Random people in your imagination

I have joked before about seeing things in the dark when I close my eyes but I legit experience closed eye hallucinations pretty regular i have had them since I was a little kid. I can close my eyes and think very deep and images will "appear" in and out of the darkness there. I can create completely randomized pictures of seemingly anything, or set an idea to auto generate features, faces and traits etc. of people I have never met before, monsters, creatures, artwork, houses etc. It's like when you dream and your brain goes Automatic Mode and invents things to show to you that you have never seen before and didn't consciously imagine beforehand. It is all just imagination in the end, of course, the images aren't actually "there" in the dark, my mind is just hallucinating them in a way that seems like my eyes are seeing them for real. one reason I never tried psychedelics even once when I was experimenting with weed and stuff as a teenager, I don't need any, my brain can do that stuff if I want it to lol

Sometimes they are completely involuntary though and when that happens I will just try and keep my eyes open and focus hard on something in the real world like read a website or draw or something to distract myself so I don't have to see any Scaries when I'm not in the mood to. You would be surprised how big of an impact one or two changes to an image you are otherwise ok with looking at actually has when you can generate tons of iterations until you arrive at a result you didn't even know was possible beforehand. That's the "dream autopilot" i was talking about earlier, in that case it's not like I first imagine the full picture and then see it, it gets "generated" from an idea (though I can view pre-imagined images too of course). Very rarely I will have a hallucination when my eyes are open but it does happen sometimes. They are nowhere near as vibrant of imagery as when there is darkness but they are there. I am very familiar with my weird little imagination quirk and it does not bother me at all, I am used to it 100%. I don't consider it anything too special but I am glad that I have the overactive imagination.

oh yeah. also If by some chance I an blessed with an extended period of time where I am successfully able to sleep reeeeally really good deep into the REM cycle for like 5-6 nights in a row without anything waking me up, the hallucinations will go away for awhile. For a couple weeks or thereabouts. But that rarely happens, I get maybe 3 or 4 nights of "really good" sleep per month, for various reasons. I have always had trouble sleeping and issues surrounding it. My hallucinations are probably tied into the phenomenon of dreaming somehow, but not like exclusively? if that makes sense at all
 
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Gog & Magog said:
Sometimes while falling asleep I hear my own internal voice speaking as if it were thinking all on it's own. Is that me? Doesn't feel like me. Must be another part of my brain, still awake and talkative as ever, as the conscious me slowly closes shop for the night.
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Pray and hope it goes away, if it doesn't, ignore it and keep praying.
 
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AnsemSoD1 said:
Demons often masquerade as a friend from the afterlife, supposedly, they can also inject thoughts into your mind, although strangely enough, they cannot read your own mind. They just seem to be very good at reading your general body language.
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What are you saying?
 
Gog & Magog said:
Sometimes while falling asleep I hear my own internal voice speaking as if it were thinking all on it's own. Is that me? Doesn't feel like me. Must be another part of my brain, still awake and talkative as ever, as the conscious me slowly closes shop for the night.
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Same, it gets pretty wild when it shows up as another person in the later dream. Sometimes when falling asleep I'll start thinking about myself in the third person as well.
 
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Cats said:
I have joked before about seeing things in the dark when I close my eyes but I legit experience closed eye hallucinations pretty regular i have had them since I was a little kid. I can close my eyes and think very deep and images will "appear" in and out of the darkness there. I can create completely randomized pictures of seemingly anything, or set an idea to auto generate features, faces and traits etc. of people I have never met before, monsters, creatures, artwork, houses etc. It's like when you dream and your brain goes Automatic Mode and invents things to show to you that you have never seen before and didn't consciously imagine beforehand. It is all just imagination in the end, of course, the images aren't actually "there" in the dark, my mind is just hallucinating them in a way that seems like my eyes are seeing them for real. one reason I never tried psychedelics even once when I was experimenting with weed and stuff as a teenager, I don't need any, my brain can do that stuff if I want it to lol

