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AutumnW
5th April 2017, 16:05
I wonder if anybody on this forum has had waking dreams? I have had two that I can remember. One when I was 9 years old. I slipped into it while walking to my friend's house. In the dream, I was doing just that, walking to her house.

So, I remained walking, but...in the dream, her family was in trouble, a gang of thugs was on their way to tie them all up and steal all their possessions. I had to warn them. So I picked up the pace, ran through their front door, and right up to their dinner table, where they sat eating.

My friend and her family sat there and looked at me, in wide eyed confusion. I can still remember that, 'snapping out of it,' feeling and the embarrassment. I slunk back outside, closed the door behind me and knocked!

Anyway...years later, same thing happened, walking somewhere, slipped into this state very momentarily. A car drove by and, in the dream and it was full of men with guns, aimed at me, so I actually ducked while they drove by, so the bullets wouldn't hit me. I snapped out of it, while I was ducking. This all took place within less than 10 seconds.

Anyway, bizarre. I have had so many weird things happen to me, mostly exogenous, from the outside, objectively real. But these incidents seemed to me to be almost like the results of a mild transient temporal lobe seizure or something like that.

Thought I'd share!

Noelle
5th April 2017, 19:24
I don't remember ever having such an experience. I've never even heard of the term "waking dream" before. Could you have blipped into an alternate reality or timeline?

AutumnW
5th April 2017, 21:29
LadyM, I don't know about slipping into an altered timeline. Because the second occurrence seemed like it only took about 10 seconds, I think I slipped a cog, mentally. It was might weird.

Another thing I used to get, limited to childhood, was a flattening of my visual field, accompanied by the most severe depression and nausea imaginable. This too would last about 10 seconds! Very bizarre. I told a doctor about it, years after the fact and he told me it sounded like a temporal lobe petite Malle seizure. I used to get a lot of déjà vu, too. Now that, to me, seems like a time line effect -- if there is such a thing.

Sunny-side-up
6th April 2017, 10:27
Hi AutumnW.

Tell me more about this, describe deeper please:


a flattening of my visual field

AutumnW
6th April 2017, 19:24
Hi SunnySide. Flattening of visual field -- Everything looking straight ahead was concentrated into a thin ribbon with attendant depth perception distortions. Lasted no more than 10 seconds. The world would appear to stand still and yet I knew there was activity all around me.