Have you ever had nightmare followed by hallucination?
I’ll keep it simple.
I’ve had really horrid nightmare followed by hallucination of moving doodle dinosaurs(cartoony). I’ve had exact same nightmare and exact same doodle hallucination once before. The nature of the nightmare is really freaking me out. This whole thing got me rattled little bit.
Has anyone else experienced such thing?
Sorry, I never had a hallucination.
What is the time between the dream and the waking experience?
Also, are there any common situations between the experiences? What I mean is stress or lack of sleep that is out of the ordinary.
It’s almost immediate. Only common thing I can think of is some stress. But, I can’t immagine little stress triggering such things.
Did I break posting rule or something?
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Hi Barnacle Bob,
I had hallucinations when I was a child - equally silly, remember the scene in Dumbo - when he gets drunk and sees a lot of paisley elephants…? Well, they used to dive and swoop around my room sometimes in the pitch black. Scared me so much I had to go and sleep with my Mum. (not literally of course 
, hang on, yes actually literally, as in ‘sleep with’ not engage in sexual intercourse with - Goddamn these times of innuendo… 
)
Anyway - I also have a recurrent dream when I’m stressed: I see my teeth, from a dentist’s POV, slowly turning black, and falling out one by one, and feel my tongue running endlessly over the bloody holes in my gums… plus a feeling of horror, loss, powerlessness pervades the dream.
It’s not exactly a hallucination, but it’s so real that it takes a little while on waking to convince myself I’ve still got all my gnashers. It used to shake me up, until I realized the stress-connection, and noticed that the number of teeth I lost in my dream was dependent on the level of stress I was under. (For example I lost all my teeth the day before wife, my baby and myself were due to fly to England together for the first time. But lost only two the night before I started my current job).
Whatever the trigger - it’ll be stress-related is my bet, you say a ‘little’ stress, but I think a little stress can sometimes go a long way…
Last note - I don’t know how old you are - but any history of ‘night-terrors’ http://www.answers.com/night-terror when you were a child…?
Dear barniclebob,
Phaedrus is correct. That text is in my .sig file, as it were. I apologize for any confusion. I have updated my info to hopefully avoid further confusion.
That happens to me all the time. Its just disorientation when your still half dreaming and half awake. if you dont like it, become a soldier for a few years. you start to wake up instantly. other then that, cant help ya.
I guess, I was being too paranoid. Thax for all the input everyone.