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Odd sleep behaviour ever since I was born. Hallucinations, sleep walking with memory retention, closes eye visuals

Advice Request

Hi, for the first time I actively thought and researched about some odd sleep behaviour I had and sometimes still have.

ever since i can remember, sometimes when trying to go fall asleep with closed eyes i see either a white completely perfect never ending room with kinda a fisheye lens or worse, a spiky dark hell like environment with moving parts, spikes, torture devices, red undertone and the feeling of getting crushed. Both feel horrible and uncanny but the hell one literally prevents me from falling asleep because i feel in such distress. It also occurs that it switches between those back to back and sometimes its just one or the other.

Also interesting is that according to my parents ever since i was born or a baby i had what we called "fantasie sehen" where i would have horrible nightmares or even sleep walked in a trance like state where i was sometimes aware sometimes not but always remember it after. And when I was aware i could sometimes see literal things that didn't exist in the real world. For example the skeleton of my dog or mum when i left my room in search of help. And that for minutes, even while talking to her consciously.

Also I had some weird open eye visuals where my depth perception was completely messed up and i felt tiny or gigantic compared to my room sometimes. Although those were never distressing but rather funny and fascinating.

Nowadays the sleep walking and such completely went away, but rn I have the closed eye visuals with the two environments when trying to fall asleep.

It's not rly bad nowadays let alone happens often whatsoever, but it makes me wonder what this is and what the reason for that could be?

Not looking for a diagnosis, but rather for some similar experiences by others or opinions on this.

Thank youu! <3

Posted Jul 9, 2025, 11:14 PM UTC

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