I don't think it really has anything at all to do with religion. Even for the hellfire fearing people it's still something deeper rooted in human beings that would have lead at least some of them to a similar conclusion with something else that resembled religion.
Everyone loves to use religion as a scapegoat for our shitty behaviors.
Whether we had religion or not, our minds would eventually wonder what happpens to the ethereal being within after death.
Que the no soul, no god, religion is terrible, shut up, when you die you just rot and cease to exist argument.
@Nekro- I'd like to hear about those not so terrific experiences with lucid dreams. What happened? I want to know just how bad the bad gets with this stuff lol. I've been fairly lucky most of my life. Any time I had any sort of REM malfunction, any hallucination only lasted a few brief moments.
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Hi guys, I've also been experiencing sleep paralysis and feel compelled to reply to this thread because there are a couple of things mentioned that seem very similar to things I have experienced.
I started having sleep paralysis as a teenager, and I used to be very afraid of it. I had never heard about it and thought it might be a dangerous condition - I kept thinking: what if you can get stuck in that state where your body sleeps but your mind is awake, and you are unable to move? Now I have gained a bit more insight into why this happens to me, and it is quite simply something I experience only when I deprive myself of sleep. I am studying computer science, and the last couple of years it has happened to me quite often when I have fallen asleep during lectures. This is something I can not recommend! I never wake up in the night experiencing sleep paralysis, it's something I move into directly from being awake. My body falls asleep but my mind stays awake. So while I fall into sleep paralysis there in the auditorium I feel my body slide to the side and I can feel that myself enter an awakard position, and there is nothing you can do about it - that's really uncomfortable. The funny thing is I can sometimes move my hands and feet, while this is happening, but for example I can still not open my eyes. About the noise you were hearing Umpa, I feel I understand what you mean by this. When I fall into sleep paralysis, I have this feeling that somehow my ears "relax" - they also go to sleep. This has the effect that I can suddenly hear a kind of noise, sort of like white noise, that would normally get filtered away when awake and it is also really loud to me.
I have a question actually, for anyone who have experienced sleep paralysis. Have you every experienced that you start "clapping" your teeth uncontrollably? I have this very very often during sleep paralysis, and it's pretty annoying. My jaw just starts to "spasm" and, sort of like when you are freezing, I start clapping my teeth or opening/closing my mouth very rapidly. Only small movements - its not like my mouth is wide open The only thing I can do really is to put my tongue between my teeth to prevent it from making any sounds. Yeah, I can control my tongue during sleep paralysis.
I have also experienced lucid dreamning, and my strongest memory is from many years back. It was no crazy dream or anything, but I was floating around in the house I was living in. Hovering on my back, as if I was lifted straight out of bed (I always sleep on my back). Everything was quiet and I was there alone, but the sensation of just hovering freely through the rooms of the house was extremely intense. I felt incredibly safe and warm somehow. I specifically remember just hanging there just below the ceiling, almost touching the wooden planks with my stomach. I have heard that "flying dreams" are pretty common though.
That was my story. I hope that sometime in the future there will be more research into what causes sleep paralysis and why it happens.
Even for the hellfire fearing people it's still something deeper rooted in human beings that would have lead at least some of them to a similar conclusion with something else that resembled religion.
I kind of agree with that. The finality of death and the end of our current state/consciousness is something that is unbearable for many.
I wonder about the mechanism behind and the human psychology involved.
Has the innate fear that works in tandem with our survival instincts transformed into paranoia through our ability of abstract thought?
What kind of (rational) understanding would help overcome that fear?
Still, it is undeniable that religion offers an explanation to the post-death party that is pretty tempting and comforting(with all the 'easy ways' to avoid punishment that is).
Will update you on my awesome (the bad ones) experiences soon.
@Diehard- That's way cool. I've always been fascinated by hypnosis ever since I learned the health care system uses it to help people cope with fanthom limb pain following amputation.
Here's some food for thought. lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcAhKWwFXzY
So first off I would like to thank you for making this topic, as I have been F5ing diablo fans forever but never made a forum user because nothing ever caught my interest.
