Hypnagogia: A Bridge to Other Realities

Wow! I've experienced hypnagogia since I was a teen and at the age of 42 am just realizing it for the first time ever after reading these posts. I was never really able to figure out what was going on with me and just came to term it as some kind of "pre-cognitive ability".

When it first happened, I found myself in the middle of the night digging thru newspapers my dad had saved about an Apollo rocket that'd blown up. Challenger exploded the next day. I never even knew he had the clippings stuffed away in a filing cabinet. It was like I was just drawn to them.

I have awakened in the middle of the night at the exact same time (or right before) people have been in harm's way or died. I'll have very specific dreams about friends (and more recently people I barely know) in distress (people I haven't talked to in months or years or never spoken with). I will contact them them by phone or in person and blow them away because they've told no one about what I just dreamed about (things like them being pregnant, medical diagnosis, having marital or financial problems, etc.)

I have always strongly shied away from considering it as a psychic ability, preferring to privately think of it as more a "gifting" in the prophetic realm - so I can pray with them and guide them along biblical perspectives. Just wondering if anyone is aware of any resources about this from a Christian perspective?

This is all very fascinating but using primates to investigate this thing is absolutely repellent. The pursuit of knowledge at any cost makes the human race poorer not richer.

You have no idea how happy I am to hear that I'm not crazy! I mean I feel for all of you because I know how scary it is. But now after researching this I look at it as more of a gift. I knew it had something to do with my psychic abilities but I have no control over it. Just like I have no control over the nights when hypnagogia happens. But maybe now I can learn it and be able to harness it. I don't know..use it better. I'm gonna pay attention to the days my psychic abilities are really dead on to the nights I have the episodes. I willing to bet that my days are of more of a heighten awareness.
Peace to you
DG

I've had hypnagogic experiences since I was about 12-13 years old. I don't get scared because I know what is happening to my body. I accept the theory that what sets off hypnagogia is that when we go into REM sleep, our brain restricts our body from moving by blocking the signals to the body that tell us to move. This is so when you are running in your dream, you are not running in bed. The theory is that hypnogogia sufferers’ brains simply do not open up that block quickly enough after waking. This is why we experience temporary paralysis.

I think that knowing this calms me down. I do usually want the feeling to stop though because I get auditory hallucination when I have these experiences. My head starts to pound, the room vibrates violently up and down so I can't focus, I feel dizzy and very weak. Then I hear voices. They're always familiar voices, usally family members but I can't tell what they're saying, they're not talking to me. I'm always home alone when that happens so I know I'm imagining them. Sometimes I hear their footsteps around the house or I hear them rummaging through drawers and cupboards. I can see clearly the room I'm in (my memory fills in that blank I think, because I know my eyes are closed and therefore, I couldn't possibly be seeing where I am). The people are never in the same room as me. I just hear them in the room next door or downstairs but I never see them.

The feeling is not so much painful as it is uncomfortable. I feel so weak when it happens. I don't even try to open my eyes anymore. I just know that I don't have the strenght to do it. For me, it usually goes away on its own after what feels like a few minutes. Or maybe a sound in the house wakes me up and I just don't realize what it is that woke me up. Either way, I'm not too sure how to stop it but it eventually does stop.

It's not a scary experience for me. But I think if I were seeing what some of you see, I'd be scared too. I would suggest to those of you that have frightening experiences to try to tell yourselves that what you're seeing and/or hearing is not real. This is what I always do. Remember that you are safe, nothing can hurt you. You probaly have a great imagination and not understanding what is happening to you is very scary. So your brain comes up with a "reason" you're seeing or hearing these things. It fills in the blanks. Your brain's explanation manifests as threatning beings in the room because you don't believe that what is happening to you is normal, therefore, something must be making all of this happen. Try to have positive thoughts, there are no malevolent beings around you. I know it's easier said than done! I just couldn't imagine being that scared everytime it happened to me. I'm really sorry that you go through this when it happens to you.

I feel like I experience this at least once every time I wake up, and once every time I am trying to fall asleep... if not more. As I fall asleep, I hear voices talking to me in conservation. At first it was weird, but I started to welcome it. It seems odd, but its kind of comforting, like I have these friends in other dimensions that visit me at night. If I pay too much attention to what they are saying their words start to become blurred and don't make any sense. If I kinda space out a little bit I am able to go along with the conversation. The only problem is that I am not able to remember much of it, since once I start to think about it, it all blurs.

