Hypnagogic hallucination

marty2005 · 20-06-2008, 2:48 AM

Anyone had a Hypnagogic hallucination?

HotblackDesiato · 20-06-2008, 2:55 AM

I had hypnopompic hallucinations occasionally over a year or so, about 10 years ago. Thankfully they resolved of their own accord.

Ethics Gradient · 20-06-2008, 5:03 AM

I get both hypnogogic and hypnopompic ones all the time

They are always usually the same - hypnogogic for me always seems to be tripping, and hypnopompic that something is in the room quick leaning down towards me.

shodan · 20-06-2008, 11:16 AM

What are these things then?

oldnewbie · 20-06-2008, 11:19 AM

Hypnagogic was coined by a French psychologist LF Alfred Maury in the 19th-century, and it comes from the two Greek words, Hypnos (sleep) and Agogeus (guide, or leader). Some years later, Psychical Researcher FWH Myers coined a complimentary term, Hypnopompic, to cover similar phenomena occurring as we wake from sleep. It has also been known by the names: the ‘borderland state’, the ‘half-dream state’and the ‘pre-dream condition’.

The Hypnogogic state is when we start to get drowsy and about to fall asleep our imagination is at its most creative and we start to hear noises, see things such as people, landscapes or places, we are not awake nor asleep, for most of us these are not real images just our imagination, you have to remember our thinking side of the brain has been busy all day filtering reality from the non reality, keeping our imagination under control, so as we are about to sleep and the thinking brain is at rest our imagination is still wide awake, it's here the imagination runs wild giving us these images and noises, however many mediums have recorded these images and found that what they are getting are messages from spirit to give to someone they are about to meet, some of these messages are true and exact, which leaves us to ask the question if its true that anyone can be trained to be a medium are we all having Psychic dreams!

The Hypnopompic state is after we have slept and awaking but not back to full consciousness, the same as above occurs with the noises and images.

shodan · 20-06-2008, 12:12 PM

Ah yes, dream stuff. I get these a lot then. Normal dreams (well, dreams at the normal time) and "dreams" when I'm just waking or falling asleep. I also do the Twitch a lot which to me feels like I'm falling and I "twitch" awake. Did it on the train the other day and accidently kicked the guy opposite right on the shin... Oops, sorry pal!
I also incorporate sounds and feelings from external sources into my dreams a lot. So if I'm dreaming and the phone rings, there'll be a ringing phone in my dream. I've always been lucky to have very vivid and complex dreams and mostly to be able to remember them for a while after waking up.

Sals · 20-06-2008, 12:13 PM

Well some say we all have Psychic ability but subcontiously choose whether to accept it or not!

shodan · 20-06-2008, 1:31 PM

I accept and embrace mine.

MrFurious · 15-11-2008, 1:31 AM

lately my epilepsy has been playin up and i have been ill and takin more meds, these have played havok with me seeing things, have got up to chase people out of the house, woke up convinced i was covered in bloo and blood was pouring from my mouth, the wife is having hell of a time, last night i turned over and saw her holding a crocodile steve irwin style and i went mad and punched what i thought was the croc but it was the quilt!!!!

the brain is really messing with me at the moment lol

nvingo · 15-11-2008, 1:52 AM

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Originally Posted by oldnewbie

The Hypnogogic state is when we start to get drowsy and about to fall asleep our imagination is at its most creative and we start to hear noises, see things such as people, landscapes or places, we are not awake nor asleep, for most of us these are not real images just our imagination, you have to remember our thinking side of the brain has been busy all day filtering reality from the non reality, keeping our imagination under control, so as we are about to sleep and the thinking brain is at rest our imagination is still wide awake, it's here the imagination runs wild giving us these images and noises,

When I've had these symptoms - not normally, only when I'm "extra tired" I've thought it was delirium. I sort of wake (or am woken) with a start, I didn't believe I was asleep but had abnormal "experiences".

Reign-Mack · 15-11-2008, 4:49 AM

I get Sleep Paralysis all the time you are pretty much paralised and cant move sort of aware of whats going on around you in what you think is real time but seeing/hallucinat that little bit extra

very paranoid and feel a presence in the room leaning towards me could be person/stranger, some sort of animal or bug makes you feel pretty helpless when you cant move or communicate with them. Not as bad now as I know how to wake myself up fully when it happens but was never a good experience when I was younger.

Davieboy00 · 15-11-2008, 10:20 AM

Interesting thread this.
Used to have both experiences when I was quite young - about 6 - 10 IIRC. Stopped after that and never had anything like it since. Is it more prevelant in younger years or have I just lost my imagination ?
Nowadays I don't even remember any of my dreams

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I get between 4 - 5 hours sleep a night and I have been told that I have difficuilties switching my brain off at night. Surely if my brain is still so active as I go to sleep I should still get the hypnagogic experiences or is it the wrong type of brain activity ?
Hopefully some of you psychologists , real or armchair , may be able to answer.