I'm always at level 3, and annoyingly always been getting the level 1 stuff when I have my eyes open. It gets noticeable sometimes but It's easy to ignore as it says in the article.
Cool stuff though, had no idea this was a documented thing and ever since I've been a kid I've been fascinated with the "LSD flashes" :v:
1-2 I see some light red veiny patterns that grow and get smaller in the rhythm of my heartbeats.
Usually three but I can sometimes achieve 4, especially when high
I don't quite get it, but I'd assume level 1
3, but if i push it hard, i reach 4.
I'd be fucking scared for anyone that reaches a 5.
Instant Level 3, but can't get higher.
Normally two if I just close them for a few seconds, any longer it's a three.
Level 1, but a little bit of level 2. I do get blotches of color or light, and I can vaguely suggest for them to move or change, but they're never very bright and I have a hard time controlling them.
Although, there was one time when something really weird happened. My mom was brushing my teeth and cleaning my face - hey, this was from when I was in like first or second grade, alright - and I was staring straight up at a ceiling light. I guess I was doing that for too long, because the color started to fade from everything. My vision went black and white, and then these thin little yellow lines started to creep in from the edge of my vision. I obviously broke away from my mom at this point because I was freaking out. The yellow lines met and made a stain-glass type pattern, and then they started to grow thicker. Before they could completely cover my vision, I jumped in my bed and closed my eyes for a second, then reopened them, and everything was fine again.
DXM and weed for the best CEVs
I'm usually at 2 but I can reach 4 if I really try.
so thats what it is. Usually when I try to sleep I see colorful blobs for a while and if I concentrate on them they turn into faces and fly 'past' me. I used to be really scared of them as a kid and had to sleep with my lights on :(
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clarification: I was scared of them because they usually are scary faces
I can get to Level 4 if I concentrate enough. It's usually level 3 for me though.
[QUOTE=Sgt. Nikolai;45216653]I always see figures when I close my eyes so I get scared the shit out of me whenever I close my eyes for too long (except when I'm going to sleep).[/QUOTE]
I had this weird thing one night a few weeks back where I'd close my eyes and the patterns would look like an eye looking back at me, like a reflection right in front of my own eyes.
No wait, is this the thing where you lie down completely still with your eyes closed, and preferably in dark, so that you trick your body into believing you're asleep, and thus generating some hallucinogenics which usually happen when sleeping?
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I mean, you can't just start hallucinating the moment you close your eyes. So, how exactly you people go about doing this?
For some reason all I see are birds right now, probably because I watched JonTron's Birdemic review
If I close and rub my eyes I can see swirling patterns of colorful diamonds.
A few nights ago I had an extremely vivid closed-eye hallucenation.
Context: For ten years, starting at 4/5 and ending at 14/15, I had common night terrors and sleep paralysis. They got so bad that I started hearing stuff IRL, like heavy breathing in the foot of my bed, a random burp from the corner of my room, or hearing a noise that sounds like daffy duck getting strangled right next to me when I walked into my room. These happen rarely though, like once every one or two years, too rare for me to be worried about my mental health.
A few nights ago though, I had another.
I was in my bed, getting comfortable, when I closed my eyes and tried to get to sleep. After ten minutes, I had this extremely vivid image of a woman- a close-up view of her face like a portrait, and she was smiling, though she had most of her teeth missing. It was like a few-second clip from a silent movie.
Naturally I opened my eyes and tried to sleep with the lights on, but a short while after I heard a dog growling at the foot of my bed. Jumped outta bed saying "what the fuck" a lot, calmed myself down, and heard it again. I only went back to my room when the sun came up.
[QUOTE=Zakkin;45221218]A few nights ago I had an extremely vivid closed-eye hallucenation.
Context: For ten years, starting at 4/5 and ending at 14/15, I had common night terrors and sleep paralysis. They got so bad that I started hearing stuff IRL, like heavy breathing in the foot of my bed, a random burp from the corner of my room, or hearing a noise that sounds like daffy duck getting strangled right next to me when I walked into my room. These happen rarely though, like once every one or two years, too rare for me to be worried about my mental health.
