What did he look like though;
please draw his face
Once, as a kid, I saw Bela Lugosi’s face at the window in the front door (you could just see the window [12" x 8"] from my bed). But wait, there’s more! He had a mouth full of teeth like Karen Black at the end of that Devil Doll movie. :eek:
You revived a 3 year old conversation.
Many years ago, I was drifting off to sleep and entered a dreamlike state, where I got out of bed, walked down the hallway and into the living room – and saw, plain as day, MYSELF sitting in my favorite chair.
“Hello,” myself say to me.
I shrieked, ran back into my body, and shook awake. Really freaked me out since I knew I hadn’t fully fallen asleep, like it was some demonic out-of-body experience. (I was all alone in the house, too.)
Actually, I don’t mind Exploding Head Syndrome anymore, now that I know what it is. But there was a time, again long ago, when it bothered me so much that I made the mistake of telling my shrink about it. Apparently the quack had never heard of the syndrome either, because he prescribed some stupid medication that really messed up my head, big-time. No, I’m not bitter or anything. :mad:
Geez, all I usually get is the falling thing.
There was one time when I was a kid back in the 70s when I thought I heard Superman shouting his “Up, up and away!” outside my window.
And very occasionally, I’ll “feel” one of the cats walking around on the mattress, even though none of them had gotten into the bedroom.
Hypnagogic images, or hallucinations, are those experienced whilst falling asleep. Most of the people in this thread seem to be describing experiences whilst waking up. The word for those is hypnopompic. Actually though, many of the experiences described seem to be more like dreams, lucid dreams perhaps, in some cases.
Hypnagogic images, as they are defined by psychologists, are usually fairly static, and do not have a “story” like a dream, and they are usually images of apparently random things without personal significance. It is quite common for those things to be ugly, scary, or disturbing, however.
Yes, I am aware this a zombie thread.
I’ve had a few.
The most interesting one was when I hallucinated that there was a non-existant kettle boiling on an imaginary stove. The flames were alive, somehow staring at me (without eyes) and evil.
In the past few years of my geriatry, I have been going through an occasional phase (every fews months) of being unable to sleep any longer than about an hour, and being awkened by dreams – a condition that might last for a week or so. During these times, I doze off during the day, and have such a hypnogogic experience. I’ve found that I am quickly aware that it is a lucid dream, but the image lingers and sometimes even continues to act, when my eyes are open, for maybe 10-15 seconds, superimposed over the actual things that I am seeing in the room. Quite a fascinating and generally enjoyed experience, as I can analyze the thing consciously at the same time.
I see I mentioned the nuns already.
Recently, on separate occasions, I thought there was a black mist emerging from my closet and a bomb hanging from my lamp.
Took me a few moments to realize that the room looked much brighter than it really was when I thought I saw these things.
When I was well into several YEARS of sleep deprivation due to undiagnosed sleep apnea, I would actually have waking hallucinations during the day because I was getting NO REM sleep. I was actually dreaming while awake. What are those kind of hallucinations called?
He looked like this.
I laughed for twenty seconds.
I used to have them as a kid. The ceiling would pulse. It would seem to compress down then back to it’s normal height, like being inside of a beating heart (and at about that speed.)