Sometimes they are completely involuntary though and when that happens I will just try and keep my eyes open and focus hard on something in the real world like read a website or draw or something to distract myself so I don't have to see any Scaries when I'm not in the mood to. You would be surprised how big of an impact one or two changes to an image you are otherwise ok with looking at actually has when you can generate tons of iterations until you arrive at a result you didn't even know was possible beforehand. That's the "dream autopilot" i was talking about earlier, in that case it's not like I first imagine the full picture and then see it, it gets "generated" from an idea (though I can view pre-imagined images too of course). Very rarely I will have a hallucination when my eyes are open but it does happen sometimes. They are nowhere near as vibrant of imagery as when there is darkness but they are there. I am very familiar with my weird little imagination quirk and it does not bother me at all, I am used to it 100%. I don't consider it anything too special but I am glad that I have the overactive imagination.

oh yeah. also If by some chance I an blessed with an extended period of time where I am successfully able to sleep reeeeally really good deep into the REM cycle for like 5-6 nights in a row without anything waking me up, the hallucinations will go away for awhile. For a couple weeks or thereabouts. But that rarely happens, I get maybe 3 or 4 nights of "really good" sleep per month, for various reasons. I have always had trouble sleeping and issues surrounding it. My hallucinations are probably tied into the phenomenon of dreaming somehow, but not like exclusively? if that makes sense at all
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I very rarely get full blown hallucinations after prolonged periods of sleep deprivation (maybe 3 or 4 times total in the past decade). The most vivid ones I remember were the water coming out a faucet turning into blood for a few seconds and this one time several years ago where I "fell" through the floor.
 
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AnsemSoD1 said:
I mean, better say your prayers, maybe get right with God if you haven't already.
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It's literally my internal voice talking about the exact same thing my awake, conscious-self was just thinking. There is never any disagreement between me and myself. There is no other in here, only the sensation of it.
Agamemnon Busmalis said:
Same, it gets pretty wild when it shows up as another person in the later dream. Sometimes when falling asleep I'll start thinking about myself in the third person as well.
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That's interesting. Do you sense its still you speaking or does it feel like a limb which you no longer recognize as yours?
 
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ScamL Likely said:
several years ago where I "fell" through the floor.
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I have experienced something like the falling many times during sleep deprivation. Totally different than a normal hypnagogic jerk, too. it's like a real 2 second fall lol. But I basically never actually feel any bodily stuff, associated with the images. It's just the pictures.
 
Gog & Magog said:
That's interesting. Do you sense its still you speaking or does it feel like a limb which you no longer recognize as yours?
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Somewhere in between. As I fall further asleep it becomes more separate and eventually I'll be completely independent in the dream.

Even when totally awake I'll sometimes think about myself and actions in the third person, but never by name. More like an omnipotent narrator.
 
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Cats said:
I have experienced something like the falling many times during sleep deprivation. Totally different than a normal hypnagogic jerk, too. it's like a real 2 second fall lol. But I basically never actually feel any bodily stuff, associated with the images. It's just the pictures.
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That particular one only happened once but I visually saw a piece of the floor "collapse" under one of my feet and physically slipped as though there was really nothing there before I guess waking up from what was probably an incidence of microsleep and catching myself before I completely fell.
 
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ScamL Likely said:
That particular one only happened once but I visually saw a piece of the floor "collapse" under one of my feet and physically slipped as though there was really nothing there before I guess waking up from what was probably an incidence of microsleep and catching myself before I completely fell.
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Yeah that's scary as hell! Make sure you don't ever drive on low sleep bro thinking about having something like that happen to you on the road just makes me shudder
 
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I've never experienced that, but a disproportionate amount of my thoughts are flashing lights, sometimes with words in front of them when I get bored.
 
Thankfully, my dreams are just crossover autism, where characters from One Piece, Naruto, Star Wars, random horror movies, Ghostbusters, etc. etc. show up, like one where Mihawk saved myself and a bunch of other kids (Jocks, pretty girls, nerds, normies, etc.) from a bunch of elite pedophiles in the basement of a Dunkin Donuts.
 
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I know this sounds autistic as fuck but when I'm drifting in and out of sleep I sometimes see brief flashes of Pokemon-like creatures, and I write down what they look like in my phone immediately after to draw them later.
But when I see horror movies or videos the brief flashes are much worse, like gore, or mangled faces. I try not to see anything horror-related at night because of this.
 
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