Bleed-through

[Anelior]

I'm just wondering if anyone here can relate to this kind of dreaming/waking experience I have had on several occasions. I call it a bleed0through, and it goes like this: I will be having a dream that is very vivid. Usually I am aware that I am in control here and will start doing something like levitating (usually over water). At that point I keep pushing the boundaries and then I will wake up. However, when I wake up I am still living the dream. One time I wwas levitating in the dream and I woke up and had the sensation that I was levitating in my bed. I could feel myself hovering in it, and then after about 10 seconds I became aware that I was just in my bed and suspended. Another time I had a dream where a shaman or lama of some kind came to me and gave me a symbollic message. It involved taking a spider web out of a shoe, but after this happened, tiny spiders came out and crawled all over me! Right after that I woke up but for about 10 seconds I could still feel them, literally, all over me. Anyone relate to this? My theory is that when we dream our perceptive faculties in the brain switch. For example, the perceptive faculties when we are awake interpret our reality based on sensory input. However, when we sleep they interpret our reality based on our thinking. Some people who are very good daydreamers though can testify that when they fall into a daydream they just forget their present, waking reality. THe brain has switched modes. So I think that what causes the bleed-through is a delay in the brain's switch back to waking-reality mode. I have found that these bleed-throughs are increasing as my mind focus increases. This makes a lot of sense to me because the reality mode we are in when dreaming is based entirely on thinking and not sensory interpretation. Honing in on the power of imagination can start to create dream-like realities in the waking state. I am noticing this trend for me now. It is very interesting to think what kind of possibilities such a skill would allow...

[wer]

I've had a strang feeling like that before. It was a nightmare. In it I had a strang feeling someone was behind me. This happens to me a lot in nightmares, but i never wake up still worried someone was behind me. It happend to me that time! But its very interesting...

[293]

i also have thought about this, and i think that the brain can simulate any sense we have had before, even the pain of being shot or something, but that aside, i think that both the levitating and spiders feel are very common and not because of what you dreamt of, i suspect the spiders was the "vibrations" of sleep paralysis kicking in or shutting off (we who WILD get these all the time) and the levitating is also something that WILD'ers get alot, its your "dream body" senses, your brain creates the feeling for the dream body and if you are awake when your dream body is active you feel both your real and dream bodys, the dream body feels like it is seperated, or floating above you, which is strange and cool

[dreamshadow]

I get that all the time. Sometimes I even will get up and move around my bedroom for up to 5 minutes still thinking that my dream is still going. Like one time I had a dream that my family was in grave danger and we were hiding upstairs. Then I woke up and paced around my bedroom for 5 minutes trying to figure out how to get out of the house. Then it just *clicked* that I had been dreaming. Anyway, I can totally relate to that!

[libertine]

One time when I was 16 I tried staying awake for as long as I could... I stayed awake for about five days straight if I remember correctly. I recall slipping in and out of dreams while I was fully awake and had my eyes open. Its sorta like the dreams were merging with my awake state... I remember hallucinating something like the spiders you mention except they were comming down from the ceiling from thousands of webs and there was a video game character in the corner of my room behind them.