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Are Hallucinations Due To Stress?

Hi. My name is Vijay. I m 23, an engineering graduate. Sometimes when I m in bed before sleeping, I get a weird sensation of smoothness and roughness alternating very quickly. I picture a milky white smooth texture and then suddenly a ragged rock with infinite black fractal like scratches. The textures alternate in about a second and once it starts, i can t actually stop it right away. The I realise whats happening and get out of bed and drink a glass of water, wash my face and come back to sleep. This doesn t happen that often. But it really creeps me out when it does. I thought it might be a stress reaction. But this sometimes even happen when it was a chill day.
Wed, 21 Feb 2018
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Hypnogogic hallucination.can occur when going to sleep in a normal person'
Do not worry if it happens only when you are going to sleep.
If its severe, you can take a shortcourse of 0.25 mg clonazepam for 3 days and stop it
Thanks
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Are Hallucinations Due To Stress?

Hypnogogic hallucination.can occur when going to sleep in a normal person Do not worry if it happens only when you are going to sleep. If its severe, you can take a shortcourse of 0.25 mg clonazepam for 3 days and stop it Thanks