dream after image

[b12145]

this is some thing that happens to me often but i can't explain what I'm going through. when i wake up from my sleep i see after images of many words and pictures(sort of like pages in a book) I'm not familiar with, they disaper seconds later before i can closely examine it. what are these after images?

[AndrewTheSinger]

That's exactly what they are, remains from the last scene of your dream. They are technically called hypnopompic hallucinations, for they occur after one wakens up.
There are also those that occur while one is falling asleep, and are called hypnagogic hallucinations.

An interesting point is that those images that appear preceding the dream are more akin to common hallucinations, because they appear apart from the physical environment, while those that are seen after waking up are more similar to illusions, because they appear to change physical objects into something else.

Some religions say that if you see them before falling asleep they are clues of a previous life, and if you see them after waking up they might be related to future events.

[The Present Moment]

That happens to me when I haven't had enough sleep, or wake abruptly.

[Woah]

Some religions say that if you see them before falling asleep they are clues of a previous life

Cool, I get them before falling asleep a lot.

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