When I wake up, I usually see images around my room. When I was younger it was fire or floating alphabet letters. Now it is all human figures. I swear I think I can reach out and touch them, they feel so real. But again, their images are blurred, like my eyes are out of focus. I feel myself sitting up to reach out and touch them, but then I realize that I havn't actually sat up at all, so I keep trying and failing. I get paralyzed. If I close my eyes or if the image goes away, it often can come back by my own will if I allow myself to see it. In order for it to go away, I have to snap myself into full consciousness, which is very hard for me to do.

I'd like to know more about this, but being human, I guess I get to just interpret it the way I want, right?

Members of my family, icluding my wife, had rather startling to nasty experiences within the state of Hynagogia, and even related to the Astral dream state. Hypnagogia is related to our passage through the Etheric sub-planes of this physical plane as we enter the very deep realm of sleep. Startling "mental events" can and often do take place, scaring the heck out of the experiencer.
I have used the following successfully in a number of such cases: Go to a Gnostic website, or Google in search -- TETRAGRAMMATON. YOU SHOULD FIND THE FIGURE IN BOTH COLOR AND BLACK ON WHITE. You may copy and paste it into a Word file, then resize as needed. Print it out. Seat yourself in a comfortable chair facing East. Hold the Tetragrammaton in your right hand across your chest with the APEX point of the star point upward toward your head.Say: "In the name of the the holy trinity, invoke the protective power of this holy and sacred TETRAGRAMMATON for this dwelling and all within. Recite this Mantra which is very powerful: KLIM KRISHNAYA GOVINDAYA GOPIJANA VALLABAYA SUA HA! Draw out the vowels -- i.e. iiiiiiiiiii and aaaaaaaaaa, etc. THEN, place the tetragrammaton, duly charged with a power that blazes on the Astral Plane and wards off ALL the tenebrous one, in your bedroom, in front of the doorway, with the APEX pointing inward and the SWORD pointing outward through the doorway. DO NOT turn it the other way around, or you are invoting the tenebrous ones to enter!!! Ensure that the charged Tetragrammaton in in its right place at night before you go to bed, and a lot -- if not all-- of those nasty experiences will disappear. Having used it successfully, I guarantee its works. Just make sure you keep it the right way around, even if it means sticking it to the floor. Also, you may use one for your window additionally, always keeping the APEX pointing inward and the SWORD pointing outward. That is very importing. Also, you can charge the Tetragrammaton with the mantra every few days to keep up the "blazing strength" of it! I hope this helps. Best regards, Shanti Monk...

Hi all

These are most of my experiences that I remember:

Every night just before I fall asleep I hear loud noises like cupboard doors slamming in the kitchen, crockery, pots and pans crashing to the floor, guns being fired, people talking in the next room, my name being called from afar.

Then I feel a force pulling me down through my bed, everything turns black and I am falling fast and while I am falling I feel lots of human arms/hands pulling me down into the darkness. This is very frightening and really scares me and I have to force myself back to reality (although I sometimes feel these experiences are quite real as I am not dreaming yet). I guess this is what is called the RABBIT HOLE experience.

At times I wake up choking and have to force air into my lungs. It believe it feels like drowning or being born. Believe me, this one is the most terrifying of them all because I always think I am dying when it happens.

One time I also saw the black figure in my room before falling asleep. I was totally awake then. It happened a few minutes after I turned off the light. I was also paralized, could not move, speak or breathe til it left the same way it entered my room... via the door. It was not walking it was floating very slowly.... it held an old fashioned candle holder with an almost burntout non lit white candle. It just stood there nexto my bed. I said the Lord's prayer and it left. I was able to move when it left. I slept with the light turned on the next week.

((You know when you are tired your eyelids feel heavy, you close it but you are still awake (or at least you believe you are because you can still open them at any time and see everything in your room)? Now this is then when it happens to me. When I force myself back from this noisy and falling experience all I have to do is force my eyelids open, then I will see my room again. I just think by myself: "open your eyes" and it works)).

At times after I closed my eyes I feel something small jumping onto my bed. I then open my eyes and my 2 little dogs are fast asleep, they fall asleep before me. Anyway, my poodle died a couple of years back in her cradle right next to my bed. That night I was sitting up with her for the whole night while balling my eyes out. I knew it was time because she was terminally ill and very old and she made me FEEL that it was her time. I made her a promise that she wont go alone that I will be holding and comforting her til she had gone. I did as I promised. Since then I always talk to her when I miss her too much. Twice I was lying in bed after closing my eyes with my arm hanging down the side and I feel her licking my hand like she used to. I open my eyes and the other two are still fast asleep like they were before I retired for bed.

