Post-Dream Hallucinations

[Thatguynextdoor]

Hey I'm wondering if anyone who's ever WILDed or just messed around with that state of half-consciousness had post-dream hallucinations. I know this wasn't a false awakening because after seeing everything while standing there I walked to my computer and started surfing the internet. And saw my bookmarks the next morning.... Anyways, I wasn't attempting to WILD at the time and just trying to get some sleep. I was moderately tired and kept drifting in and out of consciousness. Finally I was really thirsty and got up. When I did there were 4 of the most terrifying looking serial killer, dark, machete weilding, ominous, maniacs ever conceived just standing there. Note they weren't creepy and disturbing beyond whats humanly possible so I almost crapped in my pants. It was so real and vivid I could still swear it was real. They started the typical slow walk towards me in no hurry because I was cornered. (Another note I was sleeping on the couch in the living room that night) When one of them was within arms reach of me (I can still remember that Jason mask lol screw Friday the 13th) They all vanished. I don't know who has seen "My Bloody Valentine" but it was just like the scene at the end were the hallucination of the mine shaft killer walks towards the mental guy and just disappears right in front of him. So... yeah in all, like most hallucinations, completely harmless but that's never happened before and it was definitely in the real world. All reality checks failed after. Anything similar ever happen. That was really freaky though because I was home alone that night.

[yuriythebest]

well, since ,from your signature, you haven't yet had any lucid dreams you seem to have just been hallucinating for some unrelated reason. Doesn't seem to have been a hypnopompic state either. Real-life hallucinations are a serious issue- if this reoccurs consult a physician (since it can be anything from a one-off random "glitch" to a tumor to some mental disorder). Sorry for scaring you and wish you the best.

[TomSnare]

Wow, that's really intense! Too intense to be normal actually :/ I'm not an expert, but definitely agree with yuriythebest, hallucinations (especially of that nature) are not typical hypnopompic 'symptoms.'

[Pegorian]

About a week ago I woke up some time in the early morning, it was still dark. I saw a person walking around my room, I looked at my clock the do a reality check and as I did it I saw the person fade away. It seems similar to what you had. I've never had any experience like that before, but it was very short-lived.

[Cacophony]

Have you ever done any hallucinogenic drugs? Could you have been having a flash back?

[44CalibreSunlight]

Just wondering, did you take any kind of drugs? like, phermacueticals or anything?

[Thatguynextdoor]

yeahh.... my sig is just really old I've had 3 recorded lucids and random spurts of hypnogic imagery and hallucinations during sleep dream paralysis while attempting WILDS. In fact I've dropped lucid dreaming for the past couple months and I had all my hypnogogics and lucids before then and before the weird incident. And that has only happened once and hasn't happened since so no it's not a repeating thing and no, I have not taking any drugs "Legal or Illegal" anytime recently (with illegal drugs never ^^) I just dismissed it as me being half asleep and half dreaming in a sort of "lucid" state of sleepwalking. And yes from the sleepwalkers I've known at least they sleepwalk with their eyes open and their subconcsious (for the most part) controls where their going. (Which is why they typically really don't run into stuff that often) So I think my mind was just projecting dream images or "hypnagogic imagery" onto the real world as a sort of post-dream weird reaction. Oh well I'll never know....

[Thatguynextdoor]

Haha yeah mine was real similiar except a tad more vivid and a tad bit longer. The whole experience for me though really only lasted like 7-12 seconds but it was the most terrifying 7-12 seconds I ever lived through. Probably also cause before that experience I had watched several clips of the new Friday the 13th ^^

[blahaha]

Wow, there's nothing wrong with him guys. He said he was drifting in and out of consciousness and moderately tired before he got up and hallucinated. He was half-asleep. You can actually see dream images in the "real world" if you get up after drifting in and out like that. Your mind is... half-asleep... after all. I just dismissed it as me being half asleep and half dreaming in a sort of "lucid" state of sleepwalking. And yes from the sleepwalkers I've known at least they sleepwalk with their eyes open and their subconcsious (for the most part) controls where their going. (Which is why they typically really don't run into stuff that often) So I think my mind was just projecting dream images or "hypnagogic imagery" onto the real world as a sort of post-dream weird reaction. Oh well I'll never know.... It's happened to me a few times

[Freemorph1]

Taken from Wikipedia.com A hypnopompic state (or hypnopomp) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the spiritualist Frederick Myers. Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real world stolidity. They have a different phenomenological character. Depressed frontal lobe function in the first few minutes after waking – known as "sleep inertia" – causes slowed reaction time and impaired short-term memory. Sleepers often wake confused, or speak without making sense, a phenomenon the psychologist Peter McKeller calls "hypnopompic speech." So pretty much Hypnopompic is when you are waking up and see something. It has happened to me quite a few times, where i would see random shapes or something like a person and get scared shitless but it wasn't scary looking at all. It's all your mind.

[The Cusp]

Seeing shadow people is a very common post sleep hallucination. Just a solid, featureless, black outline of a person standing in your room. I've tried to tackle them a few time, but went right through them. Another common one is the bodiless presence in your room that exudes evil and malevolence. Those things make the shadow people seem like wimps.

[Baron Samedi]

I had a very vivid aural hypnopompic hallucination once. I dreamed there was a cop car or ambulance outside the house. The siren was so freakin loud I thought, "Oh, this is a dream! There must be a siren going off in real life right outside my house." I woke up with a jolt, and everyone else in the house was calm. Why weren't they reacting to the siren? It was so loud! I said, "Hey, where's that siren coming from?" They looked at me funny. "Don't you hear it?" "No." This aural hallucination lasted a good 30 seconds, while I just stood there, confused, then it slowly faded away. It was a few years before I heard of hypnopompic hallucinations and finally figured out what it was. I haven't had one so real and long lasting before or afterward.