i had a "psychedelic experience" as i was falling asleep

last night. i was trying to see CEVs as i was laying in bed trying to fall asleep. i'm not sure if i DID fall asleep or what...i think i did, and had a mini dream as soon as i did.

my consciousness was hovering/spiraling/flying above these circular, brick or stone buildings. very finely detailed and fractal in nature. it felt like a really cool CEV coupled with a unique (out of) body high.
and there was a really eerie feeling to the whole thing. like i was somewhere i shouldn't be. or that i was dead or something. it lasted only briefly and the the abrupt ending woke me up.

 

i know what you mean.. I generally smoke before I go to sleep and try to refine my CEVs..

The main themes in my CEVs are usually fractal tunnels, always going forward, spiraling at the labored whim of my consciousness. Also what i find the most [awe]some is when im flying with a bird's eye view over vast landscapes.. I love it..

I try to manifest various things.. I am always startled when I imagine a face for some reason and its really hard to hold on to for me.


"The heavy is the root of the light.
The unmoved is the source of all movement.

Thus the Master travels all day
without leaving home.
However splendid the views,
she stays serenely in herself."

 

i get visuals like that as i'm falling asleep if smoke as much pot as i physically can.

 

And I'm cut with my own life
Is this a dream or is it real life?
Oh, sleep, come on me soon
I can't bear this lonely room..

http://www.gilmourish.com/wp-content/downloads/So Far Away.mp3

I do all the time. Isnt this the dream??

 

sounds like a cool dream.
have you ever tried meditation?

 

i've never tried meditating too seriously i guess. but a little bit. i do always make time to "mediate" while i'm tripping though. that gets intense.

i had smoked/vaped a decent amount of pot, but that's not out of the ordinary.

 

astral projection...cool stuff, you were well on your way. learn more to gain control

 

yea, when i was smoking pot more regularly i was often able to control these hallucinations

 

Ive never been really formally trained and have only done it for about a year now, so I know I don't get to levels that some people do. Ive never gotten fractals but I have had an out of body experience and I guess what you would call streaming. Yes it does get intense on psychedelics and one of my favorite solo trip techniques.

 

any advice on how to do that?
i suppose i could google astral projection, but maybe you have some personal experience

 

I've had a few similar experiences and decided to pick up this book...

and wow!

Definitely an interesting read. Speaks loads on gaining control of this ability.

 

Something similar used to happen to me naturally as a kid once in a while, so I can kinda recall what you're saying...

Cool though. Free show

 

I see my thoughts sometimes. Or random images. Like pictures or.....robots and snakes and bikes crashing into boxes in alleyways. Weird as fuck. I totally saw MJ moonwalk before. Made my fucking day.

 

Do you ever get sleep paralysis? From what you described it sounds like it, but I always get it in the early morning. For me I can't move at all and it feels like theres something holding my mouth shut... it's scary as shit but usually only lasts 5 seconds or so.

 

i've never experienced sleep paralysis, but my dad has. he described a dream where there was a dark figure above him, and he was freaked the fuck out, trying to yell and wake up my mom, but he couldn't move or speak. and the dark, faceless figure told my dad "this is how it's going to be..."

 

yeah its so weird how everyones sleep paralysis experiences are so similar, usually with the presence of an evil entity... but i'm not saying these actually exist or anything.

 

it's probably just the fear. not being able to move is pretty scary

 

I remember these visions I would get shortly before I fell asleep as a kid;

I would be falling towards a field of static light, kind of like snow on a TV. As I fell into it, a tunnel would appear and I would fly through this tunnel and then I would fall asleep.

It seems to be similar to the DMT tunnel some get when they smoke DMT.

 

sometimes i get this image of me falling down into a city of sky scrapers, but more importantly i feel that falling feeling,, i feel the initial rush of fear, but thats it, not the whole thing. and now since i recognize it, i try to manipulate it. i like flying

for me, extraneous thought dissipates the image. the mental effort of trying to hold onto the image is sometimes effective, but usually opens the flood gates of extraneous thought..

when i am not in the spectrum known as dreaming, its like its a intermediate state between waking and dreaming consciousness.. i find the visual display to be the most pleasurable part. or the feeling ON my eyes. or the moving feeling.

 

oh yeah that reminds me, that separate from sleep paralysis i also get the feeling that I'm falling as I'm going to sleep; its always very brief and it feels like I just fell through a trap door or something but I always regain full consciousness right after it happens.