I've experienced 'real world signals' many times from taking Galantamine, and in none of them was I thinking about my real body. These signals manifest in several ways - sometimes difficulty seeing or blindness, sometimes I'm paralyzed laying down (sometimes even in my own bed) and often I can feel my body and head being pressed comfortably against some soft yielding surfce exactly like a bed, except that I'm upright in the dream. It's often very difficult for me to walk and when I do I feel like I'm walking through molasses and listing hard toward one side as if I'm about to fall over. In one dream I found myself wearing socks and mittens and a bathrobe, and I could quite literally feel fabric against my skin all over (which I believe is why my dreaming mind conjured up all the clothing). I also have difficulty thinking clearly in these dreams, as if my mind is incapacitated somehow, like I'm very drunk or stoned.
So there's more to it than just feeling the effects of SP or REM atonia - it definitely involves actual sensations coming through from the sleeping body into the dream. Not being argumentive here, it's just that I've had a lot of experience with these sensations and I want to point out that the explanations above don't fit the facts. It is possible that someone who's lucid and begginning to think about their sleeping body might bring on the same effects - but for me that's not what causes it. I believe there's a definite neurological factor of sensations getting through. In my case I think this only happens when I take G - not entirely sure about that - I could go through my DJ if I really wanted to find out. But I know these same symptoms are also present frequently when people WILD (which is actually what happens from taking Galantamine). I suspect the G is making me a little too aware of sensory stimulus and opening a channel from the body into my dreaming mind. I think that's the key to it - being too aware, and that this often leads to waking shortly.
Matt1, by any chance were you also hearing voices near you, as if people were nearby talking or maybe music playing? That's another symptom that often accompanies the rest and I definitely got it last night. I found myself in dream after dream where I was just sitting propped against various sofas or against the wall along with dozens of other people in room after room of a big house and I could hear their quiet muttering all around me but was unable to turn my head to look at them other than whoever happened to be in front of me. I never really moved at all, just sat or lay or stoood there through each scenario, then I would find myself in a different room still surrounded by all these people.
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I just read through Sageous' WILD tutorial in the DV Academy section, and he mentions that when you're about to wake up is usually when these real world signals break through. That sounds right to me - it's like actual conscious awareness is becoming too strong and if it continues then you'll be awake. I think for me and many others the Galantamine causes this problem of making you slightly too aware and too near waking up, opening the neural pathways from the sensory organs to the brain that normally would be shut off during sleep.This can also happen from WILDing (without Galantamine) and I think often results in the dreamer waking up immediately or very shortly after noticing the sensations.
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