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04-04-2013, 09:12 PM
Lucid dreaming is great. But you become so excited that often you will accidentally wake yourself up. I have only experienced it about 5-6 times in my life.
I found my experiences to be similar to my man, Anthony Cumia...
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04-04-2013, 09:16 PM
The other one is when your brain wakes up before your body. Since you are actually paralysed when you are asleep - it means you are pinned down and unable to move. It can be quite spooky since it feels like some invisible evil presence is pinning you to your bed. And when you try and scream - not a single sound comes out of your mouth. Which just adds to the panic.
Of course - there is nothing spooky about it - since it is just your body waking up (for about a minute or so) out of sequence.
A friend was telling me about a Catholic priest she knew. Funny thing. He experienced the same thing as well. But due to his religious outlook - he held the belief that it was a battle for his soul being carried out between the devil and God.
Funny how different people can have such radically different understandings of the same phenomena. Just shows the usefulness of spending a few minutes researching a topic on google.
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PS You can buy headsets which apparently induce lucid dreaming. But I have never tried one. Still - I am curious to know more about those gadgets.
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04-04-2013, 09:25 PM
I stopped trying to take control of my dreams (lucid dreaming) as all my attempts would result in failure as I tried to control the dream.
I do like simply remembering the dream and I allow my mind to do its own thing (Always interesting when keeping a dream journal and then commenting on how my interactions, dreams and how I acted in the dreams change over time)
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04-04-2013, 09:30 PM
The other weird one (and this is the rarest of the lot I think) is when you wake up and are still dreaming. As such - you can temporarily hallucinate conversations and so on. I think alot of out of body experiences are like this. I once had one where I woke up and started to semi-float around the room. I think. There was a small earthquake back then - so maybe it was that which woke me up. Hard to recall.
Nevertheless - I suspect alot of 'out of body' experiences are of people dreaming they are in their bed and floating around their room.
And later this gets misremembered as them being
awake in bed and floating around their room.
This is interesting as well. There is now a way to artifically induce 'out-of-body' experiences:
And I think this is the first step to creating Sex 2.0 (ala Demolition Man):
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04-04-2013, 09:32 PM
And this video is an even simpler demonstration of the 'out-of-body' concept demonstrated above:
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04-04-2013, 09:33 PM
Have done it.
Would endorse.
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04-04-2013, 09:37 PM
In one of his memoirs - Richard Feynman described his self-experiments with lucid dreaming and sensory deprivation tanks.
He was also fascinated by hallucinogenic drugs. But never took any for fear of ruining his brilliant mind.
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04-04-2013, 09:39 PM
I feel for you, Speakeasy.
I usually panic a bit when I get them. But a couple of times I have had enough alertness to understand what was going on. And that made it better...
Now - until now I never made the link between sleep paralysis and being in a coma. Scary shit!
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04-04-2013, 09:42 PM
I have a buddy who told me once about his experience with sleep paralysis. It involved seeing dark shapes and figures moving around the room trying to strangle him. Crazy what the mind is capable of..
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04-04-2013, 09:51 PM
My sleeping is fucked up. I am a total night owl - yet I have to be awake at 6 in the morning to get ready for work.
Often what I do is stay up all night, and then sleep for 10 hours or so the next day - straight after work. It is fun in a way since nothing is more pleasurable than sleep when you are totally exhausted. Especially when you go to bed early enough that you know you won't be wokrn from a deep sleep by your alarm clock.
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04-04-2013, 09:57 PM
I just wish parents would tell their kids about Sleep Paralysis. Shit like this fucked up my sleeping when I was growing up.
Another tip you have to tell all kids is this one. There is nothing worse in the world than ice cream headaches. Well - the ice cream headache is caused by a nerve which runs from the roof of your mouth to your forehead contracting. This is what causes the headache. Well - if you vigorously lick the roof of your mouth, when you get an ice cream headache, it will stop this nerve from contracting - and thus get rid of the headache.
Best thing I ever learned...
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04-04-2013, 10:03 PM
I once got sleep paralysis at a job I was at. I snuck away to take a nap in a recording studio room. I was trying to scream and stuck really bad it was fucked. I partied hard the night before and accredited it to that. It can be scary when it happens. Magnesium is key to relaxed sleep.