Sleep-Related Hallucinations

Waters, Flavie; Ling, Ivan; Azimi, Somayyeh; Blom, Jan Dirk

doi:10.1016/j.jsmc.2023.10.008

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“…The cardinal difference that needs to be highlighted, is that hypnagogic-hypnopompic experiences take place during sleep–wake transitions, whereas hallucinations proper are by definition experienced during wakefulness. This even holds true for so-called complex nocturnal visual hallucinations, which take place during brief moments of interrupted sleep ( Waters et al, 2024 ). Hypnagogia may therefore sometimes be hard to distinguish from (sleep-onset) dreams, whereas this does not tend to be the case for hallucinations.…”

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Carl Jung: a life on the edge of reality with hypnagogia, hyperphantasia, and hallucinations

Incekara,

Blom

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Whether the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875–1961) became psychotic after his mid-thirties is much debated. His recently published Black Books, a seven-volume journal, reveal new insights into this debate. Based on a phenomenological analysis of his self-reports in these books and in other writings, we here identify several types of anomalous perceptual experiences: hypnagogic-hypnopompic experiences, hyperphantasia, hallucinations, personifications, and sensed presence. We argue that these experiences were not indicative of a psychotic disorder, but rather stemmed from extremely vivid mental imagery, or hyperphantasia, a condition Jung’s contemporaries and later biographers were unable to take into account because it had not yet been conceptualised. Recently, the degree of vividness of mental imagery and its potential to become indistinguishable from regular sense perception has been the subject of extensive studies. Unknowingly, Jung may have foreshadowed this line of research with his psychoanalytic concept of reality equivalence, i.e., the substitution of an external world for an inner mental reality that he encountered in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia. There is a need for future research to investigate the possible role of hyperphantasia in psychotic experiences, but to Jung, psychosis was ‘a failure to contain and comprehend’ the content of one’s experiences in the context of one’s own life, whereas he himself did manage to put the content of his perceptual experiences into context, to find meaning in them, and to share them with others - to great acknowledgement and acclaim.

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Carl Jung: a life on the edge of reality with hypnagogia, hyperphantasia, and hallucinations

Incekara,

Blom

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Associations between self‐reported parasomnias and psychiatric illness in 370,000 patients with sleep disorders

Hanif,

Cairns,

Mysliwiec

et al. 2024

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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AimTo assess self‐reported parasomnias in patients with sleep disorders and explore relationships with psychiatric illness, comorbidities, subjective sleep assessments, and polysomnographic study results.MethodsResults from intake questionnaires and polysomnographic assessments, collected from 240 sleep centers across 30 US states between 2004 and 2019, were analyzed retrospectively. Of 540,000 total patients, 371,889 who answered parasomnia‐specific questions were included. Patients responding “often” or “always” to parasomnia‐specific questions were considered “symptom‐positive,” whereas a “few times” or “never” were considered “symptom‐negative” (controls).ResultsThe study sample was 54.5% male with mean age 54 years (range, 2–107 years). Frequencies for the different parasomnias were 16.0% for any parasomnia, 8.8% for somniloquy, 6.0% for hypnagogic hallucinations, 4.8% for sleep‐related eating disorder, 2.1% for sleep paralysis, and 1.7% for somnambulism. Frequent parasomnias were highly associated with diagnosed depression (odds ratio = 2.72). All parasomnias were associated with being younger and female and with symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, restless legs, pain, medical conditions, fatigue, and sleepiness. Associations with objective sleep metrics showed characteristics of consolidated sleep and differentiated weakly between nonrapid eye movement sleep and rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias. Machine learning accurately classified patients with parasomnia versus controls (balanced accuracies between 71% and 79%). Benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, and opioids increased the odds of experiencing parasomnias, while antihistamines and melatonin reduced the odds. Z‐drugs were found to increase the likelihood of a sleep‐related eating disorder.ConclusionOur findings suggest that parasomnias may be clinically relevant, yet understudied, symptoms of depression and anxiety. Further investigation is needed to quantify the nature of multimorbidity, including causality and implications for diagnosis and treatment.

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Sleep-Related Hallucinations

Cited by 2 publications

References 79 publications

Carl Jung: a life on the edge of reality with hypnagogia, hyperphantasia, and hallucinations

Carl Jung: a life on the edge of reality with hypnagogia, hyperphantasia, and hallucinations

Associations between self‐reported parasomnias and psychiatric illness in 370,000 patients with sleep disorders

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