I have had some kinds of half dreams, in the period when I'm between being asleep and awake, but I can wake myself up, sometimes I twitch like a bastard because I fell off a cliff in my dream or tripped on something. |
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I've been trying to do WILD recently, without much success. I can get to the point where I've lost all sense of my body, besides my breathing and pulse. After that point, however, I slip into these half-dreams. I'm fully lucid, but they're not very interesting. I see things in my mind's eye (not abstract things, but real objects), and they're definitely clearer than just imagining something, but I can still see the blackness that comes with having my eyes closed if I focus on it. I can imagine myself in my half-dream, and control myself, but not the same way I would control my body; if I try to make a movement, I'll wake up. At one point I tried this, got out of bed, reality-checked, and I got some minor eyes open visual hallucinations in low light...I wasn't so much seeing things that weren't there as I was misinterpreting what I saw as real objects, then imagining the details, if that makes any sense. |
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I have had some kinds of half dreams, in the period when I'm between being asleep and awake, but I can wake myself up, sometimes I twitch like a bastard because I fell off a cliff in my dream or tripped on something. |
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"I hate to advocate drugs, sex, violence and insanity, but they've worked for me." -Hunter S. Thompson
I know exactly what you're talking about. It happens to me occasionally, but it doesn't last long. I usually end up banging into something in the half-dream, or falling off of something, and coming fully awake with a jump. The transition makes it feel like I jumped about 2 feet off my bed. |
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Well life is short, so love the one ya' got, 'cause you might get run over or you might get shot.
~Sublime
Ha ha ha. That reminds me of when I'm drifing off to sleep, but then i jerk myself awake becuase in my semi-concious state, I feel like I'm about to fall or something... and it's my natural reaction to try to counter act that fall.... hence, the big jerk. And then I lay there feeling so silly for not falling and feeling like I could have. |
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Live life with no regrets.
Sounds like Hypnagogic Imagery... |
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I would say that you're missing the last step. When I reach that stage I then have to use a trick to really attach myself to the image - so I'm in it not just looking at it. There is a knack to it and its very hard to explain. |
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hehehe.. It becomes more interesting if you can control the half-dreaming status. I would not call it hypnogognic imagery, as it is a little deeper then that. The unique thing is.. you can dream while being fully conscious and aware of what is around you. I know this because i've gone into it while sleepwalking, and I can walk around and dream at the same time. Happens in class sometimes.. i just close my eyes and in a few minutes it happens.. yet I am still listening to whatever is being said in class. Teachers hate it, but after they've gotten to know me, they know I kinda half-sleep everywhere, whenever I have nothing to do. |
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Jeez, that used to happen to me a few times a week, but once I posted about it on another forum, it stopped happenig. (Or so i thought). It happened yesterday, and even though I knew better, my reflexes jerked my leg anyways. |
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