I have slept with my eyes open all my life. This is nothing new. I've seen video and pictures of myself sleeping, my wife tells me it happens etc. So its fact. But something has changed just in the past year and its starting to happen more frequently.. I am wondering if my use of psychedelics has cause this to happen I will summerize the situation then give my 3 most recent examples in detail. Basically my brain is starting to process the information that my eyes are seeing in real time while i'm asleep and my dream state has no control of this. I'm in my dream walking talking moving myself like any other dream, but I can't escape what the image is in my dream, and usually its just a static image, because when you are asleep you head isn't moving. So for an example heres what happened the 3 most recent times. example # 1 I fall asleep on my couch. Suddenly I am dreaming looking through my eyes in my house out a window. I can't quite remember what I could see out the window but it was sorta dark. Then all the sudden there is a bright light and I see a persons head, I have a confusion and fear and I think someone is trying to get in my window and is using a bright flashlight to see inside. I wake up in terror. When I wake up I realise I fell asleep with the TV on . I have a huge TV. I guess the program before was kinda dark, but when I woke up it was a bright picture with a news reporter on the screen doing a report from outside. So my brain processed what my eyes were seeing while I was asleep, but didn't interpret what It was seeing correcttly. This always leads me to wake up in confusion and terror. example #2 I am dreaming I am in my bedroom standing up looking into my bathroom. for some reason my head is stuck against a black wall. Nothing terrifying yet. Then I try to look around the room. I can feel my legs moving and my head turning, but wherever I look I see the same thing. Its a static image. My head is always against this wall, the doorway is always in front of my, I wave my hands in front of my eyes, I can feel them but I can't see them. I start to really get freaked out and I wake up startled and confused. I realise the wall my head was stuck to was just my head resting on the bed. and I was facing the bathroom that joins my bedroom. Interestingly enough, when this dream/reality happens my brain always processes what I'm seeing as if i'm standing up, even though i'm laying down and everything is turned 90 degrees....thus my head against a wall instead of laying on a bed. Example #3 I dream there is a man standing in my bedroom doorway, I yell at him to go away get out of here but he just stand there. He doesn't come closer he doesn't go away he doesn't talk. I can't get up and move towards him. I wake up startled and confused. Turns out the man was a shirt hanging on a hanger from my bedpost, positioned so that from where i was laying it lined up with my view of the door. When ever this cross information happens in my dreams its never pleasant and always frightening and confusing. I believe my brain is confused with processing both pathways of information at once and thats why it always lead to terror. Anyone ever heard of this?
Well, since you dream with your eyes open; you always have had some sensory information leaking into your brain; your brain just wasn't processing them, or at least not consciously. I have never heard of this, but I have experienced something similar. In highschool, I fell asleep on the couch every now and then after school. Almost every time, my mum left the TV on after the news, and Jeopardy would come on. I had so many dreams about Jeopardy, I'll tell you. It sucks that this is happening to you; but I don't think it's very surprising, based on the way you sleep. Whether psychedelic use led to it; I don't think I can really say, but I can say that they didn't have to, and our sleeping patterns often change throughout our lives.
This is true.. Also It seems more common people experience sounds mixed in with their dreams. I have had this happen too, but it doesn't lead to the terror and confusion that the visual "leaking does"
Maybe it's something you'll have to get used to, or maybe you'll have to make sure you sleep in as dark of conditions as possible. Right after my first semester of college, I started having a lot of trouble falling asleep with even the tiniest bit of light leaking into my room. Has it caused you any real problems so far, or just discomfort? How often does this kinda thing happen?
Once I'm awake i'm fine because i know what happened and why it happened. It just disturbs my sleep and my wives sleep if I wake up screaming. But once its over i'm over it. Its slowly happening more often there was a 1st time, then again a few months later, then once a month, now it seems weekly, but not nightly yet
^ he may find himself unable to sleep with one; but if he can, I definitely would recommend a sleep mask or whatever those are called.
thanks for the suggestion. I think probably trying to sleep in blackout conditions would help. I've tried the sleep eye cover/ blindfold before. Its hard to get used to it.
This sounds similar, but not exactly, like my episodes of sleep paralysis. I don't normally sleep with my eyes open but during sleep paralysis I guess they open up. Usually I can see the room around me as it actually is from my point of view lying in my bed, but my brain will insert one or a few weird differences that aren't actually there. It's always frightening and confusing, usually feels like there is "someone" else there with me (the man in your doorway, the face at your "window") and I want to change or stop the thing that doesn't belong there but I'm unable to because I feel very disconnected from my body and can't move or see it. In the few episodes I've had were I was able to "move around" it felt more like my head was just floating around rather than walking there. Before I knew it had a name and other people out there experience the same thing, it scared the shit out of me and I thought I was having some kind of near-death experience or something. It feels very surreal and it's always an unpleasant experience.
I had have lots of episodes of dream paralysis. At first I get scared but later since I know what it is I lived with it when it happened. They normally occur when I oversleep.. Or had a very long, good sleep night the day before and go to bed really early. Its just a weird senssation to be sort of awake because you never are fully awake you are like half-sleep. You normally can try really, really hard to move any part of your body like your legs and you eventually can and wake up.. but with years I start to experiment and not try to wake let the paralysis continue and I eventually fall asleep again.. and I tell you those are most real dream I had ever had!!! I wish I had those more often. Dreams like these were so heavy that when they become nightmares or anything and I wake up I could still see the faces inside my room slowly vanishing... <another thing I find very intriguing and fun is when you realize you are in a dream. and you pilot your dream.. nothing like a lucid dream :2thumbsup: Why dont try to blackout the room as much as possible? do not make an effort to wake up and see what happens... Dreams are better than acid in my opinion
i know how you feel but my problem is alittle different...i have an arm that goes numb sometimes very painful when it happens and it causes constant dreams that im being slowly eaten by bears and no..i wouldnt blame it on psychedelics..id blame on the weird way that your eyes are open when you sleep
My parents and friends have informed me multiple times that I often sleep with my eyes open. I only have limited psychedelic experience and it is all within the last year, so I think it is just something that some people do.
