Thread: Hallucinations when trying to relax

When I try and go into a (lucid)dream, I lay down for a while and listen to music or something to relax. But usually, about halfway through this relaxation, something happens that completely freaks me out, causing my heart to pound. One time, I opened my eyes and saw three floating squares at the other end of my room, just floating there. I kept staring at them and it wouldn't go away so I got up and it was gone. Another time, I heard a loud clap right at my ears and it freaked me out. Another time, I heard someone's voice in my room. Why do these things keep happening?

I'm not too sure about the floating squares - thats pretty odd.

The sounds you hear like clapping or voices are auditory hallucinations. They're normal, and they can happen at the onset of sleep.

Meh, I wish I could avoid them. I'm just laying there, peaceful and relaxed, expecting nothing, and then suddenly someone might as well have screamed in my ear.

I get these a lot too. Sometimes I hear voices, sometimes I hear machines running. 10-30 minutes into WILD or something; almost every time I get auditory hallucinations.

These are all symptoms of SP, known as hypnic audio and visual hallucination's. They are tests that make sure your consciousness is falling/fell asleep, basically preventing WILDing from occurring. If you stay still and keep going through the hallucination's then you will feel vibrations and possibly enter WILDing. It shouldn't be scary, it should be exciting .

There are loads of threads about this sorta thing, for example; Here

Yea i get this too. No so much visual but very audio for me.

I hear really loud wind in my ears, not normal wind - it sounds like the fabric of reality is being ripped apart, like its painful to listen to. I have learnt to enjoy it and even change it sometimes.

Originally Posted by Venomblood

When I try and go into a (lucid)dream, I lay down for a while and listen to music or something to relax. But usually, about halfway through this relaxation, something happens that completely freaks me out, causing my heart to pound. One time, I opened my eyes and saw three floating squares at the other end of my room, just floating there. I kept staring at them and it wouldn't go away so I got up and it was gone. Another time, I heard a loud clap right at my ears and it freaked me out. Another time, I heard someone's voice in my room. Why do these things keep happening?

You see it is alot more common for all people to hallucinate every now and then, even though they are otherwise not mentally troubled. Scientists found out by research amongst entire nations' populations that so many sane people hear voices, see visual images of animals, people and objects and have tactile hallucinations so often that hallucinating should be considered as a pretty common, natural part of human experience.

If i were you I would feel somewhat blessed with the ability to easily fall into the subconscious world of Dreams, which is a very perculiar, Intelligent and powerfull part of the human Psyche to have access to. With nothing more than laying down, closing your eyes and relaxing to some music to it.
I would be inspired to try to Enter a Dream from that state, incubate certain dreams from that state, perhaps with a large poster of a dreamscene I want to enter.. Who knows what's possible from that half-dreaming state?

Also, these sounds aren't just wind blowing or common sounds. I mean, I hear absolutely nothing for about 15 minutes. Then it suddenly happens, so loud, you can't ignore it. I have no way of predicting it either.

Today after I got back from class I was going to experiment with these hallucinations. I wanted to see what sorts of hypnagogic imagery I could produce. I was having trouble getting my mind to wander off the way it does when I lay down to sleep since I was not tired. As soon as I started to see some HI something that sounded like a trumpet being blown right in my hear snapped me out of it and I was fully awake again. It got my heart going pretty fast for a second.

So you see it is normal. But it is unpredictable and can be annoying if you have a certain goal you're trying to reach and you're not ready for it because it ruins the experience.

Any of you guy's have visual hallucination's when waking up ? Just today as i was waking up i opened my eye's and there was a little pink cartoonish pig just floating toward the ceiling.I was like wtf then it just vanished but any way it was kinda cool.

Yea, I woke up once and answered the phone then said hello, with the phone to my ear. Of course there actually was no phone .