i have hereditary insomnia. It comes in cycles. the longest period of not sleeping was a week and i started hallucinating it was fun-not ... I was on the phone with a friend it was the early 1990's and i saw a train drive through my bedroom ...i said to my friend i know it is not real but there is a train with graffiti a meter away from me passing through ... sleep meds are not a solution as they do not put you through a full sleep and regenerative cycle. the only time i take something is if i hit the 7 day mark . But thankfully that has not been for a while . i have come to learn to sleep like a cat though 2 hours here ...one over there ... it is a brain chemistry thing and fun fact often comes with an high IQ ... joy .... there are something that help but they are hard to implement with a common world carrier and life :( I wish I had more positive stuff to say :(
No worries. I feel the real effects of this and I know the reality of it. You're hallucination stuff is terrifying.
Sleep meds knock you out. Yeah, they can't replace full REM sleep. If I didn't have my mandatory work schedule, I think I'd be able to split my sleep up and catch up with what I've lost.
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