The hypnagogic state

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Comment by AJ on March 11, 2010 at 9:06am

Thanks, Ian. These abstracts came up with some investigating
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a792611987&db=all:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a792611987&db=...
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00207459308987210

Comment by AJ on March 11, 2010 at 9:05am

This article was informative:
http://www.aapb.org/tl_files/AAPB/files/biof_breathing_regulation.pdf

Comment by Jesus Gonzalez on March 11, 2010 at 4:57am

One day, I arrived home after a long night.

When I was in bed, I could be able to hear PERFECTLY my friends as if I was in the situation. I think (really believe) that that was an auditory hallucination.

It was a very strange stream of sounds.

A few years ago, when I got high on pot, I closed my eyes, and I started to see yellow things occupying the black zone of the eyes, and suddenly it started taking shapes. When this was happening I started talking to my friends, while we were all high (Im seeing the head of a horse, now It has changed to a house, now it's the face of somebody, now he is smiling to me)

They all laughed because they thought it was my own inventions, but it was pretty real. These yellow "things" started making shapes by itself, I didn't force anything to happen.

This could be a hypnagogic state too. What do you think? HyperImagination, induced by smoking weed? Strange, isnt it?

It hasnt happened to me for a while.

Kelley, I had that experience too. While waking up, with my eyes closed, I was talking myself to wake up, but Im certain that I wasnt awake. But sometimes it is impossible to me to wake up...


This may be a very interestin topic.

Peace,
Jesus

Comment by Kelley Woods on March 10, 2010 at 8:09am

After studying, I realize my previous comment referred to a hypnopompic state!

Comment by AJ on March 10, 2010 at 7:38am

We shift hemisphere usage throughout the day, as mentioned ultradian rhythms. Has anyone investigated or observed correlations to inhalations from left nostril and left brain or right nostril and right brain activities?

Comment by Kelley Woods on March 10, 2010 at 7:12am

Very interesting, gentlemen. Do any of you hear your own voice speaking to yourself while in this state? This seems to be an omnipresent feature in my own hypnogogic experiences... Just this morning, I told myself to wake up, although I was in the process of traveling an interesting path, hopefully to be continued another time!

Comment by Walt Potter on March 10, 2010 at 6:52am

Ian,
I do enter the state when I'm in the right hemisphere, for me it's easy to tell. I'm left handed so the term right needs to be a metaphor.

Last summer for a 5 day period, I paid attention to my rhythms. I went into trance and rode it out whenever the call came. The 90-120 minute range was close. When I was physically tired or had been thinking brightly hard, the range shortened. This was a very good week. It was like I was working and on vacation at the same time.

Do you know Rossi's book Ultradian Rhythms? It's a short read and good.

Walt

Comment by Walt Potter on March 10, 2010 at 5:38am

I used to be a napper. Every afternoon I would nap in my recliner.

Several times I would start to go to sleep and my nap would be hijacked by dreamy mathematics. During this state I would wander a mathematical landscape. I'm an algebraist and so few of my concepts have the usual visual component that one might experience with say geometry. However, the concepts and structures are very visual and tangible. A really nice place to glide through.

On several occasions I would devise proofs of theorems that I'd never stated or even thought about. Often the theorems would be loosely connected to what I was teaching at the time. This led to several nice talks.

I value these experiences as some of the best work I've ever done. They have texture, flavor, and romance.

Now I replicate this experience by paying attention to my ultradian rhythms. So far it's not as good as the unbidden experience. I'm learning how to do it.

These are hypnotic experiences. I think of them as belonging to a class of remish states.

Comment by Michael Ellner on March 10, 2010 at 5:03am

Seems both "states" involve going into and coming out of, as if the action is in "between"

Hmmmm....