08-26-2006, 01:06 AM
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Artist of Life
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Hypnagogia (disturbing)
I saw a special on this and it freaked me out...
Imagine having a nightmare. After awhile of enduring it you suddenly wakeup. Safety.
Now imagine that same senario. You have the same nightmare, and awake to see your nightmare right in front of you still... right by your bed, feeling a stong sense of despair, and not being able to move.
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Hypnagogic sensations are vivid dream-like experiences that occur as one is falling asleep or waking up. Accompanying sleep paralysis can cause the sensations to be more frightening. The features of these sensations generally vary by individual, but some are more common to the experience than others:
Most common
Vividness
Fear
Falling sensation
Common
Sensing a "presence" (often malevolent)
Pressure/weight on body (especially the chest).
A sensation of not being able to breathe
Impending sense of doom/death
Fairly common
Auditory sensations (often footsteps or indistinct voices, or pulsing noises). Auditory sensations which are described as noise instead of sensations of legible sounds, are often described to be similar to auditory sensations caused by Nitrous Oxide by persons who have experienced both.
Visual sensations such as lights, people or shadows walking around the room.
Less common
Floating sensations (sometimes associated with out-of-body experiences)
Seamless transition into fully immersive lucid dreaming, also associated with out-of-body experiences
Tactile sensations (such as a hand touching or grabbing)
Rare
Vibration
Involuntary movements (sometimes the feeling of sliding off of the bed or even up walls).
The feeling of being pulled in different directions
During the hypnagogic state, an individual may appear to be fully awake, but still has brain waves indicating that the individual is still technically sleeping. Also, the individual may be completely aware of their state, which enables lucid dreamers to enter the dream state consciously directly from the waking state (see wake-initiated lucid dream technique)
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I don't know about you guys, but I would freak-out if I woke up with this kind of stuff going on...
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