RE: Waking Dreams
November 5, 2014 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2014 at 11:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 3, 2014 at 1:57 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Anyone know anything about this? Was it childhood imagination that got the best of my senses? Does this sort of thing happen to others?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
related is this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoclonus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
(jerking your limbs - perhaps the sensation of falling - upon falling asleep)
-chances are we've all experienced something along the spectrum of what produces those "waking dreams". Hallucination prior to, shortly after (and of course during) sleep is very common. I'd say ubiquitous. I think we might attach significance to the full blown "waking dream" that belongs just as well and in precisely equal amounts to the little leg kick. So when people conclude that it's "strange" or that it's not common..they're using an arbitrary standard.
Just my 2cents DP> I had a waking dream once, but I'm pretty sure it was brought on by drugs combined with a pretty nasty fever. Not an uncommon experience, of course...but those above are of a different sort. Normal, healthy individuals experience this sort of stuff -all the time-. Really fascinating subject. I like to think of it as what the mind does when the "leash" of sensory apparatus is loosened. The second bit, about hypnic jerks, is a real mind bender though. When it comes to waking dreams I sometimes think that almost as a rule we're out of our depth as to explain the particulars of any given -individuals- waking dream. The leg pumping is just generic and unambiguous - that's the one I'd put my sights on if I wanted to get a foothold for explanation of the range of effects on what we currently think is that spectrum.
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