So lately I've been having weird shit happen to me. It started about maybe a little over a year ago? I started having very intense deja-vu. Not very often at first, but then in this past year it became fairly common. It wasn't just normal deja-vu either. It was like, double deja-vu where I'd remember having felt the deja-vu experience before. I was actually *remembering*.
It happened again a couple of days ago, and this morning during the night, I half woke up, and think I might have experienced astral projection? Basically I was asleep, and as I woke up I suddenly could see through my eyelids. You know the sort of... dark-bluish color that thoughts or your imagination typically are, kinda? It was like that but as if someone turned up the brightness a bit. It was a much brighter, clearer blue, and the outlines of things were clearer. I could see everything in my room. Even though I was half asleep I was thinking to myself "What the fuck? Am I seeing through my eyelids?" I opened my eyes for a second to check, and what I was seeing with them closed was perfectly accurate. I tried a few of times to do it again, and was successful a couple of times but not for long. Eventually I guess I just passed out.
So /x/ does anybody here know what I'm experiencing? Has anyone else experienced this? Do you know what it is?
>>18336794
I should also mention that when I was able to get it to happen again, it was like a screen wipe, from the side of my vision, that filled it with the light blue view. When it did, it also had a very particular feel to it in my mind. A bizarre sort of clarity. It was like, I wasn't dreaming or sleeping, but I wasn't exactly awake? It was like a state between the two, or more accurately, adjacent to.
I dunno man. It's really hard to put into words, but I'm trying.
>>18336794
I cannot help with your astral projection but, the first part where you deja-vu from dreams has been happening to me as well in more recent times (past 3 months). Its creepy as fuck. I do not know how to explain it. But I can say for me that these dreams that are deja-vu'd all happened when I was in my late childhood and into my mid teens.
What about you?
I am 18 btw, maybe age has some sort of effect?
>>18336794
>>18336892
get ready for schizophrenia
>>18336892
I can't say that for sure for myself. Lately (at least the last 6 months though it could have been happening for longer) I've been having weird dreams a lot where everything seems to be going super fast and I wake up several times during the night. I know I've been dreaming, but the dreams are weird, and it feels like certain segments of them just keep repeating and I keep waking up and going back to sleep.
It's bizzare.
I'm 22 by the way, I don't think it really has too much to do with age, but who knows.
>>18336901
oh fuck
I just looked it up on Wikipedia.
>have several symptoms
>from a country with a relatively high rate of schizophrenia
>Have just begun one of the three stages of schizophrenia
Fucking hell.
>>18336901
you know anyone with it? How is life with it?
>>18336951
I have had that double/triple déjà vu feeling of having a déjà-vu of a déjà-vu of a déjà-vu...etc, it used to happen a lot during and for a few months after I had what was a relatively mild psychotic episode for less than two months, probably brought on by drugs and trauma.
I also know the kind of hallucination you're talking about, it's happened to me a few times, either because of hypnogogia or from meds. More often I'd hallucinate pretty normal looking rooms I wasn't in as if as I was in them, but kinda hazy.
I don't think most people's imaginations are "blue-tinted", though, at least mine isn't.
In any case a lot of what your saying I can relate to, I don't have any psychotic symptoms anymore, I'm not 100% "normal" but can act like everything's fine. You're not doomed to schizophrenia, psychotic disorders are a spectrum just like everything, and can come and go, are you super stressed about anything lately?
>>18337021
Not especially, though my OCD is acting up more than usual lately... which usually means something is bothering me, but I don't know what.
>>18336794
flashbacks from LSD?