silly half-awake experiences

missy04

LOL I don't know about you guys but I do silly stuff while I am half awake and in my sleep.

This morning I woke up at about 4-5am and heard "ding-dong!" I thought 'OMG! it's like 4am somebody must be screwing with our heads! Maybe the stalker guy is out of prison!!" For a second I got really scared expecting someone to walk in our door in the middle of the night, and then I ran and woke up my dad and said "Dad somebody just rang the doorbell!!" He said "Punky, we haven't had a doorbell in years."... So I was totally hearing stuff LOL!!

Anybody else do silly stuff like that when they're half awake?

~Sarah

the_classicist

Sometimes when I'm just about to fall asleep, it feels like I'm falling and I really wake up feeling frightened for about a few seconds. A few people I know have this happen.

Another time I had the flu, and apparently I had that thing where you are temporarily paralyzed before you wake up. I think its a hallucination or something else.

FMZ

Missy... don't let it screw with you too bad. It was prolly (hopefully!) just a half-conscious dream. I have those sometimes, but I am finding lately that where it used to be noises waking me up, it is voices now. Strange but true!

Classicist.. falling dreams as you are dozing off are very normal. Some say it is due to your non-physical body leaving your material body, then, when you are disturbed by a slight sound, the non-physical aspect of you is quickly drawn back into the body, waking you with a jolt as it comes back into "coincidence" with the material.

Also, sleep paralysis is more common than one would think. The application of the non-physical body theory is quite obvious here, in that the etheric body is not quite in coincidence with the physical, thus causing the paralysis. The scientific theory (no proof yet, for either side) is that it is caused by the body not reactivating the muscles when we wake. Every night when we sleep, our brain shuts down all but a few of the body's motor functions. Most of the muscles are completely inactive, apart from the eyelids (this is why we now understand rapid eye movement (R.E.M) and a few other muscles, as well as obvious life support functions. Sometimes though, upon awakening, our brain doesn't give us back control of our muscles, causing the paralysis.

Just a thought.

FMZ

Big Tex

That half awake/half asleep stage is the best time to access your sub-conscious mind. When you sleep that's where you go, as you are drifting out of it, you can access feelings, memories, fears, etc. that would otherwise be very difficult to see clearly. It can shake you up, but it can also be very enlightening.

Winston Smith :>D

That half awake/half asleep stage is the best time to access your sub-conscious mind
Tex

Yep Missy, I have some of my most profound, creative ideas at these moments.

I used to write immediately write them down, but have gotten out of that habit.

I should start up again...

FMZ

Yep, Tex.. that is correct.

As hyped as meditation is, it really isn't that complicated. The practice of meditation is solely to train one to get into that mode of "mind awake, body asleep" where the subconscious (and other realms) can be accessed without the physical getting in the way, and without falling asleep (yep, those who meditate know well that there is a fine line between meditating and dozing off).

I have had some very interesting experiences with meditation, as well as in that half-asleep state.

Sharing a dream (literally, both in the same dream, experiencing the same landscape etc) is a mind blowing experience.

FMZ

Big Tex

Not to hijack, but have you ever controlled your dreams? By that I mean a dream is going a certain way, perhaps into nightmare area and you redirect it. I learned how to while I was in therapy. Empowering and way cool all at the same time.

Dreams are fascinating to me.

FMZ

Not sure if this is directed at me Tex, but I have quite a few times. I can't do it "on command" yet, but there have been times that I have found myself controlling my dreams.

I had my first lucid dream when I was about 12. It was a nightmare (I was in the Beetlejuice house and couldn't get out). I realized that it cannot be real, and thus must be a dream. From that point in the dream, I could control anything, and walk and talk just as I do in real life. I have had intermittent lucid dreams ever since. One thing I have found though, that I find VERY interesting... is that you really have to believe that what you are thinking will happen. You have to have faith. And anything is possible in the dream realm, moving things with the mind being the least. It always reminded me of the scripture (para) "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell this mountain to move from here to there, and it will". Coincidence?

Upon further investigation, I found that lucid dreaming is often used as a gateway to certain types of Astral projection and visiting other realms, just as a side note.

(Sorry for stealing the thread too... I did lots of studying and research on dreams / the subconscious and other states of consciousness, and found that they are all very much interrelated, and love to talk about this)

FMZ

Incense_and_Peppermints

Anybody else do silly stuff like that when they're half awake?

yesh.

i will hear the doorbell, or the phone ring. i'll check the call history and no call came through, so i know it didn't happen. i wonder what it means when you hear bells. interesting... (ponders this)

Big Tex

(Sorry for stealing the thread too... I did lots of studying and research on dreams / the subconscious and other states of consciousness, and found that they are all very much interrelated, and love to talk about this)

Let's get together when you come down to Big D. Sounds interesting. Great conversation over a few beers.

Don't know much about astral projection or the like. But like you I believe very strongly in the ability to control the dream world. It was a big turning point in my recovery when I was able to access my dreams.

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