Medical Anomalous, extraordinary, or otherwise interesting conscious experiences

[Tregg Smith]

Three or four times within the last few years I have been in a store shopping and one time driving when I saw what I thought was an old friend. But then upon getting closer I realized it wasn't that person. Within a minute or so I then encountered that old friend and we had a chat. Bi zzzz ar!

 

[Stephen Tashi]

I've been trying to teach myself Lucid Dreaming, conciously perceiving that you are in a dream. A common way to try to induce a lucid dream is WILD, Waking induction of lucid dreaming. Basically you try to keep your mind awake while your body goes to sleep. The key is the hypnagogic state, which often induces both auditory and visual hallucinations. So no, I don't think you're insane for hearing things before you go to sleep

All you have when dreams are over is a memory of them. I think inducing false memories of dreams is something that's easer to do than having them. Write down your dreams or fragments of them in the morning when you wake up. To fabricate a dream, look back into your records of several weeks ago and pick out some parts of dreams that are interesting. Then imagine a story that incorporates these fragments. Just replay the events that "really" happened in your dreams and add your imagined events into the story. It's best to write down the revised dream. Replay it several times as vividly as you can in your mind. (You don't have to hallucinate the dream. The ordinary way of replaying a memory will do.)

The memory of the false dream will become as "real" as your memory of the actual dream.

 

[RingoStar]

I've been reading some comments about magic mushrooms and would like to add my 2 cents, if it means anything to you scientists.

Taking LSD (Acid) and Magic Mushrooms will alter your mind like nothing else you can imagine.
The best way I can describe my last experience taing Mushrooms, was my entire life flashed before my eyes. Literally.

This effected me in such a way I realized who I really was, a liar, cheat, con artist... is the best way I could put it. This was almost like confession for a Catholic church, whereby you are subjected to realize all your sins and past wrong doings. Even tho I consider myself to be a good person, I spent hours in a way 're-programming' my brain, for the better good of society, myself, my friends and family alike.

Realising that doing things behind my room mates back, such as pinching cigarettes when they weren't looking... is wrong, as it's deceptive. It's their cigarettes, they paid for them and I love my room mates so therefore I would be an idiot not to respect them in the fact where I need to leave their personal items alone.


Drugs have caused many, many hallucinations including anything from where smoke from fire has turned into thousands of birds to the belief that mental telepathy exists, including waking up the next morning and believing I could send and receive messages between people with 'The Third Eye'...

My friend believes she personally met Jesus Christ whilst off guts on heroin, that was the day she decided to quit drugs.

Don't do drugs, and all those dirty tricks you think you can get away with... be prepared to let it all go if you take those magics ;)

 

[olbab]

... This one time I tried to "confront my fear" by walking down a hall to meet whatever might hide in the shadows at the dark end. Even though I was fully aware that it was all just a dream, I simply couldn't do it. I didn't dare walking into the darkness. I still wonder if I would have died of fear if I had done it.

I was in my teens when I finally succeeded in "just falling, no matter" when in a falling-to-my-death dream. Instead of waking in a sweat, I landed softly, the dream continued, and I never had that kind of nightmare again.

Possible connected, soon after that I became able to fly in dreams.

Ol' Bab

Hey, is there a spell check in this forum? Don't want to appear so illiterate.

 

[olbab]

Nobody else has these?

I have noticed this lately, but my question is why so happy? You identified the problem, but its still a problem. Is there any treatment for this, its ridicules to try to fall asleep with this.

Let me know, thanks.

a.

Sorry, I've forgotten just what you are wanting. I posted my own "nutty images" at thread "tiny pictures", references the wiki article, maybe pertinent...
Ol' Bab

Or was it "tiny images"

 

[Dotini]

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/3-students-die-after-being-hypnotized-by-principal/

Three Florida high school students are dead after being hypnotized by their school principal in Sarasota County, one in a car accident and two by suicide. Principal George Kenney is believed to have hypnotized up to 75 people, including students, members of the school staff and their children. Sarasota County School District officials repeatedly warned Kenney to stop the practice, which the principal insists was only done in the interest of helping students to be motivated and focused on school work and sports.

Can this be cause and effect, or is it mere coincidence?

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

 

[zoobyshoe]

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/3-students-die-after-being-hypnotized-by-principal/

Three Florida high school students are dead after being hypnotized by their school principal in Sarasota County, one in a car accident and two by suicide. Principal George Kenney is believed to have hypnotized up to 75 people, including students, members of the school staff and their children. Sarasota County School District officials repeatedly warned Kenney to stop the practice, which the principal insists was only done in the interest of helping students to be motivated and focused on school work and sports.

Can this be cause and effect, or is it mere coincidence?

Respectfully submitted,
Steve

Don't know. It's certainly an interesting story. But, this thread is for people to post their own personal experiences.

 

[Galteeth]

Coming home from spring break several years ago, My friend and I were in a serious fight, and i didn't trust him to drive. Having had no sleep the night before, I had to drive all the way from Panama City Beach Florida to New Jersey. On the drive, I had auditory hallucinations, imagining that i could hear the discussions of people in the other cars. It sounded like I was hearing people talk about the spring break experiences. There was this split in my mind. I 100 percent KNEW that these were auditory hallucinations from sleep deprivation. Yet I BELIEVED that i was actually hearing these conversations, that the sleep deprivation had somehow unlocked a circuit in my mind that was acting like a radio. It gave me a window into what schizophrenia must be like. I could imagine how, if this continued to go on all the time, what my brain was telling me to believe could overwhelm my rational thought process, or I could lose the distinction between the two.

EDIT: And if it sounds like a bad idea to drive on such little sleep, it is, but under the circumstances, there wasn't much I could do.