[Kopachris]

Dunno if a similar topic has already been made; search didn't show it up.

Anyway, I had one of the strangest dreams I've ever had last night, accompanied by one (maybe two) false awakenings.  It started out that I was viewing a slideshow of gruesome paintings of people cut open showing organs, but no muscles or skeletons.  Just skin and organs, but the bodies were still shaped like they were supported by bones and musculature.  Still alive and, were they not paintings, moving.  Sort of "Happy Tree Friends" meets Hieronymous Bosch's "Tree-Man".  The only slide that I remember much detail of now was of the upper half of a man giving cunnilingus to the lower half of a woman.  The woman's nude upper half was in ecstasies, laying next to her lower half on the bed.  Organs visible protruding from both torsos.  Shocked, I woke up.  After thinking about this strange dream for a while, I concluded that it was caused by this Star Trek mood lamp next to my bed.  After sharing my revelation, I realized that I don't have a Star Trek mood lamp, and that they probably didn't even exist.  I woke up again.  This may have been a real awakening or a false awakening; if it was real, I never became fully aware and simply laid in bed with my eyes still closed, pondering curiously about those strange dreams before going back to sleep.  The next thing I remember, I was awoken for certain by a sports car's loud engine (specifically, a 2001 Pontiac Firebird Formula's 5.7L LS1 V8) next to my window.

Well?  Anyone else care to share some strange dreams?

[watsisname]

Strange dream threads are always fun.   I think these two were my strangest thus far.

On another note, (not really one of being in a strange dream story, but as far as crazy sleep-related experiences go) I once managed to remain conscious during the entire process of actually falling asleep.  It's something we all go through, but (almost) never remember at all.  Probably this is a good thing, because it's really ****ed up.  In my experience, basically, it was like the sensation of being paralyzed by an electric current, the buzzing effect growing stronger and stronger while a dull hissing sound intensifies into a soul-searing roar as your body and world are torn apart at the atomic level, finally seamlessly replaced with a hallucinatory realm of seemingly infinite size and complexity, and of which you are in complete control.

****ing awesome, but the getting there part was... well... freaky.  To say the least.

[Jeff Vader]

Once I dreamt I was a byte.

[watsisname]

Were you moving through the grid?

[T-LoW]

I once hunted submarines with a red and yellow speedboat - like men once did!

[Kopachris]

Strange dream threads are always fun.   I think these two were my strangest thus far.

On another note, (not really one of being in a strange dream story, but as far as crazy sleep-related experiences go) I once managed to remain conscious during the entire process of actually falling asleep.  It's something we all go through, but (almost) never remember at all.  Probably this is a good thing, because it's really ****ed up.  In my experience, basically, it was like the sensation of being paralyzed by an electric current, the buzzing effect growing stronger and stronger while a dull hissing sound intensifies into a soul-searing roar as your body and world are torn apart at the atomic level, finally seamlessly replaced with a hallucinatory realm of seemingly infinite size and complexity, and of which you are in complete control.

****ing awesome, but the getting there part was... well... freaky.  To say the least.

I typically get the Tetris effect and some random sounds during hypnogogia.  What you described is actually the process of entering a lucid dream.  The sensation you describe is kind of odd (most people experience falling, and then wake themselves up), but from the article, looks like it's explained by REM atonia setting in too soon.

[IronBeer]

This one. I don't particularly feel like re-scribing it. Just thinking about it puts me in a dark place.

[Mongoose]

I don't think I've ever been conscious of the process of actually falling asleep.  I usually toss and turn for a while, even if I'm really tired, and the next thing I know...boom, I'm awake the next morning (and/or afternoon).  Those descriptions sound really freaky.

[Marcov]

Well, I remember once, I was in some sort of an enclosed shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and something tells me that if I pray, a miracle would happen. Well, I did, and what happened was I teleported to the outside of it, on midair, and collapsed painfully to the ground. Somehow I pray again, then the same thing happens but inside the shrine; I appear in midair, and fall down painfully.

One of the freakiest dreams I had, however, was when I was 6 or 7. Not sure if I already said this, but I was in the bed, lying, with my mother beside me, on my right. I was at the center. She kept warning me no to go on my left, which had a pillow. Then all of a sudden, a low demonic, monstrous voice screamed "hala" 3 times ("hala" in Filipino means something like "oh noes!"), accompanied by 3 flashes of...something. Well, I can only remember 2 of these images; one was the picture of a Red Baron 3D (a WWI dogfight simulator) aircraft upside down, very near the ground; if it were in motion, the pilot's head would hit the ground and the player would die instantly. The last image, was frightening, to say the least; some sort of zombie, slimy, with a white head and an indescribable face, lying on...something, not sure what it is, but I had the idea that it was the one that kept uttering the thing; the one that haunted my dream.

