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That's interesting. Some of the threads on this board are very interesting. I never saw anything like that, and I never had hallucinations with sleep paralysis -- just couldn't move.
However, I recently discovered -- why I never went to a doctor kind of confounds me -- that I get what are called "atypical migraines." I had this happen many years ago, too, but never mentioned it to anyone. I had no idea what it was....funny how we can let things lapse without mentioning them.
I finally told my practitioner recently when I had an "attack," because I didn't have any severe headache pain or anything, but I got these "flashing lightning bolts" in full 3-D multi-color in my peripheral vision. The thing that disturbed me and why I eventually told the doctor was that these lightning bolts did not go away for over five hours.....and I finally went to bed and slept. When I awoke in the morning, they were gone. I saw my practitioner and she immediately identified them as "atypical migraines." I never would have thought of that, as I knew nothing about migraines. She said that sometimes one gets those weird lights and "hallucinations" in the eyes, but no real headache....I never heard of it before. I got some medication, and that seems to help, but it's strange.
Although I also get paranormal stuff that can be "confirmed," which is how I differentiate it from the other strange phenomena I get, I'm amazed at how our bodies can do all this stuff!
I recently discovered that I get ocular migranes. Sometimes it`s in my peripheral vision and sometimes in my line of sight.
I once had a fever induced waking dream/ hallucination that I was in a " Hogan's Heroes" episode which was kind of fun.
But thinking back, when I was younger I used to have a common recurring dream that I was running across a field and would trip and go vaulting forward and then would wake up with a start. It was usually just as I was in a near sleep state. Its been years and years since I've had that happen. Of course, I haven't run all that much, either. I sometimes wake up as I'm just drifting off with a kick of my legs but can't remember if I was walking or what I was doing. I'd see "bees" too when I was a kid, small points of light in a swarm that I'd follow with my eyes in a dark room just as I was drifting off to sleep.
Sleep paralysis was an off and on thing and it was scary until I realized it was just stress causing it and not a night hag like in the old superstitions. It still happens when I fall asleep on the couch or out on the porch. Its a throwback to the days when we slept in trees and had to contantly be wary to have a secure resting place. If it happens I get the best of it in the dream. An invisible force or ghost or creature is pulling you off the bed or trying to open the door as you're closing it? I end up overpowering it and driving it off. Your subconscious tells you not to be afraid and you aren't.
Waking abruptly with a dream memory of tripping/falling is a classic sign of obstructive sleep apnea.
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