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Published by Damian under on Thursday, December 11, 2008
Sorry about the lack of updates, I've been busy with studying and school work and haven't gotten around to updating this. Rest assured, my dream journal has been expanding nonetheless.
Something really interesting happened last night. I'm not sure why or how, but when I first went to sleep I had a strange tingling feeling. It wasn't in a part of my body like a normal sleep paralysis, but in my head instead. It didn't hurt but it was a really strange feeling as I fell asleep. It was the kind of feeling you get when you spin around a lot, but without the dizzy feeling, if that makes any sense. The strangest sensation really.
Anyway, with this feeling came incredibly detailed dreams. They were more believable and vivid than most of the dreams I've ever had. I was also having them very rapidly, each was only 10 minutes and I awoke slightly after each to realize it was a dream. Some were kind of scary including my room mate walking into my room while I'm sleeping then ominously walking over with the intentions and actions of him killing me. Some also revolved around my general living quarters, a snowy setting I could only imagine. It was truly intriguing.
The more noteworthy thing is noticing what this tingling does to a dream. For some reason I had a much higher rate of reality checking and actually had multiple lucid dreams. It was a different sort of lucidness than my results a month ago. What happened here wasn't imagining environments and creating situations but more so making crazy and irrational decisions from the situations presented. I don't want to call them Quasi-lucid dreams, so I suppose I'll just put it that I didn't take full advantage of the realization.
I want to look into this tingly head feeling a little more, I don't know if it's related to the ability to have lucid dreams. I do know that the feeling seemed to be related to a night full of interesting and vivid dreams. I am a bit pensive on recreating the feeling as the surrounding circumstances weren't exactly enjoyable. The night before I had 4 hours of sleep and was exhausted throughout the day, fell asleep watching TV at 2:00ish [normally go to bed around 4:00 - 5:00], woke up at 5:30, went on the computer for 2 hours, then headed to bed. It was after I woke up from the first dream when I realized the strange feeling. My hypothesis is that my "nap" before hand eased me into my dream cycle and I never had enough time to reset myself so I resumed closer to REM when I went to bed. The longer period of sleep time allowed me to dream much longer. At least, it's a guess.
Anyone have any thoughts / comments on the matter?
~ Damian ~
Something really interesting happened last night. I'm not sure why or how, but when I first went to sleep I had a strange tingling feeling. It wasn't in a part of my body like a normal sleep paralysis, but in my head instead. It didn't hurt but it was a really strange feeling as I fell asleep. It was the kind of feeling you get when you spin around a lot, but without the dizzy feeling, if that makes any sense. The strangest sensation really.
Anyway, with this feeling came incredibly detailed dreams. They were more believable and vivid than most of the dreams I've ever had. I was also having them very rapidly, each was only 10 minutes and I awoke slightly after each to realize it was a dream. Some were kind of scary including my room mate walking into my room while I'm sleeping then ominously walking over with the intentions and actions of him killing me. Some also revolved around my general living quarters, a snowy setting I could only imagine. It was truly intriguing.
The more noteworthy thing is noticing what this tingling does to a dream. For some reason I had a much higher rate of reality checking and actually had multiple lucid dreams. It was a different sort of lucidness than my results a month ago. What happened here wasn't imagining environments and creating situations but more so making crazy and irrational decisions from the situations presented. I don't want to call them Quasi-lucid dreams, so I suppose I'll just put it that I didn't take full advantage of the realization.
I want to look into this tingly head feeling a little more, I don't know if it's related to the ability to have lucid dreams. I do know that the feeling seemed to be related to a night full of interesting and vivid dreams. I am a bit pensive on recreating the feeling as the surrounding circumstances weren't exactly enjoyable. The night before I had 4 hours of sleep and was exhausted throughout the day, fell asleep watching TV at 2:00ish [normally go to bed around 4:00 - 5:00], woke up at 5:30, went on the computer for 2 hours, then headed to bed. It was after I woke up from the first dream when I realized the strange feeling. My hypothesis is that my "nap" before hand eased me into my dream cycle and I never had enough time to reset myself so I resumed closer to REM when I went to bed. The longer period of sleep time allowed me to dream much longer. At least, it's a guess.
Anyone have any thoughts / comments on the matter?
~ Damian ~