I CAME TO MY OWN CONCLUSION THAT WHEN WE ENTER THESE "STATES" WE ACTUALLY ENTER THE PLANES OF "THE OTHER SIDE".

MAYBE THAT IS WHY SOME PEOPLE SEE AND HEAR ENTITIES COMMUNICATING WITH THEM.

MAYBE THE DEAD ARE PLAYING TRICKS ON US AND THINK THEY ARE MUCH TOO FUNNY.... LIKE THE ONE PERSON MENTIONED ABOVE ABOUT THE ENTITY ON HER BED SAYING "I GOT YOU!" BEFORE DISAPPEARING. SEEMS LIKE THEY LIKE TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK WITH US.

MAYBE WHEN WE ARE IN THIS ALTER STATE THEY ARE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH US THEN. BECAUSE WHEN WE ARE TOTALLY NOT SLEEPING, WE ARE TOO BUSY DOING THIS OR THAT OR TOO BUSY THINKING, ETC, TOO BUSY TO HEAR THEM OR EVEN SEE THEM. SO, I CAME TO THE BELIEVE THAT "THAT" TIME IS NOT OUR TIME BUT THEIR TIME!!!!

I AM ALSO GOING TO TRY NOT TO BE AFRAID FROM NOW ON AS I THINK WHEN WE GET SCARED WHILE HAVING OUR EXPERIENCES, WE ARE VUNERABLE TO THE "BAD ONES" WHOM WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US.

SO TONIGHT........ I WILL JUST GO WITH THE FLOW!!!!! see what lies beyond!

Have a gr8 day you all.

This site and the posts are truly amazing. I can't imagine experiencing the unwelcome terrors that some people have written about here. However, I have read a few books on out-of-body traveling by individuals claiming to be able to control this experience and turn it into something positive. (?)

For myself I experienced seeing phantom spiders for a while when I was in my pre-teen years. I'm now 61. I finally got up the courage to quickly put my finger out to touch a spider on the mattress and realized, with relief, that it was more like something between dreaming and waking up and not real at all. The experience faded after that.

About seven years ago I was waking up in the morning on a Saturday when I heard a man's calm voice say in my ear, "439." Because I'd never heard voices before (or after), I thought it was significant. After consideration, I decided that such numbers might have to do with a website I had wherein I used a Banner Agent that would pay me for *hits* or whenever somebody visited. At the time I was obsessed with checking the numbers every day numerous times to see how many *hits* there were. A slow but steady increase occurred, never more than 20-30 in a day. Well, the hits on that Friday had been something like 300 and because the weekend visits always went down, I guessed that the 439 number might apply to Monday. I wrote down 439 and waited for Monday and checked stats all day. It was a very big reach to go to 439 and all day long on Monday it definitely didn't look possible. But there at the very end when I checked the very last count, it was 439! What a blast! Probably sounds stupid to other people because they didn't experience it. But for me it was my very own personal ESP experience that nobody can tell me didn't happen. :-)

I've had a couple other premonitions in my life: (1) One that may have saved my life (a body/sensory warning that called me to do an action I would never have otherwise taken that was within a WINDOW of 30 seconds); and (2) a dream foretelling facts to happen 2 days later although of complete silliness with no serious effect at all. If you want details, continue reading.

(1) I was a front seat passenger in a car accident wherein my seat broke away from the floor. The seat belt was secured to the floor and if I had not undone my seat belt within the previous 30 seconds I would have likely been squished. However, on an absolutely cold, rainy day I had grown boiling hot within a matter of seconds and even told myself that "somebody" wanted me to take off my coat. Although the car was stopped on a busy freeway for a jack-knifed truck it went against reason not to have the protection of my seat belt. However, I made a decision that "somebody" knew more than I did and therefore braced my legs and quickly undid the seat belt to take off my coat. Within 2 seconds we were hit from behind by a student driving on bald tires that couldn't stop in the rain. The impact was hard enough to throw the back end of the car high into the air causing my seat to break loose from the floor.

(2) I had a silly dream one night that James Garner the actor had decided to change his last name to "August" as in James August. In the next 2 days I happened to watch a program about one of the Caesar's who built a coliseum and because on its opening night in the month of *August* a comet flew overhead he was so self-impressed that he decided to change his name to Caesar Augustus. Well, I already said it was silly -- but the fact that I had previously dreamed about James Garner changing his name to James August did make it relevant for me.

