what does your HI look like?

My HI changes from night to night. I usually see:
faces, animals, monsters -- usually still images
blobs, whirls, geometric zooming patterns
solitare cards

That makes me think... lucid dream task: beat your subconscious at a game of poker.
Wonder if the cards would be stable enough for long enough?

How does one go about getting HI?

This somehow seems interesting to me...and I've always wanted to know what it is like to hallucinate.

I don't think I've ver had true HI. Its just weak phospenes. If I'm trying to WILD I can change the blobs and colors, but nothing solid happens. They just look like blobs that are formed into the shape of a building.

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Originally Posted by slayer

How does one go about getting HI?

This somehow seems interesting to me...and I've always wanted to know what it is like to hallucinate.

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Here is a tutorial on sleep paralysis, which is often when HI happens.

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Originally Posted by slayer

How does one go about getting HI?

This somehow seems interesting to me...and I've always wanted to know what it is like to hallucinate.

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Everyone gets HI. Just most people don't notice it because they've already lost self-awareness.

Sorry to clutter this topic, but what is a HI? Drug high? Hallucination Imagery? The stuff you see when you close your eyelids?

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Hypnagogic imagery: These are images or sounds that come as impulses during the onset of a hallucinogenic state. Usually before or after sleep. Sometimes through meditation. These images & sounds are random and can sometimes lead to HIT. The Hypnagogic Imagery Technique.

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Basically, the crazy images, sounds, and sensations you sometimes feel while falling asleep, they are dream-like, but not dreams exactly. Hypnaogogia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

Check out all the acronyms here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=2954 ;)

Television static. I thought everyone's HI looked like TV static. The more you know.....

*cue cheesy 90s PSA music*

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Originally Posted by Shift

Basically, the crazy images, sounds, and sensations you sometimes feel while falling asleep, they are dream-like, but not dreams exactly. Hypnaogogia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

Check out all the acronyms here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=2954 ;)

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oh yeah! love those!

thanks for the list!

HI are very hard to remember and often erroneous :banana:

No problem, cryptic :) There are a few others that people use, and people are always making up new ones that are just variations of old ones... but those are the very basic core ones that pretty much everyone on the site is familiar with :)

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Originally Posted by Shift

No problem, cryptic :) There are a few others that people use, and people are always making up new ones that are just variations of old ones... but those are the very basic core ones that pretty much everyone on the site is familiar with :)

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awesome :)

oh ya r there any good techniques/links for HIT? :banana:

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Originally Posted by Cryptic

awesome :)

oh ya r there any good techniques/links for HIT? :banana:

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I don't wanna get off topic so if you have any questions after this, feel free to PM me ;)

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&highlight=HIT
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&highlight=HIT
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&highlight=HIT
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&highlight=HIT
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&highlight=HIT
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&highlight=HIT
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&highlight=HIT

Those are some links I found while searching :)

[QUOTE=Shift;896567]I don't wanna get off topic so if you have any questions after this, feel free to PM me ;)
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thanks, and I sure will if I have any questions! ;)

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Originally Posted by Lordalmar

its whatever i want it to be, i can create and change it at will with only a thought. i mastered lucid dreaming when i was like 5 or 6, my problem is its so effortless for me it is kinda boring for me so i don't use it.

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Bullshit!

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Originally Posted by The Cusp

Bullshit!

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We have consensus.

My HI looks like this :

http://hypnosis.djbarnett.co.uk/131-illus.png

HI...hmm...

Well, mine is incredibly dynamic. Flashes of color and fractal patterns can give way to detailed scenes roughly sketched or intricately woven. A lot of times they'll follow a set artistic style or medium - a couple nights ago everything was very Art Nouveau. It's interesting what my mind comes up with, and I've gotten ideas for art projects that way. Trying to sleep is my kind of homework!

My HI consists more of sounds than images. I hear clips of music or voices mostly. As far as sight, I get pulsing white fractal swirls and discs against blackness mostly. Sometimes it's cooler than that. Reckon I never paid too much attention to it.

It begins with random patterns and colors, and then small, movie-like images come up. Some even stimulated my tactile perceptions.

I'm a bit confused... you all seem to know what yours is, yet, I have no idea what mine is. Is there a way to become more aware and be able to tell what it is for yourself? I don't recall anything like this happening as I go to sleep...

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Originally Posted by venusflesh

I'm a bit confused... you all seem to know what yours is, yet, I have no idea what mine is. Is there a way to become more aware and be able to tell what it is for yourself? I don't recall anything like this happening as I go to sleep...

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Try WILDing until you start seeing images. Extremely vivid and (in my case it's tactile and animated) very dream-like. They are usually forming around some sort of base.