Seeing things in night

[monjanse]

I Seeing things right after i have go to bed, and have slept in my lightsleep. I know i dont have dreamed, and i know i am wide awake. My last eeg showed epileptic activity in my brain. Is epileptic activity the same as epilepsy, and is this halusinations some type of seizure?

 

[Endless]

Hi, monjanse,

Welcome to the forum!

Can you describe your hallucinations?

Hallucinations can be due to:

• seizures
• migraines
• hypnopompic hallucinations (a sleep disorder)
• a side effect of your medication
• ictal or postictal psychosis
• drug abuse
• a medical condition that has nothing to do with seizures
• Other causes

It depends on what you are seeing, how long you see it, and when you see it. Hopefully a good neurologist can sort through it and figure it out for you. In the meantime, these might be helpful:

Note the next two sources are Wikipedia, which is not a medical site. Take the info with a grain of salt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogic_hallucination#Sights


http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/types-of-sleep-disorders.html

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5022797_visual-migraine-symptoms.html

Dilanatin and keppra are two examples of drugs whose side effects can include hallucinations.
http://www.drugs.com/mtm/dilantin.html
http://www.drugs.com/sfx/keppra-side-effects.html

An example of a physical disease that causes hallucinations. This one happens to be relatively rare: http://www.aao.org/aao/publications/eyenet/200802/retina.cfm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001945.htm

http://www.coping-with-epilepsy.com/forums/f20/visual-simple-partial-seizures-14282/

http://www.coping-with-epilepsy.com...anyone-else-has-experienced-type-thing-14273/

http://www.coping-with-epilepsy.com/forums/f23/possible-13877/

 

[monjanse]

What i see

I see grassplants on the wall, spiders and trees. They are all black.

 

[petero]

organic and fibrous shapes could be "floaters" or "closed-eye hallucination" on Wikipedia too
"afterimage"
"blue field entoptic phenomenon"

there are blood vessels in front of the retina that can be seen in the dark
they look like trees- branches,

 

[Nakamova]

Is epileptic activity the same as epilepsy

There can be both false positives and false negatives with EEGs, but for the most part, if you have symptoms consistent with epilepsy AND epileptic activity showing up on your EEG, that means you have epilepsy. It never hurts to talk to your neurologist if you're not sure though.