I just heard the word Hypnagogic for the first time yesterday and have been reading on the internet all morning. Okay, well, reading all your posts makes me happy I am not alone/crazy etc, but OMG some of you have such frightening experiences !! Mine are never scary, just annoying as Iam tired everyday from being constantly wakened. I have them every nite. Voices I hear as clear as day, objects floating and just in my room. The weirdest thing is that (and it doesnt matter where I am... staying at a friends house, motel, even on a cruise ship last month, and of course in my bedroom in the various homes I have had) for some reason most all the activity is in the RIGHT CORNER of the room. When it's happening I have a very clear realization that there is a portal or some kind of opening in the right hand corner where these "people" (not really appearing in human form but I cant describe it) can enter into my room. They are not scary or doing me harm, they just come into my room each nite and it's always just random stuff that happens. It never even makes sense so it's hard to even describe. I am kinda excited now that I know what it's called and I can learn more. One thing that does work when I do it is right before I fall asleep, I say to God or "my spirits", or whatever you want to call them, "I do not want to have any episodes tonite. I want a full restful nights sleep please. Thank you" and believe it or not it works most of the time.

I really thought I was alone, I’ve been having a strange experiences, and thought that I was truly a freak.
Before I fall asleep, I would see things, people I don’t know, and things that had nothing to do with me.
I hear a loud buzzing, and my name being called.
Sometime it was like something jumped on my bed, and nothing did.
I can close my eyes, and see a room come in to focus.
There would be people there and I would talk to them.
I’m still the wake, I’m aware of what I’m doing.
We would have conversations, and they would ask me to look for things.
I’ve had the same thing happen several times, I would go back to the same room.
I think it’s really strange, that you can be still awake and have these things happen.
I wonder why I see these things. These people?

I am 29 years old, and through out my life I've experienced these "episodes". For me these have always been terrifying.

It starts right before I fall profoundly asleep, and for some weird reason I feel as if I've provoke them, because I begin by feeling anxious and afraid of these nightmares and every single time I begin to feel this way and think about them before closing my eyes, I always undergo these "episodes".

They always start by me being elevated off my bed to the point of almost touching the ceiling of my room with the tip of nose. Then I am able to see my entire room, every single detail about it, my husband lying right next to me, everything the way it was right before i felt asleep.
Then my entire body begins to slowly spin around in the same paralyzed position, I begin to feel terrified as I am unable to control my body, inside my mind I am screaming for help, but I know my mouth is not moving, I know my husband cannot see me or hear me. As my body spins around faster and faster, I can even feel wind in my face, and I feel somebody or something is doing this to me. I feel a presence, I don't know what it is, I've never seen or even heard anyone else inside my room while I've experienced these things. But I can feel it, and I am so afraid.
I know I am "asleep" and I am begging myself to wake up, but I can't.
Until I finally wake up, gasping for air, terrified and sobbing.

I understand that this may sound like a complete joke, but unfortunately for me, this is not a joke! I feel that if I let this out and share my story then somehow I am finally accepting this and somehow will be able to control this and not feel afraid anymore.

Thanks for listening...

I TOO HAVE THIS SLEEP PARALYSIS AND PERSONALLY I FIND IT QUITE ANNOYING BUT ALSO QUITE INTERESTING.... I HAVE FELT THE PRESENCE, I HAVE HEARD FOOTSTEPS UP STAIRS WALKING AROUND ON MY HARD WOOD FLOOR WHEN IM LYING PARALYSED IN MY BED..NOT ALL MY EXPERIENCES HAVE BEEN SCARY...I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS..HOPEFULLY SOMEONE OUT THERE CAN HELP ME BECAUSE EVERYONE I TELL THINKS IM NUTS!!!!!! I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE HAS EVER TRIED TO TALK TO THE SO CALLED PRESENCE...DID ANYONE EVER THINK IT IS OUR FEAR OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO US AT THAT MOMENT THAT IS CREATING FEARFUL ENERGY AT THAT MOMENT..WHAT IF WE TRIED TO FILL THE ROOM WITH LOVE INSTEAD OF FEAR..WHAT IF ITS REALLY OUR GAURDIAN ANGEL BUT BECAUSE WE ARE SO FEARFULL AT THAT MOMENT MAYBE ITS CHANGING THE ENERGY LEVELS..I JUST DONT KNOW WHERE TO GO,WHO TO TALK TO PLS ANYBODY ANSWER ME.

