HAHAHA this shit. I sometimes get this. It has to do with night terrors and hypnogogia as well as thats kind of been an issue my whole life.
The best time was once, I was having some kind of hypnogogic hallucination where these weird little creatures were fucking with me by laughing and making noises and talking in some weird language incessantly. I asked them in my mind, "why wont you just go away?" and that just egged them on so finally, still half-asleep I yelled as loud as I could in my mind, "FUCK OFF YOU STUPID LITTLE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!GET THE HELL AWAY AND LET ME SLEEP OR I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!!!(of course having no way to back it up but just to see if it would work.)
they then disappeared and since now there was nothing left but quiet quiet and the murky darkness of closed eyes and sleep, I was like "ahhh...finally they're gone"
a few moments later and BAM! a flash of lightehind my eyes and the sound of a bomb going off inside of a house made entirely of glass. I probably jumped a foot off the bed while still lying down. When I awoke everything was totally fine ubmy heart was racing and I was waiting for some sort of headache to come on. my head never started to hurt but i stayed up all night, wide-eyed.

those little mother fuckers.

>>33835
I've had this recently, except it was more like I was the ship in galaga/galaxian and I was fighting the aliens to a seemingly never ending metal guitar onslaught, always slowly crescending till all 4 guitars reached one power chord. From memory I jumped right out of bed and hit my head on the wall.

I just posted this,

>>33850

And then I come upon this thread. Talk about service.

I remember Dave Barry writing about EHS. He said that he had assumed it was someones head actually exploding, preferably "Barry Manilow's in concert" but found out it was actually just loud noises inside your head or something that wakes you up. He said, "Big deal, we get that all the time, you don't see us whining to the Lancet. You see us making a mental note to drink Gin from smaller containers." Generally, Dave Barry would review news stories in the guise of some kind of official organization, so he could say things like "we at the institute" and shit like that

>>33835
happened me a couple of times
i always wake up with some loud noise and i always think it's real so i freak out lol

anima...

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>mfw people on 420chan have played oppai lily scenario

>>33874
anime anima

i am 27 years old and what is this

Last night I had a vivid dream of a giant wave destroying a whole city. Not sure where it was though.

>>33858
Probably LA. Did it smell like shit?

>>33862 There was many huge buildings, by the ocean. I was standing in an opening in a huge white one and yes it did have that typical shitty by the ocean smell but I think you would get that anywhere. There wasn't just me there either, massive amounts of people in panic before everything was wiped out almost instantly and that's when it ended. It was a large hotel like building if that helps.

>>33864 Ok so I was looking around online since I know next to nothing about LA. Looked at a bunch of maps and videos on youtube and I pinpointed to one place that was closest to what I saw which was a beach city called Redondo Beach, in fact it was almost a perfect match. Some the buildings, view of the ocean, and height above water and distance from it. Along with the direction the building were facing to the ocean.

I did see very vivid dream like 4 days ago. In my dream some huge volcano had erupted and it was impossible to breath / see anything outside because of the ash.

A giant fucking bee buzzing right in front of my eyes for seemingly forever. And Darth Vader slowly reaching into my brain.
And being slowly digested by a weepinbell.

This morning, just before I had to wake up to go to school

This wasn’t really a dream…
I was around 11 and my family was spending the night in this old inn in scotland that was right next to a large portion of hadrian's wall. The rooms had no decorations and consisted of only two bunk beds, a single window, a light fixture and a side door leading to a bathroom. The walls of the room were rough stone. I chose to sleep on the top bunk of one of the beds while my parents took the two lower bunks. I was still wide awake after the light had been turned off so I tried humming twinkle twinkle little star to myself to try and go to sleep but eventually stopped and just tried to relax. The song was still stuck in my head though, and I was having a hard time getting it out to the point that my brain was preventing me from falling asleep. I then tried to completely clear my mind, but as I did this I was distracted by a noise coming through the wall next to my bed. I pressed my ear against the wall in order to try and hear what it was and was confronted with, you guessed it, twinkle twinkle little star. It sounded like a middle-aged man and women were singing the very song that was stuck in my head a minute ago through the stone wall! I was struck with such a strong bout of fear that I felt unable to move or speak, and could only lie there. Long story short, there were intervals were the song would get quieter or louder as it was sung over the course of hours, but it would never fully go away, and I eventually must have fallen asleep in a state of pure terror.
In retrospect I think the silence and darkness of the place drove my brain into producing sounds that weren’t there.

>>33831
Sounds like sleep paralysis, at least somewhat.

You can start hallucinating and hearing things when you are getting sleep paralysis which can happen to everybody and kinda depends on your lifestyle, if you have irregular sleep pattern or you dont eat enough or excercise you can experience what is called sleep paralysis, which is a very normal thing for the human being to experience

>>33867

Yes, and some would recommend psychedelics but the truth is you don't have to do anything at all. If you really want to wake up in this sense, you can do it right now, in this instance. When you figure it out it is the easiest, simplest thing in the world.

In a way, it is a form of super-relaxation beyond body, beyond mind, from the absolute bottom depths of "I". But that's the problem. You have to stop thinking of self, stop trying to control anything at all, and let go of it, let go of you, let go of thoughts of being it, thoughts of not being it, thoughts of being you, thoughts of not being you and so forth; leaping completely into nothingness without holding any notions of nothingness. There may be thoughts going on but there must be no one around to think them. This is not an intellectual exercise.

You have to stop associating yourself with the innermost observer. The very depths of consciousness-ego is void looking at void. One must devote oneself completely to this end, and one may very well sweat "drops of blood" before it begins to unfold. For some people it comes more spontaneously than for others, but the common ground is that we hold back when we approach it.

This is what is so hard because we can try to get our heads around this idea intellectually, and try to open up to it in many, many ways, but we keep associating ourselves with that observer. So at the brink, we say we feel like this life is like a simulation or an illusion but we still feel that we are an "I" looking at the illusion. Mainly out of fear, because, as you can tell when that very deep action begins to unhook, it feels like dying, losing all control. But who is it that's losing control? Who is it feeling the fear?

We attach our ego-notions to these sensations and call it depersonalisation and so forth and it all sounds very scary.

So, while it essentially is very easy and simple, it is the most difficult thing in the world when one is stuck with a constantly active mind that functions like a search-light, is in ON mode all the time and does not have the slightest clue how to unhook itself. So one may meditate in order to develop that ability to let go. The…

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>>33489 and
>>33869

thank you for contributing. i am feeling very light-headed right now, in a good way. it feels wonderful. this thread has opened my mind further.

I have never meditated before, i want some ideas how to focus. this is hard for me cause i have the attention span of a cracked out squirrel. what do?

>>33881

The simpler the better. Count your breath from one to five over and over. Count on the out-breaths. Start over when you lose track. You don't have to sit in some acrobatic posture but you need a straight spine. When you count one, only bother with counting one. Don't think about two, or worry about losing track of the next number. If it happens, it happens. It's not a competition.

If you have a squirrel mind, sit and meditate with squirrel mind. Let the squirrel mind go on about it's business. If you find it boring, it is because you are still associating with your thoughts. Let it be, don't meddle with it, but don't associate with it. It will come to a calm.

The word meditating itself, as it is a verb, sounds like one is doing something, and so it is abit misleading. In Asia they use variations of the sanskrit word Dhyana which represents sitting in a state of acceptance and not a doing. I find that this is more indicative of what is going on.

One does not meditate to become a master of thoughts, but to accept thoughts as they come and let go of them, to accept what is, to accept being just as it is in the moment. One sits in silence to accept silence, and if there is a noise, one accepts the noise. Everything is a constant flux of Now and by practicing this, it becomes clear that when something is noticed and "thought of", it has already disappeared and the flux is still in motion. So one opens up to that immediacy and boundlessness of motion, and becomes one with the motion. There is no I in that motion, it encompasses everything. Alot of things one thought were separate just melt into one when this happens.

