Coheed88 said:

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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Of body experiences mate. Don't worry about it. I get them every so often. The phenomena you have described regarding POV's sounds like something i experience: I randomly appear outside of my own body, and see myself. Its weird to explain, but it's like i become a 3rd person viewing myself. Also, other times, i just feel like im not my self, but watching myself instead.

Often when im alone, and its quiet, i can "hear" the silence. Its like a whistling, air sound. And i get the sensation of falling. I can sometimes hear voices. Its always the same type of murmuring voice, that i don't understand, but for some reason it always seems to be chastising me.

I don't like it. When i listen to the radio, i can be listening, and i can be LISTENING.  Sometimes i tune out, and i start to think its not music. And the music doesn't feel real. And even though its life, it doesn't seem like life. And then i start to think about myself in 3rd person, think someones watching me, and "see" myself from outside my body.


This all sounds like i have psychosis i know, but its very infrequent, and it seems to be linked to sleep, or when there is little stimualation in the environment.


You might want to do a bit of research on lucid dreaming, hypnagogia, and sleep paralysis. All very interesting stuff. One of the weirdest experiences i had was:

I was dreaming of a night of clubbing with my mate, and then all of a sudden the dancefloor got really hot and smokey. My mate ran downstairs to the boiler room, and i followed him. I was coughing and spluttering, chasing him.. trying to find him. And i "woke up". I was paralysed for a few seconds, and the room was boiling hot. I heard crackling all around me. And spitting of fire. It felt like someone was hlding hot coals to my face. And then i snapped awake and i was out of it.

But yeh, as i said. ut of body experiences, and loss of "consciousness", mixed with daydreaming can be fun, and somewhat daunting.

On the other hand, you have a psychological disorder.. welcome to he club..

Btw.. do you experience this stuff without drugs?

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