Sleephelp

I've always had quite a lot of trouble getting to sleep, not to the point of insomnia, but falling asleep always was usually pretty difficult for me. Eventually, I found several youtube channels that posted various videos with titles like "guided meditation for a good nights sleep" or "bi-neural tones to help you sleep" and things like that. The videos were a few hours of mellow noises like light rain, reverberating tones, light whirring noises, and things of the like, often accompanied by a quiet voice instructing how to relax your body and mind so you can easily drift into sleep. the audio was accompanied by still pictures of  lakes, or swirling animations or something like that, but the visuals weren't really relevant. I listened to them on an old ipod touch plugged into a speaker dock on my nightstand, I would climb into bed, start the video, adjust the volume, turn out the light, and I would be dozing in a matter of minutes.

After a few months of listening to these videos before bed, they were almost necessary for me to be able to sleep a wink.

While surfing around, I noticed an unfamiliar channel simply called "SleepHelp", it had about five videos uploaded, all of which were of course sleep meditation videos, without narration. They usually had a very small number of views, like eight being it's record. I loaded one up that was titled "SleepHelp easy sleep relaxation". as it played, I found that it was very similar to most other sleep meditation videos, but for some reason I fell asleep almost momentarily. Because of my great results, I continued listening to content from this channel.

By the time I had listened to the first five, two more were uploaded, then after that there weren't any new uploads for a week or two. After the breif hiatus, a new video was uploaded titled "Sleep 001.mp4". I figured the person running the channel forgot to give it an actual name. When I listened to it, the audio was a bit quieter than usual, but still same sort of video. with that, I went to sleep.

I woke up the next morning with a nosebleed. This was not at all unusual for me, but what struck me as odd was I could not exit the video. I tried the back button and the home button and the video would not close. This didn't surprise me that much because the ipod was quite old and prone to bouts of lag. After restarting the ipod it was working fine again.

That night when I went to bed, I put on the new video of that day. "Sleep 002.mp4". That night I had some pretty fucked up dreams, suffice it to say, I won't go into detail. I woke up with a splitting headache and another bloody nose. this time the video had exited on it's own, oddly. Later that day I tried playing some music, but all I got was static. The ipod dock was shot. I was a bit upset by this because it was a pretty expensive one.

That night, I just listened through the auxiliary port on another set of speakers. there was a thunder storm that night and for some reason only the sleephelp channel would load. so then I put on "Sleep 003.mp4"

Somehow the nightmares outdid themselves from the night before. I woke up again with a splitting headache and a profusely bloody nose, this time my vision was also blurry and the ipod was off. I can swear I still hear the noises. that was when made a doctors appointment about my vision, which seems to blur and go back to normal unpredictably, and the headaches and bloody nose. as of me writing this, I have not yet seen the doctor.

That next night I decided to go without the videos for obvious reasons, and went to sleep after about 30 minutes. As usual, there were nightmares even more horrific than the previous, and I woke up with a headache and bloody nose. this time, the video was playing when I woke up. At that point I Got pretty freaked out and turned off the ipod.

After that night, I started hearing the sounds when it was quiet, and I felt tired all the time, When I went to bed, I still heard the videos, even though they weren't on. It's been like this every night and I wake up the same every morning but worse. I struggle not to fall asleep at work or in the car, and when I do dose off I have those awful nightmares, regardless of the time of day.

I was going to leave a comment on the channel, warning people not to watch it, but when I looked, I couldn't find it.

I sleep more and more, I would stay awake if I could, mainly because of those damned nightmares, but I can't. I hear the sound all the time now. I don't drive anymore, I fall over often when I'm walking and pass out on the ground. I think I'm starting to fully break down, my doctors appointment is tomorrow, but I can't muster the energy to leave my house. my futile attempts to remain awake take all my strength. My nose bleeds constantly and I have splitting headaches 24/7. I try to stop the bleeding, but nothing helps. my blood pressure is through the roof. I think I might be dying, and I'm petrified of what horrors await me in an endless sleep.