Thread: Hello.... Dreamers And Romantics

After reading about hypnogognia... it is conjuring in my mind, memories of experiences i had as a child. I was about 7 or 8 and right before sleep I would have a very very realistically intense sensation that my body was enormous, even though I would fit just the same in to my bed as it was occuring. The experience would transfer in to wakefulness as they would frighten me so that I would wake up, only to be in the "dream" or "hallucination" still. My mother took me to a dr. and prior to my first experience I had been taking ibuprophen for the first time... and they credited it to that. As far as I know, ibuprophen has no psycho active qualities. Even today when I am awake participating in daily life, I very rarely get a mild sensation just like that of what I experienced as a child. Perhaps this has nothing to do with dreaming at all. I really have no knowledge of sort of mental experiences like this. It was something that I had dismissed as a side effect of a medicine.... naiive of me perhaps? Reading about hypnogognia for the first time today has sparked some interesting thoughts. Could it be related? And I appologize for junping around my subject matter, this is just sort of... eye opening?

And thank you for the welcome... I'm here to be educated

Lee John

Originally Posted by conceptsandcon

The experience would transfer in to wakefulness as they would frighten me so that I would wake up, only to be in the "dream" or "hallucination" still.
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That sounds to me like a false awakening. Or am I wrong?

Well, I was actually awake because I would start screaming for help and my mother would come rushing in and at that point I knew that I was back to reality. I was definatley out of the "dream", but the sense of intense fear was in me, along with the sensation.