I apologize right now, this may end up being a long read. I just want to get everything in text before I forget anything.
I doubt any of you will remember this, but a long time ago I posted about having some weird type of DMT "flashbacks" where I could sometimes feel effects that felt like the onset of a DMT trip whenever I was in sleep paralysis. Now for most people sleep paralysis is such a terrifying experience that they just want to escape it as soon as they can. But for someone like me who dreams lucidly every night and has experienced sleep paralysis countless times (I can trigger it ANY time I sleep on my back) I now feel the urge to "explore" what is possible in that state.
So after watching "The Transcendent Man" on Netflix I fell asleep laying down, on my back, in bed. I guess sleep paralysis set in while I was supposed to be waking up. Realizing what was going on I simply laid there not even attempting to get myself up until I felt the incredibly weird sensation I can only compare to the onset of a breakthrough trip on DMT. It feels as if your entire body is vibrating at a frequency that shouldn't even be possible before before shot out of a cannon at about a million miles an hour. During the paralysis I could literally feel my teeth chattering (although I'm sure nothing was happening in real life) and I thought I might wake up with a chipped tooth.. but I just stuck through it instead of trying to wake up as I usually do (it's pretty ****ing scary tbh) and waited for the "breakthrough". Well the breakthrough happens and I'm still paralyzed. I start seeing some crazy imagery that I can't really describe except for a few really messed up visions of my own face, contorted in a way that seems designed simply to freak me out.
Following these images I simply feel awake. I know that I'm in my bed in my room and I am very aware of everything that just took place, but I decide to keep my eyes closed. Suddenly (I have no concept of time from here on) I begin to dream. I'm still technically awake and I know this because there is a thunderstorm outside and I left my window open... I can still hear the wind blowing through my window.. but my eyes are closed and I'm dreaming. What made the dream different is that I had more control over the aspects of it than any other time I've experienced, and the entire thing was incredibly vivid. Not just the look, but I could hear music, feel and taste just as if I had been awake. Furthermore I had the power to move my own perspective from first-person (like real life) to a third-person top-down view of the entire area. It was incredible.
Another thing that made this different from regular lucid dreaming is that details often get fuzzy for me when I think too much about how I'm controlling everything, or whenever I have sex... neither was the case here. I could tell I was "awake" the entire time and the dream pretty much ran it's course before I opened my eyes and lost it.
Not sure if anyone finds this even remotely interesting, but I needed it in written form so I thought I'd post it here before saving the document somewhere. I quite literally just dreamt while I was awake. Now I just wish I had a video camera on me or something so I could tell if I was in REM for any part of that...
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