posted June 05, 2007 11:17 PM         

So I've had this before a few times. Its not...really a dream! I mean, theres no plot, no nothing.

Its just, In the middle of hte night, I would wake up, and I wont be able to move. I'm stuck, completely. And I dont know if i'm actually awake or I am dreaming...

And then there would be so many screams and yells and shrills and voices in my head, and there would be b right pulsing lights flashing and beating, and somehow my head would seem to beat as well, or throb...like an ultra intense headache. Or....it would feel like my head was this bell, and it was being hit, and it was just throbbing. And all three of it would combine...and I wont be able to move, at all. Like, unable to open my eyes or anything. And at one point i had my hands to my ear...but I think I Was picturing that...but at hte same time...it was so real....but I couldn't move, so I think I was imagining my hands over my ear to try to drown out the screams, but it was still very very real.

And then...I dont know....I would s tart to panick, and it would get even worse, and even more intesne. And I remember...I think I am awake during all this...???....and I remember that once I start to panick and realize that the screams, the lights, and the pulsing gets even worse, i start to try to calm down, and breath deeply and picture calm waters, and all of hte screaming and light and pulsing would disappear real fast.

But it came back a few more times....tho less and less, and finally was gone.

I dont know if this was a dream...or anyhting. I mena, there wasn't any plot, no characters. I might have seen faces, or I might not. It was just a lot of colored light flashing, like those awful lights they flash at dancing clubs...

posted June 07, 2007 04:27 AM         

Do you know anything about astral projection? Do you want to?

posted June 07, 2007 02:12 PM         

Not a dream, you are right about that. You don't know if you are awake or dreaming because you are actually right in between, you are both partially awake and partially asleep. This is called the hypnopompic or hypnogogic state. Not being able to move the physical body in this state is known as sleep paralysis, a quite natural and necessary part of the sleep process, only we are not usually consciously aware of it.

If you were to research this state, you would find others describing precisely the same sort of experiences.

I don't know if you are interested in astral projection, but if you are, you must know that conscious control of the hypnogogic state is a springboard to having an out of body experience.

You already display a certain measure of conscious control by being able to breathe deeply, picture calm waters, and calming yourself. You are so close! If, after calming yourself, you are able to think about floating upwards, you will find yourself doing so, right out of your body. It is that easy.

What do you think? Are you going to try it?

posted June 08, 2007 12:12 AM         

How do you do it? I haven't had it again since that night!

Why was it so scary? I was able to move. But I had to seriously calm myself first, and it was really really hard to turn over.

It was weird....it was so so easy to picture the ocean, and so easy to picture the hands over my ears (did I mention that?) It was like..as soon as I thoguht it, it was there.

Why were there voices? And screams? And the lights and the pulsing? What are the risks?
I would like to know more.

But mostly, how did it happen in the first place? What activated it?

posted June 20, 2007 05:00 AM         

I can tell you that it was scary because it is an unknown. The voices, screams, and lights? I don't know why this happens to some people. The lights, and the pulsing, are often reported. Risks? I know of no risks.

The best I can do is advise you to read up on it. Check out Robert Monroe's stuff on OBEs, for instance. Or google search for stuff. You'll find plenty, I'm sure.

Be good and have fun!