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    1. 07-25-2012 12:55 PM #1
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      WTH happened last night? Weird dream recall / strange nights sleep.

      So, I was all intent on taking my Lucid Dreaming pill on a WBTB last night, for the first time. I went to bed early, and fell asleep normally. I must stress I DIDNT TAKE ANYTHING, not even the usual B6 as I wanted to see the effects of the G&C without any interactions.

      However, I woke up only an hour later, sweating (it was super hot last night) and a little fearful. I remember a dream but not a nightmare, for a second shadows looked like monsters but I did an RC and I was awake, I calmed down, and went back to sleep.

      Only another hour later, I woke again, this time after another 'normal' dream, but I was feeling weird. I was slipping in and out of consciousness (must have been tired) and as I was I was unintentionally WILDing! It came on so fast, I would lie down to sleep, and felt my body go numb, then a floating sensation, all in a matter of minutes. I didn't fight it, but I mostly 'popped' in and out of it, very unusual sensation. This happened all night, at one point I checked the G&C pill on my bedside table to make sure I hadn't taken it in my sleep, because the feeling was so intense. I hadn't.

      Then it got even weirder!

      I would wake up, with a music in my head from my childhood, that I had COMPLETELY forgotten. It was eerie and freaked me out, I kept remembered dreams from YEARS AGO. I shit you not. I thought about getting up (this was about 3.30am) and watching some TV because I was so freaked out I daren't sleep. However I forced myself to sleep, and had pretty normal dreams. I woke up again and again, each time remembering dreams from about 5 or 6 years ago, with amazing detail. I thought I'd completely forgotten these dreams. What the hell happened? Then...


      I woke up (or did I? FA?) because there was a loud noise outside, at first I thought it was a helicopter flying by )it happens) but it got louder and louder, I realised I was awake... (I think... I didn't RC) but I was in SP - the noise got loud and turned into screeching, just like HH that people describe, but I've never had it. After the noise, I felt tingling all over my body, and fell asleep.

      Sounds exactly like a WILD, but I weren't sure if I was dreaming of WILDing, or if I woke up, in SP, then fell asleep again. It was so real.


      So anyway. Now this morning, I'm fine (actually feel very well rested!) but I can still remember the dreams I recalled from years ago. I know they were real dreams and I remembered telling my friend about the dreams when I had them 5 years ago.



      The ONLY thing I have changed, is I've been taking Ginseng and Ginkgo in a morning, for about a week now. Could this be effecting my sleep? Or was it because I was preparing myself for the G&C so much that I made myself do this? Also, if I sleep outside the quilt, or naked (which I was doing both last night because of the heat) I often, in fact, nearly always have nightmares. Why is this?


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    2. 07-25-2012 02:24 PM #2
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      Not sure if I can give you the answers, but perhaps a few clues.
      It was an awfully hot night, so I have had the same comfort problems, up to the point of exhaustion. I have been waking up in the middle of the night feeling dehaydrated, with a dry mouth, etc. I would say that would cause you to go into a light sleep - it did with me, so I remembered more stuff, including the reverie, etc.
      So light sleep may be a factor possibly coupled with some sort of 'rebound' effect as normally you do (from what I have seen on your journal entries) take a regular supplement or two, so stopping it suddenly may have affected you perhaps?
      I tend to only get really wierd stuff if I'm really mentally exhausted and decide to sleep on my back. I get OBE type effects, like twisting, etc. which used to frighten the sh*t out of me! (Now I try and relax and not fight it which seems to help.)
      I know what you mean about the naked thing. With me I tend to sleep lighter as it is something I'm not used to.
      Your experience does sound quite intense and memorable however. I hope it has given you some sort of insight about your old dreams.
      The only time I had something similar was in my early 20's when I had a chain of dreams and FA's together. The FA was always the same of me in my bedroom, whilst the main dream was nightmarish (not sure if it was lucid?) and one of the other dreams in the chain was really sexual, but funny at the same time. It was that memorable I can still recount it today like it is burnt into my memory!
      So a summary.
      Dehydration, light sleep, rebound, comfort? Other than that I don't know.
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    3. 07-25-2012 02:48 PM #3
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      Yeah RobStar - I didn't factor in the rebound and now you mention it I've been on a bender recently! Although I slept the night before ok, erm. I dunno!

      It wasn't... BAD, really, just intense!

      Like you said, a little bit of everything! I'm looking forward to see what happens tonight, thanks for your reply though, it does make sense!
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      Quote Originally Posted by isthisit View Post
      Yeah RobStar - I didn't factor in the rebound and now you mention it I've been on a bender recently! Although I slept the night before ok, erm. I dunno!

      It wasn't... BAD, really, just intense!

      Like you said, a little bit of everything! I'm looking forward to see what happens tonight, thanks for your reply though, it does make sense!
      Nah, nothing wrong with that!
      Good luck with the Ginseng and Ginkgo combo.
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      This is waay too weird! It's been going on all day, I keep remembering dreams from YEARS ago. All day. Like now I just remembered 2. They're like flashbacks. They aren't necessarily full dreams, but more like fragments and scenes from past dreams. And once they come back, I'm like 'oh yeah, I remember now!'


      It's freaky! So why now when I've been awake for hours?

      It MUST be the Ginseng or Ginkgo..... the bottle says; 'Helps aid memory.' WTF can it really be this true??
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      I presume from this that you have no physical symptoms apart from the flashbacks, etc. Have you had anything like this before, or is the first time?

      Quote Originally Posted by isthisit View Post
      It MUST be the Ginseng or Ginkgo..... the bottle says; 'Helps aid memory.' WTF can it really be this true??
      It increases blood circulation. (In this case, to the brain.)
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      Quote Originally Posted by RobStar View Post
      I presume from this that you have no physical symptoms apart from the flashbacks, etc. Have you had anything like this before, or is the first time?



      It increases blood circulation. (In this case, to the brain.)
      No, nothing scary, no physical symptoms (I don't think anyway lol) just the weird memory thing. This is the first time it's ever happened. I'll keep an eye on it! It's significant enough for me to be kind of shocked, it wasn't even a gradual thing, just last night, suddenly I could remember the past dreams, and then it's not really gone away. I'll see what tonight is like!

      EDIT: Thanks for being concerned!
      Last edited by isthisit; 07-25-2012 at 09:17 PM. Reason: added...
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