Lost myself...?

I had a ”incident” a couple of months ago and I would like to ask some questions. I do not at all understand it and it worries my friend and therefore me a lot.

Here goes.

I sometimes have dreams where I can control the general flow, but not in detail. I often experience SP and an odd whistling/growling sound. Otherwise no experience with Lucid dreams.

I am a normal 24-year-old master student from Denmark.
I had for some university related reason completely messed dup my sleep pattern. At around 15:00 I felt like taking a nap and did so. Fully clothed only not with my shoes on. I was very deep in my sleep when there was a noise…
From here on there are two separate experiences. The one I had and the one my friend had.

Mine:

I sat up and looked around in my room (I live in a hall of residence). I could not understand what was going on. I did not know where I was or what was the source of the sound. It’s difficult to explain, but everything felt unknown and unrecognizable. Unrecognizable in the Platonic sense. I could not categorize objects or actions. I walked around in my room for like 30 seconds. There was this sound again, only I did not understand it as a sound, more like “something”. It came from “something” else (the door). I somehow manipulated the object (opened it). Outside was a person. He was silent for a while but then he asked me something, and I answered something else. I remember closing the door and sort of panicking. I had no idea what to do or why to do it or where I was who I was. For some reason I sat down in my chair started crying and feel asleep. The whole thing took max 3 minutes. I woke up one hour later (in the chair) and went to the kitchen. I could remember the incident as I have described it here and was somewhat shaken.

My friend:

My friend wanted to borrow a book and knocked on my door. After 30 seconds, I opened the door and looked at him. He was shocked by my appearance and asked me if I was ok. I told him yes, and we talked about the book he wanted to borrow. He was so disturbed by the whole thing that at one point he just stopped and walked away.
He has explained that I behave completely alien. The way I moved, the way my face looked, my mannerism and my body poise where utterly “inhuman”. My conversation was coherent but “had no emotions behind”. He tells me that I expressed “regret for the loss of his friends book” and that I made references to his death relatives. I also told him “papers make up books as leaves make up trees”. At one point, I just started speaking some sort of other language. Only just words not sentences. He was extremely shocked and didn’t think it was me, or a human being for that matter. He went away distressed and not knowing what to do. He later confronted me in the kitchen and we talked it over.
Even today, 2 months later he does not like to speak about it.

What happened?! Could it happen again and last for longer time spans?

Thank you for reading. I am not native English speaker so big excuse for all mistakes.

Christian

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Originally posted by Latro
I had a ”incident” a couple of months ago and I would like to ask some questions. I do not at all understand it and it worries my friend and therefore me a lot. *

Here goes.

I sometimes have dreams where I can control the general flow, but not in detail. I often experience SP and an odd whistling/growling sound. Otherwise no experience with Lucid dreams. *
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I am a normal 24-year-old master student from Denmark.
I had for some university related reason completely messed dup my sleep pattern. At around 15:00 I felt like taking a nap and did so. Fully clothed only not with my shoes on. I was very deep in my sleep when there was a noise… *
From here on there are two separate experiences. The one I had and the one my friend had. *

Mine:

I sat up and looked around in my room (I live in a hall of residence). I could not understand what was going on. I did not know where I was or what was the source of the sound. It’s difficult to explain, but everything felt unknown and unrecognizable. Unrecognizable in the Platonic sense. I could not categorize objects or actions. I walked around in my room for like 30 seconds. There was this sound again, only I did not understand it as a sound, more like “something”. It came from “something” else (the door). I somehow manipulated the object (opened it). Outside was a person. He was silent for a while but then he asked me something, and I answered something else. I remember closing the door and sort of panicking. I had no idea what to do or why to do it or where I was who I was. For some reason I sat down in my chair started crying and feel asleep. The whole thing took max 3 minutes. I woke up one hour later (in the chair) and went to the kitchen. I could remember the incident as I have described it here and was somewhat shaken. *

My friend:

My friend wanted to borrow a book and knocked on my door. After 30 seconds, I opened the door and looked at him. He was shocked by my appearance and asked me if I was ok. I told him yes, and we talked about the book he wanted to borrow. He was so disturbed by the whole thing that at one point he just stopped and walked away. *
He has explained that I *behave completely alien. The way I moved, the way my face looked, my mannerism and my body poise where utterly “inhuman”. My conversation was coherent but “had no emotions behind”. He tells me that I expressed “regret for the loss of his friends book” and that I made references to his death relatives. I also told him “papers make up books as leaves make up trees”. At one point, I just started speaking some sort of other language. Only just words not sentences. He was extremely shocked and didn’t think it was me, or a human being for that matter. He went away distressed and not knowing what to do. He later confronted me in the kitchen and we talked it over. * * *
Even today, 2 months later he does not like to speak about it.

What happened?! Could it happen again and last for longer time spans?

Thank you for reading. I am not native English speaker so big excuse for all mistakes. *

Christian

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Hey there and welcome to the forum!!
Interesting dreams, and pretty good recall. I recommend that you keep a Dream Journal, so that you can increase your recall even more! In fact, you can write one yourself in any language you want! That is what many of the members that speak different languages do!
Yes, it can last longer. Did you 2 have the same dream? If so, it is called Dream Sharing, and you should look in the Beyond Dreaming forum if you want to talk about that!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask! :wink:

Wow, those are some pretty intricate dreams-- especially for a newbie. :)
Maybe you've got that natural lucid-dreamer-status. Try starting a DJ, as nesgirl suggested, and reading tutorials on how to become lucid in dreams.

Good luck,
Matt

Hey, thanks for the welcome.

My friend was NOT dreaming, he was fully awake. I was also physical moving and talking, but not with any kind of normal understanding of myself. That is what is scary. I was somehow sleepwalking, talking etc., but my REAL normal day personallity was not enough awake to understand it.

I do keep a dream journal, and in danish too:) My dreams a often epic or cinematic. I wont be precent in my dreams but will only see things happen.

Christian

that sounds like a pretty bizarre episode. but are you sure you were dreaming when answering the knocking at the door? maybe it was some other kind of altered consciousness. you should try to reproduce the conditions that led to it...i guess it's not too likely to happen again, but who knows?

I think, "altered consciousness” is the best way to describe it. My body and my ability to talk, walk, and have conversations was awake. However, I was not. That was what scared me the 2-3 minutes it lasted. I did not know who or what I was or how to describe my surroundings. My friend was scared because I “acted alien” and not like the person, he knows.

Christian