Hypnagogia – cognitive phenomena on the onset of sleep

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by go_elmo • 1 year ago

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go_elmo3• 1 year ago

After meditating for 3 years, these states are common when dreaming - as awareness persists within dreams - doesnt equal lucidity - as no active actions performed - can recommend meditating, its art.

alganet2• 1 year ago

I never meditated and have them. I must be a natural then.

It's quite inconvenient.

go_elmo3• 1 year ago

Think everyone has such experiences - which is your most vivid one?

alganet2• 1 year ago

It's all unintelligible garbage when it happens to me.

Random phrases. I remember some of them.

"She is not fat anymore"

"Don't make jokes about my hair"

Always something really nonsense.

shayway• 1 year ago

This is a bit of a funny one.

When I was a kid I had a terrible ear infection, and I was going in and out of this state all night. I had also just discovered Pokemon and had been playing it all day.

I realized that I was injured and the solution of course was to be recalled to a Pokeball. I tried in earnest to do this for who knows how long. Eventually it hit me that I didn't have any other Pokemon I could switch to so sadly it wouldn't work.

It sounds like a joke when I put it into words but it felt very real. Honestly in retrospect I think the distress was worth the unique experience (and subsequent amusement).

go_elmo3• 1 year ago

How cool! Thanks for sharing! :) yeah the fever / infection sessions as kids were intense experiences - super interesting insights in what the mind can produce - super valuable insights imo.

I had funny imagination while having fever as a kid as well. Could imagine a surface switching from being satin-smooth to edgy and rough in a perfect transition - maybe some form of texture-halucination..? anyways, the way it would "feel" to the touch is how it felt emotionally as well - super hard to describe but an interesting link to experience somehow :)

Hypnagogia – cognitive phenomena on the onset of sleep

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