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It feels the same way when I'm waking up. Whatever I'm doing in the dream seems incomprehensibly crucial, then I realize it doesn't make sense, and then that I'
by DaniFong 18y ago
It feels the same way when I'm waking up. Whatever I'm doing in the dream seems incomprehensibly crucial, then I realize it doesn't make sense, and then that I'm dreaming, and then that I'm awake.
- pmjordan 18y agoI feel like I'm missing out on something here. The most I've hallucinated while falling asleep is occasional swirly patterns. No sounds, ever. Maybe because I've had a tinnitus for as long as I can remember? (constant ~20kHz) Likewise, nothing when waking up. Once every couple of months or so I "know" that I've been dreaming and at best can remember a person or object from the dream. After a few seconds even that is irretrievably gone.
- silentbicycle 18y agoYou may not remember it. The technical term for this sort of thing is hypnagogia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia); if you want to dig deeper, that's where to look. It's sort the sensory parallel to when you're just starting to fall asleep and suddenly your leg kicks and wakes you up. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk) I've been on the edge of sleep and thought the gurgling noises from my radiator were mumbled speech outside my window.