Black Out

Quest for Lucidity General Lucidness
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In normal dreams I black out every once in a while. It’s really annoying. In RL, I used to only black out at on roller coasters, rarely, but now, it’s happening more and more often, when I stand up from sitting down. ALSO I’d like to add that I’ve never actually lost consciousness, from a rollercoaster or anything.

In RL I get up too quickly from sitting down, and I start to black out, (hard to explain, but if you have had this you will know) and my sight fades away to black but comes back.
But in my normal dream, it stays black for at least a minute, then it goes away, and it randomly comes back without my control, and the “darkness” stays for longer periods of time. I already know I should use this as a RC but I’m worried that I won’t be able to see again. I will try to use this as a RC next time it happens but,

Has anyone else had this in a dream, or in RL?

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I have fainted quite often in waking life and occasionally come really close to ‘blacking out’ but manage to hold on to consciousness.
Is it possible that you are so used to it happening in RL that you ‘expect it to happen in your dreams’?

BTW if it’s really bad have you seen a doctor about it? You may have very low blood pressure or be anemic or even inner ear trouble.

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Thanks for the tip Moogle :grin: Do you happen to play CS:S? I saw someone with your name.

I don’t really think it’s anything that bad, because it doesn’t happen that often. I heard that when you get up to fast, not enough blood is running to your head? :confused:
Don’t get me lieing.
I will take into consideration that if they keep happening, then I will check it out.

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Yeah i always do that, I got up from my chair and I couldn’t see for like 5 seconds and i was walking, and i almost fell down my stairs! XD I’m pretty sure it has something to do with blood pressure er something i think… But im not sure why its happening in ur dreams.

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This randomly happens to me, has not happened for a few weeks now though. I did get them a lot though. I found a trick to overcome them, it works for. As soon as you start to blackout and you feel your about to fall close your eyes for a few seconds and close them tight as you can. This happened when I was in the shower one time, if I remember correctly it was like a dramatic faint like you see on TV. xD When when I did faint (and I fell) I was able to control how I fell, so I landed on my butt :tongue: Took a few seconds for everything to get back to the way it should. Fainting runs in my family :neutral: So I guess you could say I have experience with fainting. :tongue:

Good luck!

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That’s really interesting. Like everyone is saying, it probably has to do with blood pressure, or something.

But I just want to add that I don’t really have them often in a dream, it has just happened twice before in a normal dream.

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This happens to me occasionally in RL! I’ll be sitting reading, or lying down, and then I get up too fast and suddenly I’m all dizzy, and my vision goes all black. Usually I just sort of stumble around and then things are fine, I haven’t really ever fainted from it. Once I tripped and it took me a while to get my bearings, however. xD

I talked to my mom about it once (she works in a hospital, though not necessary directly with this sort of thing) and she said that it has to do with your blood pressure being low. I suppose when you get up, your heart would have to work harder to get blood to your head, especially if you were lying down. She also told me that when you get up, inhale deeply and hold your breath a bit, and sometimes you won’t get dizzy/as dizzy. (I find this is usually helpful.) However, I can’t say that I’ve ever really experianced it in dreams.

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Perphaps your nutrition isn’t good. :neutral:

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Yes that happenes to me a lot but I get these weird flashing blue-green lights and vibration.

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About the low blood pressure: I have it in waking life too. :yes: And here’s what I do when my pressure gets too low (=I get dizzy): I sit somewhere flat, the floor, usually, and then I hold my head down between my knees & take deep breaths. That usually solves it in a couple of seconds. If it’s really serious — it gets serious with a sudden change of temperature, getting into real a hot ambient for instance — I take a little bit of salt (really, just a tad), put it under my tongue and suck it until my body absorbs it. That’ll raise your blood pressure a bit.

As for dreams blacking out, I remember a couple of incidents now that you mention it, but I’m not sure they were just like you said, or if I had some sort of black out and now, reading your description, I’m imagining it was more like you described. I’ll have a look in my journals when I’m back to Sao Paulo. At any rate, comparing it to the low blood pressure blackouts doesn’t ring a bell to me, so if the dream ones were really similar to the waking ones, then it’s not the same kind of dream blackout I’ve had.

Losing sight in dreams used to happen to me quite often back a couple of years, when I was a trainee in an institution for the visually impaired, and dealt with blind people at least twice every week. We had had a couple of trainings in which we’d have to wear blinds and test the exercises and techniques we’d later coordinate and teach… often for a whole day, which was extremely unsettling, and quite a branding memory. When that happens, you indeed often aren’t able to get your sight back. You could try some visualisation techniques, like trying to remember shapes and colours, but that could get your vision back just as much as it could bring you into some higher form of hallucination where you see the forms and colours but not a fully-formed dreamscape. (That, too, can be quite unsettling, although if you’re a WILDer, it should be more of the same fun there is to playing with your hypnagogia).

At any rate, if you have the nerves, you should try a couple of “being blind for ‘x’ hours” sessions, then next time you get blind in a dream, your mind will trigger the whole “blindness sensory experience” memories and you’ll be able to move a bit. (Often times I would fall or come across absurd structures in that state, I just don’t think being blind for a while compares to actually developing a whole spacial perception that independs from vision).

Uh, this is getting quite long. If you’re interested in talking, send me a PM, ok? :smile: