kid. I would feel like different old men were looming over my bed. They often had the face of my grandpa. Which sort of sounds like he did horrible things to me and I was traumatized, but he did not.

Wow. I didn't have any idea that the sleep-related hallucinations were so common. Fascinating.

Last night was epic no sleep. Does Fitbit know that I have frozen in place trying to fall asleep, or does it think that's sound sleep?

One of my uncles once dreamed so vividly of being in the way of an oncoming train that he threw himself out of bed hard enough to knock over his bedside lamp, bash his face on the nightstand, and bruise an elbow and a knee on the floor.

And now it just occurred to me that's like what happened to my sister recently--a couple days ago I posted she was so convinced she'd seen a mouse in her bed upon waking she injured herself throwing herself out of it. Hypnopompic, huh?

I have a psych appointment for next week, hooray!

I'm really kind of excited to talk to a professional about my whole deal. Probably way overdue for this.

Does Fitbit know that I have frozen in place trying to fall asleep, or does it think that's sound sleep?

I don't use Fitbit, but I'm curious about how my sleep app tells me I slept great for 8+ hours and I am so tired when I'm getting up.

My sleep app (Morpheuz, for the Pebble) has never once told me I've gotten a good night's sleep. I routinely spend 30% of the night "Awake?" according to how much the app thinks I move around.

Fitbit sez:

LAST NIGHT 4h 23min asleep
You were awake for 2 mins (1x) and restless for 88 mins (8x)

Yeah, I was so awake for so much longer than that, just trying to fall asleep, or that weird mid-sleep space of infinite plausibility--I got a fascinating half-lucid PBS drama about alt universe royals.

From way back:

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I haver their Nailed It! polish strips in Burtonesque (go on, look surprised, I dare you), but I haven't tried any other products from them.

Another person who had hallucination from sleep deprivation

Poor-quality sleep over a stretch of time does very interesting things to my world. Like, floors looking like they're moving slightly, black sparkles at the edge of my vision, all sorts of fun stuff.

Yeah, Fitbit often has me asleep when I am awake and still. And, sadly, I still get very little sleep.

swear I felt someone get into bed with me, feel the weight as they settled in, etc, and I would be frozen, unable to move but knowing something awful was going to happen

This happened to me for the first time a couple of months ago. SO CREEPY.