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Cant say ive experianced it
sounds awesome though
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An odd waking up experience
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for truth!
I think it's something to do with nerves rather than blood supply. I forget the details. I'm assuming that's why it hurts as it's wearing off - the faintness of signals from the area causes your brain to "amplify" any signals from there to try to compensate. When the signals return to normal levels, the amplification makes them too strong.
Yes, that's common too. I read about why it happens, but I've completely forgotten.
Lucid dreaming, if you can control that you can have some serious fun
I have tried, when I was little I could control lots of my dreams, however over time I lost that, about half a year ago with a lot of effort I was able to control my dreams for short periods, however it was hit and miss if it happend, and generaly I would wake up after a few seconds of finding out it was a dream... not sure how to get past that!
Coolest thing I did was levitate a carpark full of cars however... Dreams = win!
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I get this, only happens in the first few minutes or so of sleeping (I guess this, because I'd go to bed at say 11 and at 11:05 I'd wake up startled). I'd dream I'm walking along or something and trip and suddenly have a knee jerk reaction in my bed and wake up :/
I get that, but I get a sort of catch-22 whereby if I know I am in a dream I must therefore be lucid and should therefore awaken and - oh damn I've just woken up
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Cant say that I remember having fallen off a cliff, however drowning... If I ever fall into a mass of water, time slows down, and I just get sucked down for what seems like an age before waking up, not had that dream since I was little mind you...
Video games have kinda aided me to some degree however, If I ever die in a dream I respawn at another point as someone else.... Cwazee!
I get this, only happens in the first few minutes or so of sleeping (I guess this, because I'd go to bed at say 11 and at 11:05 I'd wake up startled). I'd dream I'm walking along or something and trip and suddenly have a knee jerk reaction in my bed and wake up :/
I get that, but I get a sort of catch-22 whereby if I know I am in a dream I must therefore be lucid and should therefore awaken and - oh damn I've just woken up
Yeah this is realy anoying, I have no idea if there is a way to stop it? Be ace as when I do lucid dream I can literaly do anything, I saw a dead relative, told them "I know your not real, but anyway" and gave them a hug, I went flying, I became darth vader, I levitated a carpark.... Tis brilliant what your mind can emulate!
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I woke up with wood this morning.
Awww, no fair. I only very, very rarely remember what I've dreamt when I wake up. Most days I just realise that I'm awake but have no recollection whatsoever of whatever happened during the previous 6 or 7 hours whilst I was asleep.
However, as a kid I used to remember my dreams a bit more. Similar to the "falling sensation" I used to have an out of body like sensation where I would feel as though I was floating upwards in to space... but the most vivid thing about the whole dream was the feeling of the vastness of space and that I was almost being consumed by space, and although I could feel my limbs I couldn't move them or use them in any way, I was just floating like a cloud.
It wasn't a nasty feeling but I didn't (and still don't) like the feeling of being impaired and unable to interact with anything.
A nasty feeling I did used to get, however, was the "falling off a building" sensation, which results in you waking up with a sudden jolting movement and almost shouting, just before your dream body was about to hit the ground... almost like a defence mechanism where you body forces you to wake up rather than experience death (although I did have a nightmare as a kid where I fell into an electricity sub-station trying to retrieve a football and got electrocuted... I remember "feeling" the electric shock as part of the dream, and then still dreaming even though my dream body had died. Very weird. I blame those evil "play safe" adverts they used to show on telly).
Anyone know any ways of making yourself remember your dreams, or is it just a case of being woken up during certain stages of the sleeping pattern?
However, as a kid I used to remember my dreams a bit more. Similar to the "falling sensation" I used to have an out of body like sensation where I would feel as though I was floating upwards in to space... but the most vivid thing about the whole dream was the feeling of the vastness of space and that I was almost being consumed by space, and although I could feel my limbs I couldn't move them or use them in any way, I was just floating like a cloud.
It wasn't a nasty feeling but I didn't (and still don't) like the feeling of being impaired and unable to interact with anything.
A nasty feeling I did used to get, however, was the "falling off a building" sensation, which results in you waking up with a sudden jolting movement and almost shouting, just before your dream body was about to hit the ground... almost like a defence mechanism where you body forces you to wake up rather than experience death (although I did have a nightmare as a kid where I fell into an electricity sub-station trying to retrieve a football and got electrocuted... I remember "feeling" the electric shock as part of the dream, and then still dreaming even though my dream body had died. Very weird. I blame those evil "play safe" adverts they used to show on telly).
Anyone know any ways of making yourself remember your dreams, or is it just a case of being woken up during certain stages of the sleeping pattern?
I find that I tend to remember dreams if im allowed to wake up naturaly, if im suddenly woken but my a noise etc, they I lose them somewhat...
The way I piece those dreams back together is by thinking untill I recall a fact, then think on that fact, untill I remember more, and so on untill I have rebuilt the dream around a single fragment of memory.