I ALSO WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE HAS HEARD...PEOPLE TALKING..ONE TIME I WAS LAYING THERE AND I HEARD ONE MAYBE 2 GUYS TALKING..I WASNT AFRAID OF THE VOICE.. IT SOUNDED FAMILIAR TO ME..AND THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE ROOM...AGAIN I WAS FROZEN.

Greetings, all.

I thought I'd share my experience with everyone, and maybe offer a slightly different perspective of hypnagogia. The way I see it, this is not a "disorder", not by far. And here's why.

For the last year and a half, I've had various 'episodes' where I'd hear voices (sometimes people I know, sometimes complete strangers) right before falling asleep. I didn't give it much thought at first, until I realized that some of these voices actually made sense.

I 'heard' my father telling me not to worry for him, and he later told me that in-person with almost the same words. This was the only occurence of supposed 'clairvoyance', so I'll just say it was a coincidence.

The names I've 'heard', however, are definitely NOT a coincidence. More than once, I 'heard' names of people or places which I had never, ever glimpsed before (trust me, I have the memory of an elephant). I was very surprised upon researching online, that not only did these people or places exist, but the names I 'heard' were VERY specific.

For example: when I lived abroad, I woke up with a title in mind. I Googled it and found that it was a musical piece by a very obscure composer. The university he'd graduated from was a mere half an hour away from where I lived, and they were having an "open campus day" in the following week. I didn't go, but I can't keep from wondering what would've happened if I did.

At any rate, I'm not scared of this. I don't know what to make of it, either. For now, I'll just deal with these episodes as they come.

so to start off im 15 years old at the moment and i just found this site by chance. luckily tho, i dont have something like a doctors approval that im paranoid schizophrenic but ive researched all about it and i have evrything occuring to me. ( always looking back , the feeling of someone always staring at me etc..)

about 10 years ago so i was approx. 5-6 years of age, i was lieng down on the couch and the couch is like up against a wall and the wall goes down and turn into the corridor anyways, back then one of the first movies of freddy Kruger was out and i was terified by it, anyways while i was looking around all of a sudden i saw the exact detailed freddy kruger with his head and claws stiking out of the corridor and smiling at me, i was so terrified i ran into the kitchen crying to my mum and they didnt beleive me.

anyways, coupla years later this time im in my bed, woke up in the morning and like fully woken up (not that dreamy state) and i saw 2 hands that looked very ugly grabbed my bed from the bottom and tried dragging me down and all of a sudden it vanished and when i looked under my bed there was nothing there.

few months later, at night i woke up while evryone else was asleep ( i usually always wake up several times during the night even now) and just to mention that my parents room and my sisters room is right next to me and right across me with just a corridor. anyways i was waken up by a voice and i was in a paralysed state i couldnt move and couldnt scream even tho my mouth was moving i didnt hear anything come out i was for some reasing, coughing so loudly i dont know why but i just was and the coughing was so different it was so loud like a very loud scream, and i was coughing like that for several minutes and neither one of my parents woke up.

i still live with paranoid schizophrenia as much as im concerned i dont tell my parents but its very very annoying and at times scary, is there a way to stop these from occuring?

sincerely, sinz.

I have experienced many of these symptoms for most of my life... as long as I can remember actually. I would recommend to anyone else experiencing this to keep researching as there are ways to control it and to "take back control" of yourself.

One thing that I found really helped was to use brainwave entrainment products such as binaural beats before I went to sleep at night in order to essentially "control" what frequency my brain was experiencing. Just a thought that others may want to try.

i was wondering...

im sure it is hypnagogia
but still feel i should put my two cents into this

anywho

i am 18, and since i was 10 or so, ive had lucid dreams
and hpynagognia even when i get full hours of sleep..
even sometimes thru out my day, i will ahve breif hypnagognia
where i will become confused, ..

once i was awake, but my eyes were still closed, and i had my television on, it was a comedy chanel and the night before i had watched the same one that was replying as i was awakening..well with my eyes closed i saw the special..from memory..just by knowing his voice, i had very clear colorful images right before my closed eyes..only difference was he was in an astronauts outfit and the set he was standing behind was red and different

when i opned my eyes i was confused ...i opened my eyes because the fact that he was in an astronauts outfit made no sense

but when i opened my eyes he was not..so it took a moment but i realized it was a dream..

how could i dream, but still be awake, just with my eyes closed?

i thought hypnagogia was only before u fall asleep or as u wake up with open eyes?

can you still have your eyes closed and have hypnagogia.
liek i did, but the sound u hear be real

can hpynagogia interact with reality.?

that is just one of the many odd things that have happened to me

like seeing people in distances who when i turn back are gone.