So this caught my eye because I recently have been experiencing "Hauntings" in my very old apartment. I am not religious, do not believe in the afterlife, and tend to be very logical. So this has recently disturbed me and greatly upset my life balance, because I have no experienced these things that felt VERY VERY real and terrifying.
Also, what caught my eye is that you said this occurs mainly to sleepers who sleep on their backs. I find this incredibly accurate. I almost NEVER sleep on my back. But every time this has occurred I was sleeping on my back.
So, on to my experience with what I believe is exactly what you are describing - my body is asleep (including most brain function) however my concious is awake and active. I have recently began to see lights on my ceiling... Green lights during the night. I thought at first this was my router, speakers, or plethora of other electronic equipment. Being a logical man I am, I turned this off, or covered them. Problem was, these lights persisted to be visible. I would wake up in the night to almost a laser light show on my ceiling. Often it was in the form of a clock, which always made me think this was a reflection from my microwave... Until I woke up one morning from a nightmare (on my back!) to see the crazy lights almost displaying a 12:47. I turned to my microwave thinking it was this to see 0. Hrmm. Well that's odd and I can't explain this. The clock on my phone says 5:42. No my phone's clock doesn't look anything like that one...
Looking more closely there was a towel hung in my corner... wait no, a coat. Did I hang a coat on the wall - oh no - I'm too sleepy, I surely did not do any of these things. Wait, that's a torso, NO A PERSON! What in the hell is a person doing in the corner of my apartment!? I jump up to turn on my light and see nothing. It's 6am and now I am terrified. So I literally say out loud "Fuck this!" and jump out of bed, get dressed in a hurry, and drive to work 3 hours early to the bewilderment of my coworkers.
Same lights (different patterns) but I see them all the time now when I wake in the night (on my back.) The torso/ghost/person/towel(?) thing only shows after I wake from a nightmare, which adds to my terror as you may have guessed.
Anywho, this gives me a logical explanation which greatly eases my mind. I am not ready to accept that my entire life belief system of science is ready to be thrown out the window, but it was getting to a dangerously close level.
This may be slightly off topic, as I am very much awake when I see these things (I'm jumping in my car not 3-5 minutes after these experiences and driving around till dawn...) Maybe this is a lingering hallucination from my dream state?
I don't think it really has anything at all to do with religion. Even for the hellfire fearing people it's still something deeper rooted in human beings that would have lead at least some of them to a similar conclusion with something else that resembled religion.
I think I covered the rationality behind fearing the specific act of dying and that I understand in a "deeper," human condition. What I don't buy is that we're all imbued with this deep concern for our post-physical existence, at least not in a manner that is universal. Many Chinese cultural phenomena that closely resemble religiousness (since I, and many others, don't really regard ancestor typification and confucian morality to be a religion) went on for thousands of years in the total absence of any ontology. They had no concept of immortal consequence except in the practice of celebrating their own family members.
Everyone loves to use religion as a scapegoat for our shitty behaviors.
I don't think we're discussing shitty behavior here, but I do think we spend a lot of time fooling ourselves into thinking our long-practiced doctorine is natural tendency.
Que the no soul, no god, religion is terrible, shut up, when you die you just rot and cease to exist argument.
That's a level of certainty nobody expresses and a character attack against the atheist position. The appropriate sentence is: "No evidence for a soul, no evidence for a god, religion created these two concepts, and when you die there is no reason to assume what will happen except the obvious physical repercussion."
So first off I would like to thank you for making this topic, as I have been F5ing diablo fans forever but never made a forum user because nothing ever caught my interest.
So this caught my eye because I recently have been experiencing "Hauntings" in my very old apartment. I am not religious, do not believe in the afterlife, and tend to be very logical. So this has recently disturbed me and greatly upset my life balance, because I have no experienced these things that felt VERY VERY real and terrifying.
Also, what caught my eye is that you said this occurs mainly to sleepers who sleep on their backs. I find this incredibly accurate. I almost NEVER sleep on my back. But every time this has occurred I was sleeping on my back.
So, on to my experience with what I believe is exactly what you are describing - my body is asleep (including most brain function) however my concious is awake and active. I have recently began to see lights on my ceiling... Green lights during the night. I thought at first this was my router, speakers, or plethora of other electronic equipment. Being a logical man I am, I turned this off, or covered them. Problem was, these lights persisted to be visible. I would wake up in the night to almost a laser light show on my ceiling. Often it was in the form of a clock, which always made me think this was a reflection from my microwave... Until I woke up one morning from a nightmare (on my back!) to see the crazy lights almost displaying a 12:47. I turned to my microwave thinking it was this to see 0. Hrmm. Well that's odd and I can't explain this. The clock on my phone says 5:42. No my phone's clock doesn't look anything like that one...
Looking more closely there was a towel hung in my corner... wait no, a coat. Did I hang a coat on the wall - oh no - I'm too sleepy, I surely did not do any of these things. Wait, that's a torso, NO A PERSON! What in the hell is a person doing in the corner of my apartment!? I jump up to turn on my light and see nothing. It's 6am and now I am terrified. So I literally say out loud "Fuck this!" and jump out of bed, get dressed in a hurry, and drive to work 3 hours early to the bewilderment of my coworkers.
Same lights (different patterns) but I see them all the time now when I wake in the night (on my back.) The torso/ghost/person/towel(?) thing only shows after I wake from a nightmare, which adds to my terror as you may have guessed.
Anywho, this gives me a logical explanation which greatly eases my mind. I am not ready to accept that my entire life belief system of science is ready to be thrown out the window, but it was getting to a dangerously close level.
This may be slightly off topic, as I am very much awake when I see these things (I'm jumping in my car not 3-5 minutes after these experiences and driving around till dawn...) Maybe this is a lingering hallucination from my dream state?
Dude that succkkksssss! Really glad you registered though!!! And sleeping on your back definitely has a lot to do with it. Like you, I never sleep on my back. However, sometimes I end up there. And I'm way more likely to have it happen. Maybe something about it makes us feel vulnerable.
But, next time it happens just try to stay calm ya know.
@Proletaria- Ya, it pretty much was a character attack. I find the natural disposition of a lot of atheists that enjoy voicing their belief(lol I love calling it that)to be rather condescending and intolerant. But, that's probably a topic for another thread.
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@Proletaria- Ya, it pretty much was a character attack. I find the natural disposition of a lot of atheists that enjoy voicing their belief(lol I love calling it that)to be rather condescending and intolerant. But, that's probably a topic for another thread.
Well, at least you are honest about it. That is more than I can say for most works of apologetics these days. Voicing their "lack of belief," to be exact. I'd love to have a thread devoted to this topic. Go go go. =P
Wait...what exactly will the topic be about? :\
Maybe you should make it?
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So, tonight I'll be seeing if I can get my friend to have a lucid dream and see what he experiences. He was not raised in any sort of a religious household like I was so he doesn't have those stupid deep seeded superstitions like I do.
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Lucid dreams are great. One step closer to having some out of body experiences (astral projection). When you get to this level you will know the truth.
So, tonight I'll be seeing if I can get my friend to have a lucid dream and see what he experiences. He was not raised in any sort of a religious household like I was so he doesn't have those stupid deep seeded superstitions like I do.
Supersitions aren't necessarily stupid, but they are superstitions and we'd be remissed not to treat them as such. In some cases they are works of literature that are valued as a common literary tradition (ie. many people understand biblical allusion, even if they don't adhere to christian doctorine) or places where we find vivid imagery of an old world that we have scant records of. I wouldn't count knowing a lot of the bible, torah, or koran (or vedas, annalects, etc.) as a stupid bit of wasted knowledge, but I wouldn't use them to support a statement of certainty either.
I'll light up our new thread after I give my afternoon lectures.
Well, I made that point because in many instances of Sleep paralysis, a lot of the experiences sound very close to christian fears and hollywood hallucinations right out of paranormal activity. And I know my upbringing will certainly have an effect on that in my subconscious. Where as my friend does not have those underlying fears and ideas that were instilled as a child.
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When I was younger and before I had heard of sleep paralysis I thought a demon was sitting on my chest holding me down. For me my eyes barely open and the whole room is fluttering (REM is still partially in effect I guess) but I can't move at all, I was looking at a clock one time and I swear it seemed like I was there for 20 minutes but it was only like 2. I could only barely make out the hands though.
Ya, it's scariest when you don't know wtf just happened lol.
