NC. What the hell was this last night?

[RosieNC]

I know people will say it was a night terror and I was still asleep but I wasn't!

I was having a very vivid dream about driving. There was a huge spaceship in the sky with lasers on and it was scanning everything.

I was driving along talking to my daughter and for no apparent reason woke up suddenly from a dead sleep.

I wasn't scared or startled. I looked up and in the middle of my room there was a circular ball that was glowing with what looked like a filament glowing in the middle. Around the ball there were thin strips of light. Like really skinny glow sticks.

It was all slightly transparent but very clearly a real object not a reflection.

I watched as it rose towards the ceiling and just faded away.

I wasn't scared but obviously was super confused. I kept looking at my light fixing thinking it could have somehow been that but it was a completly seperate object.

I lay there for a while not understanding what I just saw. I thought about waking DH up but didn't know what I would say. I lay there for a while and just turned over and went back to sleep.

It wasn't like a night terror where you're frozen and you can't move. I was moving. Not disorientated. I was 100% awake.

I just don't understand wtf it was.

This is what it looked like.

Can you be 100 percent sure you were awake? I had a lucid dream years ago where I was 1 million percent certain I was awake, but blue paint was pouring through my bedroom ceiling.I even dreamed I went back to sleep. I only realised it was a dream when I woke up and there was no paint. If there was no tangible evidence from your dream( it floated away) you can't be certain it wasn't a dream and lucid dreams are VERY convincing!

You were abducted by aliens and that was them dropping you back off at home. Obviously

It's entirely possible but in 40 years I've never experienced anything like it.

And I specifically remember thinking 'this isn't a dream, I'm awake' and moving around.

I wish I had a camera in my room.

Even just to see if I was dreaming if I indeed sat up etc.

Lucid dreams are very convincing. You feel like you're awake! I suppose the question is which scenario is the most likely, a large solid orb in your room that then disappeared, or a lucid dream.

Very classic description of a hypnopompic hallucination.

Absolutely normal and nothing to do with woo.

Maybe you should put a camera in your room, because it would be interesting! Just to see whether you were walking around or reacting to something. If you were reacting to something in the direction of the ceiling that would be very curious.

visual migraine aura?

I think If it was a dream I must have been sat up and looking about.

Like sleepwalking?

I had one of those once but it was very different. DH gets them too.

Visual hallucinations of shapes,colours and lights are typical of a hypnopompic hallucination.

Which is a fancy term for a hallucination on waking up.

How interesting!

I'd quite like to see it again 😂

I have hypnopompic hallucinations quite regularly and when I'm in the middle of one it feels extremely real. Mine often revolve around the room/house sinking, ceiling falling down, house floating away type of things. Often have to get up and look out the window to reassure myself that it's not real.

Poor DP gets woken pretty regularly to look at stuff that's not there. Happens more when I'm stressed.

The brain is a funny and powerful thing op. You were dreaming.

An anecdote: My Grandad, having finally returned from the war, was staying with his brother and his wife. A loud crash shot him awake one night, and his brother came running too. The heavy bedside table was on the other side of the room having crashed into the wardrobe. His old style sheet and blanket covers were still firmly tucked in. The next morning he tried lifting the table from the bed but could barely move it at all, let alone without disturbing his covers, it was a decent sized solid wooden thing with full drawers. That night, the same thing happened again... He couldn't have thrown the table. But the brother's (and my) conclusion? He threw the table. There is no other reasonable explanation. So they removed the table, and peace was restored 😄

I get hypnopompic hallucinations all the time of spiders. I am absolutely convinced at the time that they are real and my husband has to wake up and look around the room to convince me that what I saw wasn’t real.
I think it was this OP.

I've had this but a blue ball which I put down to tiredness. Also had flashes and things scurrying out corner of eye. Turns out I get migraines. Doesn't explain why all the kids talked to the people on the ceiling 🤣

I think the clue that it's most likely a hypnopompic hallucination is that you just woke up- it's the half sleep/half awake dream state that allows us to see things in reality which are not there. If it persisted beyond a few seconds, that would be more interesting, but my experience (of seeing all kinds) is they rarely do, in other words, by the time you reach the light switch or wake someone else, it's gone.

It could be hypnompic hallucinations or not.

When me and DC were about 4 and 6 for a year or so we shared a bedroom, but it was downstairs room.

We used to see separately and together orb lights (like a ball of glowing light) which we’d play with and throw to each other or just watch. I mean who knows what they were but it was in a large old Victorian house.

We didn’t get migraines and they weren’t hypnomic hallucinations either. This would happen either when we were supposed to be asleep or early hours of the morning and was strangely calming, almost like someone or something was watching over us.

Why do kids do that? 🤔 😂😂My dogs barked at a certain corner of the ceiling and when we moved new tenant says hers does same.

I'm not discounting it completely as I have seen ghosts before so I do believe there are things we just don't understand

Your DC, so you were an adult at the time?