Your Experiences of Hypnagogia

[blacky]

I thought this would would make a good subject. What are your experiences with Hypnagogia, the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep? We all have them, whenever we remember them or not.

My include

brief falling sensation (I really don't like this one)
reliving recent repetitive activities, like playing silent hill
imaginary nonsensical conversations to noone (or at least, noone responds)
Music I've recently listened to
Seeing things that arn't there, usually in the form of giant spiders for some reason

[AlexY]

May 31, 2009 20:52:31 GMT @blacky said:

brief falling sensation (I really don't like this one)

Same here. It's freaky, isn't it? Like the bed rips open and you start falling into a bottomless pit just for a second before it fades away.

Haven't had any other experiences though.

[Tabris]

I've had some pretty insane/intense hallucinations when I was younger. I've had the falling one quite a few times. I've heard voices and music before as well. Sometimes I think there's something crawling in my bed (spiders, snakes, you name it ~) and I'll jump out of my bed and turn on the light and start patting on my bed before I snap out of it and realize I'm being a moron.

I've also had night terrors before. Sucks waking up terrified and confused for no reason and feeling like someone is in the darkness ready to kill you.

I'll post my hallucinations sometime in the future. They're pretty crazy.

[Maria]

Glad I'm not the only one having odd experiences at that transition.

I sometimes feel like I'm falling like y'all said you feel..but I actually smack the ground. Also I kick and sometimes scream, whimper, giggle, and have irrational, disjointed thoughts. And the most odd thing is I sometimes feel as if my entire bed and I were being rotated upside down; it makes me dizzy and nauseus.

Not to mention I sometimes hear the panting of my dearly departed Golden Retriever/Lab, Goldie, as well as feel her hit against my bed or hear her walking around to the side of my bed. I begin to feel with dread since I'm scared of ghosts.

It's also funny when the TV is on.. I mix reality and fantasy together in my mind to create a very odd, sometimes hillarious, sometimes frightening amalgamation of the two.

[Kiryū Kazuma]

ditto the falling feeling ive had that a few times but its like anpther force makes me fall faster then bosh suddenly awake

[Maynard]

Just the hypnic jerk I guess when I go to sleep and that's a rare one.

Waking up.... well the only thing I can think of is coming out of a dream. When that happens is of the rare times I actually remember having a dream and bits of what was happening. Cause in general I don't remember having dreams.

Last one I had though, a week or so ago: I was in a house and I had no legs of mine or something?(!) and I got a pair of dead legs from a shelf (wtf!) and walked with those outside (how the hell?). It was night outside and a road nearby where when I got close by I saw a bright light which was actually a police car... police men got off and I guess since I had no fn clue what the hell is going on and what's the deal with the legs I took cover behind some bushes. And then I woke up. Now what the hell had I watched on tv or something the night before in order to get such a dream I have no idea.. but that was messed up.

[Kiryū Kazuma]

another thing to add to the falling sensation it is like someone is pushing you down faster to!! break out in a cold sweat. Usually this only happens when i am properly sleep depraved for long periods and do alot of things in between

[Lolli]

I get the falling sensation too. Sometimes I also wake gasping for breath, that usually happens once or twice a night and is damn annoying.

[blackswordsman]

The damn falling sensation! I see it's normal, I'm relieved. Haha. That's the only one I remember having. It's awful.

[blacky]

Jul 1, 2009 0:46:17 GMT blackswordsman said:

The damn falling sensation! I see it's normal, I'm relieved. Haha. That's the only one I remember having. It's awful.

Yup, quite normal. during Hypnagogia the body and brain start going into rest mode, but sometimes the body falls alseep before the brain, the sudden loss of feeling of your surrondings that follows is what causes the sensation of being airborne. Senseing this the brain panics and wakes the body up, all feeling of your surrondings coming back so suddenly is what makes you feel as if you have just crashed into your bed

[Tabris]

Since people are posting in this thread now, I'll share one of my old hallucinations I had. I've had about 6 or 7 of these before. 3 or 4 of them happened pretty close together. I think this was the first one and it happened. This one screams 'I played too much Silent Hill' or something. The other ones, not so much.

I woke up pretty late in my room, the whole sleep paralysis thing was happening to me. Except sometimes when that happens, I'm completely aware, I just can't move. When I woke up, everything looked run down and broken in my room, including my bed. To the left of me, a shadowy liquid fire started running itself up the walls. I have NEVER seen anything as cool looking as that. It slowly started to crawl itself all over my walls.

To the right of me was my dresser, except it was a rusty cage with a black torn up drape on top of it. A naked woman with a cloak over herself stood beside it with her hand over top of the cage. There was a dead body in the cage or something. Eventually my whole room was glowing orange from the shadowy fire that was covering it. Honestly, it was probably the coolest hallucination ever. This probably only lasted about 2 or 3 minutes but it felt like an hour.

When these things happen, I'm aware they're exactly what they are, hallucinations. So they don't really scare me. More than anything, I just enjoy them. I kinda wish they happened more, but they don't.

[Father Vincent]

I once had one where I was lying in bed like I really was, and having severe chest pain. Like, elephant-standing-on-my-torso chest pain. I woke up and I was perfectly fine.
Maybe it had more to do with the fact that I was sleeping on my back, and I usually sleep on my right side. In any case, it was really freaky. I was thinking cardiac arrest or something.

[Lolli]

I hate the sleep paralysis, sometimes I wake up but I can't move or open my eyes because my body won't let me. I have to force myself into conciousness.

Tabris-That sounds like a cool hallucination.

[Maynard]

Jul 1, 2009 21:17:36 GMT Father Vincent said:

I once had one where I was lying in bed like I really was, and having severe chest pain. Like, elephant-standing-on-my-torso chest pain. I woke up and I was perfectly fine.
Maybe it had more to do with the fact that I was sleeping on my back, and I usually sleep on my right side. In any case, it was really freaky. I was thinking cardiac arrest or something.

"The Nightmare" painting by Henry Fuseli (1781)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare

[Father Vincent]

*shudder*