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@Ashoto-Hey thanks! I'm glad you're as interested in this stuff as I am. Nice dreams! And yes, I would say that you've had sleep paralysis. I think the stress comes from you. You determine how stressful the experience is. I had it again shortly after creating this thread. This time, I was prepared and realized what was happening so I stayed calm and it was no big deal.
As far as deja vu goes....I don't think I've had it in some time. Which is sad as you said. Some scientist can explain it however they would like. However, from experience I must say I definitively believe that it was an experience that has already happened that we perceive before it happens again. Out of all these interesting phenomena, deja vu is the most interesting. You described it very well. It's not just what a person says that is the experience, it's the entire scene. Everything from the friend making small talk to the little bug on the window that you barely see through the glare of the sun. I wish I could have it more often.
@Kurlie- Good luck!!!!! I think I'll investigate more as you are doing during a school break. While I was able to control a lot of what happened last time I was in sleep paralysis, I'm not completely comfortable yet with the idea of floating out of my room. I remember, it was like "Ok...I'm having sleep paralysis again, I know now. Wait...I feel so light...Am I about to float out of my bed?!". I didn't want to so I stopped it.
Let us know how it goes!!!!
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One time I woke up from a dream (a normal dream, in composure and story), only to find myself still in a dream. When I realised it I looked back and saw myself still sleeping. Although I wasn't even in my room, it was some kind of an old sofa in the middle of a big, old mansion-like living room. Dream within a dream. It's not unheard of (Inception anyone? ). I remember it clearly because it was very cool. I was like "Wait... oh yeah!"
Oh, yeah, I get dreams within dreams quite often. It usually happen when I became aware that I'm dreaming. It's like my subconscious says "Ok, yeah, you caught me, you are dreaming... "Wake up" now... jijiji." After "waking up", I generally don't realize I'm in another dream until I actually wake up for real.
The most interesting cases I had when I was younger were your regular "deja vu" scenes. I read a little yesterday about deja vu but I'm still not certain what causes them. Whatever the case, it's awesome! Back then I was convinced that they were dreams I've had. It felt exactly like remembering a dream. Calling them visions didn't seem far fetched at the time because I had read and strongly believed (and still do) in the supernatural. I never tried to research it further or induce it by any means. Only if we had internet back then, huh?
It starts from nothing. Certain phrases, motions or even a sense of touch triggers it. The scene unravels before you and it could last up to around 10 seconds. The things people say, the light in the room, the background, the colours, other people in the room (exactly what they are doing), the way you turn your head, everything is perfect. It's like watching a video you've already seen to the smallest detail. The feeling is incredible and I'm sad that I don't have those any more. I must have experienced deja vu around 8 to 10 times. Anyone else had these "visions"?
I had something similar. It's not like I know exactly what someone is going to say next, but I soon as they say it, it rings a bell. I find the whole scene strongly familiar.
On the topic of lucid dreaming, some nights ago I was willing to try it, but chickened out in the end. It's quite a scary concept.
It really is dude. The whole thing is just so foreign...As I said, I'm waiting until the summertime to try it.
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Everyone loves to use religion as a scapegoat for our shitty behaviors.
Whether we had religion or not, our minds would eventually wonder what happpens to the ethereal being within after death.
Que the no soul, no god, religion is terrible, shut up, when you die you just rot and cease to exist argument.
@Nekro- I'd like to hear about those not so terrific experiences with lucid dreams. What happened? I want to know just how bad the bad gets with this stuff lol. I've been fairly lucky most of my life. Any time I had any sort of REM malfunction, any hallucination only lasted a few brief moments.
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I started having sleep paralysis as a teenager, and I used to be very afraid of it. I had never heard about it and thought it might be a dangerous condition - I kept thinking: what if you can get stuck in that state where your body sleeps but your mind is awake, and you are unable to move? Now I have gained a bit more insight into why this happens to me, and it is quite simply something I experience only when I deprive myself of sleep. I am studying computer science, and the last couple of years it has happened to me quite often when I have fallen asleep during lectures. This is something I can not recommend! I never wake up in the night experiencing sleep paralysis, it's something I move into directly from being awake. My body falls asleep but my mind stays awake. So while I fall into sleep paralysis there in the auditorium I feel my body slide to the side and I can feel that myself enter an awakard position, and there is nothing you can do about it - that's really uncomfortable. The funny thing is I can sometimes move my hands and feet, while this is happening, but for example I can still not open my eyes. About the noise you were hearing Umpa, I feel I understand what you mean by this. When I fall into sleep paralysis, I have this feeling that somehow my ears "relax" - they also go to sleep. This has the effect that I can suddenly hear a kind of noise, sort of like white noise, that would normally get filtered away when awake and it is also really loud to me.
