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Sometimes when I am falling asleep I have this weird feeling like I'm spinning or falling, even though I'm just laying in my bed. It's almost like being on a roller coaster ride. I know that if I open my eyes, the feeling will disappear, and sometimes it goes away before I fall asleep. If I can fall asleep during it, though, it usually leads to lucid dreaming. |
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beinedhiel, I'm glad you decided to join us! |
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I've heard it referred to as "sleep paralysis". |
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I have that a lot too. It's not really sleep paralysis, at least not yet. It falls into the hypnagogic hallucinations category. If I'm very tired I start spinning so fast it makes me sick...heh. I haven't succeded to do a WILD though, but I'm very close when it does happen and the spinning isn't the only hallucination. Usually I get lots of images and people screaming into my ear. |
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I don't think sleep paralysis is a good term for it either, but it seems to be related to that. |
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thanks so much, everyone! |
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You may have actually stopped breathing! I've heard of this from friends and it happens during sleep paralysis states sometimes. |
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Last edited by Who I Am; 02-25-2008 at 10:48 PM.
... best you wake up, or you may find yourself in a lucid dream that you can't return from,... as in the death of the physical body! |
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Last edited by Who I Am; 02-25-2008 at 11:09 PM.
I did actually have sleep apnea as a baby, but I think I'm okay now. I think what was happening was as I got closer to sleep, I wasn't breathing as deeply, and then I wasn't sure if I stopped consciously breathing I would keep breathing unconsciously. Actually, the whole thing was very scary for me. But I shall persevere! (and pay attention to my body, yes.) |
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You know whats even crazier? try controlling your spins. Try spinning to the left, stop, then spin to the right a little bit, the spin back to the left maybe a quarter or a half rotation. |
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Last edited by Espionage01; 02-26-2008 at 05:12 AM.
Have you read up on Meniere's disease? I'm going through some strange symptoms and the key one that clued me in, is the sensation of my entire whole body actually feeling like it's being spun around. Not only spun around but last time it felt as though I was also being pulled off my bed. I'm looking for any insight someone can give me. |
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Hey welcome to the forum, this sounds very familiar to what I do to achieve lucidity via a WILD - I have a link in my signature, feel free to have a read through and add any comments and/or experiences. Would love to hear them |
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I get this too .. I feel myself sinking into my bed and I cant feel my body but I can feel it spinning and I can change the direction I spin too which is strange ! Its a pleasant feeling.. your body feels really light and your head has a buzz to it. |
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Dream Is Destiny
You can easily achieve lucidity from this point. Have a read through this and let me know what you think. |
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I also don't see how it's vertigo, unless he has these sympotms all the time, not just when lying in bed. |
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Lots of things can be called vertigo, an excerpt from Wikipedia reads: |
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I thought photism was a visual phenomenon. This sounds more like it's tactile equivalent. Is there a word for this kind of synesthesia that is motion specific? Would that term be "Vertigo"? |
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Last edited by Robot_Butler; 08-14-2008 at 09:47 PM.
Before I awake into a lucid dream, I always feel a sort of a tingling |
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