You could say that with this action you turn the mind in on itself and produce ego-death, but by saying that you spoil it, because in words this is merely an intellectual idea, so the risk is that when one sits, one becomes attached to thoughts of this idea and it does not happen. So forget all about it. The only mistake one can do with meditation is meditating with purpose, expecting something ahead, because then one loses the possibility to experience right Now in totality.

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You meditated wrong!!!!!

>>33834

Seriously guys, this is important.

Thanks for sharing, but what do you mean "what does it mean"? It means you dreamed about Jeremy Clarkson making a joke about James May's supposed death. Wtf is so important about it?

I do think precognitive dreams are possible, but 1) precognition is always about a LIKELY future event and you can't be sure exactly how likely it is (although I'd guess the clarity of the dream could give a hint) - there is no fixed future and 2) even if it happens, so what? Not like you could do anything about it anyway.

>>33887

>This would mean that you would have to be in a dream world as clear as the real world. Like, look around the room you're in now; that clear.

>My question is: is it really like that?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Yes, and often it is much, much clearer. This may sound hard to believe, and it is even harder to explain, but vision is a tricky thing when unconstrained by the rules of waking life. It involves stuff like absolutely unconstrained detail, zoom and focus and so forth. There is no tunnel vision and there is even the possibility of seeing in all directions at the same time.

The reason it is hazy is because you don't practice enough. This is the same thing as any other activity. With sports and instruments it's perfectly obvious that practice develops into perfection, but with meditation and lucid dreaming people seem to think what they get the first time is what they'll always get.

You do not take control of the dream, that would imply taking control over something external; you take control of the mind. The mind is the dream. Once you understand that it becomes much easier to control, and you also understand why you need to train yourself while awake.

To your second question, I would say that having a healthy regular sleep schedule is always a good thing.

stay up for 24 hours, as soon as you hit one of the "super tired - sleep now" points after the 24 hour mark, take half of a melatonin pill, 50mg benadryl, and smoke/dip/whatever to get some nicotine in your system, then sleep.

if this doesn't work wait like a week then try again. if you actually remember any dreams, they'll be batshit.

>>33878
oh and make sure it's ONLY 50mg or less of the DPH. you don't want to get any "recreational" effects you just want the slight drowsiness, plus you're ingesting other shit with it.

and don't do this often, it's probably unhealthy and could mess up your sleep cycle.

I wouldn't say it's household but I've been screwing around with nicotine patches... I'll slap one on an hour before going to sleep but if the dreams are too vivid, I wake up and cant go back to sleep...

I've wanted to mix this with Lunesta or an Ambien CR, but I'm a bit scared to do so since I tend to get sleep paralysis once a month... why do I make that association? I dont know, but I can't seem to keep it together when I realize whats going on.

Don't use household objects. Just don't start with it. It will fuck you up. Big time. Just try to get a hold on some calea or just drink lots and lots of milk before going to sleep. Natural melatonin source. Best melatonin source. And NEVER ingest or smoke parts of the plant that you posted in your picture, it is being used to get high. But it's active compound is cyanide, which means that the high is actually your body dying.

>>33875
6-10mg of the Mel chased by a few beers gives me some crazy good dreams

*Smoke some weed
*Lay in bed
*Tell myself ima dream, and im gonna remember it
*Several hundred times
*SPACE

Ever since my last trip I think I found the perfect way to do so. Make sure you actually tired when you do so. You should be completely naked and NOT under your covers. You should have almost nothing touching you. I also have a fan next to me, drowns out a lot of background noise and has a bit of a white noise effect. If you even feel the least bit uncomfortable in your position, change it till you feel it's perfect. So perfect you can just lay in that position all night and be relaxed. Then just close your eyes, focus on whatever you see, and slowly drift further into sleep while staying conscious by paying attention to what you see until you enter sleep paralysis. When you reach that point you don't even have to try much anymore to not wake up since your whole body can't move at that point anyways unless you force it to. Don't be afraid of what you see and feel, just let yourself go like you just died. Pretend you're never going back to your body ever again. That's all there is to it for me.

>>33868
what do you mean to by "what you see" part

>>33876 I mean just that, when visions start to form.

