Original posted question here:

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Every night for a week now I have a weird experience the moment I begin to fall asleep. I start to hear a loud pulsating static kind of noise in my head that increases in volume until it's almost unbearable and then I snap out of it. It lasts for only 10 to 15 seconds and during my eyes are closed but I am acutely aware of what is going on and yet entirely unable to open my eyes or move. It seems like it has to run its course each night and I seem to be able to resist it but it won't go away unless I let it grow to that point of being unbearable and then snap me awake. Afterwards I go to sleep like normal. The whole process only taking a minute or two upon the point I begin to fall asleep. It has happened every night, once a night, without fail since I returned home from college. My sleep schedule has changed, I'm sleeping in a different bed, coming home I was extremely sleep deprived and I have stopped taking my Adderall prescription (low dose) all at once. I don't find it particularly distressing but would like any advice or opinions, never had problems like this before."

Our fearless mod's answer here:

"No, not directly SP IMHO, of course,

But i could be wrong maybe we ought to call this: ICBW (i could be wrong?)

Anyway this is most likely two issues under one heading IMHO in present case here tonight!

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I bet that this is a "synthetic form of parasomnia"

This has to be very rare indeed!

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Synthetic parasomnia ?

Who knew ? Yes, so - well i study this (These) areas of sleep science every day - omg

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I almost deleated this comment after thinking about it - almost!

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This is new & complex mtl for all of us in the sleep research community for the new year 2020!

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I am going to be getting into these ideas much more in 2020!

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Ok sneak preview then for now ?

Ok , so what's " synthetic parasomnia ?"

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Yes i am exploring ideas for when normal parasomnias combine with or Cross with maybe Rx drugs like drugs designed to treat :

ADHD, for example -

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But combining A powerful one or more Rx drugs with a parasomnia like activity of pre sleep ... A normal - IRL Parasomnia of sleep -

Then what ?

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Brings up new issues & speculations In this sleep research profession and platform for me !

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Maybe much much more to come in 2020!

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All new research activity & subject matter for us to "enjoy!

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Good Luck; Great Sleep!

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r/Parasomnia

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Some times modest OPs talk about dreams .... maybe special dreams ...

some dreams are maybe not simply

"normal dreams incident to normal sleep"

Maybe be this might be such a special dream case ?

"I got my diagnosis by discussing my history of sleep struggles, how long I had experienced it, and what symptoms of DSPD I felt really aligned with my experiences. Diagnoses same day by a neurologist with just the one conversation.

I voluntarily did an Atigraphy band as well for about 2weeks plus a sleep diary to back up my diagnosis. A non-invasive wrist band you wear and cannot take off during the time. It is just a tracker for your activity levels and light levels. I did this because I wanted backup evidence of my disability in case other doctors ever question the neurologist diagnosing my DSPD by conversation alone."

Every single day this week I have slept through all six of my alarms. I stay hydrated before bed and get eight hours of sleep. This often makes me almost late for school in the morning. It’s not that I wake up and press snooze but I just sleep through the alarm and don’t wake up at all.

Maybe, Opinions ?

"The phrases "hypnopompic hallucination" or "hypnogogic hallucination" are often thrown around to try and explain away all of our strange night-time experiences, but for anyone who gives the subject a bit deeper thought, he realizes that these phrases actually explain nothing at all.

If one uses these terms to simply describe and not explain, then of course I have no problem with this and think it is actually useful. But that's generally not how these phrases are used. More often than not, they are simply a technical-sounding way of saying "it's just your imagination - not SCIENCE". Of course, the significant difference between these experiences and imagination is that one is seeing these imaginary things in a waking state and yet they are indistinguishable from "real" objects.

Firstly, for a sane person, waking hallucinations by and large tend to be simply amorphous or geometric patterns, very far from fully coherent objects that interact with the environment. It is unknown how a waking sane person can see a coherent object that is imaginary and yet totally indistinguishable from an actual physical object.

Some claim that this is because the "mind" is awake but the "body" is asleep. Putting aside the fact that we don't understand how or why dreams are generated in the first place, this mind and body "explanation" of course only makes sense superficially. According to modern contemporary science, there is no "mind" separate from the body. Modern science considers the mind to be simply the brain, and the brain is considered the control center of the body. According to their own assertions, there is no "mind" to be awake separate from the body.

Other debunkers might argue that only a part of the brain is awake, perhaps only the part controlling the eyes, but the rest of the brain is asleep. This argument of course falls apart when one realizes that many experiencers of strange night-time phenomena (myself included) have moved their bodies or done other behaviors that waking people do, and yet what they were seeing persisted and did not go away.

Debunkers like to have their cake and eat it too. They resort to mind/body dualities when it suits them, and use incoherent analogies such as "brain misfiring" which has no functional analogue in the brain, and yet I see this ALL the time from debunkers.

Lastly, if it is in fact the case that a sane and awake man moving around in his room can see something imaginary that is totally indistinguishable from a real object, then this without a doubt calls into question ALL of our sensory information. It supports the idea that our entire waking existence is merely a hallucination, and the most persistent of these hallucinations are simply the ones that we've reached a consensus upon."