strange feeling with me for 10 years now, any ideas?

Beyond Dreaming
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Hi there,

I was not sure where to post this, but i have had this experience about 10 times in my whole life. It started happening when i was very young, when i would read a book, then it sort of went away, probably because i was startled by it and thought it was crazy or something and my mind probably thought that i could not handle it. So it went away and it does come on and off during the years, it seems like 10 times or maybe more in my lifetime, but i have not counted it or kept a journal of these experiences.

Ok what i am talking about is, i will start with my last experience. I was playing on the computer the other day, it’s a very immersive game, i think it happens with things that are immersive. Except when i was young, i hated books and i kinda of still do, so i don’t think i was immersive enough when it first happend to me all those years ago. Anyway i am playing the game and sudenly while im playing, i know i am playing, and my level of concentration doesn’t leave me while i am playing, but i am also getting this feeling. The best i can describe it is that i feel more aware than usual but more aware in the head, like i can feel a sort of sound in my ear like the sound you hear when you switch on your TV. That sort of little whine sound or not whine, but something well i don’t know how to explain it.

I have got this similar experience last year on holiday. I am walking down a street and i feel more connected, more aware. I am walking but also feeling strange in the head, i hear that sound in the ears feeling connected.

Has this happend to anyone and what is your view on all this?
I hope somebody can describe it in better detail and words than me.

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Not sure what you mean… But since you say it mostly happens when you are very focused/concentrated, I would guess you are in a light trance state. That’s probably also why sort of feel more aware. I’ve had similar stuff happening to me while watching some movie that I was really focused on. Or while reading something for more than 30 minutes. For me it’s more like a buzzing in most of my body and sort of around my head. But it can be a bit different from time to time.

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The only thing I can think of is that you get in the Zone ( Often reffered to in sports.) When you are fully concetrated into something and then you dont have to think about it and your mind just takes over. When this happens your not even paying attention to what your doing. Thats not a very good explanation but could that be it? It ussually occurs in altheletes.

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Thank for your replys

I think what i am feeling is a cross between those 2 replys, but also something else is going on, perhaps i can explain better now. When the experience happens it feels like my mind is taking over, like there is some automatic processing going on in my mind and i am not very comfortable with the feeling i get when it happens. It just comes on and i have no control except from choosing to snap out of it but at the time i realise the experience i sort of talk to myself about it and then i choose to let go and it leaves but only after about a minute. The strange thing is that other people when they have similar experiences, as soon as the mind steps in and try’s to give a logical explanation of what is happening to themselves they snap out of it straight away but that does not happen to me. Anyway in between the time i snap out of it and think about it happening, it’s around a minute or so and in that time i did not choose to have this experience. It just came on and in that minute or so, i am talking about it and i can’t snap out of it until it passes which is about a minute, the experience kind of feels space like, like you know when they say the phrase a once in a life time experience, well i have had it a few times and it kind of feels like one of those once in a life time experience. I hope you undertsand and can tell a bit more about what this is.

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Yes that happens to me quite often.

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Sounds like sex to me:)

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What do you mean it sounds like sex?

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I think I know what your talking about. It use to happen to me sometimes, I would just get in this trance like, and would feel more disconected from reality. Its not a good feeling.

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Nevermind,dismiss it:)

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Nevermind,dismiss it

Come on jack you can do better than that, It would be nice to know what you mean’t by it sounds like sex.

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To Jack, most things probably sound like sex? :happy:

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I like the light trance state. So I don’t think its the same thing. :confused:

Looks at Jack’s avatar Yeah I’d say that guess would be right, Xetrov. XD

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Not sure if its anything similar, but sometimes when walking outside, especially if its beautiful outside, I can suddenly get this shifted view of reality, its quite subtle. The world just looks brighter/nicer in a good way. Im just looking around wondering about it all. Usually fade within minutes to ordinary reality.

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"When the experience happens it feels like my mind is taking over like there is some automatic processing going on in my mind "

I meant the state like that.I get those “lost feelings” then,it kinda switches between concious to uncouncious.I travel universes,other planes,colours,shapes…all in one,like on mtv video clip.When snapping out of it its like being half dead but happy:)
Guess one day i will just miss the moment my heart stopped:)

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Have you ever tripped on psychadelics?

What you describe sounds to me like a level of consetiousness (spelling? ) which I get while tripping.
Cause ever since I tripped the first time, every now and then, usually while traveling on trains ( or any other time really) these thoughts, or feeling of a very special and different connection to the outer world come.

Its hard to describe. Its like the time stops there, and you are connected to everything, or seing things completely differently. Its a state of mind I would say.