ever since i was 10

hear my name beign called if im tired ....hearing songs playing ...fragments ..loud loud music

i have possible bipolar 1 or 2...i kno that can cause this..

jsut wondering if im alone or not?

or how i cry every night when i see the moon or stars...i look up and feel empty..not that i feel small or that the unvierse is so big i feel little..not that old bag of non sense..no it is more like i feel like im missing out m that im not where i am supposed to be..im nto saying im from outer space, just that...im not doing something i need to be doing..and the more time i spend not doing it the worse i feel.

i get paranoia

i have an underactive thyroid, but the last time i went for blood work it was gone

which cant happen soo i was puzzled and the doctor was so confused

so i get blood work every few months..and still no underactive thyroid

the doctor thinks i might not have bipolar...but it feels like i do...i mean i dnt meet the criteria for her diagnosis

cyclothymia..but for bipolar i meet the criteria...and people i kno who do have it..act just like me..soo its odd..

cause they have bipolar..and sometimes im worse then them..and my mom told me that my brother who has it and my sister who has cyclothymia..were nothing like me..im much worse.

plus i am 18 and she cant diagnose me with cyclothymia if it hasnt been 2 monitored years of symmtoms..and i only saw her twice so far.

all a few weeks ago

and the seroquel xr 50 mg i am on...is making me manic..giving me chest and heart pains and i feel sick alot..and im paranoid and hyper.. and i just get so mad..and its just for my sleep insomnia

so i am really confused

and she tells me this is normal..when so many medical sites tell me i shuldnt b getting these side effects and people whove had it who i kno did not get these side effects

there is sooo much mroe to tell you but im gunna stop here

so what do you think?

(ive had minor psychosis but she still believes i am cyclthomic)

Reading all of these descriptions really helped me, and each one is so unique, I figure I would add my own so if anyone is going through a hard time maybe this would ease their minds.

I have had this happen a few times, but il describe the sensations that occur most every time. My thoughts will be running free as im drifting asleep. Then my attention will get fixed on something. It will be a small ball of flashing light. The ball will start flashing more and more intensely until it feels like it has consumed my consciousness (for lack of better explanation.

If I her a sound it will do the same thing in the way of starting out low, but then it will grow in volume and intensity over time.

Lately I have experienced traveling through a tunnel. Il be traveling through it, and vivid lucid images will wither be shooting at me as im going through it, or il see a super vivid image at the end of the tunnel. Its not like imagining something, this feels like im really looking at a real object.

Il have a very real fear of death as this is happening. I don't know what’s going on so I just assume it’s a seizure and that if I don't stop it il die. My body will be paralyzed, and by forcefully willing some part of it to move il shake myself out of it.

I been studying meditation a lot lately etc, and I learned the concept of none resistance. One time I just let this feeling take over me and I figured il just follow it 100% where it takes me. At the end of it I experienced what Buddhist would call a brief enlightenment. All my thoughts secede and my brain stopped thinking. All I had was an understanding of consciousness. The best way I can describe it is that usually I live in a pretty fragmented reality, where my consciousness jumps between my thoughts and what’s happening. I have a mental interpretation of everything. But after this all the interpretations were off, and I had a brief moment of just vivid consciousness.

I just had a episode tonight but I was way to terrified to let it run its course. I live alone and no matter what I cant shake the feeling like im going to die, or like I might do something that I cant reverse later.

Awesome to know others are experiencing this to!

I'm experiencing the same thing. I can go to sleep at night and as soon as I go to sleep, it feels like I am flying. Somtimes it feels like I am falling. Other instances I have though I was awake but I don't be. I have fought it in my sleep, trying to wake up but can't, then I would wake up. I have heard noises in my sleep, like radios, or the t.v. being on. I am just glad I am not the only one experiencing these things. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's scary. Also, I would like to know if anyone out there experience looking at clocks, and everytime it's the same time. It's like dajavue. Everytime I look at a clock it has the same time 9:11. Almost everytime I wakeup or I can be doing something. If you've experienced this please let me know.

Hello.

I totally agree with you. This is indeed a terifiying experience.
I am a swedish woman, age 67, who have had these experiences from time to time ever since I was a child, and lately, thanks to the Internet, I finally found the answer.
No doctor has been able to help or even explain it to me, and for many years I really believed I was crazy and alone.

My advise to you is, if possible, instead of fighting it, try to relax as best as you can when you feel these hallucinations occur, and you will snap out of it quicklier.

I hope you will find your method to cope.

Sincerly
Maria Forsberg Blomgren