Thread: Hello.... Dreamers And Romantics

Hello all. I have always been interested in lucid dreaming but never gave it much of a second thought besides from an academic standpoint. But, the last few months I have been having odd dreamlike occurences. This happens everytime I lie down to go to sleep. I start to feel very relaxed until I can feel myself about to drift off. Before I actually go in to sleep I start to "dream" (usually pertaining to the things in my bedroom, or about places in my house) althought I am very conscious of being awake. I can get out of it at any time, but usually I stay in and see where it takes me. I am not too familiar with the terms around here quite yet, but could I be experiencing something related to a WILD? I have done a couple searches on this board but have failed to come up with something specific.... maybe I have overlooked something. Any help in pin pointing what this might be would be fantastic. Thank you, and it is amazing to see the development of a site such as this. I stumbled across it while googleing looking to try to define what I am experiencing.

lee john.

How's it goin, man? Welcome to Dream Views.

What you are experiencing sounds like H.I. - Hypnogogic (or hypnologic, whichever) Imagery. It is basically the short series of "subtle, fleeting, dreams" that your mind begins to slip into, as your body is shutting down. It is basically the opening stages of the mental imagery that leads on into more solid dreams, as you fall further and further asleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnogogia

Hope this helps.

Glad to have you around. Enjoy your stay.

Thanks for the prompt reply, and for the literature to look into. Have you ever heard of a particular reason of why this would randomly start a few months ago and be happening everytime i sleep?

Oh yes, welcome!
Maby you were nervous, focusing on something a lot, while your body started sleeping. I had that one because I was focusing on my breathing.

Welcome!

You're in the right place. I learned how to Lucid Dream by hanging out here. There are a lot of good tutorials and people willing to help.

Good luck.

After reading about hypnogognia... it is conjuring in my mind, memories of experiences i had as a child. I was about 7 or 8 and right before sleep I would have a very very realistically intense sensation that my body was enormous, even though I would fit just the same in to my bed as it was occuring. The experience would transfer in to wakefulness as they would frighten me so that I would wake up, only to be in the "dream" or "hallucination" still. My mother took me to a dr. and prior to my first experience I had been taking ibuprophen for the first time... and they credited it to that. As far as I know, ibuprophen has no psycho active qualities. Even today when I am awake participating in daily life, I very rarely get a mild sensation just like that of what I experienced as a child. Perhaps this has nothing to do with dreaming at all. I really have no knowledge of sort of mental experiences like this. It was something that I had dismissed as a side effect of a medicine.... naiive of me perhaps? Reading about hypnogognia for the first time today has sparked some interesting thoughts. Could it be related? And I appologize for junping around my subject matter, this is just sort of... eye opening?

And thank you for the welcome... I'm here to be educated

Lee John

Originally Posted by conceptsandcon

The experience would transfer in to wakefulness as they would frighten me so that I would wake up, only to be in the "dream" or "hallucination" still.
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That sounds to me like a false awakening. Or am I wrong?

Well, I was actually awake because I would start screaming for help and my mother would come rushing in and at that point I knew that I was back to reality. I was definatley out of the "dream", but the sense of intense fear was in me, along with the sensation.

Have you ever heard of a particular reason of why this would randomly start a few months ago and be happening everytime i sleep?[/b]

Hey Concept, and

This process happens everytime we go to sleep and has been happening all along. The difference is that you have only just recently remembered the occurrence, so you're now more aware of it.

There are many different scenarios you can have during this stage (which by the way is a WILD). Starting out in your own room, however, is one which I've had happen many times and even posted it here as a technique in this thread here ->New Path through WILDing.

For how long did the sensations last?

As a child, hours. Almost imposible to go back to sleep because of the fear. But the more recent "flashbacks" only a few minutes as I have found myself to be able to supress them with some hard concentration.