Thread: I gotta share my first SP!! It was amazing.

Originally Posted by gab

Acctually I believe, what you saw was not a dream, but HH (hypnogogic hallucinations), which you get around time of SP. The falling feeling is very typical sensation you get during transition.

Next time when you feel vibrations and also after they stop, try saying to yourself "up" to see, if your dream body separates from your sleeping body. If it does, you get the floating feeling, or maybe just your limb or two. If you feel your body floats, try rolling out and stand up next to your bed. You will be in a dream, that starts in your bedroom. Good luck to you.

You can have hallucinations even if your eyes are closed?!

Originally Posted by jake1596

You can have hallucinations even if your eyes are closed?!

Yup! Those are hallucinations just before you fall asleep. You can find out more in tutorials in DV Wiki, from the top nav bar.

Originally Posted by jake1596

You can have hallucinations even if your eyes are closed?!

Yep, hallucinations can take the form of HI (hypagogic imagery, or swirling colors/shapes behind your eyelids), sounds, or tactile sensations. Congrats on the SP.

Originally Posted by Puffin

Yep, hallucinations can take the form of HI (hypagogic imagery, or swirling colors/shapes behind your eyelids), sounds, or tactile sensations. Congrats on the SP.

I've always heard "just don't open your eyes, you'll be fine." but that doesn't matter? you'll get hallucinations no matter what?

I've never opened my eyes during SP and the only hallucination I've ever got was hearing voices of family members who don't live in my house saying random things as well as other voices. If you are afraid of SP hallucinations, then don't be, because expectation plays a key role in your dream and SP experience.

I've heard of some people being able to control their SP hallucinations as well. Sometimes when I WILD or DEILD, I feel paralysis in my dream body but its fake because my conscious brain still thinks I'm in SP in my bed(where my physical body is actually paralyzed) and this feeling carries on into the dream, and then I have to kind of force myself out of my body as it feels very heavy, and I end up in my dream body very unstable.

If this sort of thing happens to you, I would reccomend you don't struggle against it, as when I usually do the dream doesn't last very long but when I let myself fall the dream usually starts more stable. Hope this helps.