Altered State upon entering Dreamworld

**Matchbook** · 06-09-2010 10:08 PM

Hello everyone. I used to be a regular at Dreamviews a couple years ago, and now I'm back again. I'm not sure if anyone remembers me, but if not, that's ok! It's nice to be back.

I have been experiencing new dream phenomena the past year or so that I have not experienced before. When I wake up in the early morning, I usually get up to use the restroom, then get back in bed. On occasion I find myself WILDing. I have become accustomed to the sensations and the state upon entering a WILD, with vibrations, visual manifestations, etc, but I will explain this new occurence, and see if anyone is familiar with it:

The Altered State: As I begin to drift off, I maintain a level of consciousness and my bed appears in view as if my eyes were open, or another location, usually dim. All in one fluid shift, reality alters, and I feel a euphoric lightness in my body, and a pleasant pressure in my head. I usually float upwards or feel like I am floating in smooth molasses and everything changes visually where my range of vision seems expanded outward, but my focus draws intently forward. Along with this there is sometimes a hum when it starts. What differentiates this experience from my typical WILD or OBE-like experiences of the past is that the euphoria of the state and warmth is profound, and the connectedness to the visual dream-plane is astounding, though brief. The state is euphoric, but for me it can also blend in an element of fear or heart-racing, because the state feels so foreign and intense.

...This often fades out, and then sometimes fades in again in a different location.

Does this sound similar to any of your experiences? To clarify, I am not reffering to the pre-initiated WILD state or of the vibration state, nor to a full-on lucid dream state.

The state contains these elements:
1. Euphoria/lightness
2. Altered mental state and focus
3. Altered visual focus or expansion
4. Floating, feeling like being in jelly.

**Matchbook** · 06-10-2010 12:28 AM

Experience Example:

I'll share one experience that happened a few months back. I had woken up, used the restroom, went back to bed, and I drifted off to sleep, and almost immediately there was a dream-like scene fading in, but I wasn't necessarily lucid. My bed was fading in, the room was very dimly lit a faded orange cast, and sitting cross-legged in front of me was my cousin, and he was playing a rustic recorder very eerily. I felt light at this point and semi in touch with the scene, but then my cousin played a note on the recorder that started to resonate and undulate, and immediately all of my senses were powerfully attuned to the dream, the sound, and I felt held in the air by a wash of euphoria, and I floated slowly upward, but my vision was zooming inward toward the recorder, while at the edges of my vision were expanding outward - a powerfully surreal experience!

The heart of the phenomena was simply a sudden hyper-connectivity with the dream environment and senses as a whole. The dream faded out, and then shortly thereafter I was in the corner of another very dimly orange-lit room, in a mental state of detachment. Then in an instant again, everything was vivid, and I think there was a hum that accompanied the event. I floated upward, and was wrapped in euphoria, but a tinge of fear as it intensified and the visual plane expanded itself.

If I could induce this state in waking life, or in the dream world, I most certainly would!

**Puffin** · 06-10-2010 01:33 AM

I've had something similar to this happen before when WILDing, but not as powerfully as you described. I did feel a shift in my vision and an odd feeling all over my body, like I was numb or something.

My guess is that it's just from the transition into the dream.

**Matchbook** · 06-10-2010 04:16 AM

Puffin,
Did this occur before or after dream entry, during hypnagogia or dream-state? Also, were you in a state of lucidity, or simply a heightened dream-state? I am interested in looking into how this state is initiated, and what brain activity may be involved, because the state is very novel and intriguing, not to mention enjoyable, and I would want to learn how to harness it more often and explore it.

Since you mention numbness, I did detect something like that. I also forgot to mention that the sense of connectivity to the state and environment was accompanied by an extremely potent emotional presence.

Anyone else familiar with this state? I would like to collect more information and experiences.