Hallucinating before sleep

[dreamajor88]

is that a form of lucid dreaming, for ex..chillin and falling asleep in a friends car, then at red light and while were driving seeing ppl in the middle of the road or in a crosswalk talking as if no cars are coming, then we just ride right thro themm.. GOsh i just dont know anymore, whats real and not in terms of existance beyond whats put infont my eyes. its strange cause my eyes are open then i freak out and tell my fiend to stop the car cause were about to hit someone and theres no one there!!! im i trippin, am i the only one!

[Harrycombs]

hullicinating isn't a form of lucid dreaming. Also, seeing things that aren't there might be something you want to get checked.

[Astral__Explorer]

If I am understanding this correctly...in the waking world you are seeing things that aren't actually there? If so then YES that has happened to me frequently Long time ago (Maybe 3 years) I think it may have to do with the blindspot in you're eye and a mixture of lack of sleep. Also do you dream a lot? Do you have many False awakenings? These seemed to be a factor for me back when I had those. One of my experiences was being in class cutting in and out of consciousness and all I hard was a loud BANG and I jumpped up. (No I wasn't sleeping) Also sometimes the blindspot in my eye it sometimes causes me to think I've seen something move. (Think horror movies when the camera shows somewhere and the "thing" happens to hide a second too quick for you to actually see it) To top that off I really used to hate false awakenings in my house because then I wouldn't be able to tell real from fake. My window is like a great place for someone to enter my house. I remember having countless False awakenings and for a week I hated dreaming because of this. (The worst had to be when I woke up and I seen kids climbing the fence into my backyard or the firecrackers launched that hit the roof top by mistake causing a fire) I manage to get rid of it by not caring whether my reality was in a dream or not and by getting more sleep. Also I try not to sleep in public because I might start feeling that in and out feeling. (I sometimes still get it when actually sleeping in bed)

[The Cusp]

It's hypnagogic imagery. Perfectly normal. I half dozed off coming back from work today, and dreamed I was reading the newspaper, which wasn't making sense. When opened my eyes to reread it, I was shocked to find no newspaper!