Thread: Fascinating experience this morning

Woke about 7:30AM from a dream about I subject that I consider angering and frustrating. Since it was early, and I am not used to dreams making me feel like this, I thought I'd go back to sleep and try again. The experience I had was well worth it.

I did not sleep immediately, but fell into a half doze in which my subconscious seemed to be firing all sorts of unformed mages, just shapes, really, across my vision. It was like being in the midst of pure chaos. I was quite lucid at this time.

I noticed that, as I focused on a particular object, my conscious mind would try to define it somehow, and, once defined, the object started to look more and more like what my conscious mind said it was. For example, one of the objects was large, jagged and white. All of a sudden, I thought "that looks like a sea coast cliff." Instantly, the object started to become more and more like a cliff. I could start to see a dark ocean beneath it, and trees and buildings atop it.

I decided to back off from judging what the things were, and started to just observe them. Eventually I started to fall into the dream state and found myself being bashed and crushed by the objects. I started to resist, and found myself dreaming about something that seemed totally unrelated, with no lucidity.

I wonder if this is how dreaming really happens. The subconscious mind just starts throwing out "stuff", and the conscious starts trying to figure out what it really is. This mixture of raw thought and judgment arises into dreams. I imagine that the only reason I was confronted by it so directly was that the angry emotion I felt simply had the subconscious creating "stuff" on overdrive, and because of the early morning half-waking state.

Thoughts?

well, it's subconscious you cant control them and does in LD, you can do what ever you want but your subconscious is really a complicated Dream Character. I think its a Model of you in your dreams, of who you are and how do you respond in your surroundings/people around you. Or in the real World, a Clone or Character of you, even not in physical characteristics.

Originally Posted by EthicalEye

well, it's subconscious you cant control them and does in LD, you can do what ever you want but your subconscious is really a complicated Dream Character. I think its a Model of you in your dreams, of who you are and how do you respond in your surroundings/people around you. Or in the real World, a Clone or Character of you, even not in physical characteristics.

I think it has to be more than that. After all, something has to be creating the dream (environment, objects, characters) in the first place. Also, our subconscious is quite active in the waking world as well.

I think that what you experienced were Hypnagogic Hallucinations. That occurs before a WILD when the Sleep Paralysis kicks in and if you go through it you'll eventually enter a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by TruMotion

I think that what you experienced were Hypnagogic Hallucinations. That occurs before a WILD when the Sleep Paralysis kicks in and if you go through it you'll eventually enter a lucid dream.

No doubt, but what does that mean? I don't want to sound like I'm jumping on you for your reply, but to say I was having Hypnagogic Hallucinations is begging the question. This topic goes more into what 'Hypnagogic Hallucinations' really are and where they come from. The more we understand about these things, the better we can use them.

Originally Posted by gloriousbattle

No doubt, but what does that mean? I don't want to sound like I'm jumping on you for your reply, but to say I was having Hypnagogic Hallucinations is begging the question. This topic goes more into what 'Hypnagogic Hallucinations' really are and where they come from. The more we understand about these things, the better we can use them.

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't understand you wanted to go that far.
But what they are isn't really a mistery: Hypnagogia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia