Hypnagogia: A Bridge to Other Realities

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

Right before I fall asleep I start hearing things like:Beep sounds,voices,dog barks,music,someone saying something,my name called out by weird voice and other weird things,but it doesn't happen too much and it never happens when I'm awake. Am I crazy or is it Hypnagogia?

I've had these experiences for as long as I can recall... mostly I wake in the night to see a spider or some other type of bug scurrying across my pillow in front of my face while I'm sleeping on my side. I will turn on my bedside lamp and look all over for the bug, but obviously can't ever find one. I will also occasionally see objects dropping from my ceiling and falling towards me...once I thought a giant cylindrical object was forcefully stamping down towards my bed.. I screamed and pushed my husband out of the way. That was a bad one. Left me shaking and soaked in sweat. Although the most terrifying one was when I saw a dark hooded figure at my bedside leaning down towards my face. I was completely paralyzed with fear. I've heard my name whispered just as I was to fall asleep too many times to count. I've even yelled "SHUT UP and LEAVE ME ALONE!" out of frustration. I've heard loud booms and banging noises that didn't exist. The saddest one was hearing my beloved dog Moxie bark weeks after she had to be put down. Speaking of dogs though - maybe this can help some of you who are unfortunate like me and experience only the unpleasant versions of these waking half dreams... I have two wonderful dogs that sleep on the bed and/or in the room with us. These dogs bark at every little noise - they are excellent guardians. When I'm seeing something and need to be pulled the rest of the way out of the dream, I will put my hand on a sleeping dog. If these two are asleep or at least unconcerned, I KNOW there is no way what I'm seeing is real. They are like warm, furry angels watching over us... That works for the big things, but unfortunately, the spiders on my pillow always get me. Funny thing is, I don't even hate spiders. I wouldn't even bother to kill one - I just set it free outside.. I don't however want to share my pillow with one.

I am glad to have this site so I don't feel diagnosable. About six years ago, I woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror to see that I had a black eye. I lived alone at the time and would have certainly woken up if I had done this to myself. I could only think it was someone who hated me and whose new address was "the other side."

In 2005, during Hurricane Wilma, I woke up to the phone ringing and there was no phone in my bedroom. Awake, I heard a voice strong and clear say Good Morning. I knew it was my ex husband who had died the year before. He did this to me for awhile and scared me. More recently, within the past few months, I've gone to bed and just turned out the light when the bed fell down and made a loud noise in doing that. There was no reason for this to have happened. But I turned on the light and looked under the bed to see what broke. There was nothing broken and the bed was intact even though it felt like a fall of about 1 foot. For years I have felt as though someone bumped the bed. Just once. I always get up and look around and see nothing. Then go back to sleep.

Two nights ago, I woke up in stark terror because I could physically feel someone coming toward me, very close to my head which was turned in that direction and trying to smother me. I was terrified and lay there stock still until I got the nerve to turn on the light. I checked the locks and everything was fine. It was 12:30 at night and I had been asleep for 2 1/2 hours.

I've had daytime visions, like the visions a Native American on a vision quest would get. And several days later that vision would happen to me. A pleasant vision. I also hear the music that is so beautiful.

I've heard my name spoken as though someone was in the room, usually upon waking. That made me think I might have schizophrenia but I was beyond the age of onset. And I said outloud to the Universe, "I'm not interested in hearing voices. I don't want to hear them anymore." I do have a tendency toward paranormal experiences and some are fine, others not at all. I want my sleep to be normal. For now I'm just glad I'm not the only one.

I don't know if this is all accounted for by an increase in dopamine or some altered consciousness or something else. For now, I want the smothering and bed falling to stop.

Ive been researching what ive had for a long time now and havent seemed to have much luck until i came across this. I have very horrible dreams at night but mostly they are hallucinations and most of them are not scary. Sometimes i see my friends in my room. I used to be a cheerleader also so when i'd sleep I'd see my room turn into a gym and all the cheerleaders practicing like it was real and i would think it was real so i would join in with them. This has gone on for a very long time and im not really sure what to think about it. I wonder if this my hallucinations are the same as hypnagogia but if it isnt at least it is very close.

I first experienced this when i was 14.its been the same every time.im awake then all of a sudden my eyes are closed but im still awake.i cant move or make any noises i can still hear noises that were already around me but im just stuck there screaming in my head trying to move and wake myself up then a few seconds later i wake up.it has happened to me at night and in the morning.i sometimes think about not fighting it but the feeling of not being able tom ove makes me panic so i try to wake myself up.

whenever this happens to me. it feels all to real. my first dream that happened to me, my sister asked me to turn on the lights. it was in the middle of the night. so i got up on my knees and turned around on my bed, to be face to face with a hullucination of the sillouete of a person whose face was right up to mine. i couldn't see it's face, but it spoke. it was a guys voice. it said "I've got you" then everything vanished, and i felt something smothering me, and choking me. I then woke up for real and realized that i was kneeling on my bed, choking myself.
this happened two years ago, i'm so glad that there is an explanation for what happened.^^

AH so that's what it's called. I've been dealing with this for about 5 years now. Good to know I am not insane like my friends are starting to think! I've had probably 50 or so experiences, some very scary (oh s*** I'm dead again..), a few have been quite fun and pleasurable, but most of them just shaking and confusing. Some of them have really stayed with me. I often reflect on them, what was that about? what does that mean? why did that happen?? It is so powerful and so strange I feel it is of immense importance to understand and explore this. Imagine if science would actually study this in depth, we'd be god before too long.

Anyway, by far the most profound experience I've had to date was seeing this spinning wheel. It started like most trips, I'm falling asleep, I kind of wake up, feel a pressure and a squeezing inside my skull, "OK here we go, breathe, relax, and do not fear your own thoughts". Then after a bit it feels like my brain condenses in on itself so much it flips inside out in the center, I go warp speed down this blue and black tunnel of light for a few seconds, and pop out on the other side in this lucidly lit room. In front of me is this giant stone wheel. It is made of the same type of rock you see in Stonehenge, the edges are kind of beveled off a bit, and it is backlit by the same lucid light that we don't have here on earth. There is an ominous hum in the room, it just feels like I am in the presence of something tremendous that I am not supposed to see. On the surface of the wheel there were these rune symbols. Months after this, I discovered these symbols are the same ones you see for the zodiac signs like Capricorn, Aries, etc. I had never seen these things before and here they are. wtf! They were arranged on it like pie slices or a dartboard, I don't recall any pattern to what rune was where though I'm sure there is one. The symbols were all glowing a different gradient of blue, magenta, red, and orange, the light emanating off the wheel a few feet or so. The wheel sat there and spun counterclockwise so slowly yet smoothly and constantly in front of me, the word I would use is to describe its spinning is patiently.

I could go on for days with all the confusing experiences I've had, but that one has happened 3 times, I've seen the same wheel in a different context 2 more times for a total of 5, and each time it is just absolutely baffling. I think that thing is very important, it seemed like it could possibly be god or an agent of god lol.

And one more that might be of practical use, one night I slipped into this state, and ended up in essentially what you might know as hell. A shiny golden skull with fire red eyes emerged from the inferno and pulled my right arm into it's burning hot mouth. I pulled and pulled but it just pulled me in further. I tried using my left arm to pull it out really hard, but same thing, further in I went. Then I relaxed my arm, rotated it up a notch and eased it right out with no forceful effort. The skull vanished, the flames morphed into green grass and fluffy clouds and I woke up! =)

I wish I could paint, I get the random hypnagogic visions every night, it's easy just let your mind run free. But the trips into the other consciousness level like that aren't as frequent, and I am semi-ok with this.

I'm 20 years old and I've experienced this, for at least the past ten years if not more. I have instances where it feels like I'm awake, but I'm asleep.. there are times when I try to scream and no sound comes out, in my dreams.. if I'm falling, it really feels like I'm falling.. or I try to shake myself awake.. and I can see myself awake.. but I'm not awake.. my dreams are always vivid.. easy to recall.. and if it was a terrifying event my heart races and I can feel it. Right before I go to bed in the dead silence, my head starts buzzing, sometimes I hear voices, other times it's just loud noises.

This also occurs when I'm taking a test, or trying to focus on something.. these voices, usually my own.. begin in my head.. and they are yelling at me about the particular assignment I'm trying to focus on. It's always freaked me out, at times I'm on the verge of tears because I can't stand the voices yelling while I'm trying to focus.

I have ADHD that I take Adderall for, ever since starting the Adderall a few weeks ago, I haven't had any of these occurrences.. but they used to happen at least once a month. The dreaming comes and goes.

I'm glad that there are people out there who have experiences like I do.. I don't feel as alone anymore. ..I really wish I could figure out what it really is, in case it is not this.

Hi, i do suffer from Hypnagogia. Is there a cure for this?
I just want to be normal like everyone else.

I have had numerous experiences where an incident in my reality turned out ok or had no negative results but shortly afterwards I have flashes of the same situation where dramatic heart breaking consiquences happen! I'll explain an example below!!

Tonight 4 5 09 I took the car down to the road around 500 feet to cover up my used bicycles that I have for sale incase it rains! I took the car because it was dark and I forgot to cover them in day light! Any way long story short when I was done and headed back up to the house with the car and went out back to turn around and then come back out by the house to park as we always do, I noticed My mother had taken the dogs out to go to the bathroom! Now I didnt see her or them when I came in so I thought oh no what if, ( you know what if I accidentally ran them over because I didnt see them) Well as it turns out she had waited to take them out after I went past the house so it was safe for them to go out! After that I went to take my shower and when I was in there I had my eyes closed( probably washing my hair) and I had this very vivid very real very heart broken imagery of where I was coming up the driveway and didnt see them and the little girl dog ran under the wheel and I ran her over! Very heart broken and I am still feeling the shivers from this imagery (possibly Hypnagogia)
I had everything play out in those few moments in the shower where I lived one of my other realities wherein I ran the dog over. I got out of the car picked up the little girl dogs broken body and as she died I hollered her name and cried and sobbed and cried her name! Seriously I have tears in my eyes right now and this didnt even happen in this reality! I believe I am feeling one of my other realities unfortunate outcomes of tonights events, like Commander Worf in Star Trek TNG where he kept switching realities! I admit I didnt read all of this page or this sites info yet but I think I got enough info that I think I have that Hypnagogia or something to that effect!
I say that because it mentioned the pituitary and hormones and the brain and that is all I had to read because I have hypopituitarism and take meds to live! My pituitary is tiny according to mri's and apparently there are pieces in my brain! I think it is those pieces or those meds or the state of my pituitary that is giving me this hightened awareness of where in I relive certain events of my other realities! Sometimes it is thoughts of the family I never had but more often then not they are of dire moments like the dog getting run over!
And one final thing is that I do have those states in my dreamstate where I cannot move and also very wierd is the fact that in my dream I can fly. I can just walk up to a building and go ummphh and jump to the roof! IDK maybe that means I was beamed up by a ufo lol! But seriously I needed to vent my feelings on that moment in the shower where I think I relived another reality of running the dog over! I hope you dont think I am crazy, I dont need a straight jacket, just need to know if any one else thinks we are in touch with our other realities like a jump in quantum leap, or Sliders where I think it was Jerry O'connell that jumped from one reality to another! I miss that show! Thanks for reading and please dont post negative remarks!!

Ive had probably 15 experiences with Hypnagogia. Sometimes I hear voices saying things I cant really make out, other times I feel like Im floating and I almost always sense a presence in the room next to me. I will describe my most intense experience...

In my dream I was thirsty I opened my eyes and a water bottle appeared on my window seal, I went over to it, then it disappeared then reappeared next to my bed so I layed back down in bed. Then I felt like I was being lifted by something, then I was violently pulled, seeming to fall out of my bed. I opened my eyes in a panic, and saw a black demon with white eyes and white razor sharp teeth standing next to my bed. Then it got worse...he suddenly attacked me I closed my eyes through the rest of this as I was scared shitless. I grabbed its arm and tried to snap it in half, the demon then let out a horrid scream and bit my hand, and it hurt, bad! Then I wrestled this thing on my bed for several seconds and then it disappeared. These dreams fascinate me but sometimes they are just too scary and seemingly real to handle.

here too i have same troubles as one of you "hi anyone get this...im asleep at night and ill suddenly wake up and ill see bright static illuminous lights in my room. sometimes they will jus be like lightening and other times they will be like a shape. a few weeks ago i had a illuminous green grid in my room the whole length of my room."

I always thought i was crazy too. I knew that sometimes right before I was asleep I would hear voices really loud yelling in my ear saying random things. I had no idea what was going on or sometimes I would hear really loud knocking or banging so loud that it wakes me up and my heart is pounding. Now I know what it is and that I am not alone. I wish I could conrol it more and maybe have the experiances when I want to.

Well, I was lying in my bed, at night ready to fall asleep when my eyes are looking at a blue chat box window. Then all of a sudden, I am being punched down like if my bed were swallowing me and I hear people scream,"BOX, BOX, BOX" at me. I thought it was some demonic type of trick or something so I said to my self(in my head), "ha, this is a trick, i could get back up" and i did. I really don't think it was a dream because everything and i mean EVERYTHING felt so real. Also, when I sleep, I feel this presence like if someone were next to me but I somehow can't get up, and I can't open my eyes. My brain sees white and I feel frozen. Is this also a cause of hypnagogia? It only happened once last year.

i've been having experiences of hypnagogia for over a year, it happened quite rarely at first and it was pretty mild, like i felt a dog licking me, thought someone was saying my name, and someone was shaking me really hard, though my eyes were open, and i could see that no one was there and i was terrified. then it went away for a few months but now its back and i'm getting it almost every night, and its a lot more severe. I sometimes think someones lying in my bed next to me and talking, and its usually a really deep creepy unusual voice like its a demon or something, and i thought that someone was dragging me out of bed and it was a monster like silhouette but my body felt like it was on a roller coaster and someone was screaming at me, another night i felt like i was levitating of my bed and being raped by a ghost and i was trying to scream 'no' but i just couldn't move or talk, and another time i heard millions of animal noises in my room like i was in a zoo which was kinda nice at first but then birds started flapping around the place then i started getting a sensation of being pecked over my body while birds were sitting on me =[
i've been questioning what it is for ages, never really thought too much off it but its been well severe for the past 5 nights and i'm beginning to get terrified of going to sleep cause its always a really horrifying experience, but it's nice to know that it's actually something that happens and i'm not insane : )

Wow! What a wealth of information here. I am a musician, and have experienced hypnagogic music phenomena for many years. The tones I hear are prolonged, they come and go like ocean waves, and are extraordinarily beautiful. At some point I realized I could manipulate their movement by thinking about it, but as some others have stated here, I must remain very calm and still or I will wake myself out of the state. I am keenly interested in studying this state of being, but it's very hard to get into when I want to. I have also heard violin music and, in more of a dream state, an entire piano concerto. (I didn't remember any of it when I awoke.) In the hypnagogic state there is no visual, only sound, and I hear it exclusively in my right ear! Sometimes I have heard the random voices, too -- phrases that have no meaning to me, in regular voices of people I don't know. I have asked innumerable people over the years if they have ever experienced the tones, but to date only one woman has responded with a yes. Interestingly, that was just a couple of weeks ago and now I've found this website. Thanks, everyone, for posting your experiences here. I hope we all figure out what it means, and find ways to be empowered in the places that are more fearful!

Most of the time my hypnogogia is pleasant images of nature that come from no where right before sleep. I've also experienced feelings or information instantaneously. I've come to the conclusion that these are all higher states of consciousness that guys like eckhart tolle, wayne dyer and deepak chopra describe as "communing with" the dao, the kingdom of heaven or whatever else you would like to call it. The one case of sleep paralysis I had, was of a completely different energy. I was fully conscious and unable to move, as if drugged to the point where my muscles were turned to mush. There were alien type creatures traversing through my room. I can understand how some would interpret this as being abducted. It was incredibly real and terrifying.

This hypnagogic thing has happened to me five times in the last two years, and that is five times too many. It doesn't seem to have any sort of rhyme or reason, as it's happened in different instances: my bed, my mother's bed, the living room couch and chair, sitting, lying down, half sitting and lying down -- regardless, each time it's been absolutely terrifying.

The time on my mom's bed was somewhat euphoric in the beginning, floating up out of bed and around "the neighborhood," (which, retrospectively, was my old neighborhood from the last place I lived) pleasant weather and bright street lights by houses where I knew that families were sleeping soundly, but this all quickly turned bad when I realized I was unable to control myself, and even further realized I could see my mom's room around me and I was unable to control myself there in reality as well. I started to do what I've done everytime which is frantically try to move whichever part of my body I can in attempts to 'come out of it,' which is only ever my eyes and maybe my toes.

This is how I know I'm awake. I can clearly feel my eyes opening and closing hard, all the while seeing my dream and the room I'm in simultaneously, like a double-exposure, one transparent on top of the other, and while I do frequently feel the 'presence' or 'entity,' it's not usually been a bad one. It's not a good one either, it's just there, and I'm able to sort of grunt at it to try to tell it to "HELP ME, I CAN'T MOVE." I can never see this entity, but I've seen it's shadow on my wall, and it looks human if not humanoid, very large in size and sort of hunched in posture.

I always come back fairly quickly, a few minutes on average, all except for once when this seemed to go on for at least ten minutes (this time I was able to actually look at the clock and watch the minutes go by, another proof that my eyes are open) and I will confidently say that was the most awful ten or more minutes I've spent in my entire life. Knowing this horrible hypnagogia is occuring and especially knowing it is infact hypnagogia and not being able to control it is the worst feeling in the world, and when I do finally come back I snatch the covers over me into a fetal position and cower in fear at I-don't-even-know-what, usually in tears.

Hope I didn't jinx anyone who usually has good experiences, and I hope reading about all your good experiences will rub off on me. Judging by pattern another episode is close. This is unfortunately inevitable; I feel helpless. Maybe medication is in order?

Thanks everyone for letting me know I'm not alone.

For the past decade, I have been experiencing hypnagogic phenomenona. I was not remotely aware of the word hypnagogia - Let alone, that it might pose a theory to what has been happening in my "psuedo" sleep. It was not more than six months ago that I finally stopped observing these episodes with a mixture of awe and haunting pursuit.

I empathize with the terror that can often be felt. This sort of thing happens so suddenly. There isn't time to analyze the symbols nor time to adopt grand theories about the profundity of it all. It is not always a beautiful field stretching to the horizons, with orchestral music soothing the soul into submission. The visions, sounds, smells... these hallucinations are both bittersweet and enlightening. Yes. But, as with anything, there is a dark side to these visions.

I do witness people who are not aware of this occurance taking two stances upon the matter. Such a thing is romanticized, indeed. Like some kind of wise boon of creativity. . . Something to be wished for to happen. Something to be desired, pursued like a love interest. The other stance is filled with terror and sadness. Equally understandable when you have ever been under the impression of "being asleep" when your mind is, well - not at all in slumber.

I think it's important to share, at least for myself, that the knowledge now of hypnagogia does not lessen the emotional reactions I have to each vision. It is one thing to intellectually KNOW the word hypnagogia. Completely another to feel and experience it. Therefore, there is no real way to escape the vibrant pedulum of the occurances. . . There is both beauty and terror in being aware of them.

My most common theme is sound. I have heard absolutely stunning pieces of acoustic and classical melodies. As one person said, if you even try to think about the notes being played or how wonderful it all really is - POOF, the magnificence is gone. The sounds command that you merely observe and listen - you drown into the notes, they become your consciousness and words and ideas.

On the other hand, I have heard many other unexplainable things. Static that hisses and crackles with voices like an old radio. . . If I do not move nor think about what they are saying, but merely observe - It will grow so loud as to encompass my entire body with pain due to the level of volume. To listen is to suffer, at times, it would appear. The voices seem to orbit the static, never making entire sense. Snippets of a word, sentence fragments from what sounds like a vehement speech given to the public. . . Screaming and crying voices that are fighting. . The variety is ineffable and impossible to pin down in one sitting.

I cannot will these episodes to stop, nor would I try to. As much fear as they have instilled over the years, there is a certain compelling curiousity as to what they mean. That is the great human element coming out in us all. It is frightening to feel like you cannot breathe. To see what appears as a person suffocating your chest, or watching as you sleep.

I have never seen another person in my hypnagogic visions, to be honest. But I relate to the knee-jerk reaction of fear. Who would feel comfortable TRULY believing that they are suffocating and cannot breathe? I, for one, do not know I am hallucinating when these things happen. There is NO TIME for that. No time to wonder and build a puzzle picture of the events. It just exists, purely and simply, without debate.

I won't go into the many other senses and visions I have experienced, but just know others are out there like you. I fear the hypnagogic events even with the knowledge of them - not for what they show me, but my return to the real singular world after the experience. How to possibly make sense of them? How to explain them to anyone so you do not feel alone? It is not something you share over coffee the next morning - "Hey ...... I just heard voices so loud that my ear drums figuratively burst while I was sleeping... How about you?" haha. Okay, so I jest but even the most intimate relationship with someone else does not mean they will understand. It comes off "crazy" at worst, and imagination-run-away at best.

I wish the world was more open about cerebral matters. If we were given more opportunity to explore and discuss our mind's way - perhaps we would not be so shocked and surprised to have something like this happen. Perhaps we might grow to Einstein proportions with our hypnagogic visions. But, for now, they remain like a stalker in the night - hidden in the shadows of mundane every-day life. Pay the bills, right the wrongs, go to school, go to work, OH - and have utterly confusing and terrifying visions while you sleep. There is always time for that, right? heh heh. =)

Thanks for listening.

