Seeing Colorful Geometric Shapes At Night - Sleep Disorders Message Board

MSH · 12-14-2004, 11:59 AM

I've tried pretty much every other board without much luck, so I'll try here. Anyone at all experience this: at night when I'm getting ready to fall asleep, I start to see strange geometric shapes, sometimes very bright and colorful, all around me. They look like small spaceshipes or snow falkes that are made out of paper. I open my eyes, and they are still there in the dark. It happens too frequent now. When this happens my body feels as though its floating and often times I get tingling and numbess accompanied by it. when I stand up and walk around it goes away, but when I lie back down and am just to fall asleep, it all starts again, the geometric shapes, floating feeling (like on a boat) and tingling/trembling. Anyone please? What is this? It is literally driving me off the deep end. Thanks

hry33 · 12-23-2004, 03:35 PM

hallucinations and strange things are fairly normal on waking and falling asleep

ImagineLennon · 12-29-2004, 07:32 PM

Oh my goodness! I used to have that as a child! I don't think I saw them even with my eyes open, though. And I don't remember any tingling or numbness. I remember the shapes quite clearly...mine were usually circular and they "shifted". The colours I remember are green and magenta; first I'd see a green one that "funneled" to black, and then there would be a magenta one that "funneled" to black, and then back to green, and so on. It's very hard to describe the movements they made. I hadn't thought about those in at least 15 years! I don't even remember when they stopped.

tmoon · 01-23-2005, 06:45 PM

I have this as well as waking with internal tremors. The shapes are fairly new.

i have found no info on this at all. I need help too.

kerry1 · 01-23-2005, 07:42 PM

I've had those since I was a little bitty kid. I thought they were kind of neat.

On a side note: It's important to be relaxed when you go to bed, to be ready to slide into the "beta wave state" - or whatever those calm brain waves are called. It really affects the quality of your sleep.