Dear Mari,

From what you've just described, and all the information you've given to us about hypnagogic hallucinations and dreamlets, trying to avoid falling asleep sounds like a very natural reaction to me- subconscious or not. I'm so sorry that you went so long not knowing what was wrong. That must have been extremely difficult

The episode you had last night sounds scary. It must be so very hard to block these things out, even though you know what's going on. I'm so sorry you have to go through this ****

I hope that having the episode last night doesn't make sleeping even more difficult now, and you are able to keep getting some sleep