I’m not talking severe schizophrenia, I’m talking having panic attacks at night and seeing things happen. Could almost be sleep paralysis, but it’s not.
My instinct as a gen Zer is that most people would be like "wild imagination" or "intense nightmares" and go no further than calling it weird, since it’s close enough to an "everyone" experience. But i don’t know, can never be sure.
Edit : it is for a story. Character is isolated, and has to admit he’s seeing stuff, because plot relevance bla bla bla. Character is a 18 year old mixed guy in 1983 Maine.