So its happen twice already and it freaking me out.
I wake up with a morning haze so strong that it felt like I was still dreaming and it induced a mild panic episode. I couldn't go back to sleep without that anxiety coming back.
I instinctively started rubbing my head and it slowly " woke me up" .It's a strange feeling to feel like your still dreaming and then questioning your reality. Ughh I don't like that. It was so confusing and I got so scared I got stuck in a limbo. Why is that!?
I don't claim to know why or what it means but I do remember years back I had that same or very similar experience and could not discern many dream states from awake states. There was confusion as well.
DV
What did you do to get out of it?
Hhmmm
That's a hard one to answer without writing a book. I'll try to narrow it down to a few main points.
Get a competent doctor. that understands you and you have some trust with.
Get people
Do therapy
If you partake in alcohol or Street drugs, pot etc.
know that they aggravate your condition making it worse. Stop ✋
Learn ( from a teacher or teachers) how to meditate and do yoga.
If your troubled or disturbed/upset force yourself to share it then practice your poses and or meditation - I took classes- I also had individual instruction.
Get a qualified therapist you learn to trust- I had so much anger down deep- I saw same guy for 7 years
Don't isolate - hard one- still working on it
Eat healthy
I took up running - now I hike or walk
Read books that make you feel healthy- I enjoyed autobiographies about people that got to the other side of schizo.
Join a group- AA , NAMI support is so much better in person.
Practice a hobby- I rode dirtbikez, Street bike and fished
Ride a bicycle- still do- I have 3 lol
Find some balance in your life- always a work in progress
Forgive others - again again again
Forgive yourself - same as above
Let go of any grudges
Learn how to love- not the romantic kind
Take your medicine
Go to appointments and go with an open mind
Be nice to you
Make mistakes
Learn a skill
Stay willing
These are just suggestions 🤔
Explore
Breathe
Find what works just for you
So many things will help
Thanks for asking
DV
sorry I just responded in great length to wrong questions lol
DV
Not really sure i did. That was more than 40 years ago. Truthfully for me my mental health got worse much worse before I began to recover.
The doctor I eventually found did help me with meds and talking
DV
I'm sorry I mixed you up with the other nice person I was chatting with this morning.
I revealed in some detail that in my twenties ( I'm 64 yrs young now) I was diagnosed with schizophrenia. ( a more accurate diagnosis would have been schizo affective disorder) I suffered through 3 psychotic episodes. So my long story I gave was - what I did to get out of that. Lol
Keep in mind that just having some dissociative experiences does not mean you are a schizophrenic by any means. For me it was just one of my symptoms at the time. I hope this clears the way a little.
Bless you
DV
Do you think it's dissociation? I know I have similar feelings everyday. At least once but often considerably more.
This happens with anxiety, its a form of dissociation. It's always worse upon waking. Get yourself a glass of water, sit up with your feet on the ground and do some mindfulness techniques to "snap out of it". Feel the floor under your feet, remind yourself out loud that you're awake. Unfortunately the only thing that will make it WORSE is panicking. I know how scary it can be, I used to feel exactly like this when I woke up. I hope you feel better <3
Dear Heyyouthere33,
Can I suggest that you have any Physical Possibilities 'Checked' First? For example, have you Changed you Medication- in Any Way? Are you Eating anything 'New'? (Are you, and Kathy 'Doing' the Seaweed Diet? or Brian's 'Nut for Nuts' thing?) Have you recently Started, or Stopped, your evening Sherry? It could be, as simple as, 'That Biscuit After The Shopping'.
Beyond this you need to see your Own Doctor(s)/ Consultant(s), I'm afraid. Do Phone Him/ Her Up and explain. I know that we All send you our Very Best Wishes.
AndrewT
Hiya, (sorry I just re-read through this & realised it's long)
This might be slightly different, but when I was pregnant with my first baby, I had a really traumatic first few months & was hospitalised 3 times with hyperemesis gravidarum (extreme pregnancy sickness).
This Sent me into depression, coupled with already altered pregnancy hormones, & I started to hallucinate upon waking in the morning or if I woke at night.
This happened several times during my pregnancy & now, (3 children later, youngest being 4 years old), I still often get this if I'm woken up and sometimes when waking naturally.
There was this one occasion where my 3rd baby woke me up at 2am & as I was stumbling across the dark hallway to his room, I could see huge maple trees all around me, with yellow autumn leaves. I could hear & feel the almost silent atmosphere of being in a forest, I could almost reach out to touch them - they were all in daylight, even though there was no actual light - besides the dim nightlight that was plugged in. I knew they weren't really there & I knew I was awake but somehow stuck between fiction & reality.
Other times have included seeing symmetrical patterns across my whole field of vision, kind of superimposed on what is physically visible in front of me.
I do also get sleep paralysis (which is terrifying & not like these surreal, lucid hallucinations).
I have also always had brief moments, randomly, that can last up to a minute, where I suddenly feel like everything around me is different, like I'm looking in on a world that I'm not part of, like my family are just people that look new to me. I've had it before, as a child, where I was having a music lesson & my teacher was talking a lot & I suddenly felt like I was wrapped in a warm blanket, observing the world, before I snapped out of it.
I am often left wondering if years of sleep deprivation (I'm talking maximum of 4 hours unbroken for 3 years in a row) has 'dented' my brain somehow 😅!
I mentioned it in passing once & the lady I was talking to said it sounded like psychosis... I haven't had a proper diagnosis as what I experience doesn't worry me. I was more afraid that someone would take my babies away from me, so I didn't tell anyone else, except for my husband.
When it happens now, I usually acknowledge it out loud - something like, "oh that's cute," or, "ah, OK, so that's what I get to see this time." does sound a bit loopy reading it back, doesn't it 🤭.
Any thoughts or insights would be interesting to hear though ☺️.
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