Thread: what does your HI look like?

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.

Like this:

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Like this:

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.

Phosphenes? Rats. I guess I never saw HI then.

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 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.

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.

Bullshit!

Originally Posted by The Cusp

Bullshit!

We have consensus.

My HI looks like this :

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.

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

*cue cheesy 90s PSA music*

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.

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

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.

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

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

oh yeah! love those!

thanks for the list!

HI are very hard to remember and often erroneous

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