Also, you are getting it while playing a game, I suppose you know the game well? Cause that could explain why you get it then. It could be getting you into some sort of trans, which is (in my opinion) very close to tripping as well.
Just like running, when you run really long, you keep an eye on the road, you keep all your body running, alert, yet your brain switches off and wanders off somewhere else … well , atleast mine does.

Is it similar to this?

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haha funny thing, i have same kind of experiences ALOT. Atleast once per week, i thought about it too but not very much. And yes the sound is funny, i like feel myself getting to higher level of consciousness and watch everyone else around to see if they hear anything or have they noticed anything weird, but i never find anything suspicious. I just get to better mood when it happens.

It like takes away my misery. Think it as a positive thing, a thing which gives you energy its nice that way.

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Hi folks

Thanks for all the replys, you all have got something that describes a bit of my experience, but i still really hope i can find what my experience is beacause i think it’s unsuual and perhaps it can be used as away of healing. Perhaps in this state i am in a heightened state of conciousness a bit like hypnosis. Perhaps if i can tap into it, i can heal myself, or do something interesting.

But i would like to thank you all for the replies, especially hradska, by the way mate your english is really good, for a guy from Czech Republic.
Your reply seems to be a little similar to mine and i have never tripped on psycahdelics as i don’t like the drugs. But my experience has only happened once in that particular computer game, i was playing it for a few hours when the effect came on. Also what you describe has happened to me last year on holiday which i described in my first post which goes like this:

I have got this similar experience last year on holiday. I am walking down a street and i feel more connected, more aware. I am walking but also feeling strange in the head, i hear that sound in the ears feeling connected.

Hebe thank you aswell for your reply, your experience is similar to mine, i have had another experience which it start’s like this, i don’t want to go into too much details, but i am a very shy sort of guy and i saw a therapist about my shyness a few years ago. After some therapy well she hypnotised me but i don’t think i can be hynotised, anyway i had trouble going out for a while as i wouldn’t go to restraunts and after the therapy i went out with my family and one night we were driving and i think i must of sliped into a slightly more aware heightened state of conciousenss because as we were driving through our town to get to our resteraunt, it was early time of night and some people were walking in the streets and suddenly i had this feeling to myself sort of what felt at the time was like X ray vision. i felt like i could some peoples bones as in there skeletons, like in X ray photos black and blue, not physically but in the mind, i was saying to myself even my mum about how this is strange. for once i am seeing the world differently, she thouhgt maybe the therapy was helping me, but i said no this is something different, i don’t think she was taking it seriously though. Anyway we were driving and i saw people and each some one i saw i would question myself, the state is very similar to my experience in my first post. I would feel like i am a being and i am viewing others, others as in human beings. It was like there were different beings and infact i just remembered exactly what i was saying to myself, i was saying things like pyramids and how we are on top of the food chain, like we are the higher conciousness and the world around us is like a giant cube or something. It is all very hard to describe in words, this state would come by it would fade a way and come back every few miles as we drove.

But hey, if any body knows anymore info on what these experinces are, then feel free to reply and also post your strange similar experiences.

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honeyjigga thats just the same with me. I will look the world differently like i were a total outsiders. it’s funny feeling a bit dreamlike but at the moment it feels like you have understanded something perfectly but you dont know what you have understanded.

At the moment i think something like this “hey now im totally aware of it… but wait, aware of what?” And that’s why i start looking around to find a clue, after I searched and I have found nothing, the feeling disappears. It’s like somebody “wakes” you up (that could explain the sound) and wants to show you something, maybe you realize something new like you honey, when you thought about the food chain and stuff but you dont know the exact origin of this feeling.

Maybe someday I will find out the hidden clue.

did all that make any sense?

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Hey hebe,

That all makes a lot of sense, when this state comes on it feels like i am being opened up to something new, and like you said it is like in a dream, you know when you have a lucid dream and you say to your self ‘i am dreaming’ and then you look around the dream world feeling so much more aware, and then your trying to come to terms with this bypass of your mind. Well this is exactly how those experiences of mine feel. It’s like somebody on the inside in my mind is telling me, ‘hey open up, look around, the world is so much bigger than you’. It’s all a strange experience.

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I have had a couple of strange feelings before, one just happening fairly recently. This probably isn’t what you are talking about, but it seems to have some of the same characteristics. When it happens, everything starts moving really really fast. I walk fast, I talk fast, and I think fast, very concentrated. And it comes along with what you were talking about with the kind of strange noise in my ears. Again, this is different, but, it sounds like some sort of repeating pattern. Very strange when it happens. I can only remember this and the last time it had happened–but I know it has happened at least 5 times. I guess I might describe it as if I had just become lucid in a dream, everything seems different and fast.