Feeling "high"?

On Thursday, I had a very peculiar thing happen to me. I had slept from 12:00 AM-2:00 AM, then woken up to do homework, then gone back to sleep at 5:30 AM. As I was going to sleep, it hit me that I felt extremely "high." My head felt completely different than it ought to, as if I'd consumed a massive amount of caffeine. The minute I moved my head, the high disappeared.

When I did finally get to sleep, I had a lucid dream. When I woke up, the high was still with me. It gradually faded over the course of the morning and was not unpleasant, but it was a bizarre experience. A year ago, I remember having a similar feeling nearly every day for a few months. I went to a doctor, who gave me a blood test and checked my blood pressure but was unable to find the culprit.

I'm wondering if any of you have had similar experiences...

Ive had many experiences like that, however they didnt really have to do with waking up early then going back to sleep.

I was trying a new meditation tecnique in my basment jsut yesterday all the lights were off and i did a breathing excersize and a leg relaxation exercize after i finished both of these for about ten minutes after i was finished i couldent feel my feet and my head felt all "floaty" as if i were a little high.

Breathing excersizes in my basement with all the lights out. Yes, thats what it's like when I get high.

Seriously tho, perhaps a blood vessel was pinched in your neck so you didn't get enough oxygen? or maybe some spinal nerve was activated because you were laying on it in a weird way? I'm not sure if I can recall an exact experience where this has happened to me, but I find that waking up at midnight - 3am to finish my homework makes me REALLY hyper and unable to sleep (at first)

getting high in dreams is pretty cool. once i did herion in a dream for some reason (nonlucid) and i could feel the high. it felt quite good actually.

Getting high in a dream is a completely different experience. For me, it ends up eliminating my sense of touch, among other effects. Unfortunately, pretty much every drug has the same basic set of effects.

I don't think the lack of oxygen explanation is really a particularly good one, because usually that would manifest itself in different ways. I'd think that it'd recur sometimes when I'm getting a regular amount of sleep, but, at least for the moment, it doesn't; it's definitely something about the quality of my sleep. Also, the "high" disappeared when I shifted positions while going to sleep, but was also there when I woke up (in a different position from when the high had come on before), so I doubt any position-related explanation can be found.

In a normal situation, if I open my eyes at a certain stage after I've fallen asleep (and pretty much lost memory of what happened before; I'm not too good with WILD), my vision shows a highly rhythmic flickering. Since NREM sleep involves higher amplitude, lower frequency theta and/or delta waves, which imply greater synchrony of firing within the cortex, I've attributed these rhythmic flickers to synchrony of firing within the visual cortex (and actually, while I'm awake, I can see some flickering too; it just happens significantly more quickly). The other day, as well as in other situations when I've felt this "high," there's little flicker to be found, but instead this euphoric feeling. I also sometimes get a feeling within my head upon attaining lucidity, but not always. I guess its origin of my "high" will remain a mystery.

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Getting high in a dream is a completely different experience. For me, it ends up eliminating my sense of touch, among other effects. Unfortunately, pretty much every drug has the same basic set of effects.[/b]

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The only drug I've oft wondered about taking in a dream is MDMA, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be anything like Ecstasy's real effects. All other drugs aren't worth bothering with in my future LDs, with time perhaps- just not whilst I value their time so much. MDMA long ago stopped affecting me any more than maybe 10-25% of its potential, thus it would be awesome if its effects could be manifested in a dream.

I haven't heard of any information regarding drugs in dreams that what I just read above on pot and the poster above. So I guess I'll just have to try! :D

Yeah funny you should mention this. It happened to me last night. I woke up half-way through the night and started to fall back to sleep, and it seemed like I was about to go into a WILD, but I never did. I felt this intense buzz or high in my head and body and my closed-eye vision seemed different. It was quite euphoric. Pissed me off though, I never made it to WILD

this is a cool thing to have happen naturally. i wish this happened to me.

when i smoke herb in a non lucid, i get higher then heck and it goes slow mo. :o