Feeling like in a dream while awake, Excessive sleeping?

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At the moment I'm 23 years old. I've gone threw many of these episodes throughout my life, almost failing high school, to failing out of college, and losing multiple jobs.

My latest "episode" has been my scariest yet; I ended up going to the hospital twice for my symptoms, while on vacation.

It started last week with a common cold, once the cold ended I still felt stuck in a dream and periodically getting headaches. This "dream like state" is constant, it doesn't go away, and while typing this it is still happening.

But throughout the day the symptoms worsen and get terrifying. If I'm not in a bed I begin to feel like an intense dream like State almost as if I was dizzy and going to pass out , but I don't pass out, I can't pinpoint my symptoms when loved ones or doctors ask me all I can say is I feel like I'm in a dream. Everyone keeps telling me "anexity" but I'm feeling completely at ease right before the EXTREME symptoms begin.

I usually sleep 12+ hours daily. I can go threw days of sleeping 24 hours. The only way I can get myself to get up out of bed is taking Adderall. Without that I can keep sleeping.

Alarms don't wake me up, I can't keep food near me while asleep because I will sleep eat, without the adderall I only wake up to use the bathroom and eat. I don't take it daily only days I need to wake up to accomplish something.

The dream like feeling isn't as common, it has only happened 3 times since December since I've been keeping track. But this is the most terrifying one.

Day time and Lights really seem to exaggerate the issues, and the longer I'm awake the most my brain doesn't feel normal, I go into state where I feel like I'm almost asleep while awake and it triggers a panic attack. I can become very child like as well.

From childhood I've had issues with excessive sleep and if anyone would try and wake me I'd become very nasty but have very little recollection of being so mean then fall back asleep. From my 12+ hours of sleep I have struggled with having my sleep pattern being normal . I tend to revert to sleeping in the day and being awake at night. I feel my most wakeful around 3am to 7am .

I have only a hand full of times where I can say I've woken up rested and I can remember each time.

My memory is horrible. My friends or family will bring up experiences or vacations and I have very little to no recollection of them, and it's very upsetting. Pictures can sometimes trigger the memories.

Right now for about a week I've felt like I've been in a complete De ja Vu state. Being forced to be awake because I went on a mini vacation, I got home yesterday and slept 22 hours. I was hoping being home would relax these symptoms, but I'm at a loss. I'm completely exhausted and terrified.

I feel as if overstimulation exacerbates the dream like state; or possibly it's when I'm already overly exhausted.

Adderall keeps me up but it doesn't make me feel awake, I still want to sleep and have no energy.

I've tried anti depressants as well and it doesn't change much. They gave me the adderall at 17 thinking i wasn't able to constrate because of ADD

I'm sorry my thoughts are so erratic but I'm not feeling myself.

I do have C5 right sided nerve damage and c3-c4 disc buldge but that's more recent, im just wondering if that cud possibly be effecting this dream like state.

Added 30 June 2017:

This week when I have drank, it would make me feel almost normal but never drunk no matter how much I drank. (I rarely drink, I was in vacation) when the symptoms got intense I would take .25 - .5 of Xanax and feel some what calmer.
I forgot to add the hospital gave me a CT scan and only found minor sinusitis and told me my symptoms would not be from that it's just residual from the cold.

Without the adderall when I go threw this I can sleep 3 days or more.

Added 30 June 2017:

I also feel extremely sick everytime I wake up, everyday, I have trouble walking and feel like every muscle in my body is weighted. I've tried diet changes weight loss, more sleep, less sleep, etc nothing helps. I hate going to sleep because I dread the feeling of waking up

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I have all same problems what did they say was wrong

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Hi Alice i hope you&rsquo;re still active. I have the exact same symptoms. I am a 21 year old female btw. I added you as a friend on here, i&rsquo;d like to talk to you about this if you&rsquo;re up for that just add me, thanks :)

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This could be the rare condition Kleine-Levin syndrome. Long bouts of sleeping, headaches, being awake in a dream-like unreal state. There's an article in The New York Times 10-6-2019. Good luck. Hope you find out what this is.

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Did you ever find out what it was that was going on? Your symptoms sound rather familiar, except I'm getting hearing loss on top of that. Would be really interested to hear what's happened with you

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I am no way an expert. Want to put that out there first thing especially for something this big.

1: You need to go see a neurologist ASAP. BECAUSE

2: Some of the symptoms you are describing sound like seizures. Some seizures don't present themselves like you would imagine when someone talks about them; shaking/convulsing, eyes rolling back, jaws clenched.
And you said daylight and lights seems to aggravate it even more which could be a trigger such as stress, anxiety, or even something exciting like going on vacation.

I knew of a young girl who found out she was having seizures during her high school years. She excelled academically so it became very strange when she would "zone out" in the middle of class and wasn't reachable to other classmates. It happened her sr. year when she was most stressed about getting into a good college.

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3: It could very possibly be anxiety/depression. My panic attacks aren't like normal attacks: chest pain, can't breathe, ect. After my attacks I am very lethargic, completely zapped.

4: I'm not sure about the disc bulge and what that would cause. It could possibly be pushing on a cluster of nerves that would affect your nervous system.

Please, please get a referral to a neurologist and get yourself checked out so you can start feeling better.
Good luck!!

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