Something freaky happened to me last night, while trying to sleep.

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Last night, I went to sleep at 2:40 am (I dont remember the exact time, but I know it was in-between 2 and 3 am). Anyways, while I was in bed, I went into sleep like 5 times. You know, the REM process (sp?) in which your brain auto-shutdowns to make way for the dreams. A process in which you are unconscious. I got that like 5 times in a row. I fall asleep, then woke up, and fall sleep again.

The freaky thing, was that I was getting aware when my brain was shutting itself. Sleeping was getting bothersome , almost to the point I wanted to stay awake for the rest of the night. I had many small dreams, but the one thing I remember that would happen in all of them was a voice teasing me. Waking up was another problem. I felt waking up wasnt that easy as before. Like my body weighed twice as much and I didnt have enough energy to wake myself up.

Also, in one of those dreams, I could hear a background music with very big volume playing, but I thought it was coming from the outside. I even heard a car passing by. While listening to this annoying music, I immediately tried to wake up, and found out that this music was played inside my brain as the second I woke up, it started to quiet down.

I was so scared, I didnt even know what the hell was going wrong with me. It had never happened to me before.
 
Did you feel great pressure on top of your chest? Almost like you can't breathe properly.
 
Actually snoop, that happens to me a lot whenever I roll around and my face is in the pillow, or something of that nature.
 
Originally posted by ShobThaBob
Actually snoop, that happens to me a lot whenever I roll around and my face is in the pillow, or something of that nature.
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I think you need a softer bed, then.
 
There's nothing wrong with you. Your body needed rest and your consciousness resisted. There was a "war inside your head", as it were. You're probably overly stressed.
 
Originally posted by sn00pie
Did you feel great pressure on top of your chest? Almost like you can't breathe properly.
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I dont remember anything about feeling pressure on my chest, but I do remember it was hotter than usual and breathing was getting uncomfortable too, but it always happens to me (I have problems breathing when I get too nervous).
 
Originally posted by Tercel_driver
I dont remember anything about feeling pressure on my chest, but I do remember it was hotter than usual and breathing was getting uncomfortable too, but it always happens to me (I have problems breathing when I get too nervous).
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You're probably overly stressed.
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Originally posted by GTJugend
My explanation: Study the work of Carlos Castaneda.
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Who is him? and where do they sell his book?

And to milefile;
the only problem with your last post is that I rarely do anything. I cant feel over-stressed from doing nothing. The only thing I do is go to college, and it was a weekend before that night!
 
Originally posted by Josh
Bad hit of acid, perhaps?

Kidding.
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Not really, :odd:

but the day before that I had some beers and smoked some cigarrettes too, but the weird thing was that the next day I didnt have a hangover.

Oh btw,
I have to take this out because it was really gross.
On the same past weekend, we were going to eat some grilled fish, so I went down to get a beer. I would have drank the beer without looking if the bootle wouldnt have spilled some of it in my hand. When I looked, the bootle was opened, and there was some nasty stuff inside, and worst of all, it smelled really bad. It was rotten. I am just glad I never drank it. Now, I will always look ahead of what I do.
 
Short explanation of Carlos approach to the world: The world as we see it is just one of many layers existing, sort of layers in an onion. When you sleep all you do is that you change your fixation point from this layer to another (another reality). most of us are not aware of this at all, that dreams is excperiences from another reality and we think of them as chemical processes in the brain. He developed the ability to switch into other "layers" when concious.

Mabye you are excperiencing this "switch" when you aren't fully asleep and aren't entirely attached to your body?

I find his books very interesting but somewhat dark.
 
some thing freaky hapend to me once my cat draged a dead rabet through the window then it jumped on my face the cat not the rabbit
 
The music part of that happens to me all the time.I'll be sleeping ,and right before I dose off I'll here a loud sound are music in my head and it will jolt me back awake,and then it takes me like a hour to fall back to sleep,but considering I suffer from a slight case of insomnia thats not that surprising.

I do have something that happens to me once in a while that would freak out anybody.I'll be sleeping and then I'll open my eyes,and I know that I'm awake,but everything is real burly,and I can't move at all.So all I can do is close my eyes,and wait till I fall back to sleep,but for a split second I think that I'm penalized.Now thats some scary crap.
 
