Any tips on helping to ensure I don't remove the mask in my sleep?

So thankfully my sleep apnea is kind of mild with only around 9 episodes an hour average but my doctor said I've had it for so long that my brain is extremely sleep deprived and is the reason I keep having hypnagogic hallucinations where it's like I'm sleepwalking but I'm actually aware and my dreams are merging with what I'm seeing when I'm awake. I even mostly remember everything but not always the reason why I was doing it. Well I've been struggling to stop myself from removing it in my sleep because I am kind of where I'm doing it but I'm not aware enough to tell myself to stop. I'm on my third mask and this one feels a lot more comfortable and it's not blowing in my eyes randomly like the nose pillow models are and my doctor put me on 200 mg of gabapentin to help with my restless legs and also to possibly help make me so tired as to not remove the mask. The increase on the gabapentin helped for one night and I got 10 hours of sleep total between a nap and going to sleep but day two I ended up not only removing the mask but detaching the tube and removing the straps off the mask. Anyone have recommendations to better adjust to it or keep it on my face cuz I've already tried just wearing it when I'm awake watching TV or doing something else to kind of trick myself conscious into being relaxed with it. I wish there was a way to just tell my subconscious to stop removing it or at least ask it why it went above and beyond to try to prevent me from putting it back on by even removing the mask straps. Like okay I can kind of understand the tube but removing the straps actually took effort it wasn't just pulling it off the velcro.