Thread: Looking for Answers

Hi all, after trolling the internet and having no success looking for an answer to my question I decided to give some online forums a try. I am hoping for some input on what it is I am experiencing while sleeping. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

My name is Brian, I am 34 years young My whole life I have experienced some sort of surreal sleeping disorder I can't seem to diagnose or find any credible information regarding it. Since I have been a child I have had countless nightmares, and even night terrors at times. I have researched these conditions and they relate a lot of it to anxiety, stress, caffeine etc. I even went to see several professionals regarding it over the years and their answer is "give him a pill" or I have I have issues I need to work through that are subconsciously playing out in my sleep. I have elected over the years never to take anything for this condition and always felt it had some sort of meaning to all of it.

Over the last 10 years I would say I have been experiencing something way beyond nightmares or terrors. I awake in the morning knowing how to do things I never knew how to do before. Like something downloaded while sleeping, perhaps something awoke as well. That is the feeling I experience when I have had these mornings in which I wake up and know how to do this things I was never taught in school, never witnessed anyone doing and or never even thought of prior to going to sleep the night before. For example; one morning I awoke and got on my pc and was able to navigate, crack, hack, program, and build a pc. Overnight I became more experienced on a computer than my Mother or Father that worked for IBM for 30 years as executives. I have no background in this as well. There are so many more examples of this. On some mornings I would wake up and know how to calculate math equations way beyond my education level, be able to decipher codes, figure out complex puzzles, and know how to fix complex electronics, etc. It has even flowed over into my personal life with seeing and hearing people differently. They have almost become transparent to my eyes and ears. I could go on and on about these experiences. It has become such second nature to wake up in the AM and be able to do something new way beyond my educational background and or experience, that when I wake up in the morning and I haven't had these episodes I feel like something is wrong with me.

If I was to interpret these events myself and try to understand how and why they occur I truly feel it has something to do with the subconscious awakening something in my brain at night while I sleep. Like I said before it almost feels like something was downloading while sleeping.

I am really looking for others that have had similar experiences or someone knowledgeable of this condition that could shed some light.

Thanks,
Brian

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This reminds me of some conversations I've had with dream characters where they explain something to me that I don't remember ever having learned previously. If I'm generating the character in my dream, shouldn't I already know everything they have to tell me? Apparently it does not work that way. Dreams are able to surprise us.

I've always just assumed there is a more powerful level of consciousness that we have partial access to in the dream state. If this is true, the dream state may just enable us to remember something we previously ignored and process massive amounts of information quickly. Like we have brief access to a genius mind with a photographic memory and limitless creativity.

Of course, anything is possible. It is always possible that we have contact with something larger than ourselves when we dream. If this (unlikely) scenario is true, the possibilities get much more exciting. Astral teachers

Well my theory is that while dreaming, you reexperience the bad things that happened in your previous lives, and you also get back your skills you have learned in your previous lives.

EDIT: Do not ask me what "previous" lives are, because my theory would require a new topic xD
I have many reasons to believe that we lived before this "current" life.

Thanks for responding!

I wouldn't know where to begin to try to prove these occurrences, but many family members have witnessed these waking episodes countless times. Even peers outside my home recognize a difference in my skills. Normally the questions of "where did you learn this, did you go to school for this, how do you know how to do all these new things??" arise.

Yesterday was the very first day of my life I decided to put myself out there and try to find others with similar experiences after thoroughly researching this with no closure.

I don't know if I am lucid dreaming or not. To be honest I never practiced trying to control my dreams or having any realization I am doing so consciously or subconsciously. I will try to explain to the best of my ability what occurs on these particular days.

1. Before I go to sleep on any of those nights, I know when I am going to have one of these episodes. I consciously know that they are going to occur and I even warn my wife to it like second nature now, due to the fact it usual means a sleepless night for her.

2. My wife witnesses me sitting up with my eyes wide open as if I am awake talking to someone or something or perhaps even myself. Sometimes she says that I am looking right at her talking to her and even speaking in other languages fluently( I only speak English). She also goes on to say that when this is occurring it looks like me but it isn't me. Initially she was scared of this but now she has come to terms with it. This goes on for much of the night. In the past she has attempted to wake me up but cannot at all.

3. When I awake the next morning I cannot recall anything. Although I feel like I haven't slept a wink. Something tells me I was very active but again I cannot ever recall anything I was doing or saying.

