(January 29, 2016 at 6:06 pm)scoobysnack Wrote:(January 29, 2016 at 12:53 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I think there's a mechanism that lets us keep our dream life and waking life separate that might not be working in the case of NDEs. Although I usually have no trouble distinguishing dreams from reality, I've had particularly vivid dreams just before waking where I've had to engage my brain to sort things out for a few seconds. I don't think as a species we could have afforded to have had that as our experience every time we woke up.
I have a sleeping disorder called sleep paralysis which results in night terrors, which are different than nightmares, because your eyes are open, but your body is paralyzed. It usually happens when I'm just about to fall alseep, and I'll usually hear a buzzing, and it feels like my soul is leaving my body, which is the best way I can describe it. I'll see some seriously crazy stuff, but realize (or hope haha) it's all in my brain. I'd describe it further if you want but those are some seriously weird experiences. There's a great documentary about it called The nightmare http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3317522/
Point is I've had these experiences but I understand them to be in my brain. I realize the brain can do a lot more than what we think since we only use a small percent of our brain.
Another story is sleepwalking, and lucid dreaming. My cousin does both. One time I was staying at my cousins house when we were kids, and my cousin Eric and I heard some banging coming from my other cousins room in the middle of the night so we went to investigate. We found him in his underwear pulling cloths out of his closet and packing a suit case, while mumbling nonsense haha. The next morning we told him about and it and he had no memory what so ever. Supposedly it happens to him a lot according to his now wife.
I'm not sure, but I think you can reliably transform your SP episodes into lucid dreams via the WILD method. You should look into it at the very least.