Thank you (both). He's also waiting for you to stop by ReNext. And he's glad you're feeling better.
You should take this experience and turn it into a Twilight Zone-style short story.In a funny way ~ I miss the music
Officially very freaked
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Fortunately, I was too stoned at the time to care! Actually, that was one of the incidences that prompted me to quit prescription sleep aids.I've got goosepimples now with that story
I've always had hypnagogic hallucinations, which are hallucinations that happen when one is in a near sleep state, though mine are mild -- generally things like walls breathing or the bed spinning.
Glad you're feeling better!
No, it's actually quite a different feeling from that falling sensation. It's much more of an hallucination. The bed actually seems to tilt and spin, and it's generally combined with a visual hallucination, for example, breathing walls or collapsing floors and ceilings.
^Sounds pretty scary!
I had to do some good acid for that. 
*fond memories of the breathing pizza*
*fond memories of the breathing pizza*
Not compared to severe hypnagogic hallucinations. I've heard horror stories of the visual hallucinations some people get when they try to go to sleep.
Might be a bit off topic, but I think it's interesting enough to say it here.
One day I was sleeping and dreaming, and in my dream I thought "what if I'm dreaming?" and tried to open my eyes. I indeed opened them in reality, but:
1. I was paralyzed, because even though I was conscious my sleep paralysis did not have time to go off, and
2. While I could clearly see my room, some things were different, kind of like overlayed images of similar shape. For instance, where there was a chair with a coat hanged on it, I saw a very big floating face. Or, where was the side of my library, there was a man standing still. It was not like changed images, more like images on a layer above the real ones (if you ever used photoshop, you know what I mean).
In a few minutes, the additional images faded off, and I could move again.
This is because of how we actually see. We think we see solid images, but what we actually see with our eyes is a multi-colored blur. Our ming fills the gaps using its experience to understand what's what in that blur, using a special memory called Optical Memory. So most of what we see is in our minds. That also means that if our minds are tired, dreaming or overworked, they can interpret things the wrong way, and information from normal memory or/and imagination can be added to our optical input. Simply put, our mind can play some really odd optical tricks.
Just thought it would be interesting to say this. Sorry for the off-topic.
One day I was sleeping and dreaming, and in my dream I thought "what if I'm dreaming?" and tried to open my eyes. I indeed opened them in reality, but:
1. I was paralyzed, because even though I was conscious my sleep paralysis did not have time to go off, and
2. While I could clearly see my room, some things were different, kind of like overlayed images of similar shape. For instance, where there was a chair with a coat hanged on it, I saw a very big floating face. Or, where was the side of my library, there was a man standing still. It was not like changed images, more like images on a layer above the real ones (if you ever used photoshop, you know what I mean).
In a few minutes, the additional images faded off, and I could move again.
This is because of how we actually see. We think we see solid images, but what we actually see with our eyes is a multi-colored blur. Our ming fills the gaps using its experience to understand what's what in that blur, using a special memory called Optical Memory. So most of what we see is in our minds. That also means that if our minds are tired, dreaming or overworked, they can interpret things the wrong way, and information from normal memory or/and imagination can be added to our optical input. Simply put, our mind can play some really odd optical tricks.
Just thought it would be interesting to say this. Sorry for the off-topic.
Could you send me a prescription no need my dear, Dr. Seph's(C) all puropse sleep remedy(TM) is OTC
Thank you (both). He's also waiting for you to stop by ReNext. And he's glad you're feeling better.
You should take this experience and turn it into a Twilight Zone-style short story.In a funny way ~ I miss the music
It has potential but I'm not doing it again to re-live the experience! Currently no music to report ~ Woopah!
Fortunately, I was too stoned at the time to care! Actually, that was one of the incidences that prompted me to quit prescription sleep aids.I've got goosepimples now with that story
I've always had hypnagogic hallucinations, which are hallucinations that happen when one is in a near sleep state, though mine are mild -- generally things like walls breathing or the bed spinning.
Glad you're feeling better!
Thanks tsq. Have thought about sleeping pills but fear addiction, have decided that a couple of glasses of Baileys suffices ~ whoops another addiction
As for the walls breathing ~ inanimate objects moving on their own is a particular fear and bed spinning
no need my dear, Dr. Seph's(C) all puropse sleep remedy(TM) is OTC
But a prescription is cheaper
(sorry for dp)
That's classic hypnagogia. I get the sleep paralysis sometimes too. It's a pain in the ass.
Like Gowron said, in a very googly-eyed fashion... "The grasp of Doo-ras reaches out from beyond the grave"...
I wouldn't worry unless you start hearing Bear McCreary's version of "All Along the Watchtower".
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