Last night I had a dream that I was swimming, the water was bright florescent yellow, and the light shining through the water was casting a beautiful moving pattern across the fluorescent rainbow of colored rocks (picture attached demonstrates light/water pattern).
I started out in a cave like area, but the cave shaped into something similar to a water-slide entry, I followed others who were there and slid into the tunnel, after sliding down a twisting and curving rock tunnel, in dark brown water along the dark brown and dark green moss covered rocks, I emerged in an underwater section, the water was bright neon yellow, all the colors were bright and fluorescent, overwhelmingly so, and the pattern of moving light shimmering through the fluorescent water was mesmerising. I remember specifically thinking of 5-bromo-DMT, mentally exclaiming "this can't be real, it's like 5-bromo-DMT!"
...while I'm in this space, all though it's colorful and bright and there are light patterns it is somehow enclosed, there was a translucent plastic neon orange tube protruding from the opposite end of the "tank", so I began to swim over. I'm holding my breath this whole time as I'm not aware that I'm sleeping, and was quickly running out of oxygen, though I did not want to leave, I remember swimming by an astonished girl with dark brown hair, who was staring as me as I swam by with wide and surprised eyes, for some reason I thought it was because of my hair, which doesn't make much sense now, but the incident was cemented into my mind containing that seemingly random thought as I left the astonished girl.
...This dream was rare, I have only had a few of these dreams where while it was occurring I was honestly uncertain if I was dead, in a psychedelic state, or dreaming, where I could honestly not figure out what was going on, these states are always intense, always very brightly colored, and usually the whole field of my vision is tinted by fluorescent yellow or orange.
In the first type of this dream I ever had I was on wheels, or skate like things, speeding down a pink and florescent green spiral slide, I was miles in the sky, surrounded by clouds, and was well aware that a fall would mean certain death, whether I fell over the edge, or whether I crashed i would be dead. There were these elf like females wearing bright stripped florescent clothing in skates in front of and behind me, they trying to keep me calm through the disorientation of flying in a spiral at such high speeds, I'm not sure if they were singing, or if there was music playing, but there was this strange audio phenomena, the closet description I can generate is "music", though it was "bending" and altering the feeling of my physical head and consciousness with each note in the melody, and I was surrounded by it, it was almost like an entirely new sense or perception, regardless, I can't adequately describe it...through the strangeness of it all I kept thinking "what the fuck" in complete astonishment, it's almost the only sentence I could muster as I was in a state of pure confusion and awe...."This is impossible!" ... "What is going on?!"...
I'm not sure if these stares qualify as hypnogogia...I'm not sure what they qualify as.
I suffer from sleep paralysis, which aside from being horrifying, also induces a state where I'm unable to breathe, or my head will fall into a position obstructing my air-flow, and I will not be able to move it...often times I will be able to move my foot just slightly, it takes every ounce of my will just to move my foot from side to side, I can feel these "electrical" shock feelings as my mind strains to move my body, if I'm able to move my foot to the point where my leg falls into a new position it will often "snap me out of it"... so you are in a life and death struggle (it feels like), you can't breathe, you can't move, you can't even scream for help...often times I can see, and hear what's going on around me, but it's also a fight to stay conscious, as drifting into sleep would mean suffacation...whether I'm ever actually in any danger, I'm not sure, but it's horrifying.
Any way, sometimes if I can't move, or wake up, I will go into a state analogous to a DMT flash, which sounds great, but since I was in a "life and death" struggle just prior, being unable to move or breathe, I often think that I actually died, and while this is hypnogogia, it's not something I enjoy...
-eg
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