I have a question actually, for anyone who have experienced sleep paralysis. Have you every experienced that you start "clapping" your teeth uncontrollably? I have this very very often during sleep paralysis, and it's pretty annoying. My jaw just starts to "spasm" and, sort of like when you are freezing, I start clapping my teeth or opening/closing my mouth very rapidly. Only small movements - its not like my mouth is wide open The only thing I can do really is to put my tongue between my teeth to prevent it from making any sounds. Yeah, I can control my tongue during sleep paralysis.
I have also experienced lucid dreamning, and my strongest memory is from many years back. It was no crazy dream or anything, but I was floating around in the house I was living in. Hovering on my back, as if I was lifted straight out of bed (I always sleep on my back). Everything was quiet and I was there alone, but the sensation of just hovering freely through the rooms of the house was extremely intense. I felt incredibly safe and warm somehow. I specifically remember just hanging there just below the ceiling, almost touching the wooden planks with my stomach. I have heard that "flying dreams" are pretty common though.
That was my story. I hope that sometime in the future there will be more research into what causes sleep paralysis and why it happens.
I kind of agree with that. The finality of death and the end of our current state/consciousness is something that is unbearable for many.
I wonder about the mechanism behind and the human psychology involved.
Has the innate fear that works in tandem with our survival instincts transformed into paranoia through our ability of abstract thought?
What kind of (rational) understanding would help overcome that fear?
Still, it is undeniable that religion offers an explanation to the post-death party that is pretty tempting and comforting(with all the 'easy ways' to avoid punishment that is).
Will update you on my awesome (the bad ones) experiences soon.
@Diehard- That's way cool. I've always been fascinated by hypnosis ever since I learned the health care system uses it to help people cope with fanthom limb pain following amputation.
Here's some food for thought. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcAhKWwFXzY
So this caught my eye because I recently have been experiencing "Hauntings" in my very old apartment. I am not religious, do not believe in the afterlife, and tend to be very logical. So this has recently disturbed me and greatly upset my life balance, because I have no experienced these things that felt VERY VERY real and terrifying.
Also, what caught my eye is that you said this occurs mainly to sleepers who sleep on their backs. I find this incredibly accurate. I almost NEVER sleep on my back. But every time this has occurred I was sleeping on my back.
So, on to my experience with what I believe is exactly what you are describing - my body is asleep (including most brain function) however my concious is awake and active. I have recently began to see lights on my ceiling... Green lights during the night. I thought at first this was my router, speakers, or plethora of other electronic equipment. Being a logical man I am, I turned this off, or covered them. Problem was, these lights persisted to be visible. I would wake up in the night to almost a laser light show on my ceiling. Often it was in the form of a clock, which always made me think this was a reflection from my microwave... Until I woke up one morning from a nightmare (on my back!) to see the crazy lights almost displaying a 12:47. I turned to my microwave thinking it was this to see 0. Hrmm. Well that's odd and I can't explain this. The clock on my phone says 5:42. No my phone's clock doesn't look anything like that one...
Looking more closely there was a towel hung in my corner... wait no, a coat. Did I hang a coat on the wall - oh no - I'm too sleepy, I surely did not do any of these things. Wait, that's a torso, NO A PERSON! What in the hell is a person doing in the corner of my apartment!? I jump up to turn on my light and see nothing. It's 6am and now I am terrified. So I literally say out loud "Fuck this!" and jump out of bed, get dressed in a hurry, and drive to work 3 hours early to the bewilderment of my coworkers.
Same lights (different patterns) but I see them all the time now when I wake in the night (on my back.) The torso/ghost/person/towel(?) thing only shows after I wake from a nightmare, which adds to my terror as you may have guessed.
