I didn't sleep very much last night. I lay awake listening to the world slowly come awake, judging the time by the number of cars I could hear on the road or how many roosters I could hear crowing
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Minor detail, but I'm interested to note that you can close your eyes in a lucid dream; if I do that the dream fades out and I end up lying in my bed with sleep paralysis, waiting for it to wear off. Not sure why.
Interesting. The act of doing lucid-like things in a dream skirts the border between being awake and asleep for me. If I do too many lucid-like activities, I'll just wake up.
Can you describe your experience of sleep paralysis? I wrote about sleep paralysis nearly two years ago, and I'd like to compare my experience with yours. (I'm sorry for everyone that isn't on my flist, but this post is locked. If you want to see it drop me a line and I'll either mail it to you or friend you.)
Heh, so in rereading your post I discovered that I actually left a comment on it two years ago, describing my experience of sleep paralysis. :-)
I still get it with some regularity, but the hypnagogic hallucinations, which were not all that strong to begin with, have only gotten weaker. The last time I can remember having SP, there were no hallucinations at all -- I woke up clearly remembering a nice view of my pillow under the arm I was resting my head on.
I do still experience a sense of trepidation or urgency, but always very nonspecific lately.
I think to some degree we have opposing views on the phenomenon, since I'm pretty big on scientific reductionism. :-) I have a feeling that contributes to the vagueness of my hallucinations -- my understanding is people tend to "personalize" the hallucinations to fit whatever they believe in (e.g. alien-abduction types generally see aliens.) I get footsteps, or indistinct talking in voices of familiar people, when I get them at all.
I have that experience sometimes, too, of trying to walk through a wall and not being able to. What should clue me in is the lack of pain, but it seldom does.
I remember once that I became lucid while near a bathtub. I decided I was going to walk through the shower curtain and ended up poking a hole in it, which convinced me that I wasn't dreaming. I felt stupid. But I felt even more idiotic when a few moments later, I realized I was floating!
When I do dream, they are quite vivid and to me incredible experiences, but I almost never read other people's dreams when they post them, so I tend not to post mine.
You'll note here I wove the dream into another story. I did that in part to talk about the dream without doing the kind of blow-by-blow that I never read in other people's journals.
I'm happy to give it a shot, but I'm not likely to want to make a literal dream journal.
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Can you describe your experience of sleep paralysis? I wrote about sleep paralysis nearly two years ago, and I'd like to compare my experience with yours. (I'm sorry for everyone that isn't on my flist, but this post is locked. If you want to see it drop me a line and I'll either mail it to you or friend you.)
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I still get it with some regularity, but the hypnagogic hallucinations, which were not all that strong to begin with, have only gotten weaker. The last time I can remember having SP, there were no hallucinations at all -- I woke up clearly remembering a nice view of my pillow under the arm I was resting my head on.
I do still experience a sense of trepidation or urgency, but always very nonspecific lately.
I think to some degree we have opposing views on the phenomenon, since I'm pretty big on scientific reductionism. :-) I have a feeling that contributes to the vagueness of my hallucinations -- my understanding is people tend to "personalize" the hallucinations to fit whatever they believe in (e.g. alien-abduction types generally see aliens.) I get footsteps, or indistinct talking in voices of familiar people, when I get them at all.
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I remember once that I became lucid while near a bathtub. I decided I was going to walk through the shower curtain and ended up poking a hole in it, which convinced me that I wasn't dreaming. I felt stupid. But I felt even more idiotic when a few moments later, I realized I was floating!
Post more dreams :)
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You'll note here I wove the dream into another story. I did that in part to talk about the dream without doing the kind of blow-by-blow that I never read in other people's journals.
I'm happy to give it a shot, but I'm not likely to want to make a literal dream journal.
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