Last week, I dreamed what time it was while waking up (but not fully awake) only to turn over to look at the clock and find that's exactly what time it was, though it wasn't time to wake up. Even more strange was that I was fairly certain that was the time before looking. We have a Tempur-Pedic type mattress that forms to the body and it's quite evident I hadn't turned over to look at the clock previous to looking intentionally.
On Saturday I knew what my wife was going to ask me before she did (asking if I was feeling up to going to a particular restaurant) and then yesterday I was under the assumption that my wife would be working though it was her day off only for her to correct me twice that it was her weekend. Then she was called in to work.
Now, I have had a cold for the past week that I'm on the tail end of now. I have had to take cold meds (Tylenol multi-symptom).
I'm sure there's a completely logical explanation for this, but I find it a bit spooky. With this cold (and very likely something caused by the Tylenol cold meds), on occasion I've had an unsettling sensation as if I'm being watched, always from behind me to the point of getting goose-bumps.
I'm thinking it has something to do with the diphenhydramine that might be in the cold medication as I used to take generic Benadryl as a sleep aid before switching to Ambien CR. I remember that when I would take the diphenhydramine, I would have audio hallucinations on occasion and those too would always sound as if they were coming from behind me (such as hearing plain as day someone say behind me "that's stupid" and "you don't know what you're doing" and my favorite "try doing that with a phossy jaw, tough guy", all in voices I didn't recognize). It would happen about once or twice a week when taking diphenhydramine daily (work 3rd shift) as a sleep aid. Of course, I found them spooky as well.
I find all this a bit concerning, but it only seems to happen with meds containing diphenhydramine and I'm concerned that stuff is screwing with my head. It all ranks quite high on my WTF meter.
I've taken to checking the ingredients of any cold medication I take to avoid diphenhydramine, but I've got to ask: Has anyone else had strange and difficult to explain things happen when taking meds for a cold?