Anywho, this gives me a logical explanation which greatly eases my mind. I am not ready to accept that my entire life belief system of science is ready to be thrown out the window, but it was getting to a dangerously close level.
This may be slightly off topic, as I am very much awake when I see these things (I'm jumping in my car not 3-5 minutes after these experiences and driving around till dawn...) Maybe this is a lingering hallucination from my dream state?
I think I covered the rationality behind fearing the specific act of dying and that I understand in a "deeper," human condition. What I don't buy is that we're all imbued with this deep concern for our post-physical existence, at least not in a manner that is universal. Many Chinese cultural phenomena that closely resemble religiousness (since I, and many others, don't really regard ancestor typification and confucian morality to be a religion) went on for thousands of years in the total absence of any ontology. They had no concept of immortal consequence except in the practice of celebrating their own family members.
I don't think we're discussing shitty behavior here, but I do think we spend a lot of time fooling ourselves into thinking our long-practiced doctorine is natural tendency.
Actually, without religion and in the presence of current scientific understanding I don't think anyone in such a world would wax on matters ethereal.
That's a level of certainty nobody expresses and a character attack against the atheist position. The appropriate sentence is: "No evidence for a soul, no evidence for a god, religion created these two concepts, and when you die there is no reason to assume what will happen except the obvious physical repercussion."
Edit: Que Pascal's Wager. =)
Dude that succkkksssss! Really glad you registered though!!! And sleeping on your back definitely has a lot to do with it. Like you, I never sleep on my back. However, sometimes I end up there. And I'm way more likely to have it happen. Maybe something about it makes us feel vulnerable.
But, next time it happens just try to stay calm ya know.
@Proletaria- Ya, it pretty much was a character attack. I find the natural disposition of a lot of atheists that enjoy voicing their belief(lol I love calling it that)to be rather condescending and intolerant. But, that's probably a topic for another thread.
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Well, at least you are honest about it. That is more than I can say for most works of apologetics these days. Voicing their "lack of belief," to be exact. I'd love to have a thread devoted to this topic. Go go go. =P
Wait...what exactly will the topic be about? :\
Maybe you should make it?
-Equinox
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-Winged
I'll take you up on that tomorrow when I can provide myself as a more active participant in the threadnaught.
So, tonight I'll be seeing if I can get my friend to have a lucid dream and see what he experiences. He was not raised in any sort of a religious household like I was so he doesn't have those stupid deep seeded superstitions like I do.
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
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Supersitions aren't necessarily stupid, but they are superstitions and we'd be remissed not to treat them as such. In some cases they are works of literature that are valued as a common literary tradition (ie. many people understand biblical allusion, even if they don't adhere to christian doctorine) or places where we find vivid imagery of an old world that we have scant records of. I wouldn't count knowing a lot of the bible, torah, or koran (or vedas, annalects, etc.) as a stupid bit of wasted knowledge, but I wouldn't use them to support a statement of certainty either.
I'll light up our new thread after I give my afternoon lectures.
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I have remembered my dreams for the first times in nearly a year, but no lucid dreams. Wish me luck
As far as deja vu goes....I don't think I've had it in some time. Which is sad as you said. Some scientist can explain it however they would like. However, from experience I must say I definitively believe that it was an experience that has already happened that we perceive before it happens again. Out of all these interesting phenomena, deja vu is the most interesting. You described it very well. It's not just what a person says that is the experience, it's the entire scene. Everything from the friend making small talk to the little bug on the window that you barely see through the glare of the sun. I wish I could have it more often.
@Kurlie- Good luck!!!!! I think I'll investigate more as you are doing during a school break. While I was able to control a lot of what happened last time I was in sleep paralysis, I'm not completely comfortable yet with the idea of floating out of my room. I remember, it was like "Ok...I'm having sleep paralysis again, I know now. Wait...I feel so light...Am I about to float out of my bed?!". I didn't want to so I stopped it.
Let us know how it goes!!!!
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
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I had something similar. It's not like I know exactly what someone is going to say next, but I soon as they say it, it rings a bell. I find the whole scene strongly familiar.
On the topic of lucid dreaming, some nights ago I was willing to try it, but chickened out in the end. It's quite a scary concept.
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged