Thread: Something weird happened.

I just felt like mentioning a rather odd experience I had afew weeks ago.
I had a pretty 'normal' dream I guess you could call it that,just talking to friends, but then as I woke up I could still hear the voices in my head, like the dream was still going on but I was awake and couldn't visually see it
It only happened for about a minute or less but it scared the shit out of me!
Has anyone else experienced this before?
Or am I just going crazy?

dw ur not going crazy thats happend to me a few times i dunno what causes it

Haha thats good to know :] thanks

Don't worry too much about it, it's sounds just like Hypnogogic Imagery (visual and audio hallucinations associated with REM sleep, which basically form the building blocks of dreams) to me.

As a side note if you partially wake up again and you can still see/hear things from your dream (or if your just hallucinating in general) you could use it in order to DEILD(Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream) into a *lucid* dream..

Heres the DEILD Tutorial if you need it:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=62769

Good Luck with future dreaming and don't worry too much about HI, remember that they're just hallucinations.

Yeah that's happened to me a few times and really freaks me out, especially when it happens in the middle of the night.

It could have been a false awakening.

In either case, don't worry. Your house is not haunted or anything.

Originally Posted by Umbrasquall

It could have been a false awakening.

In either case, don't worry. Your house is not haunted or anything.

Ohhh yeah, I forgot about the possibility that it could've been an FA..

Could also be a hallucination. Your dreaming brain continues to produce dreams for a little while after you wake up (which is why DEILD is possible.) It's usually only a second or two, but I've had them last for a minute before.