Hypnagogia – cognitive phenomena on the onset of sleep

4 points by go_elmo 2 months ago | 6 comments
  • go_elmo 2 months ago
    After meditating for 3 years, these states are common when dreaming - as awareness persists within dreams - doesnt equal lucidity - as no active actions performed - can recommend meditating, its art.
    • alganet 2 months ago
      I never meditated and have them. I must be a natural then.

      It's quite inconvenient.

    • go_elmo 2 months ago
      Think everyone has such experiences - which is your most vivid one?
      • shayway 2 months ago
        This is a bit of a funny one.

        When I was a kid I had a terrible ear infection, and I was going in and out of this state all night. I had also just discovered Pokemon and had been playing it all day.

        I realized that I was injured and the solution of course was to be recalled to a Pokeball. I tried in earnest to do this for who knows how long. Eventually it hit me that I didn't have any other Pokemon I could switch to so sadly it wouldn't work.

        It sounds like a joke when I put it into words but it felt very real. Honestly in retrospect I think the distress was worth the unique experience (and subsequent amusement).

        • go_elmo 2 months ago
          How cool! Thanks for sharing! :) yeah the fever / infection sessions as kids were intense experiences - super interesting insights in what the mind can produce - super valuable insights imo.

          I had funny imagination while having fever as a kid as well. Could imagine a surface switching from being satin-smooth to edgy and rough in a perfect transition - maybe some form of texture-halucination..? anyways, the way it would "feel" to the touch is how it felt emotionally as well - super hard to describe but an interesting link to experience somehow :)

        • alganet 2 months ago
          It's all unintelligible garbage when it happens to me.

          Random phrases. I remember some of them.

          "She is not fat anymore"

          "Don't make jokes about my hair"

          Always something really nonsense.