Thread: Hi! I'm New, but please read..

since you asked, I have enough time to give Jill's input...you never know who's input will make the difference. It dose'nt have to be a perffesional, maybe just someone who cares.

So one of my best friends is struggling with something similar to what you are, but not as severe. She's having visual and auditory hallucinations during waking. She doesn't pass out, but instead, will continue about what she was doing, unaware. Her father had epilepsy and the doctors expect that she is have seizures in her temporal lobe. I am assuming you will have a CT scan or some type of brain imaging done, and perhaps that will help solve the mystery. Anyone in your family have seizures?

Also, if the symptoms you are having are tied in with sleep, it could be that there is an imbalance of neurochemicals going on. During REM sleep, the neurons that produce monoamine neurotransmitters stop firing, that means there is no serotonin or norepinephrine being released. If you are having excess amounts of REM, this could cause an imbalance. These two chemicals are very important in mood, memory and processing of external information. Has your mood been elevated, depressed or stable? All SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressent meds inhibit REM. I'm not big on medication, but I do feel as a last resort it may at least be a consideration.

There is a very interesting book by J.A. Hobson called The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness that discusses and compares psychosis, REM-sleep dreams, and drug-induced psychosis in great detail (really technical, and kind of hard to wade through at some points).

Do you document your experiences? Do you try to make sense of the visions that you have? What kind of emotional response to they illicit in you?

Good luck!

I know this may sound weird, but you can try accupunture. It can do amazing things. But you gotta find a good one. I know it won't be your cure, but it can help.

hey. back to the year 2012 talk. I've done some research and I've heard many opinions about what will happen.

1. Aliens will meet up with humans (kinda cultish, ehh?) and we will gain great knolege.

2. Jesus will come again and the world will start all over again.

3. We will kill each other till the end.

4. The sun will die

5. There will be a black hole


Those arent my opinions, thats just stuff I've read.

dig a hole
dig a hole
dig a hole
this here topic
is nearly a year old!

hehe, thats my poetry for the day,
you know what you should do, by the way?
make a new thread, in the lounge
and allow it to make the rounds
instead of using an older one
that has gone off topic, though that may be fun
perhaps title it twenty-twelve
and make it a place, where folks can delve
into what the future may have in store...
oh, and Lowercase, you're a post-whore


bwahaha~!

old thread that is being hijacked. Locking.

Congratulations on making the 10 000th post in General Discussion Seeker! The one above that you made is actually #9 999, but I didn't want to reply to the one you did immediately after because then I'd be taking that thread off topic.


'k bye

bump

A'hoy hoy,

I never did post the results and resolve of this matter.. so I will now. Thank you all who asked about it and your concern.

After the tests and roughly two months of therapy, it was conclucded that the case was merely hysteria and self-perpetuated - by myself. I refused to take the prescripted drugs (Venlaxafine (Effexor), Biazediazpam derivatives, and some others..) once I began to realize and think that it was simply myself believing to be sick and loosing control of my dreams and what not, that I began having day-hallucinations and lack of sleep.

I now have very strict control of my sleep and hallucinations. I have found my hallucinations to be portrayals of my empathy towards certain individuals or situations (much like how dreams are subconscious portrayals of how you feel about individuals or situations - symbolism, associated empathy, etc. are utilised in demonstrating psychic empathy). So, because of this, my lucid dreaming has developed significantly along with sleep control and self-realization.

Since I have been having lucid-dreams since I was a child, now that I can control them rather than spontaneously succumb to them, my control of sleep and life is, suffice to say, (and lack of better wording) much better.

As for the tests and therapy - they were inconclusive and I requested that they stop as I was moving out of the area. I was not diagnosed with schizophrenia, or any other drastic disorder besides hysteria (indirectly).

It was an experience I will not ever forget.. and will be part of who I am for the rest of my life.. For other lucid-dreamers who have been victims to random lucid dreams (consider that lucid dreaming, is not always a good thing) I beseach you to try to delve into your own character for mental problems; 90% of problems people have with their life, are mere illusions and exist only in their mind.

To those learning to become lucid - do not make the mistake of thinking that normal dreams are meaningless, for I in fact believe they are more important in developing ones character and that lucid dreaming is simply a form of entertainment, emotional catharsis, or (for those optimistic ones) utilisation of a phenomena, way of reaching another world, etc. etc..

Lucid dreaming can be dangerous, especially if you are victim to consistent false awakenings, as I was. Your comprehension of reality becomes disorientated and if you are a person of low morals, or regard to other life, it may be a warning that you could do something you would be punished for. We all want to do things in dreams we cannot do in reality, but do not let it become the sanctuary in which you feel it is the only place in which you feel fulfilment in your life. Letting lucid dreaming become your escape from reality, is just as good as being addicted to mind-altering drugs.

Understanding and analyzing regular dreams will allow you to understand yourself and how you truly feel about things without your (ego) conscious mind interfering with yourself - your modernised mind. Your mind is capable of a lot, and yes, we do not use a large portion of it at all - but this is because of ourselves, not society or our enviroments.

How long can you stare into a mirror?

A broad topic.. I could write a book on this.. maybe I will.. Anyways, thank you for your time and your concern.

A thousand joyous dreams to those who read this all.

Thanks.