Submitted by S. R. Mc Nulty (not verified) on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 2:04pm.
Let me first thank the writer of this article, for I found it to be extremely informative and helpful. I didn't like the ending comment, "Aristotle and Einstein can’t be wrong." because it was quite shallow, but other than that, I loved reading it.
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My biological father is a legally diagnosed skizophrenic, and my mother is a bipolar manic-depressant. So of course, I am going to live a life-time of vivid and intense subconscious experiences, however I don't fear them, and I look forward to the learning and creative insight.
Anyway, for the past week or so, I have been reading[online] about the subconscious mind, the bridging between sleep and alertness, dreams and their meanings, and basically all things involving our creativity being tapped into through hypnosis and other forms of complete rest.
I have had many lucid dreams, and for the most part, I've had just about every experience listed on this page, including the lights, the voices, the music[ONE OF MY FAVORITES], the flying, floating, and many more.
But I also had another one, and I was wondering if any one had any clue as to it's meaning...
Ok, so, when I was about 12 or 13, I woke up. Fully awake, and aware, able to move and all, and I began to hear things. It was voices. I know voices are a result of skizophrenia, but I don't hear them often, and so I am certain I'm not skizophrenic, at least not yet. But from what I've read, skizophrenic symptoms include one or two voices. And they usually hold conversations, or continuously relay a message of some sort. And this experience was nothing like that. In this particular case, there were many voices. Far too many to count. They weren't speaking sentences, however, they were whispering numbers. All of them, different numbers at the same time. And I tried to connect them, to see if maybe it was phone-numbers or math problems my subconscious was repeating, but I could not find any relevance to them. Well, as this whispering kept on, it got louder and louder. Almost as if each voice was giving an answer to a math problem, and they each thouth they had a correct answer, though each had a different number to say. And it seemed like, at first they were making suggestions, then eventually, they started to get more and more assertive with eachother. After a while, the voices were each shouting there numbers, and it started to become difficult to understand them. Soon enough, it was like a loud static blur, or a din like arguing. Then it ended breifly with a "swishhh" sound, much like a wave.
My step-father tried to explain it to me, by telling me it might have something to do with an above average iq, and maybe it was my mind practicing algebra for school, but I don't know.
Any explanation would be appreciated.
I'm just mainly concerned because I was fully awake, and able to move, so it wasn't a case of hypnagogia.
But... thanks for reading.
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19 years of age. VERY interested in the subconscious mind.
Let me first thank the writer of this article, for I found it to be extremely informative and helpful. I didn't like the ending comment, "Aristotle and Einstein can’t be wrong." because it was quite shallow, but other than that, I loved reading it.
-------
My biological father is a legally diagnosed skizophrenic, and my mother is a bipolar manic-depressant. So of course, I am going to live a life-time of vivid and intense subconscious experiences, however I don't fear them, and I look forward to the learning and creative insight.
Anyway, for the past week or so, I have been reading[online] about the subconscious mind, the bridging between sleep and alertness, dreams and their meanings, and basically all things involving our creativity being tapped into through hypnosis and other forms of complete rest.
I have had many lucid dreams, and for the most part, I've had just about every experience listed on this page, including the lights, the voices, the music[ONE OF MY FAVORITES], the flying, floating, and many more.
But I also had another one, and I was wondering if any one had any clue as to it's meaning...
Ok, so, when I was about 12 or 13, I woke up. Fully awake, and aware, able to move and all, and I began to hear things. It was voices. I know voices are a result of skizophrenia, but I don't hear them often, and so I am certain I'm not skizophrenic, at least not yet. But from what I've read, skizophrenic symptoms include one or two voices. And they usually hold conversations, or continuously relay a message of some sort. And this experience was nothing like that. In this particular case, there were many voices. Far too many to count. They weren't speaking sentences, however, they were whispering numbers. All of them, different numbers at the same time. And I tried to connect them, to see if maybe it was phone-numbers or math problems my subconscious was repeating, but I could not find any relevance to them. Well, as this whispering kept on, it got louder and louder. Almost as if each voice was giving an answer to a math problem, and they each thouth they had a correct answer, though each had a different number to say. And it seemed like, at first they were making suggestions, then eventually, they started to get more and more assertive with eachother. After a while, the voices were each shouting there numbers, and it started to become difficult to understand them. Soon enough, it was like a loud static blur, or a din like arguing. Then it ended breifly with a "swishhh" sound, much like a wave.
My step-father tried to explain it to me, by telling me it might have something to do with an above average iq, and maybe it was my mind practicing algebra for school, but I don't know.
Any explanation would be appreciated.
I'm just mainly concerned because I was fully awake, and able to move, so it wasn't a case of hypnagogia.
But... thanks for reading.