What is this feeling?

Has someone felt this way?

Although i just had 3 LD in my entire life that i remember…
Sometimes im in this state(not being lucid, just a feeling before wake up) that my body is resting but i feel my surronding and everybody talking and stuff, im not dreaming nor Sleep Paralyzed, im just like xtremely relaxed with eyes closed but sleeping.

I’ve felt that way before. It happened a couple of times when I was younger. I think it’s just not really realizing that your awake. Ha, like the opposite of an LD, an NLRL (Non-Lucid Real Life). Strange.

That happened to me a lot when I was younger. When I was sick, I would sleep on the sofa. I liked that so much that I tried to get into that state by will, but it didn’t work. It was like…not really thinking, but only listening!

Yeah I get that in the morning, and somtimes when I’m have insomnia. I lie not moving, i don’t sleep, but I don’t think either, but i 'm always aware that I can end this whenever i want. It’s some sort of trance or a meditative state. I think it’s caused by the alpha brainwaves.

Alpha brainwaves? which ones are them? :eh:

That’s exactly the kind of state I’m in whenever I get accused of sleeping in school! (Which isn’t often but enough to know the feeling very well.) In fact it happened today during speech class. I drifted off into that state while trying to listen to an 8 minute speech about sugar (of all things) and the speaker had the most monotonous voice imaginable.

Beta brainwaves are your normal ones, and alpha brainwaves are when you’re still awake but relaxed. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were theta waves involved here too.

oh ok thanks for telling me.
Now… Theta waves? which ones are them now :confused: ?
Ok i have to investigate these brainwaves before i become a detective in this forum lol.

This phenomenon is probably related to the very light nREM (dont confuse with deep sleep) sleep we enter into, either just before awaking or when we have just fallen asleep. I’ve had this sometimes for 10 minutes before waking up, i felt my physical body and the sounds from my surroundings, but i was definately in a light sleep.

The terms refer to brain waive activity.

Beta- 14 and up cycles per second (cps). This is your waking state.
Alpha- 7-14 cps this is your subconscious range where REM occurs if you are asleep. This range can also be reached through meditation and hypnosis.
Theta- 4-7 cps Deep subconscious some highly skilled practioners of self hypnosis and/or meditation claim the ability to reach this range.
Delta- 0-4 cps - total unconsciousness. (Deep sleep)

Small correction.

Theta is reachable by many experienced meditators, it’s not just a “claim”, they really do and it is even measured and proved by EEG. It does also not need to be a totally subconscious experience, though your connection to your subconscious is very active here (for example in dreams).

Same counts for delta, although you need a pretty advanced person into meditation to reach this stage consciously. Through lucid sleep (awareness in deep sleep) I think it is a bit easier (at least for me), since I never reached this level consciously while meditating.

I agree with your correction. My personal beliefs are that many people could bring themselves down into theta and even delta. I just did not know it was widely accepted as fact so, I did not want to state it as such.

Happy Dreaming :smile:

Thanks milod789 and Xetrov!!!