Thread: Question About Hypnogogic Imagery

When I try to wild I never seem to get the HI to start. I enter sleep paralysis and my whole body starts to feel like it is vibrating but no HI. Any ideas on what might cause this?

Originally Posted by Tpiskor615

When I try to wild I never seem to get the HI to start. I enter sleep paralysis and my whole body starts to feel like it is vibrating but no HI. Any ideas on what might cause this?

nope

This vibrating is actually a hypnagogic hallucination. So you may not be getting visual hypnagogoic sensations, but you are getting the tactile ones. Not everyone gets HI, either. I usually experience it when I'm pretty tired, but not very frequently.

Ok, Thank you.

Originally Posted by Shift

This vibrating is actually a hypnagogic hallucination. So you may not be getting visual hypnagogoic sensations, but you are getting the tactile ones. Not everyone gets HI, either. I usually experience it when I'm pretty tired, but not very frequently.

hey - first post from me..

are these vibrations classed as hypnagogoic hallucinations? I always considered them to be a sensitization of actual bodily stuff going on.. stuff our brains usually block - visceral vibrations, tapping into the nervous system?

Originally Posted by Dormiens Vigila

hey - first post from me..

are these vibrations classed as hypnagogoic hallucinations? I always considered them to be a sensitization of actual bodily stuff going on.. stuff our brains usually block - visceral vibrations, tapping into the nervous system?

Yup, from everything that I have read (quite a bit now ) they are pure hallucinations, though perhaps there is some sort of greater experience of those visceral vibrations. I doubt it though, it seems more to be the opposite- the internal production of all perception that you experience. I can't imagine my body actually shaking as violently as it has felt, either. So yea generally speaking, it's all in your head
Don't hold me to it though. If you manage to find some research saying the opposite, I would absolutely love to read it. But I have never come across it. From what I've gathered, they are all believed to be pure hallucinations.

Originally Posted by Shift

Yup, from everything that I have read (quite a bit now ) they are pure hallucinations, though perhaps there is some sort of greater experience of those visceral vibrations. I doubt it though, it seems more to be the opposite- the internal production of all perception that you experience. I can't imagine my body actually shaking as violently as it has felt, either. So yea generally speaking, it's all in your head
Don't hold me to it though. If you manage to find some research saying the opposite, I would absolutely love to read it. But I have never come across it. From what I've gathered, they are all believed to be pure hallucinations.

I've not come across the any research to say the vibrations are or aren't hallucinations..
My hunch is the vibrations are an acute over-sensitivity to electrical activity in the body. What if you were to become conscious and hypersensitive to all that neuromodulatory firing that accompanies SP.. And what about the noises? could random firing account for this also?