Thread: Dream bleeding into reality

You were smoking a joint. Inducing mind and mood altering substances into your body is bound to cause you to experience wacky reality changes.

That, and if it IS schitzophrenia, mixing weed with a condition like that is usually a really bad combo, and produces some very warped 'visions' as you put it.

Originally Posted by Alextanium

You were smoking a joint. Inducing mind and mood altering substances into your body is bound to cause you to experience wacky reality changes.

That, and if it IS schitzophrenia, mixing weed with a condition like that is usually a really bad combo, and produces some very warped 'visions' as you put it.

Honestly, having open-eyed visual hallucinations after smoking weed is extremely uncommon. Unless your tolerance is extremely low and you were smoking extremely good bud one joint shouldn’t do that to you. Not even on your first time with regs.

Auditory hallucinations are a little more common if you are out of your mind high.

Weed + Schizophrenia, will do that however.

I've had the exact same thing as you when I was younger as well, I saw two of our neighbours dogs in my room after waking up in the middle of the night, i screamed till my mum came. I had woken up and was heading to the bathroom when I turned and saw them, so it continued a little after waking up, as in your case.

I occasionally have dreams carry over into wakening, but this is normally only for a second or three.

Either it was some mental illness or just hypnagogia. I see no reason for the second possibility being imporbable. I can see strong hipnagogia for minutes after waking up. I can see them douring the day if I want, but that's just me.

Whenever people hear something that does not fit into their understanding of the world, it is considered an illness and is to be treated. If important religious persons of the past had lived in modern times, they would have spend their lifes locked up in a mental home or prison. We have become a narrow-minded, fearful people that really needs cure.

Originally Posted by psy

Whenever people hear something that does not fit into their understanding of the world, it is considered an illness and is to be treated. If important religious persons of the past had lived in modern times, they would have spend their lifes locked up in a mental home or prison. We have become a narrow-minded, fearful people that really needs cure.

Your assumption rests entirely on the belief that their 'visions' weren't the result of drugs, mental illness or flat out lies. They may have even had a really realistic lucid dream! The irony! If logical and critical reasoning had existed in any measurable form in ancient Palestine, those "important persons" would have been locked up just like they are today.

They got a free ride back then because humans were uneducated and didn't know any better.

Originally Posted by Alextanium

Your assumption rests entirely on the belief that their 'visions' weren't the result of drugs, mental illness or flat out lies. They may have even had a really realistic lucid dream! The irony! If logical and critical reasoning had existed in any measurable form in ancient Palestine, those "important persons" would have been locked up just like they are today.

They got a free ride back then because humans were uneducated and didn't know any better.

That I call an arrogant view.

straying from the main topic and so not worth the effort

Originally Posted by Alextanium

You were smoking a joint. Inducing mind and mood altering substances into your body is bound to cause you to experience wacky reality changes.

That, and if it IS schitzophrenia, mixing weed with a condition like that is usually a really bad combo, and produces some very warped 'visions' as you put it.

I smoke weed all the time. Very good stuff too. I've also taken mushrooms can literally gone insane for a few hours (interesting story for another thread perhaps). I know what insanity feels like and I'm not, nor have I been insane.

I know very well the mental reprucussions smoking weed can have on a mind succeptable to schizophrenia. I once considered checking myself into an insitution years back because I felt crazy but I was really just confused and stressed out.

I won't go as far as to say these shadow creatures don't exist. I saw them with my eyes. Do I think they exist in my concious world? No, they don't. But I can't, without proof, deny that there isn't some other dimension out there.

I'm going to agree with the false awakening theory.

I did experience this once when i was about that age, i had weird smurf-looking things that lived in my house and forced me to be their slave, however when i woke up and walked out of my room they were still there and only i could see them.. From then on things went black and i woke up in my bed again (I think.. it was a while ago now). So yeah, from personal experience i would say FA.

Originally Posted by Altasi

I'm going to agree with the false awakening theory.

I did experience this once when i was about that age, i had weird smurf-looking things that lived in my house and forced me to be their slave, however when i woke up and walked out of my room they were still there and only i could see them.. From then on things went black and i woke up in my bed again (I think.. it was a while ago now). So yeah, from personal experience i would say FA.

I disagree... because when I was little I had a bad dream and work up to hippo dressed in tiki clothing dancing around my bed chanting and holding spears in there hands... my mom remembers is I went to the basement to cool down after the dream it's not a FA.. a similar thing happened to my sister with different characters. I remember it as does the rest of the family it's not an FA... they almost always happen after nightmares to do with a rush of adrenaline and a quick awaking…

Originally Posted by thisismylogin

I disagree... because when I was little I had a bad dream and work up to hippo dressed in tiki clothing dancing around my bed chanting and holding spears in there hands... my mom remembers is I went to the basement to cool down after the dream it's not a FA.. a similar thing happened to my sister with different characters. I remember it as does the rest of the family it's not an FA... they almost always happen after nightmares to do with a rush of adrenaline and a quick awaking…

how is THAT a bad dream? chanting hippos in tiki clothing? that is the best dream ever. if it was the spears that killed this whole dream, that is a sad loss of awesome dream potential.

i was having a nightmar before hand where i was tied up and going to be killed by the hippos

Mm...can't say I've ever had one of these types of experiences before, though my brother used to complain about stuff like this when he was a little kid.

Originally Posted by Altasi

I'm going to agree with the false awakening theory.

I should extend what happened. After it faded and I called down my step dad took me out into the backyard, said he thought I should get some air. Then he threw me into the pool with my clothes still on and I swam for a good half hour before going back to bed.

False awakening = false theory in my particular case.

I've never been able to explain nor am I able to forget it. It was pretty traumatic.