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mongo lloyd said:
You got dosed in your sleep is what happened.

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I've had a couple of weird experiences just before sleeping in the last month, with intense visuals constantly shifting but without being able to control any of it (as in lucid dreaming).

It got me thinking about breathing exercises and meditation in a whole different way. I'd like to explore that kind of states but I feel I lack the patience needed. I'm not giving up anyway.

I started practicing yoga and meditation very often this year (I think this might have something to do with it) and I'd like to learn about holotropic breathing exercises.

It's all in the mind... or you got dosed in your sleep

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ovechkin57 said:
I looked up sleep paralysis, and I dont really think its that...

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tripleclick said:

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ovechkin57 said:
I looked up sleep paralysis, and I dont really think its that...

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ovechkin57 said:

Im really confused, and I just woke up so I figured it would be the best time to type this...

I noticed that when I fell into sleep (taking a nap starting around an hour ago) that I NOTICED MYSELF FALL ASLEEP. All of the sudden, I realized I was asleep and aware of the transition, and I would think things that would happen, and I vaguely remember making lists of stuff, or something. I dont think this was lucid dreaming, because Ive had lucid dreams, and they have NOT been as lucid as this (plus there really wasnt a setting, or anything it was just my thoughts appearing in front of me) (best way to explain it, i think). I was asleep, not moving, and consciously thinking... but I wasnt that amazed by it. Like it wasnt that astonishing to me while asleep, but looking back on it, that is where the weird shit started...

Then I get this feeling that Ive had maybe 10 time before, but this time it was by far the longest. Probably about 7-10 seconds. The best way i can describe the feeling is like this:
You know how right when you wake up, and you stretch, and it feels good, and like you kinda hear yourself stretching... and when you yawn/open your mouth really wide, you hear this absence of sound because your ears kinda close off a bit or something, plus a little sound like a "mmhhhhmmmmm" for like however long your yawn is?

Well I felt that feeling/sound in my head, like in my brain, my brain was vibrating softly or something, and I was in standing in my room (the same room that I was physically actually laying in my bed) and then my POV floated up a bit (unfortunately I wasnt looking at the bed, so I cant tell you if I was still in it)... And then I felt like a dead person was going to appear or that someone was going to talk to me, that I was in a state closer to dead than alive, and I got freaked out and choose to "wake" myself up, and snap out of it. During the weird state, it sounded windy and weird (although it was just my room), like when Frodo put on the ring in the LOTR movies (gay analogy, im sorry, but thats what it was close too). Opening my eyes took work, probably about a second longer then it normally would.

I have had this feeling/sound like before, but NEVER this long (i usually get scared instantly and choose not to explore it and go into it, although I WANT too)... but the first time I was just falling asleep, and I saw this mechanical arm reach out to me, like the kind of machine that you see assembling cars or something, and idk what the fuck that means/was... another time was when I was dreaming that I was tripping, and I looked at my hands and they started doing that thing that hands do when you look at them when your tripping, then I got that feeling, and then I woke up), and then a few more random times, usually when very relaxed. I feel like this has to be a higher state of consciousness or something, and it vaguely resembles a psychedelic experience, (which is why it is posted here).

Does ANYONE have any idea what this is, or experienced anything like it?
How do I get more courage to explore what is happening to me...? Dead people arent that scary, right? I mean there already dead...

I looked up sleep paralysis, and I dont really think its that...

uh, Thanks for any [serious] replies...

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mongo lloyd said:

You got dosed in your sleep is what happened.

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Doubt it...

tripleclick said:

Quote:

mongo lloyd said:
You got dosed in your sleep is what happened.

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I've had a couple of weird experiences just before sleeping in the last month, with intense visuals constantly shifting but without being able to control any of it (as in lucid dreaming).

It got me thinking about breathing exercises and meditation in a whole different way. I'd like to explore that kind of states but I feel I lack the patience needed. I'm not giving up anyway.

I started practicing yoga and meditation very often this year (I think this might have something to do with it) and I'd like to learn about holotropic breathing exercises.

It's all in the mind... or you got dosed in your sleep

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Coheed88 said:

Couldnt find anything on brain explosions.. Do you have any links?

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Sounds

Hypnagogic imagery is often auditory or has an auditory component. Like the visuals, hypnagogic sounds vary in intensity from faint impressions to loud noises, such as crashes and bangs (exploding head syndrome). People may imagine their own name called or a doorbell ringing. Snatches of imagined speech are common. While typically nonsensical and fragmented, these speech events can occasionally strike the individual as apt comments on – or summations of – their thoughts at the time. They often contain word play, neologisms and made-up names. Hypnagogic speech may manifest as the subject’s own ‘inner voice’, or as the voices of others: familiar people or strangers. More rarely, poetry or music is heard.[29]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogic_hallucinations 

SittingBull said:

It was an OBE. I've had quite a few, all of them are different, it's actually one of my favorite "trips". You can learn to control them, which is quite fun.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hears the "wind" sound.

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Coheed88 said:

sounds like a nightmare nic (no pun intended)
But ah yes, sleep paralysis, demons, and internal dreaming loops are 10 x worse than any trip ive ever had.

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mongo lloyd said:

You got dosed in your sleep is what happened.

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smoothrider267 said:

Look up WILD lucid dreamming.  I think thats what you were going for.

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Damn.
You got it.


I thought I knew what lucid dreaming was... but shit, I read a few descriptions of WILD and thats exactly what it is (I think). It even mentions the noise and everything... Does this happen to you too?

Thank you, everyone, for the replies... anyone else experience WILD lucid dreaming with or without knowing it?

EA1729 said:

If you really want to get into the Lucid Dreaming, you must get beyond the being safe. What does it mean to be safe? Fear makes the entire dream world safe, even the scary ones...think about it. I don't want to give you to much at once so take your time.

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Coheed88 said:

Another thing i hope you never experience is sleep demons. That is fucking scary as shit.

Its basically sleep paralysis, and you wake up, but theres a "demon" or black shadow over your bed. You get the feeling of choking and tightness around the throat but can do nothing. DSM class it under visual/auditory hallucinations, and it is purpotedly quite common. Happened to me max 3 times.

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