Thread: Is all this time my Lucid dreaming become a Hallucination?

Originally Posted by LunaLovegood

I usually Lucid. But now I worry. I think now that I have been dreaming but not really Lucid. I aware I am dreaming but I think I have been hallucinating.

I mean I close my eyes when I start to WILD. I just relax and let myself slowly drift in a sleep stage.

I see different colors and I see myself dancing with stars and such...

Is this Lucid dreaming or is it just a hallucinating thing? I think my mind plays tricks on me just to make me think I Lucid.:S

It really matters? for me an experience is an experience regardless of how you come across it.

Originally Posted by IndigoGhost

It really matters? To me an experience is an experience regardless of how you come across it.

Hallucinating is the same thing as Lucid dreaming???

Originally Posted by LunaLovegood

Hallucinating is the same thing as Lucid dreaming???

It matters?

Originally Posted by IndigoGhost

It matters?

I thought it did

Originally Posted by LunaLovegood

I thought it did

If you find a old briefcase full of money does it matter where its come from?

Hi Luna.

The experience you're asking about is called hypnagogic imagery. It is not quite the same thing as a Lucid Dream. But the hallucinations can still be quite fascinating and enjoyable.

Originally Posted by IndigoGhost

If you find a old briefcase full of money does it matter where its come from?

Yes, what about if the police planted it there to see if you would take it if you do then you would be arrested. You would still take it but it does matter where it comes from.

I imagine what you mean is that if he is having these hallucinations that are exactly like lucids why would you care what it actually is? It does not seem to be exactly like lucids however because from what I read, it does not really involve him all that much such as no feeling etc.


As Caradon said, this is hypnagogic imagery which usually leads to a lucid dream if you stick with it a bit longer and there is a specific tutorial to induce a lucid from HI (as hypnagogic imagery is shortened to). There is a tutorial on hypnagogic hallucinations here that involve swirling colours and stars which is the same hallucination that you had and is usually early hynagogic hallucinations.

Its not gonna get you arrested for taking something you did not steal

Originally Posted by IndigoGhost

Its not gonna get you arrested for taking something you did not steal

If it isn't yours then you will probably be taken to court. The finders keepers rule does not work in legal terms.

Originally Posted by Dying Dignity

If it isn't yours then you will probably be taken to court. The finders keepers rule does not work in legal terms.

It works if nobody claims it, and also remember i said it was "old", also you wont get a criminal record for just finding something and taking it because if that was the case then someone simply picking flowers would constitute as a crime.

"Stop dragging me off topic >.>"

Originally Posted by Caradon

Hi Luna.

The experience you're asking about is called hypnagogic imagery. It is not quite the same thing as a Lucid Dream. But the hallucinations can still be quite fascinating and enjoyable.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by LunaLovegood

Thanks!

You're welcome.

Don't forget to check out the great link on hypnagogic imgery that Dying Dignity posted for you.

Maybe you overlooked it in the case of money conversation?