Thread: I'm shrinking.....

One night I dreamed that I ate a big marshmallow and when I woke up, my pillow was gone.

Don't even ask me about the dream I had about my honeymoon with a quadruple amputee, I had to throw that pillow out....

yea I get some weird dreams like this too.

For me its like Im being shrunk to the size of an ant and im falling or something.

A different dream I get a lot is, Im being chased or have to run somewhere and my body just can run, it feels like im frame-freezing.


What was your honeymoon dream about

Originally Posted by DiGiTaL

yea I get some weird dreams like this too.

For me its like Im being shrunk to the size of an ant and im falling or something.

A different dream I get a lot is, Im being chased or have to run somewhere and my body just can run, it feels like im frame-freezing.


What was your honeymoon dream about

But this isn't dream induced, it's actual phenomena of the mind....usually I find it's right on the precipice of dropping into the slumber zone.....you have just laid down, closed your eyes and then all your perceptions of actuality flip Picasso. Distortions and morphing of your self awareness, like Kafka you feel like you may be turning as small as a bug in your bed, or you feel like you can sense your evening workout actually increasing the size of your muscles, fiber by fiber and it might not end.......

Yeah I used to get that all the time as a kid, it was kind of like a slow pulsing where I'd feel really small compared to the room and then slowly it would be the inverse. Mine was always accompanied by anxiety and I wouldn't be able to sleep and would actually scare the crap out of me and typically give me some harsh nightmares when I did manage to get to sleep. I get it once in a while now but I'm able to handle the anxiety better and kind of like it because its almost like your tripping out but without any drugs. I always thought it was just in my head and happened when I was stressed out about something (seemed like whenever I was stressed about not having my HW done or w/e, I would get that feeling at night). Interesting to know its actually a recognized syndrome.

Originally Posted by Yanick

Yeah I used to get that all the time as a kid, it was kind of like a slow pulsing where I'd feel really small compared to the room and then slowly it would be the inverse. Mine was always accompanied by anxiety and I wouldn't be able to sleep and would actually scare the crap out of me and typically give me some harsh nightmares when I did manage to get to sleep. I get it once in a while now but I'm able to handle the anxiety better and kind of like it because its almost like your tripping out but without any drugs. I always thought it was just in my head and happened when I was stressed out about something (seemed like whenever I was stressed about not having my HW done or w/e, I would get that feeling at night). Interesting to know its actually a recognized syndrome.

Yeah, it was more intense as a child and generally centered around being anxious about stuff, like a book report I had 2 months to do and I hadn't read the book yet and it's due in 2 days. Maybe it's intensity as a child is due to our first real dose of cortisol or other neurochemicals. Now I always have stress, so I think it's more related to winding down for me, some days lying down for bed is the first real break I'll have had all day......

I don't know why but ever since I was a kid I was fascinated by the tricks the mind could play, imagination and dreaming....

Excerpt from 'Waking Life'

"See, in the waking world,
the neuro-system inhibits the activation of the vividness of memories.
This makes evolutionary sense.
It'd be maladapted for the perceptual image of a predator...
to be mistaken for the memory of one and vice-versa.
If the memory of a predator conjured up a perceptual image,
we'd be running off to the bathroom every time we had a scary thought.
So you have these serotonic neurons...
that inhibit hallucinations...
that they themselves are inhibited during REM sleep.
This allows dreams to appear real...
while preventing competition from other perceptual processes.
This is why dreams are mistaken for reality.
To the functional system of neural activity that creates our world,
there is no difference between dreaming a perception and an action...
and actually the waking perception and action."

What really excited me was how time seemed non-existent in dreams, what seemed like hours in a dream would be just 9 minute snooze button event....

Once in a great while I'll wake up and I can't move or talk at all. Like my body is completely dead and I have no control. I'm not 100% positive that I'm actually awake when it happens, but I can hear and see, and it doesn't seem like a dream at all. It's terrifying.

Originally Posted by SYN

Once in a great while I'll wake up and I can't move or talk at all. Like my body is completely dead and I have no control. I'm not 100% positive that I'm actually awake when it happens, but I can hear and see, and it doesn't seem like a dream at all. It's terrifying.

Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've noticed quite a few threads concerning sleep paralysis on IM over my time on the forum. It isn't uncommon, and I think most people will experience it at least once in their lives.

I've experienced it (I won't say suffered it) a lot. Once you learn to relax, you can explore interesting parts of your mind that you may not normally be able to.

You body is basically asleep while your mind is awake.* You may literally be awake (hearing, smelling, seeing what is going on in real life), or in a super-realistic dream state. Either way, you are awake in the sense that you are aware.

*This is often a goal of meditation and is the definite goal of lucid dreaming.

Originally Posted by fufu

Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've noticed quite a few threads concerning sleep paralysis on IM over my time on the forum. It isn't uncommon, and I think most people will experience it at least once in their lives.

I've experienced it (I won't say suffered it) a lot. Once you learn to relax, you can explore interesting parts of your mind that you may not normally be able to.

You body is basically asleep while your mind is awake.* You may literally be awake (hearing, smelling, seeing what is going on in real life), or in a super-realistic dream state. Either way, you are awake in the sense that you are aware.

*This is often a goal of meditation and is the definite goal of lucid dreaming.

The question is how long is it really lasting and is it happening to everyone else at the same time too they just don't remember it...

Originally Posted by maniclion

Have you ever lay in bed at night and felt as if you weren't the size you'd always thought you were? Or some night's looked at your door and it looked as large as a cathedral doors? I've had these feelings many times, and not chemically aided and I wasn't sure if it was just because I'm crazy then I just saw they have named it because it's common enough especially in children. It's called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome....what a fucking trip....

What have you been smoking you need to pass that shit to the nigga to your left..

Originally Posted by maniclion

The question is how long is it really lasting and is it happening to everyone else at the same time too they just don't remember it...

Good questions.