my early HI looks like lines in crop circle patterns
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my early HI looks like lines in crop circle patterns
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.
The most I ever got with HI was green blobs that kinda swirled around like a lava lamp.
purple clouds and turquoise rain
Hahaha, a thread I started wayyyyy back when I joined (all of five months ago) about the same topic is here http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=56984
Basically, my HI looks like http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/shiftld/HI-2.png Full pictures, not usually "video" but more still images, and very very defined. I never see abstract HI.
My HI is simply a detailed 3-dimensional rendering of any image/scene I put in my mind. It differs from normal visualization in that the rendering is effortless and much more detailed, but it isn't a dream in that I am not "in" the scene.
My HI are usually faces that slide by my vision, or just blobs of color that flash in and out.
My HI is really cool. It's anything from extremely scary looking faces to amazing architecture that suddenly manifests in front of my eyes. From the stuff my HI has shown me, I just wish I was that spontaneously creative in real life.
You can be; you just block out all creative impulses. That's what years of schooling trains us all to do. But artists do it all the time (perhaps with some assistance from LSD), and it can be learned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Black_Eagle
hahahahaha!Quote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
Truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
If you want to see what I'm trying to describe, here's a crude MS-Paint representation of my HI. Keep in mind all the green blobs kinda swirl around.
Umm, if you're talking about those really bright green blobs, those aren't HI. That has to do with your retina freaking out and it happens even when you're awake.Quote:
Originally Posted by mini0991
It only happens to me when I'm "sleeping". Beside other hallucinations.
Like a lava lamp then random flashes of images
I have never heard of or experienced these green flashes :disconcerted:, what is this phenomenon called? I hope this means I have good retinas lolQuote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
They're called phosphenes, or at least it's a particular variety of phosphene. Phosphenes can be caused by many different things. The easiest way to experience a phosphene first hand is to take your finger and push on the outside side of one of your eyeballs (like at the outside corner where the top and bottom eyelids meet) and push it towards your nose. On the nose side of that eye, you will see a black semicircle with a white or gold edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
The example of bright green blobs happens (to me at least) when you go from being in a very brightly lit room to there being no light at all. It's quite rare, but that's the trigger.
Ooooooh! That stuff? Yea I've noticed the black dot before while rubbing my eyes, why does the circle get smaller as you move in? The fact that you can see it even with your eyes shut weirds me out haha. I'm pretty sure that I've noticed the light-to-dark version before. Mine is more blue, and not very intense at all (I just tried staring through my window with wide eyes and then covering up). What I definitely get is the seeing-stars phosphene, my blood pressure is low as shit and whenever I stand up fast I basically topple right back over when everything goes black and white hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
Man, how do you know all this stuff??? :shock: I'm reading about it now but... how do you even hear about it in the first place? lol
I was on wikipedia reading some article about eyes, and I ended up on the phosphene page. I read wikipedia for fun sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
Hmm, I do the same pretty often (not so often now that I'm back in school though). Still, I only seem to come across boring things. I always try to take classes where I will learn about things like this, interesting things but... they always seem to fall short :? I guess you've just gotta keep reading on your own! At least wiki links you to related topics, that is such a cool feature :boogie:Quote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
I love when that happens , It's so cool except my are always pink. It's so fun in my OP . To me it's the 2nd best thing about trying to WILD.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
Phosphenes? Rats. I guess I never saw HI then.
I guess I don't have any true HI. My WILDs are highly unstable, so maybe my actual "WILDs" are only a very strong case of HI but I doubt it. Usually I hear, see, and feel nothing until my wall forms in front of me and I'm in a dream.
When I'm falling asleep unconsciously I get something where I know I'm in bed, yet I'm in a different place at the same time... then I blip out of consciousness and try to move in this new place, and end up moving my real life body and becoming conscious once more. That may also be a form of HI.
I see eyes and faces a lot.
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.
Here is a tutorial on sleep paralysis, which is often when HI happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
Everyone gets HI. Just most people don't notice it because they've already lost self-awareness.Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
Sorry to clutter this topic, but what is a HI? Drug high? Hallucination Imagery? The stuff you see when you close your eyelids?
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/HypnagogiaQuote:
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.
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.....
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oh yeah! love those!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
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 :)
awesome :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
oh ya r there any good techniques/links for HIT? :banana:
I don't wanna get off topic so if you have any questions after this, feel free to PM me ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cryptic
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 ;)
[QUOTE]
thanks, and I sure will if I have any questions! ;)
Bullshit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lordalmar
We have consensus.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Cusp
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...
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by venusflesh