Methanar posted:

For a while I was so stressed out I was having severe sleep paralysis every day, ultra vivid false awakenings/dreams and auditory hallucinations of my name being called, footsteps in my house, knocks on the door, and wind chimes for months lmao

it would be coupled together with dreams within dreams where the dream would be all hosed up but then I'd 'wake up' and know that I had just woke from a bad dream and then go off and do my thing but then everything was actually still a horrible nightmare but I had already woke up from the nightmare and that meant all the current horrible things were real and then I'd 'wake up' again except im actually sleep paralyzed, even though I didn't know this had a real term yet at the time, while there's a knife murderer at my bedroom door who is taking 15 minutes to walk from my door to my bed while I can't even turn my head properly to see him come.

then I'd wake up for real except lol my life was the real nightmare all along. and actually I had gone probably 6-8 weeks without leaving my house or seeing another person not through a computer.

pretty hosed up to not be able to ascertain reality for a few months lol.