Another good way to remeber your dreams is to write them down, when you wake up just write down any little fact you can remember!
I just remember them naturaly, I had 2 dreams last night that I can recall, one was because I played bioschok and watched doom before sleep!
Dreampt that I found a little girl, took her up in an elevator to the surface, but she forgot her dolly, so I went back down to get it, once I got it to her she went nuts, started to levitate her hair spreading out accross the roof of the elevator, she then yelled "I HATE YOU" I said "No you dont" she replied "More than you can ever know" at this moment all the lights went out, I felt her standing near me, and the n I just saw her eyes glowing in the dark realy close to my face and woke straight up... Was freeky!
Lucid dreaming, if you can control that you can have some serious fun
I get it sometimes, but if I want to walk anywhere in a controlled way it's like I'm 'bogged down'. It reminds me of being in a FPS and not being allowed into terrain that doesn't exist.
I wake up with wood every morning :O
the best feeling is when you think you woken up but your still dreaming....now thats freaky.
Had a dream that someone was trying to kill me i was running around in this closed room, trying to avoid the killer. After a while i saw a door called exit, i went through and bam i woke up in my bed. I though to myself that was a brilliant dream and i hope i have it again (i love nightmares), then went back to sleep and as soon as i close my eye bam i see myself running back to the room from the exit
soon as i got back in the killers shouted you cant escape, so i carried on running. After a while i saw another door saying real exit, so i went through it bam woke up in my room again. Though i had woken up, so decided to go toilet, go up on my way to the door, the killer broke through the door screaming i've got you now.........then i woke up for real, but i wasnt half careful when i went to the toilet then .
Had a dream that someone was trying to kill me i was running around in this closed room, trying to avoid the killer. After a while i saw a door called exit, i went through and bam i woke up in my bed. I though to myself that was a brilliant dream and i hope i have it again (i love nightmares), then went back to sleep and as soon as i close my eye bam i see myself running back to the room from the exit
soon as i got back in the killers shouted you cant escape, so i carried on running. After a while i saw another door saying real exit, so i went through it bam woke up in my room again. Though i had woken up, so decided to go toilet, go up on my way to the door, the killer broke through the door screaming i've got you now.........then i woke up for real, but i wasnt half careful when i went to the toilet then .I used to have this a lot as a kid, and i still get it every now and then.
It sucks so much worse when you wake up and realise you're face down on your pillow and cant breathe or move!
I always seem to "thrash" my way out of it though, when im fully awake and mobile i usually find everything that once lived on the bed is now on the floor.
It sucks so much worse when you wake up and realise you're face down on your pillow and cant breathe or move!
I always seem to "thrash" my way out of it though, when im fully awake and mobile i usually find everything that once lived on the bed is now on the floor.
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I've been there too many times, I just realised that I had to get up for work though
Nah, I do know what was being said though, I've laid in bed unable to move, and JESUS was I scared. It took a few seconds before I could move, But thouse few seconds, I was SO scared.
I wouldn't worry about it, I think its just part of the minds process of waking up
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Nah, I do know what was being said though, I've laid in bed unable to move, and JESUS was I scared. It took a few seconds before I could move, But thouse few seconds, I was SO scared.
I wouldn't worry about it, I think its just part of the minds process of waking up
.i've done the dead arm bit, sleeping in the back seat of a 99 saxo. Scared me witless, thought i'd killed my arm. no feeling, cold, no movement at all. then the blood came back and i was like "ahhhh" then the pins n needles hit and i was like "AAAAAAARGH" - not good trapped in the back of a saxo in a waterlogged field in the pouring rain in wales. not the best night of sleep i've ever had lol.
I've had sleep paralysis before, waking myself up out of a nightmare when i was a very little kid, wanting to shout out but couldnt for like 30 seconds. that happened a few times but not for a while now.
Lucid dreams are... great. Suddenly i become aware i'm dreaming. i do this regularly, although i have found being a po thead stops it. love to be able to excercise control, although sometimes they get a bit silly.. had one about jordan (before she started to ming) getting her **** caught in some railings on a club staircase once.. I realise i'm dreaming then i'm thinking how should i get her out of this.. super powers... or very soapy water...
What a decision to have to make.. LMAO
I've had sleep paralysis before, waking myself up out of a nightmare when i was a very little kid, wanting to shout out but couldnt for like 30 seconds. that happened a few times but not for a while now.
Lucid dreams are... great. Suddenly i become aware i'm dreaming. i do this regularly, although i have found being a po thead stops it. love to be able to excercise control, although sometimes they get a bit silly.. had one about jordan (before she started to ming) getting her **** caught in some railings on a club staircase once.. I realise i'm dreaming then i'm thinking how should i get her out of this.. super powers... or very soapy water...
What a decision to have to make.. LMAO
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