Thread: Useful Hypnagogic Hallucinations?

Yeah, some famous musician "heard" most of his songs in dreams. I forget the name.

I know Yesterday by the Beatles supposedly came to Paul McCartney in a dream. But I mean the hypnagogic hallucinations. So be able to come up with stuff before actually falling asleep. I think it'd be useful to be able to go lie down for a while if your creativity has dried up and come up with something without having to actually go through a 1/2hour nap.

I hear pretty cool music in dreams sometimes. but im always to lazy to get up and figure it out.

one time I woke up in sp and heard some music that was really scary. I wish I had figured the chords out. It sounded like a slow intro to a death/black metal song. Im not even really into that genre but it sounded cool.

Hypnagogia is pretty neat. I haven't used it for anything creative. Usually it isn't music or sight for me. Just muttering, or schoolwork.

You should've definitely tried to play it.

That's where Salvador Dali got the inspiration for all his paintings. Kind of obvious when you look at them.

Hypnagogic Imagery Technique

Originally Posted by Shift

Hypnagogic Imagery Technique

What do you mean? I know what HIT is but what are you saying about it?

Ah, I misunderstood and thought you were asking what to do with strong HH. Apologies.

Throughout history some major breakthroughs and inspirations have been attributed to HH. God knows if they're credible or not.

Originally Posted by Shift

Ah, I misunderstood and thought you were asking what to do with strong HH. Apologies.

Nae worries.

Mainly what I was trying to find out was if there was any known technique for using HH creatively but I can't find anything and no one's posted any techniques here. Ah well, maybe I can work it out once I've mastered LDing.

Cheers for input anyway guys!

Another example, I believe it was Emannuel Swedenborg, was trying to figure out what caused tooth decay.

He was thinking about it as he was falling asleep, and his HI started with a tooth. The tooth then changed into curdled milk.

Pondering what that could mean, he realized that it was bacteria that caused milk to go bad (which he already knew), and that is was bacteria that caused tooth decay.

Last night in a dream I had an idea for a picture I wanted to draw. In the dream the idea was awesome. I thought it was really original and got really exited about startining it.

Then when I woke up I thought about it and couldnt remember why I liked it. I thought about and it sounded absolutely rediculous, but in the dream it made perfect sense. but I couldnt remeber my "dream reasoning" when I woke up. It was so frustrating.

I wont say what it was, but i think i'll still draw it for fun.