Swims hypnagogic nightmare

[vinylmesh]

Swim edited this post because he feels he probably shouldn't have posted it in the first place.

Basically, Swim woke up with sleep paralysis and somehow managed to roll to the side and out of bed instead of sitting up. Swim walked around his house but still felt as if he was 10% asleep. For split seconds swim thought he saw things in the corner of his eye (aliens at the door ect) and was in quite a paranoid state. It was quite scary at the time, and swim was worried for the next few days.

Since the second post swim has not experienced any hypnagogia or sleep paralysis or anything like that at all.

Anyway, it made swim think if this is what having schizophrenia is like. Being 90% awake and 10% dreaming. Swim concluded that if so, living with schizophrenia must be hell.

Swim was reading about how people with schizophrenia "self medicate" with tobacco and swim could understand people taking anything needed to wake themselves up. However if schizophrenia is somehow tied in with dreaming-like states then taking a stimulant to wake up would be like turning the lights on instead of pulling across the curtains.


Experiences like this are probably normal to happen once or twice in someones lifetime and most people probably wouldn't even take any notice of it at all. Thanks to everyone who replied. It's weird what the mind is capable of without drugs. ("dream songs" are always so much better than those swim comes up with while fully awake). However, trying to have lucid dreams and dabbling in hypna/hypnogogic states might not be the best of endeavours. Swims fear is that once you begin to unlock your mind in such a way, you may find it hard to close again.