4. After these nights occur I find myself during that day falling into some sort of what I would call a trance state. This is when I start doing something that I have never done before way beyond any my educational background, experience and or expertise. In the main example I gave in my initial post I explained I was able to navigate, crack, hack, program etc. To many others out there this is something they had learned or studied. I was able to do all these things within seconds of logging onto my pc without ever doing it before. But when I am doing these things I recall staring at my computer in almost a sleep state. Like I just let go and something takes over. Like I am staring through the pc. Like I am recalling something I already knew inside me. When this occurs I don't fight it, I don't control it , I go with it. It feels natural, it feels like I knew it all along but how could I. I mean I am doing things I never ever seen anyone do without 3rd party software or services. I will also share that when I am in this state sometimes I don't even know how I got there or it feels like a blink of an eye and I had accomplished it within seconds of beginning it. Almost like no times has passed at all. This has happened countless times to me. I consciously remember asking myself "what are you doing" but the end result always confirms it was something I needed to know and be able to do. Not like a worthless skill. This even happens with my interaction with people the very next day after that night's episode. I find myself conversing with someone but not listening to them verbally speak but staring so deep within their eyes that I see and hear them and know all their intentions. I cannot say I control this but rather when I feel like I totally let go it occurs. Again I feel like I am in a trance state. ( I sound crazy)

I was in our chat yesterday and I was sharing an experience in my life that I always go back and think about since it is where and when these episodes began for me. It happened when I was 15, I fell 35 feet out of a tree onto pavement. I can recall being knocked out and the feeling was amazing. They said I was out for approx 12 minutes. When I awoke I felt very different. I was so angry, very mad at them for reviving me. They picked me up and placed me on my Youth Group Directors bed and proceeded to have bible study. They attempted to reach my parents and then 2 hours later my Dad shows up yelling and screaming at them. Wondering why they didn't call 911 or bring me to the hospital. My Father brought me to Coral Springs Medical Center and after a few hours of being there, countless X-Rays, they sent me home with having a slight concussion. My Dad brought me home and I went to sleep, 4 hours later the hospital called and my Dad came running into the room and asked me not to move. The hospital picked me up and brought me back to have a CAT scan only to find I had broken my back and neck. They couldn't believe I was walking around this whole time with a broken neck and back. They had overlooked the X-Rays. They immediately sent me down to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. During all this time something happened and I lost total feeling in my whole left side of my body. I couldn't move at all.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Seeing the doctors talking to my Mom and Dad. I knew it was bad. The doctors later came in and told me that one of the bones from the burst fracture in my neck had damaged my spinal cord. That I would never regain those functions again. Weeks passed and I am in full traction in the hospital and this is when the first episode I can recall occurred. I had fallen asleep and woke up like I felt as I described above. Felt like I hadn't slept at all. Like I was in a trance. Then all of a sudden I was scratching my face with my left arm. I believed I could and I did. I knew I was fine and told myself so. I regained all my motor skills. I was no longer paralyzed. I can go on and on about this particular situation as everyone was saying it was a miracle and Doctors were puzzled/dumbfounded. I made a full recover with NO impairments to date.

I am sharing one of my life stories with you because I truly believe that this particular incident is what started all of it for me. As I was stating earlier, when I fell and awoke I was so angry. This was a new feeling for me. It didn't feel like me at all. What I am trying to say is, It felt like my conscious and my subconscious flipped places. Because immediately following me being revived I was so different. I always had embraced religion, believed everything I was taught, told and shared with me. In an instance I threw it all out. Like I could see through all the lies and BS. I was de-programmed in an instance. There was such clarity and I took out the trash without second thought. It felt like Brian but was the other side of Brian. It's very difficult to articulate this.

Another example of this occurred when I was 21. I went to the Doctor for the standard HIV/VD tests. I knew inside me that I had contracted it. I can't explain it but knew it. Yet again the night previous to going into the doctor I had one of my sleep episodes. I went in and sat down in his office and as he was speaking but I found myself in that trance state again. I was able to hear him and listen but at the same time I was seeing through him and felt I was absent from the conversation. He goes on to say. I have good and bad news. You contracted HIV, Syphilis, and Hep. Your body made an immunity to it, and you are not a carrier either. As most would be shocked, it was as if I already knew. He goes on to tell me I am one of a handful of people worldwide that has this ability. I felt inside of me I knew I had done this and it was me effecting my body.

So not only am I waking up and being able to do new things beyond my capabilities when these episodes occur when I am sleeping but it has translated into me doing remarkable things with my body as well. It must have something to do with effecting your illusion, being in touch with you conscious and subconscious at the same time. Mind over matter, seeing past things, embracing yourself, letting go of control, believing it can be done, tapping into other parts of the brain, able to subconsciously take other peoples skill in sleep, recalling it in a past life perhaps.. I don't know.... I honestly have hundreds of theories.

Any input is greatly appreciated

Brian

"I have elected over the years never to take anything for this condition and always felt it had some sort of meaning to all of it."


That is a great approach you have taken!!! really!!!

I can't really attempt explain the extraordinary phenomenon's you describe. I would have no idea where to start...and it probably would be of no use to you.

the internet, is a wonderful thing (welcome to Dreamviews by the way =]). If you have the desire to find out more then keep on searching. I think you have to done the best possibly thing by coming here to 'find and explanation.' I would advice you to not limit your beliefs along the way, and truely good-luck finding the answers you seek (if you have the desire to do so.)
ANSWERS ARE OUT THERE!!! believe me or not =p




to start you off on some reading, quite a bit actually, (that is not an understatement!) here you go. although it may seem unrelated at first, give it a chance if you can =] if it doesn't work for you, now or ever, don't worry about it, give something else a shot.

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/wave_i.htm


those are some fantastic examples of proof by the way!