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Wow! I thought I was the only one who did this. Never to accomplish lucid dreaming - but I noticed in classes in highschool (why was I closing my eyes in class?

Wow! I thought I was the only one who did this. Never to accomplish lucid dreaming - but I noticed in classes in highschool (why was I closing my eyes in class?). When closing my eyes for a little bit, I'll see patches of glowing, slowly churning colors. Usually a paradoxically dark neon. Sometimes it's the afterimage effect from looking at a light - but I think some of it is just your eyes trying to make sense of the darkness. When focusing on these for a while, and trying to force my mind to make sense of it, eventually these blobs turn into oddly abstract shapes with intricate patterns on them, that are very visible. I've never gone that far with it - very interesting.

niftich 9y ago
Do these patterns and transitions get more intense with music, like a mid-2000s music visualization, or is that just me?
TrinaryWorksToo 9y ago
Is this the ganzfield effect?
knownothing 9y ago
You're definitely not alone. It makes sense on an intuitive level. Even when you "close" your eyes, you can't stop yourself from seeing. You're simply staring at the inside of your eyelids. EDIT: I had not heard of the Ganzfield effect before, although I was familiar with the phenomenon itself. It does seem like this a manifestation of what they're referring to. As a side note, in sensory deprivation situations you also become keenly aware of the sound of your heart beating and the sound of your blood circulating in your veins. It's very odd.
hnzix 9y ago
> Never to accomplish lucid dreaming Two easy techniques - 1. Ask yourself continually through the day "Am I dreaming?", which primes you to become self-aware while dreaming. 2. Wake up two hours before you normally get up for 10 mins, then go back to sleep. I also find that a Magnesium and Zinc vitamin tablet before bed assists with dream recall, however I have no science to back this up.
- flukus 9y ago
  I already do step 1, if I do step 2 I worry that all my lucid dreams will involve meetings with management.
- nkrisc 9y ago
  I've never done it intentionally, but as someone who occasionally has lucid dreams #2 definitely seems accurate. Much of the time I lucid dream it's when I'm sleeping extremely lightly right before I wake up. In fact, I know that I'm dreaming and that if I open my eyes (somehow separate from opening or closing my eyes in my dream) I will wake up. Sometimes I might shout or say something in my dream and I actually say it out loud and that wakes me up as well.

niftich 9y ago

Do these patterns and transitions get more intense with music, like a mid-2000s music visualization, or is that just me?

TrinaryWorksToo 9y ago

Is this the ganzfield effect?

knownothing 9y ago

You're definitely not alone. It makes sense on an intuitive level. Even when you "close" your eyes, you can't stop yourself from seeing. You're simply staring at the inside of your eyelids. EDIT: I had not heard of the Ganzfield effect before, although I was familiar with the phenomenon itself. It does seem like this a manifestation of what they're referring to. As a side note, in sensory deprivation situations you also become keenly aware of the sound of your heart beating and the sound of your blood circulating in your veins. It's very odd.

hnzix 9y ago

> Never to accomplish lucid dreaming Two easy techniques - 1. Ask yourself continually through the day "Am I dreaming?", which primes you to become self-aware while dreaming. 2. Wake up two hours before you normally get up for 10 mins, then go back to sleep. I also find that a Magnesium and Zinc vitamin tablet before bed assists with dream recall, however I have no science to back this up.

flukus 9y ago
I already do step 1, if I do step 2 I worry that all my lucid dreams will involve meetings with management.
nkrisc 9y ago
I've never done it intentionally, but as someone who occasionally has lucid dreams #2 definitely seems accurate. Much of the time I lucid dream it's when I'm sleeping extremely lightly right before I wake up. In fact, I know that I'm dreaming and that if I open my eyes (somehow separate from opening or closing my eyes in my dream) I will wake up. Sometimes I might shout or say something in my dream and I actually say it out loud and that wakes me up as well.