This happened about a week ago, I was over at my boyfriends' house and I had fallen asleep next to him watching a movie. He ended up passing out too and after a couple hours I jolted awake. I wasn't dreaming and everything was quiet in the house and normally if I do wake up through the night for whatever reason, I practically ignore everything and will instantly go back to sleep. This time I couldn't because I was extremely terrified. I laid there for a while trying to calm down, but after I couldn't I got up and went for a restroom break, still pretty afraid. I sat on the couch almost in tears, not understanding why I felt so scared. Eventually I tried to wake up my boyfriend to see if he would take me home, but he was passed out, so despite my fear I laid back down and tried to fall asleep. The next morning when we woke up, my boyfriend was like "You were shivering in your sleep, Did you have a bad dream" and I was like ">: ( I tired to wake you up, I was scared out of my mind"
Any ideas what this could have been?
Quote from: Ellury on May 18, 2014, 21:07:25
This happened about a week ago, I was over at my boyfriends' house and I had fallen asleep next to him watching a movie. He ended up passing out too and after a couple hours I jolted awake. I wasn't dreaming and everything was quiet in the house and normally if I do wake up through the night for whatever reason, I practically ignore everything and will instantly go back to sleep. This time I couldn't because I was extremely terrified. I laid there for a while trying to calm down, but after I couldn't I got up and went for a restroom break, still pretty afraid. I sat on the couch almost in tears, not understanding why I felt so scared. Eventually I tried to wake up my boyfriend to see if he would take me home, but he was passed out, so despite my fear I laid back down and tried to fall asleep. The next morning when we woke up, my boyfriend was like "You were shivering in your sleep, Did you have a bad dream" and I was like ">: ( I tired to wake you up, I was scared out of my mind"
Any ideas what this could have been?
They're usually called "night terrors".
In your particular case, you were having a non-physical experience which you couldn't remember... yet you still retained the "emotional" state which it aroused even upon and after waking up.
I've had plenty of nightmares, some pretty messed up ones, but right now I feel like they hardly affect me. I've talked about it with my boyfriend and he kept asking me why was I so scared... That's what I'd like to know. By Non-Physical.. what do you mean by that?
Non physical (NP) is the term relating to anything we experience that's not in the daily physical world we live in.
Dreams are an experience of being somewhere NP. Your body is asleep in the physical world but you are experiencing an existance in the non physical environment you're in.
I think I've read on here that dreaming is also a form of AP? I don't really understand this.. I thought dreaming was just our subconscious thoughts... I mean, I've definitely had precognitive dreams or dreams where I could feel something out of place that I thought didn't belong in my dream with me, but even those dreams are highly over powered by my subconscious.... Like when I have had precognitive dreams about people dying, it's like my subconscious tries it best to scramble and put a bunch of mess into the dream to where I almost miss what is really the reason of the dream...
I had a dream once surrounding several family members, and with each person I got an feeling of their emotions, but the whole plot to the dream made no sense.. In the dream setting it was a place where you should be relaxing and having fun. A sort of Resort get away.. My cousin I got the feeling of intense anger, My brother was distracted with his phone, My mom was stressed and doing things out of character.. She caught my attention most in the dream.. I was shocked by the way she was acting. In disbelieve... The final person, her husband at the time sad that he was tired and got up and walked away into a light... Upon waking from this dream I was like... He's going to die, because at the time I associated walking into a bright light with death, because of religious background. Over the next couple of days after I had that dream. My mom's deceased husband was put into the hospital for what they thought was pneumonia... but after doing test and running some scans they found out that he had stage 4 cancer...
Quote from: Ellury on May 19, 2014, 15:37:38I thought dreaming was just our subconscious thoughts
I'll handle this statement first.
What you said above about what you thought dreaming was is what is called pseudo knowledge. It's something you're just simply taught as you were growing up... there's no scientific evidence behind it.
And in fact, when you really begin to research scientifically what a "dream" is... you quickly run into a wall, because humanity actually has absolutely no idea what a dream is.
QuoteI think I've read on here that dreaming is also a form of AP? I don't really understand this..
Now onto this...
From what I've learned from stepping outside what most people think they know about Projection is that dreaming is Projecting.
It's not a form of projecting... it IS projecting.
If you're looking for more information about this, I write a lot about it in my posts here at the Pulse or in my free ebook which you can download from my website (link is in my signature below). Everything on my website is 100% free (except the Amazon store, which, obviously I have no control over :)).
I just returned from being a Merchant at a weekend Renaissance Faire on the road and I had a experience a couple of nights ago that relates exactly to this phenomenon.
I became consciously aware of the mild Sleep Paralysis state I was in. But this time I stopped it cold. I was terrified. I then sat at the corner of my bed for about 20 minutes and was too scared to go back to sleep.
This is new for me because I always welcome a NP (Non Physical) experience.
The only way I can make sense of what happened here is that I became consciously aware at the "tail end" of a successful shift and had already had a successful adventure. But that adventure must have been so intense that it shocked me back to my awaking physical focus.
On some level I was left with a imprint, but for some reason could not consciously recall what had occurred.
I was shocked to return to this Forum and see this new thread here because my experience was still so fresh in my mind. Talk about coincidence, lol. Which by the way is something I don't believe in.
Quote from: Xanth on May 19, 2014, 18:53:54
If you're looking for more information about this, I write a lot about it in my posts here at the Pulse or in my free ebook which you can download from my website (link is in my signature below). Everything on my website is 100% free (except the Amazon store, which, obviously I have no control over :)).
I'll definitely look into this when I wake up. Dreams have been a big interest of mine for years now.
Quote from: Lionheart on May 19, 2014, 23:30:39
I became consciously aware of the mild Sleep Paralysis state I was in. But this time I stopped it cold. I was terrified. I then sat at the corner of my bed for about 20 minutes and was too scared to go back to sleep.
I was shocked to return to this Forum and see this new thread here because my experience was still so fresh in my mind. Talk about coincidence, lol. Which by the way is something I don't believe in.
Wow, this is pretty awesome.. not the being terrified part, but having similar experiences. I wish I had some idea of what left me like that. It's weird... you can experience something in the NP but not remember anything? Do you ever recover those memories?