Waking Dreams

[AuroraSilvermist]

Lately I've been having waking dreams--dreams where I'm actually semi-conscious and aware of what's going on around me. They usually happen in the morning, particularly if I'm tired and head back to bed for a bit after I send my kids off to school. To me they seem like nonsense...all very weird; abstract and indecipherable. I do try to write them down as soon as I'm fully awake, to see if maybe they'll bring me some insight later.

I've read that remembering dreams vividly, or actually being semi-conscious during them, is a rather rare phenomenon, but this is happening to me all the time lately. I can almost will it to happen, but I can't make sense of the dreams that come. Has anyone else experienced this?

[paganwolfspirit]

Hello this has happened quite a lot to me as well. Just before I'm falling off to sleep I get this "vision" of standing up and talking to a big group of people and them agreeing with me

[asamananara]

Trying researching the phenomenon of hypnogogic imagery; some
use this state as an entrance to the astral... Emmanuel Swedenborg
recounted his hypnogogic journeys in some detail, and considered
them tantamount to divine visions.

[~*Ginger*~]

Search for hypnogogic imagery (http://search.aol.com/aolcom/search?invocationType=topsearchbox.%2Faolcom%2Fjsp%2Fsearch.jsp&query=hypnogogic+imagery&x=25&y=6)

[AuroraSilvermist]

Wow, thanks! I didn't know there was a name for such a phenomenon. Guess I have a date with Google this afternoon. :D

[AuroraSilvermist]

Okay, I've already done some nosing around this morning. I discovered that hypnogogic imagery doesn't really describe what I experience--from what I've read it's more like flashes of still images, sort of like a slide show, and not really the active, moving (like watching a movie!) scenes I experience. But I did find some information that DOES fit, in case anyone's interested.

Lucid Dreaming (http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html)

Back to research. :D

[Breuddwyd]

You're experiencing hypnopompic imagery.

Hedd,
Druantia