About a year ago I experienced what would be called hypnagogia. I was up really late and had an old song stuck in my head while I laid on my bed. I sung a line from the song over and over in my head and before I knew it I was asleep. But then I "woke up" violently. I could not move and it felt like something was pulling me upward off of my bed and through my wall. I felt an evil prescence in the room with me and I saw a shadowy figure at my bed. I prayed for it to stop and after it was over I was so scared that I went out into the living room and slept on the floor with my dog. I didn't want to be alone.

At the time I didn't know about hypnagogia. I, a person who would never believe in aliens, was starting to think that I had been abducted. Luckily I found some information on hypnagogia though to clear my worries. It has happened to me twice more since then, and it was just as terrifying each time. You would think that your brain would recognize what's going on since it's happened before, but mine doesn't. I don't realize what has happened until it's over.

I really hope this never happens to me again. It's a horrible feeling.

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.

I've found this site by chance...but this happens to me all of the time. I'm glad to see that I'm not by myself. I thought either I'm going insane, I'm being possessed or...well I don't know..I have dreams about people I don't know personally and then they come true...mainly celebrites...I have dreams about family and friends and they come true...not neccessarily the very next day. I have dreams where I'm literally having conversations with people who are no longer here and in the dreams I'm always talking to them on the phone...and I can remember every word they say to me...and then there are nights that scare the living daylights out of me...where I feel as if I can't move as if someone is lying on my chest..one time in particular I feel asleep on my couch downstairs..I remember struggling thinking wow I feel asleep...let me get up and go to bed....and I couldn't move...and I panicked and frantically kept trying to move..I looked and saw three dark shadows on my stairs watching me and as I finally forced (yanked) myself up I tried to run up my stairs...but when I moved my feet weren't touching the floor...it's as if I was floating...I busted in my room scared my husband half to death and jumped on the bed sobbing...I was prety freaked out...other times it's been me hearing someone say my name...then I hear the doorbell ring once...and I remember laying thinking who the heck is coming over my house this late at night...and I lay there..waiting to hear if the doorbell will ring again..to get up and answer...and my covers will slowly slide off a little as if someone is trying to force me to wake up and get out of bed. I've got too many instances...If I wrote them all it would be a novel.

hi anyone get this...im asleep at night and ill suddenly wake up and ill see bright static illuminous lights in my room. sometimes they will jus be like lightening and other times they will be like a shape. a few weeks ago i had a illuminous green grid in my room the whole length of my room. last night i had what looked like red electric shooting accross my room. sometimes these shapes and patterns metamorph into something else straight in front of me. it only lasts about ten seconds then it just fades away. its like a completly different world with some of the shapes ect immpossible to describe.......

Indeed LSD is one of the causes Of Hypnagogic Hallucinations. Hallucinogenics such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide, or acid), psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamine, or mushrooms), ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA), and mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine, or peyote) trigger hallucinations.

I have just had my first Hypnagogia experience last night. I was having a nightmare about being caught by someone who wanted to kill me or perhaps my family members and I was fighting for my life. I awoke suddenly and saw a large heavy metal engine coated in off-white paint about 1 foot wide and 2 feet tall floating about 2 feet above my chest. I thought this cannot be happening. I felt as if i turn away it might vanish so I stare it and it recedes slowly, retracting like movie camera lenses pulling away smoothly and carefully.

I turned on the light but it was gone. Although I knew it couldn't exist I know that my eyes saw something.

I am frustrated that I didn't try to touch it to see if I could feel it's form.

I want to know what it means. Is it just a mind glitch?

I close my eyes and the faces appear out of the darkness vivid and scary. These faces are deep within, so terrifying I could not create or represent them in a conscious manner. They are like something you may conjure up in an abstract painting. They move vividly in the darkness like shadow people out of the corner of your eye. If I really have the guts to keep my eyes closed to see where it takes me the faces may subside and a storyline may begin to unfold like a vision of a house or a road---and being aware, I ask myself is this a clue of some kind, but it never goes any further—but back to the menacing faces.

I am 17 years old and for the past 3 weeks or so i believe i've been suffering from a combination of hypnogogia and lucid dreaming, and it's terrifying. It's always the same: i am lying in bed, just like im lying there with my eyes open, though i'm asleep, and sometimes someone is sitting on my, or shaking me, or it feels like i'm possessed, and i can't see who it is. Sometimes i'm flying in the air, like dangling, limp, trying to move. And I'll try to move myself to wake up because i know i'm asleep, but i feel frozen or weighed down. my dad says it's lack of sleep and it might be, but it's terrifying and i don't look forward to closing my eyes. some vicious cycle, huh?