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Hello all. I have always been interested in lucid dreaming but never gave it much of a second thought besides from an academic standpoint. But, the last few months I have been having odd dreamlike occurences. This happens everytime I lie down to go to sleep. I start to feel very relaxed until I can feel myself about to drift off. Before I actually go in to sleep I start to "dream" (usually pertaining to the things in my bedroom, or about places in my house) althought I am very conscious of being awake. I can get out of it at any time, but usually I stay in and see where it takes me. I am not too familiar with the terms around here quite yet, but could I be experiencing something related to a WILD? I have done a couple searches on this board but have failed to come up with something specific.... maybe I have overlooked something. Any help in pin pointing what this might be would be fantastic. Thank you, and it is amazing to see the development of a site such as this. I stumbled across it while googleing looking to try to define what I am experiencing. |
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Lee John
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Thanks for the prompt reply, and for the literature to look into. Have you ever heard of a particular reason of why this would randomly start a few months ago and be happening everytime i sleep? |
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Lee John
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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? |
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Lee John
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. |
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Lee John
For how long did the sensations last? |
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As a child, hours. Almost imposible to go back to sleep because of the fear. But the more recent "flashbacks" only a few minutes as I have found myself to be able to supress them with some hard concentration. |
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Lee John
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