Recently, I've been subject to waking up during sleep (dream/REM/lucid) states only to experience overwhelming colorful visual static, flashing entities, animals, insects and figures forming around my room..as well as objects breathing, merging and blending with each other. In other words, waking up to a full on 'Van Goghish' experience and dissipating within 5min to 'baseline.' Nothing positive, just really psychedelic and neutral. I've yet to play around with it due to fear-based reactions. I do have some slight HPPD, but not intensely so. I'm quite comfortable with it and it doesn't bother me (I actually kind of like it) . This experience occurred from the following dream (from what I recall) in bits and pieces as it went by very fast:

The Dream

Small, fast-moving, clear as day, green/blue, bright, earthlike exoplanets crossing over and through our planets atmosphere. My reptile escaped from his terrarium ripping apart the entire enclosure. I met a women during the passing of the planets as we both watched them and followed them, I loved her. I witnessed my parents drown in these underground, pressure water tanks (really scary). Following up with finding my brother in his room passed out from booze. As I woke him up, he looked blind and slurred around.

I ended up meeting a lot of new people I've never seen before in this dream that connected with my work habits. During these phases of dream sequences, it was all starting to connect, as I was witnessing many of the phenomena within these places, while also participating when I was able to. There was a change in energy and synchronicity in this dream, like never before. Very real and both subjective and objective. They seemed to be relating to my real-life events, or future endeavors as each sequence followed itself within another frame of situational circumstances. Extreme time dilation within this dream. Beyond my grasp and occurring as steps and realizations through each sequence, leading me to higher knowledge and forth-coming experiences.

There was a technological, military-like drone(UAV) spy device following me from my house to my neighbors to speak with them about the ongoing issues. I looked at this device, it was frightening to say the least. It was loud, black and only followed me, as if it wanted something from me. The neighbors I talked to were silent and stared at nothingness.

I also found myself next to a window were a datura plant was growing (it looked dead actually). During this dream I continued to see exoplanets move within the sky. I perceived this plant as bad luck (the opposite of its sacred, protective, aesthetic quality). This was right before seeing my parents drown.

That's all I recall after writing it all down immediately after the Van Gogh dissipated.

Has anyone else encountered this phenomena? This usually happens once I break off from all psychedelics. It is really unusual as it is like nothing else I've seen or felt before. Its as if my sense of visual acuity within the particular dream state crosses over with me to the awakened state, and it forces itself onto me. Sometimes close to panic states.

In his book "50 secrets of magic craftsmanship" Salvador Dali talks about taking these micro-naps where he holds a heavy key between thumb and forefinger, and drifts off to sleep in an armchair. This caused him to drop the key, which would wake him just as he was drifting off, causing an brief flash of dreamstate which he claimed was a source of many great visions. I've personally had a few of these flashes between sleep and wakefulness and seen some spectacular things.

That's really interesting! I've always had a fascination with S. Dali and his experiments with dream work. His artwork surely does prevail in that sense. I'd be curious of that experiment in particular. As for experience, heavy cannabis smoking for one day, following one day of complete sobriety with increasing energy levels, completely increases this phenomena the moment you wake up during the stages of sleep. IME.

The visions can be spectacular, but incredibly brief. They seem to correlate to the dream you awake from. Sometimes not, though. Its very mysterious. Thanks for reply!

Oh yeah. Open-eye Hypnopompic visions.

I experience this sometimes upon awakening, usually during a period when I'm focusing my attention/energy into lucid dreaming and OOBE's.

Once I woke up to a bunch of spiders crawling all over the wall right next to my bed. To my great relief, they slowly faded away.

It has been said that we are dreaming 24/7, with our eyes open during our "waking hours" as well as when we sleep.

Perhaps as a result of working with entheogens and/or consciousness "expanding" techniques another part of us "wakes up" so that we start to remember that we can experience other perceptions. Our consciousness then might become "loosened" (or made more flexible), so as in the seamless merging of dream elements during sleep, our realities get superimposed onto each other once in a while.

Thank you for replying and definition of experience!

I didn't know it was actually a true, recorded phenomena. Wikipedia gives a real solid answer to what I was searching for. I've had this experience many times, just not as 'real' or 'vivid' as this one recently.

Interesting.. I feel the same way in terms of overall energy. Yes, I too have seen spiders crawl on the walls. They (alongside other insects and animals) seem to morph into real-time objects surrounding my room.



I can attest to that.



Entheogens have a major role in regulating these states of conscious memory, cognition and reality. Perhaps our subconscious is now opening us up to these possibilities of exploration. I can definitely express how flexible the brain is. Plasticity my friend.. I also feel balance, energy and experience with psychedelics plays a role in determining and being in the overall experience we are describing and deconstructing. Every inner element combines as one with the 'hypnostate' and shares a brief, dreamlike reality. Or so it seems..