[dotaku]

i JUST had that last night for probly my third time in my whole life! i could see someone next to my bed looking out my window but i couldnt quite get my eyes open. then my entire body started literally started shaking and even though my eyes were shot i can feel someone sitting on my bed and i could hear him saying things to me, also there was some sort of female voice ssaying something from behind my bed. i could totally see why someone would think it was some sort of paranormal phenominon! finally after quite awhile-- maybe a minute ?-- i kinda fell back to sleep and woke up. it was terrifying but interesting

[aaargh]

And to add to the sleep intrigue....Scientists have not determined what the biological need for sleep is.

There isn't an obvious reason why life forms need to slip out of consiousness, but it seems to be a need.

Based on most peoples judgement, the mind doesn't seem to rest during sleep, as a matter of fact, my dreams are always extremely vivid, and since it is most likely a mind-construct, the mind on the other hand seems quite busy.

Souls, death(afterlife), and astral-projection seem to be what sleep is, that is until science figures something out.

[Scrivs]

Great thread.

[tonyn]

I remember as a kid very regular i would experiance what i belive now to be astral travel although i cant remember any experiances vividly from back then i fairly recently experianced it again and remembered everything. Just before it happened my body had fallen asleep but my mind hadn`t if that makes sense, i know this as my body was paralized and i couldnt move. Next i hear what i can only describe as white noise very quiet at first getting louder and louder until its almost deafening. At this point the noise subsided slowly and i can start to feel my whole body tingling. The tingling gets more and more intense , next a very loud buzzing is heard followed by my whole body vibrating which feels like electricity. Soon after everything dies down and i was left in a very calm and content state.The most unusual sense is that the air around me seems quite cool and very fresh and clean as is it has been electrically charged.At this stage i just sat up in bed gathered my thoughts then got up and walked to the window too look out,
The street was very quiet and i could see the street lamps and parked cars. Turning around and looking towards my bed to get back in i saw myself asleep. It was at this stage i knew what was happening and didnt panic. (normally at the vibrating stage people panic and wake up rapidly) With this i just walked very fast toward the window id been looking out of and next im floating down the street. I look up to the sky and see many stars i pick one out and in seconds im on another planet with tropical beaches just like earth. Next im mingling with lots of other people and go into what i can only desrcibe as a bar type place and im talking to many other astral travellers .After what seems like a good few hours chatting i decide to go home , all of a sudden i feel like im being pulled very very fast ,The loud whining noises start and i feel a jolt and im back in bed eyes open and paralized.

when i woke up properly in the morning i felt very rejuvenated fresh and happy with life in genral however my arms and legs were aching as if i ran a marathon all in all very weired
ive noticed that experiances like this are few and far between , i put this down to as a child our minds are much more open to suggestion and awwerness and dont really have any stresses that grown ups have

[Kazoo]

Damnit I only have lucid dreams when I know I'm in a dream and I can do wtf I want.

Oh well... atleast I can fly, use magic and bang any babe I want

[Paulination]

Originally Posted by Frank_Furter ↗

For awhile, I was severely sleep deprived because EVERY time I began to fall asleep, I would find myself paralyzed.

I probably get it once or twice a month but when I do, it is like this. It normally occurs when I am awoken in the morning before it is time to get up. As I start falling back to sleep I'll start to dream before I am completely asleep and I'll try to move as a result of the dream but I'm paralyzed. At that point I become more aware of the paralysis then the dream and I fight to move but can't. It is especially terrifying if I'm sleeping on my stomach because than I feel like I could suffocate. After a few moments of fighting it I'll wake up completely and be able to move. Then as I start to fall back asleep again it starts all over. It only stops when I stop fighting it and allow myself to fall asleep completely.

[Wadson]

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[Karma]

I occasionally have lucid dreams. I love them. I can control them, I can wake up out of them, go for a pee or whatever and then go right back to where I left off.
They are the good ones.
The bad ones are when I don't want to be having the dream, so I wake myself up at the point I can't stand it any longer. I just can't let myself continue.

I want to get to the stage where I can continue with the dream just to see what happens, but I am too scared to.

Very interesting post by the OP. I love hearing about people's dream experiences.

I used to have premonitions. They were all pretty minor. No world changing events. But I would just get 'feelings'. Well I can't really call them that, but I just had this "knowledge', that I knew without a doubt that something was going to happen.

No matter how much I tried to ignore this feeling, or knowledge, it would not go away until whatever was meant to happen happened.

One that I will never be able to verify and drives me bonkers is this....I worked in a large office. Women would leave and have babies all the time. We were all of that age group. They would always bring their babies in to show everyone and we would all coo over the babies.
This one particular day a lady called Rena came in with her baby, and with her she had a couple of other friends who also had babies.
I went to the hallway where they were all chatting, very casual and easy, and I looked at 2 of the babies thinking how sweet they were.

Then I looked at Rena's baby. This awful, awful feeling just hit me like a thunderbolt, sounds dramatic but it was so 'shocking' and unexpected that is the only way I can describe it. "That baby is going to die" a voice said in my head.
I was horrified. The knowledge, and that is how it felt,.....I absolutely KNEW that this baby was going to die, but I didn't know how or when, was absolutely sickening.

The feeling was so strong I had to make my excuses and go back to work.
To this day I will never forget that feeling. But I left that company a short time later and lost contact with everyone there, so I have no way of knowing for sure that the baby did indeed die.
The not knowing bothers me.
The feeling was so intense. I don't have any explanation of why it came. But it did. And I don't know whether that baby IS in fact dead or alive.

All I do know is that whenever I get those feelings or whatever they are, they have always, always come true. I don't ask for them. They just hit me without warning.

I won't bore you with my other stories!

All of this psychological stuff fascinates me immensely.

[clndstn46]

everybody seems to love this stuff -_-
I had sleep paralysis like 4 months ago, ever since then I've slept with the tv on. Seriously it was so fucking scary, nothing cool about it at all, couldn't breathe, couldn't speak, scary shadow people, end of story. Some people love that stuff, being scared shitless, I'm just a scaredy cat in general, heh, but I look up tons of totally disturbing stuff all the time and love it. -_-
It happens now and then but there's no scary stuff involved it's just I can't move for a bit.

[english evil]

Good post.