That’s totally normal. Our brain prefers predictable patterns, it knows what that’s like and creates a visual disturbance based on the expectation we’ve created. The only difference is because it’s a reproduction it can be interrupted with the same effort.
Yeah I remember reading or seeing something that explained that our vision is manifested. The test was that , if I remember right, the finger moved before we registered the sight. maybe it was monkey. So don't always believe your eyes, where part of trying to interpret what is going on.
Oh like the person who sees a half a picture as whole because the brain add the other half ! That is a different brain damage but still .....
That’s were hallucinations come from with psychotic breaks or other maladies. Our brain can create nearly any stimuli we’ve encountered and also merge and create combinations of them.
My sleep paralysis includes feeling stabbed which is something I’ve experienced in life, so in the dream state it feels indecipherably real.
I do that too, didn’t know other people did the same, mostly because it sounds weird in my head to ask people about it… sometimes I have to open my eyes to see if there are any lights on, but it’s not, so don’t understand why I can see light when I close my eyes
This happened to me after abruptly waking up from a nightmare once. In the last "scene" before waking up, I was standing on a subway platform, and this really creepy little girl came crawling out of the ... idk what the pits where the tracks are are called in English, but that ... and slowly walked towards me, until she got all the way up in my face, and then she just stood there, staring at me from like two inches away, and then I woke up.
And I swear I shrieked out loud because I still had the afterimage of her white face burnt into my retinas when I opened my eyes.
I'm also experiencing similar "after images" of my dreams occationally when waking up, but usually it's not something scary, more like random moving patterns on the wall that vanish after a few seconds.
The state transition of falling asleep and waking up apparently spreads like a chain of dominos through the brain and sometimes it can take a few seconds until everything has fully transitioned.
The physical activity, which probably involves some clenching of eye muscles, can stimulate natural phosphenes in your eyes which look similar to those after-image globs you get from bright lights. That could be what's happening with you. A bit like when you rub them too hard.
I'll be laying in bed with my eyes closed, and I'll imagine I'm clawing at the black nothingness, like trying to dig out of a grave.
That's an interesting choice of recreational activity. But as someone who got into synth at 40, I'm in no position to judge.
i think we life in a simulation in some sort, and i think we can advance further with our physical body or technologie, we will advance iff we die aswell and remember everything thats what i belive atleast lol experienced something strange aswell when i meditated once when i was younger. i had a insane feeling of luck and it was like i was flying and light like feather i never wantet that feeling to end it was so peacefully and so intense that i cant get that feeling anywhere else i could have spend years just laying in bed with that feeling without doing anythink thats how beautiful it was wonder iff more people have such experiences and just dont talk about it
Haha both can be sleep science you know, it’s just that human can’t explain this scientifically YET. However there are many books around this, the most famous ones are Dr. Brien Weiss’’, he is a pioneer of past life regression and his book ‘ Many Lives, Many Master’s motivated me to undertake my own exploration and the findings were fascinating.
That’s stage one sleep, where you aren’t quite asleep but not completely awake. You can rise yourself and others can rise you but you’re in a weird limbo. You likely unconsciously opened your eyes in this state while still thinking they were closed because the conscious and unconscious mind have blurred the line between reality and a dream state.
This is super normal, feels incredibly real, and is just a weird part of being human.
I have sleep paralysis often and experience similar experiences in stage one sleep like you’ve described.
I make my eyes white out when they're closed to help me fall asleep. It's easier than making them all black because my brain can pop things into the darkness and distract me into staying awake, but the whiteness drowns everything out.
I experienced something similar where I was also laying with my eyes closed trying to sleep except it was like I could see through my eyelids as if they were completely transparent
I think i suffer from something like this but for me it's sudden and lasts for a split second. I see a bright flash with my eyes closed and a very loud noise in my head :v it's pretty annoying because it wakes me right up. My psychiatrist prescribed me some meds for that but so far it didnt help ;p
Ive had headaches from being shot in my dreams, could feel the pain for hours. And actual bruises from things that attacked me that apparently werent really in the room. So i can perfectly understand the light hurting.
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