Thread: The "Movie Theatre Affect"

Hey there, I know exactly what you are talking about. In fact you were most likely experiencing hypnogogic sounds before you entered your dream. This is very common as you are awake while going into a dream. It sounds like you almost had a WILD, or wake induced lucid dream.

During a WILD you experience everything consciously that your body and mind typically go through, unconsciously, while you fall asleep. Things such as sleep paralysis, and hynogogic imagery and sounds. If you were able to retain your consciousness through this "movie theatre effect" it should have taken you into a lucid dream...but from the sounds of it it seems that you probably lost consciousness before the dream it and therefore the dream you entered was not a lucid one.

I find reciting song lyrics in my head, or even singing a song, or reciting a prayer if you are religious is enough to keep me conscious as I transition from hypnogogia into my lucid dream. It is definitely a fine line between being too conscious and waking up and being too unconcious and falling asleep. It will take some practice to master.

I suggest you try to induce a WILD...after 5 hours of sleep, or in the early morning...or during a nap early in the day. It's pretty hard to have them at night b/c your body just wants to go to sleep and is in a different mind set.

Also, you will hear ALOT of strange things during that hypnogogic state. There are several threads about HS, or hypnogogic sounds that I suggest you read up about. Do a quick search of the forum and type in HS, or hypnogogic sounds. Let me know if you have anymore questions.

-nina

No, I'm not religious. Thanks alot! You are helping me out alot, and I will use your advice .

Thanks!

ok on that last post i didint know if you were sarcastic and angry or happy and thankfull. It did sound sarcastic tho.corect me if im wrong.

Originally posted by pytis
ok on that last post i didint know if you were sarcastic and angry or happy and thankfull. It did sound sarcastic tho.corect me if im wrong.

LOL I thought that at first too...but I think he wasn't being sarcastic. At least I hope not. I hate how things can be misconstrued while talking online.

he wasn't being sarcastic. (this comes outta 4 years IRC experiance, i know I have no life hehe)

Yeah guys, hes right. I wasn't being sarcastic. I tried to go with the vibrations last night but my family would not shut up! If I tell them to be quiet they go quiet, but then they get noisy again. If I tell them a second time they say I'm cranky... Man it's pi$$ing me off. Anyway. I had some more vibrations last night, but I'm not sure if I just made it up... I'll ask for your opinion.

I was just getting into sleep and I pictured this guy walking through a school. First the school looked like it was normal, but then I changed it to futuristic (curving glass walls, metal and glass desks, stuff like that). I heard (now this is what I want to know) a piano playing in the background, and my mind was following this guy like a movie camera.

Right after that I was disturbed by my family !!

So, my question is:
Was the piano music a vibration?

Thanks for your help.

P.S. I had another non-lucid dream last night. It was winter and I was at my friends house. I ran outside and went behind a snow wall (I could not feel the cold, and I was not wearing snow stuff... I should have taken that as a sign that I was dreaming). I stuck my feet in the hole (made out of snow) in the ground, and I saw a squirrel in the hole. I picked him up (this is when I noticed that i was wearing gloves). I knew he would bite me and he did. I put him back in the hole and he started biting and scratching at my feet. I said "You little bast@rd!" and sturggled to pull my feet out. Finally I freed (that even a word?) my feet. That is as far as I can remember ........

The piano music was most likely part of HI.

I recommend ductape for your family next time you need to sleep. Other then that, maybe some music or a fan would help.. I find ambient noise like a fan easy to focus in on and slip into a WILD. I also find the wind it makes a pain in the ass to staying asleep, so i lock the fan in one position so it blows not as me, but across the foot of the bed, its enough to get the air moving in the room, but not enough to piss me off or freeze me.