OP here, another question, is it normal to be paralyzed AFTER a lucid dream?

Well I get sleep paralysis pretty regularly (although pot kills my dream recall, working on it). I never experienced "darkness sucking me in", well that is, strangely enough, until this morning

I was experiencing sleep paralysis, it was pitch black in my room. Suddenly something (more of a force than a hand) grabbed my foot and pulled me out of my bed, but not off the bed, into the void of darkness. Then I proceeded to have a few strange episodes that I can't remember well, involving a negative entity as you would say. I actually began to consider the fact that I had died, and was never going to wake up. I felt like I was in limbo (this hasn't happened before). I then went back into a non dreaming paralyzed state, and woke up after a few minutes.

>>33860
OP here, damn, that's the thing I felt with the darkness shit. I've been afraid like many times, being mugged, on the verge of dying, and the likes but that darkness thing, dunno man, I want to NOPE but this ain't /spooky/.

I regularly get sleep paralysis... and i fucking hate it. I don't know if Im actually screaming or breaking my neck from trying to move my head... I don't want to ask about it since I'll probably be seen as being psychotic.

Lucid dreams can go sour and you end up in sleep paralysis.

Usually when I experience it, it feels like I've exhaled all the air our of my lungs... then attempted to exhale even more. Theres some presence... its malevolent and I want to scream, but I cant. I've exhaled all the air out of my lungs. I try and turn away but I cant. My eyes are locked... staring off, always leaving that malevolent presence in the corner of my eye. It'll dart across the room with demonic speed. Sometimes it skins me slowly... sometimes it dismembers me with a hatchet. Sometimes its a chainsaw. Othertimes I'm shot in the head and I feel my life fleeting. It feels so real I'm convinced its not a dream. I feel cold, and unable to do anything about it but watch the blood spew out of my head.

too many permutations of me dying... I dont like it man...

>>33884
Not exactly same but I have a similar death experience while lucid dreaming, and it's creepy as shit because I'm looking at my own body, then the other me grinned, not horny grin, but a fucking psycho grin, and decided to jump off the building we're standing. After the jump, I'm now on my other-self's place. As I hit the ground, I woke up paralyzed. SRSLY guys, this shit is just fucked up.

also, i went into sleep paralysis afterwards, knew that i was dreaming but couldn't really control any part of it. first a cat walked over me where i'm laying on the couch, and i know there is no cat in this house but i actually try to pet it, but have a hard time moving my hand, it jumped off the edge of the couch as i slowly reach my hand up, then my hand starts growing til i have like seven or eight fingers. as that all happens i look over and i see a person/monster standing there(luckily it was dark and i couldn't really make out how scary/trippy he looked) but he gets on top of me and puts his hand on my neck where i can feel it and he's about to choke me. are there any tips for getting out of my body at this point, or it would be cool if there were tips for turning from such a bad trip into a good one. thanks for reading and if you don't thats understandable since i wrote a lot and probably seem a little retarded

on a lot of mxe right now, coming up on more. those sounds are intense and they remind me of mxevibesiam truly feelingfuckedup

Even when I don't have a lucid dream or enter sleep paralysis I hear voices. Lots of them, I never knew what that was. I can never understand them and they all seem pretty distant and fading in and out. Not scary in any way either, just kinda comforting. I can't really imagine what being in silence without them always around would be like.

>>33709

When I go to sleep during the day I'll sometimes hear a loud "bang" like a balloon popping, it sounds absolutely real. It used to wake me up, but recently
I've been recognizing it and continuing to enter sleep. It's not always the same, either. It can sound like someone suddenly ripping velcro right next to my head or something more bassy.

>>33714

> I hear voices. Lots of them

I get that when fully awake sometimes. It's not like they are just there, I'll "catch a whisper of the crowd" and try to focus on it. Sometimes I can make it louder, as if I'm in a room full of people. Also, I can focus in on individual voices and hear what they're saying (normally sounds like nonsense).

I wonder if the difference between schizophrenics and normal people is not that schizos have voices in their heads, but that they hear them without choosing to.