Hi. Just wanted to say hi and welcome.

What medications are you taking? Some medications have such serious side effects (such as hallucinations), well, why not post what you are taking, so one of us who knows about this, might be able to help you out.

As for the falling asleep for no reason, this sounds like narcolepsy. I knew two people who had this disorder. We'd be playing cards and there he was sound asleep for 5 minutes and wide awake 5 minutes later. I was in Florida visiting my parents and didn't know this was going on for quite a while.

I was the only young person at this table. Every else was over the age of 65 and no one had heard of narcolepsy.

I remember asking the wife of this guy. "Does he do this a lot?" and she said "yeah all the time, I'll be having a conversation with him, and bam, he's off sleeping". I told her "he has narcolepsy, go and take him to the doctor and confirm this"

I got a call after I returned home and the wife said: '"The doctor said he has narcolepsy. How on earth did you know about Narcolepsy?". I remember telling her "I watched a movie on this".

Now of course I have no idea if this is what you have. It might be a side effect of what you are taking. All drugs have side effects.

If this continues, you really should have a good talk with your physician.

wishing you well.

Melody

P.S. I have an interesting story about sleepwalking. It happened to me. Of course I have absolutely no memory of this. I was about 11 or so. I had watched a scary movie.

This is how she described that night.

She heard the front door close (it was after midnight), and I walked down the block. My mother ran after me, she had no idea I was sleepwalking and she asked me "What on earth are you doing?" It seems I looked at her and said "Mother, where were you? I was looking for you" She led me back to my bed in my home and she sat next to me the whole night scared out of her mind.

She told me the next day. I must have looked at her like she wss nuts because I had absolutely no memory of this.

So that night, she stood in the doorway and watched me as I slept. She said "all of a sudden, your arms went up, and you were about to get out of bed, and I walked over to your bed and pushed you back into bed"

This was the only experience I ever had with sleepwalking. Never happened again.

The brain is really something isn't it??