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Sounds like a waking dream and sleep paralysis, or what you were experiencing was the transference from brain waves from the REM to the conscious perspective. Everybody has varying degrees of sleep paralysis, its why people get that falling feeling or sense of weightlessness. You know how when you wake up and you not thinking at 100% yet, you give short answers that make sense part of the way and your still thinking about whatever dream you were having. That is you coming out of the other end of the Delta waves and even though this chart doesn't show it the onset of Delta waves(REM) can be as much as 1000% the amplitude of waking signals, so in that sense dreams can seem 10x(times) more real than actual reality during your waking day, but your conscious can rarely remember that much detail. There are rare cases of people dreams causing such interference in their mind that they die from it, A 12 y/o boy in Brazil believed a monster/man would attack him and kill him if he slept. He died in his sleep after staying awake for like 6 days which was the basis for Nightmare on Elm Street. My Final Essay for Psyche101 was on the subconscious effects on the body. |
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You should post that essay here, or if you don't want to, please PM it to me. Would be quite interesting to read I'm sure. I completely understand how some dreams may seem more realstic than reality itself, although it almost seems like cognitive dissonance saying that outloud...lol. |
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hmm have you ever looked into lucid dreaming?
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I enjoyed the story and have a few thoughts. First of all, I have had the paralysis expierience, in vivid detail as well, at least twice, plus other strange things that happened during waking while I was a child. I believe you were 'astral'-traveling, as it is called. It is when your consiusness leaves your body. The SP is triggered when you return, yet gain a premature 'awareness' of an unknown and seemingly uncontrolled phenomena. I had only one traveling dream. I was on a military flight in upstate NY heading to an Airforce base I once lived near. In the dream, everyone inside was distressed and afraid to land, I looked out the window and saw an atomic mushroom-cloud. I realised below a nuclear holocaust occured, but we had to land anyway. We landed, we lined up to exit the plane, fearing certain death. The door opened and I woke up. In the paper the next day was a story of a military flight heading to the airport I was dreaming about, the plane crashed and the crew died. I was asleep and dreaming my dream at the same time as the flight and the crash. I told a friend, who really didn't care or listen. My paralysis briefly. I was asleep but waking up, I heard my little cousins playing upstairs, but too clearly, then I felt someone open the door to my room, all in black, he came and stood at the foot of my bed, I tried to wake up and defend myself but I was paralyzed. Through an immense struggle I gained my movement, but when I did the man was gone. I was asleep on the floor of a room, the same kind of force came literally flying into the room through the window, he grabbed my head with two hands, picked it up, and slamed it back down on the floor, 6 or 7 times, then I woke up. I immediateley went to the livingroom and told my roommate what happenend, who also didn't care. You were in my estimation in a real ambulance expierencing someones real life situation, based on my expieriences. As you said, it is a recognised phenomena but not understood, my expieriences have provided enough insight to provide a confident explanation. *EDIT* I just remebered that I was thinking about the head-slamming incident no more than two or three hours before I read your post. Freaky. |
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Yes, I was going to mention that in the OP but forgot about it to be honest. I think that and other states are all connected to this type of thing.
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very interesting post and read..thanks for sharing and wow that's mad! ![]() |
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I've had numerous occasions such as this. I will usually get them once or twice a month. Im aware of my surroundings (like what's on TV, if anyone is around me, etc etc), if anyone is around me I try to touch them or talk for them to wake me up. I'm not 100% sure if I am even really moving, but I do know that I am able to move my eyes, as I can see everything in front of me. Most of the time SP will happen right as I'm falling asleep. I get this ringing sensation in my ear and I can snap out of it, only for it to happen again as I'm falling asleep. During those times if I'm able to I get up and read a magazine or something for like 5 minutes, and it seems to go away. The times when I am caught in SP are when I've already fallen asleep and "wake up" in the middle of it. Also on every occasion, I feel like something or someone is getting closer to me or coming after me, like they've found me. I have this feeling that if I don't snap out of it, the thing or person will show up. It could be from the fact that I feel helpless and at the mercy of anything that may happen at that moment, but still it is a scary feeling. One day I may have the guts to let things be, just to see if anyone shows up. I just got an idea. Next time I am able to sense something like this to occur, I would love to video tape myself to see if I actually am able to move, or just to see that my eyes are really open and aware of my surroundings...and maybe stay in SP and tape whatever it is that has found me. |
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