[Darius]

I sometimes get paranoid about being conscious during hypnagogia (I don't really want to be there when I fall into unconsciousness; the similarities to the voidness of death are a little too close) which can cause insomnia. Highly irrational, yet there it is.

[Colonol Dekker]

When I was 15, I dreamt I was double-teaming my 24 year old student science teacher, Miss Thornton..... With myself.

[watsisname]

I typically get the Tetris effect and some random sounds during hypnogogia.  What you described is actually the process of entering a lucid dream.  The sensation you describe is kind of odd (most people experience falling, and then wake themselves up), but from the article, looks like it's explained by REM atonia setting in too soon.

REM kicking in too early makes sense -- I can still distinctly recall the sensation of my eyes twitching back and forth in my head as the craziness started -- yet my vision wasn't following the movements.  Strange juxtaposition of senses, that was.

As for why my experience getting into the dream was so intense, I honestly have no idea.  I blame DMT. 

When I was 15, I dreamt I was double-teaming my 24 year old student science teacher, Miss Thornton..... With myself.

You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

[Kopachris]

I typically get the Tetris effect and some random sounds during hypnogogia.  What you described is actually the process of entering a lucid dream.  The sensation you describe is kind of odd (most people experience falling, and then wake themselves up), but from the article, looks like it's explained by REM atonia setting in too soon.

REM kicking in too early makes sense -- I can still distinctly recall the sensation of my eyes twitching back and forth in my head as the craziness started -- yet my vision wasn't following the movements.  Strange juxtaposition of senses, that was.

As for why my experience getting into the dream was so intense, I honestly have no idea.  I blame DMT. 

No, no, no.  Not REM sleep kicking in too early, but REM atonia (sleep paralysis) kicking in early.  REM atonia usually kicks in only once you're actually asleep, to prevent you from acting out your dreams and possibly hurting yourself.  If sleep paralysis is working while you're still conscious, it's almost always quite traumatic, and is a likely explanation for many alien abduction stories.

Wiki:

Humming, roaring, hissing, rushing, zapping, and buzzing noises are frequent in conjunction with sleep paralysis (SP). This happens when the REM atonia sets in sooner than usual, before the person is fully asleep, or persists longer than usual, after the person has (in other respects) fully awoken. Sleep paralysis is reportedly very frequent among narcoleptics.
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The paralysis itself is frequently accompanied by additional phenomena. Typical examples include a feeling of being crushed or suffocated, electric "tingles" or "vibrations", imagined speech and other noises, the imagined presence of a visible or invisible entity, and sometimes intense emotion: fear or euphoria and orgasmic feelings. SP has been proposed as an explanation for at least some alien abduction experiences and shadow people hauntings.

[watsisname]

Ah whoops, I always thought REM atonia was just REM sleep, and sleep paralysis was a phase that happened prior to that but (normally) after becoming unconscious.  Thanks for pointing out the distinction.

[Marcov]

This is less strange compared to judgefloro

[Snail]

I met John Major last night.

[watsisname]

A pink and blue dawn.  Breakfast.  A drive across country.  Beautiful fields.  A glance to the side.  Never saw it coming.  Glass shatters.  I roll.  Eternity of motion.  Silence.  Shards.  Pain.  Tears.  I close my eyes.

Water trickles, then a torrent.  I open my eyes.  Hot steam caresses my anxious body.  A pool forms.  Rubber ducky is so mellow yellow.  Floats around and doesn't give a ****.  Nests in a cove of bubbles.  The water rises.  A dull pop.  A gurgle.  A roar.  Vortex.  Spiral into blackness.  Despair.

=(

[Snail]

A pink and blue dawn.  Breakfast.  A drive across country.  Beautiful fields.  A glance to the side.  Never saw it coming.  Glass shatters.  I roll.  Eternity of motion.  Silence.  Shards.  Pain.  Tears.  I close my eyes.

Water trickles, then a torrent.  I open my eyes.  Hot steam caresses my anxious body.  A pool forms.  Rubber ducky is so mellow yellow.  Floats around and doesn't give a ****.  Nests in a cove of bubbles.  The water rises.  A dull pop.  A gurgle.  A roar.  Vortex.  Spiral into blackness.  Despair.

=(

very eloquent

[Nemesis6]

I dreamt that I was in a store, with my absolutely mouth full of winegums, and I was chewing the **** out of them, and I'd started drooling as a result. At that point I woke up, and found myself drooling in real life, too! Eek.

[Gortef]

Last night I had a dream in which I was in the middle of a medical inspection. At first there was a nurse that was either deaf or an idiot since she wrote my name, my address... well all my basic information wrong to the report paper even if I repeated them several times. After that she handed the questionaire papre to me, you know a paper that asks ones eating habits and so on. Only that the paper was meant for horses and it asked if I had had an affair with a horse... among questions like "Was the horse fast?".

Then I woke up... I never knew if I was actually a horse, such a shame.