Skeptomania - Paranormal / UFOs, etc.

wrmd · :::::::::

hmmmm...

I don't seem to get them very much anymore, but I do remember a few years back getting them while lying in bed trying to fall asleep after a long shift at work. They really didn't concern me much, actually they were quite entertaining. I could think of any song and within a few seconds I could actually hear the music and lyrics in perfect clarity. Now, I'm not saying it was the equivalent of maxing out your home stereo system, but perhaps dialing a two or three on the volume control. A vast and diverse music collection all accessible just by thinking of the tune.

I've read in my later years that this may indicate that I may be due for a stroke or become susceptible to seizures etc, but it isn't so frequent now a days to give it much thought. bah.

Just thought I'd share.

Yaish · Intel Chief

Interesting. I've never had a hallucination of any sort so far as I know. Of course, without something to make me thing otherwise, I imagine a hallucination wouldn't seem like one at the time.

I'm hoping to have some cool experiences while I am under anaesthesia, but supposedly it's amnesiac. Maybe I'll get lucky and have an NDE I can write about.

wrmd · :::::::::

I've been under a couple of times and both experiences were memorable. Of course I don't remember a thing while under, but when I woke I remember having quite the buzz.

I tried to resist the anesthetic effects one of the times, but felt pretty silly afterwards. I remember telling the anesthesiologist that the shot wouldn't effect me in the least and while in the middle of my next sentence I remember my eyes slamming shut.

Good luck

Gren · God Of Oreos

You won't remember a thing, Yaish. I was put under for a lithotripsy (where they bust up kidney stones with sound), and it was pretty much like wrmd said... I thought I'd see how long I could fight off the anesthetic and lasted oh....... I have no freakin' idea how long I lasted, lol. Not long.

A lithotripsy didn't sound to me like it would hurt much (hey, it's just sound waves, right?), but it must have, because I woke up just knowing I must've gotten drunk and ended up in jail -it felt the same as when Id got drunk and woke up in jail. Sort of hung over, partially dressed, oblivious to place, groggy, cotton mouth, and my body, my back from my ass up to my shoulder blades, felt like somebody worked me over... and over and over.. with a baseball bat. I remember nothing past watching the doc inject the anesthetic into the plastic tube running into my arm.

Yaish · Intel Chief

I'm looking forward to it. I plan on seeing how long I can stay awake, but dont harbor any illusions I'll last more than a few seconds.

Gren · God Of Oreos

See if you can leave a memory marker. Pick a number at random just before receiving the anesthetic, concentrate on it till you wink out, and see if you can recall the number later. It's important the number or whatever you choose to remember is picked just prior to anesthesia, of course. If picked earlier, it's just data you're expected to remember, like your name, address, etc.

Go to the light, Yaish. Go to the light.

Raven · Google Meister

the closest i ever had to audio hallucinations is back when my son was younger and i'd try to take a nap when he did, i'd end up trying to focus so much on listening for him crying while i was sleeping that i'd end up hearing him in my mind. Kinda makes for a useless nap...

Gren · God Of Oreos

I used to have the exact same trouble, so I took to duct taping their little mouths when they slept so I'd know it wasn't them I was hearing.

Yaish · Intel Chief

Oh, I did pick and remember a number. Just before I was given the gas I looked at the light and there were two bolts holding the shield in place. "Two" I thought, that's the number I want to remember.

When I woke up "two" was one of the first things I remember. I was actually really awake once the gas wore off. I was very aware, of course I could not do anything since I was still intubated.

wrmd · :::::::::

"I was actually really awake once the gas wore off. I was very aware, of course I could not do anything since I was still intubated."

In a way you were lucky. When I awoke, I hopped off the bed and inadvertently exposed my bare ass to the cute girl in the next bed over (It was the anesthesia, not the booze)

Zcat

I've had a lot of audio hallucinations while waking up, but none recently, darn it. I get a kick out of them.

I've done the music thing many times, hearing a tune so clearly I thought I'd left a radio on... when there wasn't even one in the room. It's like I was wearing headphones. I've heard piano music so clearly that I swore on waking up that I could go to the piano and duplicate it, but I never could. It wasn't necessarily a familiar piece that I was listening to, but always beautiful and intriguing, and evidently something I'd heard at one time and had stored safely in the music room of my memory bank.

I was grogging in bed early one morning and heard a very loud man's voice ask, What are you doing?? I flew out of bed thinking I'd forgotten about a service person or something, and that he'd made his way in without my having opened a door, but I found no one in the house and realized I had only been dreaming.

Several mornings I woke up to hear what sounded like the trailing off of a lecture of some kind, always a male voice. I specifically remember hearing the words nonmenclature and formula.

I also do something weird with visual dreams, where I'm seeing something displayed in fast motion. I know I'm dreaming when this happens, usually in that inbetween state, so I just watch and am amazed. Once it was chairs, all kinds of chairs, although it can be any type of object. I see an extremely rapid succession of images, one replacing the last. I see each object crisply, in detail and color, and then the next one pops up. I'm always fascinated by how fast in the dream I can take in the visual information of each picture before it's replaced with the next. Each object is completely different, each in the exact same position as the one before it. It's like flipping a deck of cards and seeing each image in uber fast motion, except there seem to be hundreds of them before it's all over.

Gren · God Of Oreos

"I was grogging in bed early one morning and heard a very loud man's voice ask, What are you doing??"

Assuming you were in that transitional stage between deep sleep and wakefulness, you very likely experienced a subset symptom of sleep paralysis. It's sort of like your dream mind and awake mind are sharing the same space for a little bit. I often hear voices upon/just before awakening that are 'real' enough for me to look for the source once awke, but turn out to be from the dream. Yesterday morning I heard a woman's voice say, "sure, sleep the whole day away, you lazy fuck".

enigma · Deputy Dawg

Zcat

Gren · God Of Oreos

Man, what a gyp. I woke up this morning remembering a dream. It was me and a beautiful young woman in her early 20s and we were at my sister's house, visiting. Another sister was there too, and we were sitting in the living room visiting while the TV played. I was my current age in the dream (51) and have no idea why I'd be with a kid in her early 20s, or better, why she'd be with me. Our relationship was clearly romantic for there was hand holding and those sorts of indications, including a single kiss (blush), but that's it. My sisters were not offended, didn't seem to have any problem with it. But that was it, the whole dream as I remember it, another boring-ass dream. That just sucks.