I used to get that, but the weird thing was, I'd be facing my clock and the first time I'd waske up it'd be 1:30am, then the next time I woke up it'd be 2:00am, the third time it's be 2:30am yet it all felt as if only a few seconds had elapsed?

That must mean I'm falling into a deep sleep and waking right back up again, it sure was annoying though.

But I do love those sleeps where as soon as you hit the pillow you wake up the next day :D
 
Originally posted by Tercel_driver
Not really, :odd:

but the day before that I had some beers and smoked some cigarrettes too, but the weird thing was that the next day I didnt have a hangover.
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"Some beers" don't cause a hangover.
 
The more common, more prosaic explanation refers to it as a "Hypnagogic" state of mind and body. Look it up, it does come close. It can also be referred to as Old Hag Syndrome or even "Hypnopompic" state. Those basically all approach what you describe.

Alternate theories are multiple.

Incidentally, it's frequently happened to me. I once shared one with a friend who was five miles away at the time.
 
Originally posted by Atomic Wedgie
The more common, more prosaic explanation refers to it as a "Hypnagogic" state of mind and body. Look it up, it does come close. It can also be referred to as Old Hag Syndrome or even "Hypnopompic" state. Those basically all approach what you describe.

Alternate theories are multiple.

Incidentally, it's frequently happened to me. I once shared one with a friend who was five miles away at the time.
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I've heard of a similar syndrome, where people have the illusion an alien has sex with them.

I'm not even kidding.
 
It does all sorts of things, yeah. Aliens, spirits, Succubi, you name it... The general feeling invoked is paralysis and a presence of some sort in the room, which ain't happy. How you interpret that "presence" is a whole other story...

I used to get hypnagogic... sequences? I would half-wake from a dream, paralyzed, with a feeling of other presences in the house, and I believed I was conscious, only my surroundings were wrong. Arriving at the conclusion that I wasn't truly awake, I would attempt to break out, which required ridiculous effort. Once I thought I was out, the whole thing would loop, and I'd come to the conclusion that I still wasn't truly conscious, and so on... Several times. Quite distressing. Sometimes you can still feel the presence when you truly are awake and on your second cup of java.

But I can't say I know what it's all about.
 
Originally posted by /<atana
are u a stoner???
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Ooh, constructive! BTW, please take a quick read on GTP's TOS, and note the section about grammar.


Back on-topic: I always thought I had sleeping problems, but some of you really beat me in your, um, weirdnesses. Strangely, I seem to have major problems falling asleep when I go to bed later than usual. Like last night... I went to bed at 11:30 (I usually go to bed around 10:30-11:00), but I probably didn't fall asleep until 1:00. I just kept tossing and turning, and sort of had the same problems that Tercel was talking about at the beginning of the thread, in that I'd "half" fall asleep, then suddenly be wide awake.

Thankfully, my sleeping problems are nowhere near what they used to be. Until about 7th or 8th grade, I could never, ever fall asleep until I had been in my bed for at least an hour (usually two).
 
Yep, its just all in your head man 👍. So dont worry about taking apart your clock and behind the mirrors, as there arent any camera's or microphones hidden in them ;)....... *sheepishly walks away*
 
Originally posted by Sage
Back on-topic: I always thought I had sleeping problems, but some of you really beat me in your, um, weirdnesses. Strangely, I seem to have major problems falling asleep when I go to bed later than usual. Like last night... I went to bed at 11:30 (I usually go to bed around 10:30-11:00), but I probably didn't fall asleep until 1:00. I just kept tossing and turning, and sort of had the same problems that Tercel was talking about at the beginning of the thread, in that I'd "half" fall asleep, then suddenly be wide awake.

Thankfully, my sleeping problems are nowhere near what they used to be. Until about 7th or 8th grade, I could never, ever fall asleep until I had been in my bed for at least an hour (usually two).
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Thats the way i am too.


And another thing is if you find yourself looking at a clock alot, turn it around, belive me it helps alot.
 
Try changing the temperature in the room, or change the direction you sleep. It sounds stupid but it works. Just lay the other way in your bed (with your head at the other end). If I cant sleep, I usually turn the fan on and cover up a little with a blanket or sheet. Maybe, you should just turn on the radio but keep it down. That use to work for me. Change it to classical music, which is very good for relaxation. Jazz works too...
 

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