A few nights ago though, I had another.
I was in my bed, getting comfortable, when I closed my eyes and tried to get to sleep. After ten minutes, I had this extremely vivid image of a woman- a close-up view of her face like a portrait, and she was smiling, though she had most of her teeth missing. It was like a few-second clip from a silent movie.
Naturally I opened my eyes and tried to sleep with the lights on, but a short while after I heard a dog growling at the foot of my bed. Jumped outta bed saying "what the fuck" a lot, calmed myself down, and heard it again. I only went back to my room when the sun came up.[/QUOTE]
Have you seen anything related to your pivot animation?
When I go to sleep I always see a pair of cat eyes staring right at me, they usually stay there for 1 to 10 seconds before fading away - sometimes accompanied with screaming faces that fade in an out. I very often fall asleep feeling like I'm free falling in an endless sky, spinning around with no control. Depending on the day this goes from a basic feeling to the full blown impression that I am, in fact, falling down the sky while spinning out of control in all directions, complete with hallucinations of clouds and a blue environment with a sea below that never seems to get too close.
Oddly enough, this always disappears when I reach a deeper state of sleep. I have however managed several times to focus enough to remove all visual noise and conceive a door in a black field that eventually opens as I reach deep sleep.
That, and I very often hear familiar voices (understand, voices of people I know) calling me by name or just saying random gibberish. These only occur to me when I'm trying to sleep.
So I guess that's level 4 ?
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;45221917]things[/QUOTE]
I'm only at level 2. I'm not sure whether I want to get any higher after reading that.
That's creepy as fuck, man.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;45217534]Always level four... Not sure if this is level five, but sometimes I hallucinate things that were originally in lucid dreams, more often than not when I have lucid dreams about wars.
One dream I had when I was fourteen was about the US Civil War, and during it I was a medic trying to pull a wounded soldier into a tent, and some bushwhackers attacked the medical tent area, and managed to kill the man I was dragging. I went after them shouting something along the lines of, "They killed Danny!" during this dream I actually reenacted the scene in a sleep walking state on my sister who was on the couch nearby to me, and my dad had to come out and tie me down to a nearby chair. Cannot remember the exact details, but they did a quick interrogation to me, and I kept reiterating that the date was 1863, somewhere in April. After the whole incident was done for about a week, I would be getting ready to walk to Highschool, and I would very frequently see the soldier "Danny" who would appear for about five seconds, and when I blinked my eyes, would disappear. This happened about three times in the week after the incident, and was pretty terrifying to be honest.[/QUOTE]
Call me crazy, but that sounds like it was a ghost of someone you knew or something in a past life to me. I think since you get level 4/5 a lot, you might be sensitive to such things, I know I am. Kids are usually more sensitive to that sorta thing too since it happened when you were 14.
Usually a 4 without even trying. I've experienced 5 without the use of drugs. This is probably because I suffer from severe insomnia, and mental illness runs in the family.
im on 4 though somtimes When I wake up I think ive been on 5
3
I'm usually sitting at four but sometimes I drop to three. It was pretty freaky when it first started happening but i'm used to it by now and it's pretty neat.
What's with you 3-minus nerds
Level 4 is where it's at.
I didn't realise there was a formal definition for this stuff, cool!
Looks like I get to level 3 each night, but I have been to level 4 before. Generally it's like recalling an image of something you've seen with your eyes open, then it turns into some weird object which often loosely resembles whatever it was you saw
But yeah level 3 is fun, I seem to be able to control it too, I often find myself "falling" through loads of light/yellow/blue/whatever levels, like some weird 70s music video background
I've been at level three for as long as I've known how to do it (second grade).
Level 4 pretty much every night, I think it's when I'm close to falling asleep. I can still snap out of it instantly and "reset" the thing.
I've been doing level 2 and 3 for years and I didn't even know this was a real thing.
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