I've had this problem for a few years now, but last night had been the worst. Every few months I would awake at night to my bed shaking for about a minute or two and it would stop. Last night, I woke up and when I tried to look around, I found that I couldn't focus my eyes. I don't have eye problems at all, and was completely sober. As hard as I tried, or for as long as I tried, I couldn't get them to focus at all, nor could I stay looking at one object for too long, almost like there was a haze in the room (which would be easy considering the room is only big enough to fit a queen sized bed and nothing else). I figured I was just tired and when I closed my eyes, after about 5 seconds, I would get the feeling of the bed being violently shaken back and forth. I immediately opened my eyes and it stopped. It wasn't like room spinning, I wasn't dizzy or nautious whatsoever. However, I still couldn't see clearly so I tried a second and third time to close my eyes and go back to sleep, and the same violent shaking happened each time. Finally, I put my arm around my bf who was sleeping next to me, thinking if it happens again, at least I might know if it's happening just in my head, or if I was physically being shaken. It didn't happen again, and I was able to fall back asleep. My friends told me it could have been a dream, but I don't have vivid dreams, and I was fully conscious of the situation.

I will also sometimes wake up and have vivid hallucinations. This happens much more rarely and usually scares me enough to get out of bed and run out of the room. My very first was when I was younger, maybe 11 or 12, and I remember waking up in the night and seeing things moving around my room..in and out of the walls. I sat up because I couldn't believe what I was seeing and thought maybe I was still asleep. I was seeing random people I had never seen before, and what looked like what can only be described as fauns (half man half goat) creatures going in and out of the walls. It ended up stopping after a few minutes and I went back to bed.

My last one was maybe 6 months ago, when I awoke to see a floating cat head next to my bed, only bigger, with big almond shaped eyes. The eyes were blank and had no pupil. It looked as if it were coming towards me, so I jumped up and ran. I don't like seeing these things, and I want to know how to make it stop. They don't go away when I get up or blink, or look away. I don't think they're dreams, as I know I'm awake and I've never dreamt the things I see. I usually don't tell anyone simply because I think if someone told me that I would think they were crazy. Even I don't think it's normal, and it happens to me. I don't do drugs and I'm not drunk or hung over when it happens, so that is completely ruled out.

If anyone knows what could cause these things, or how to make it stop, please let me know!!

You certainly have enough there to take to a healthcare professional, especially if all of this is interfering with your normal life, for example, by preventing you from getting enough sleep, or if you interpret your latest problems with focusing your eyes and hazy vision as a worsening of a condition that has persisted for years.

It is not unusual to wake up and go back to sleep through the night, however, and in these not-quite-awake states, hallucinations or other "REM intrusions" are not very unusual, either.

Vestibular content (such as the sensation of being shaken) or weird visuals are par for the course in hallucinations. They wouldn't be hallucinations if they didn't feel real.

You did write that you wanted it to stop. Think about the healthcare approach, since treatment options are available. Good luck with it.

Eight bits offers good advice, there can be a multitude of reasons for hallucinations of this kind and none of them will be resolved by members of this forum, seek qualified medical help and I feel sure you will overcome your symptoms.

The illusion of noise, speech, movement and visual perception can all be stimulated by either an expectation or desire, sleep deprevation,Alcohol, drugs or an underlying illness.

examine your lifestyle and beliefs, for example, if you associate with a group that regularly claim to have paranormal experiences the likleyhood is that you will be influenced by their mindset.

Good luck

I agree you should get checked out medically if only to rule out certain causes. Have you considered there may be a combination of things happening to you? Possibly sleep disturbances and maybe you're feeling a mild underground tremor along with a medical condition. I know I've woken out of a sound sleep on several occassions and felt my bed shaking, gone back to sleep only to be woken up again. Found out weeks later that our area not known for these tremors was experiencing them.

I have thought that it may be something medical, but was able to rule that out. When I was younger, I would have seizures and was on medication for it. I have been off the medication since I was 16 (I'm 23 now), and have an MRI and EKG every 2 years to ensure that they don't or haven't come back. There hasn't ever been anything strange come up on either test, so I know I don't have a tumor or blood clot, something like that. Again, I don't do drugs and most of the people I hang out with don't believe in paranormal...very level headed. I'm at a loss.

Seizures are one thing. Your current shakings are apparently vestibular hallucinations, a separate complaint. Of course, you should ensure that a healthcare provider knows your medical history, but that's true anyway.

It's great that you're getting surveillance for other things that rule out certain nasty possibilities, but you do have a sleep disorder. Maybe that can be fixed, too, if professional attention is directed to it.

And if nothing else, if you go in every two years, then this deserves a mention next time.

Good luck.