Originally posted by Universal Mind
Do you want an atheist view? *In the hypnagogic state, you hallucinate your ass off. *Hallucinations can be really freaky, considering the fact that when you perceive them they seem real and you are spooked out by the idea that they are malicious entities. *It is like walking past strangers in a dark alley at night. *You don't trust what they are about. *If you remind yourself that dream/hypnagogic characters are not real, they are not as scary. *Then again, I had a lucid this morning where I believed that I was battling the antichrist, so it is hard in that state to see your hallucinations as not real.

yeah its all in your head. if you think otherwise, your no better off than morons who think an acid trip is actually seeing hell demons instead of hallucinations. yes some people actually think that.