Has anyone experienced partial awareness like this during a nocturnal seizure?
Getting a 72hr EEG later this month and have been experiencing both day and night suspected seizures. At night I either wake up conufused OR I will have a dream that will lead into my usual auras that I have in the day and then I will wake up to them in reality.
For example:
I’m dreaming that I am being offered food. I go to take a bite and it tastes like metal or cigarettes. I then realize something is wrong and I wake up with my usual day time aura and my body is tense or convulsing briefly and I’m scared.
Or I’m dreaming someone is telling me something but then their speech turn into word salad and I wake up with oral automatisms and to myself making noise. One night specifically I was really scared because I woke up and my body was tensed and frozen in a position and couldn’t move. I was awake and aware as opposed to when it happens like sleep paralysis.
Sometimes I wake up to myself kicking something off of the bed or I will feel like my body is floating up out of itself but I am stuck in a certain position and cannot move. Other times I see flashing images or hear knocking/foot steps and awake to a feeling that I am going to die right then and there.
Posted Mar 1, 2026, 1:47 AM UTC