Time skip?

I honestly feel silly for saying this.
A long time ago, I don't even remember how old I was exactly, I was in my room with my sister and cousin who was spending the night. We had school in the morning and said we wanted to stay up late. We fell asleep and and my cousin ans i woke up I'm assuming close to midnight reminding each other to stay awake. I remember sitting upright in the bed with her in front of me. Within less than 5 minutes, it was bright outside, our positions hadn't changed and my mother knocked on the door to tell us to get ready for school. We both looked baffled and couldn't even explain what happened. My mom thought I was crazy and said we clearly fell asleep and don't remember. To this day my cousin no longer remembers it happened but it's stuck in my mind all this time and I'm now 26.

I find myself feeling more and more detached since this situation though I've been hiding it. I've had very vivid sensible recurrent dreams that I can now control and wake up from at will.

Ive gone through many different possible thoughts of what simply could've happened that night like i just fell asleep and woke up when my mom knocked on the door. But it doesn't feel possible even now. I Google searched me not feeling like I belong and came across the closed EP website and then to here to ask if anyone else has had any similar experience.

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Tatsumi · 31-35, M

Its just light sleep. And controlling your dreams is lucid dreaming, scientific fact. Youre a lucky one if you never had to try to control dreams. Ive been trying for 3 months, hard, and ive only had around 6. Short ones, too.

But. Light sleep works like that sometimes. I experienced it this morning, as a matter of fact. Was trying to sleep, then i looked at the clock and an hoir and a half went by, but i felt like i hadnt slept, at all.

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Tatsumi · 31-35, M

@Era90: ive experienced it many times, trying to WILD. If you want to experience it again, just to see, then sleep a full 7-8 hours, then take a nap in the afternoon. But. Try to stay completely still, eyes closed, in quiet and complete darkness, and stay awake. For like at least an hour and a half. Eventually, you'll experience the time dilation again. You'll get up and go, "shit, this isnt working," then 1.5 hours will have gone by, and you'll be like, "wait...what?" I think it's because you phase out of consciousness sneakily, then regain consciousness to where you don't realize you actually fell asleep. The first phase of sleep is close to consciousness. It has happened to me a lot.

With lucid dreaming, youre entering your subconscious mind. Dream control can be difficult, sometimes, because your subconscious might want to tell you something and will not allow you to change certain things. Or will force a storyline, as yours does.

Especially with reoccurring dreams, that's a major sign that your subconscious mind is trying to tell you something, but youre just not consciously recognizing or accepting it. And, if you can control the outcome or events, it's probably your mind telling you, "Find the best way to get to the best outcome." As a metaphor for something in your waking life.

Era90 · 31-35, F

@PlacidWolverine: hmm thanks. Your post is very informative and let me put a lot into perspective 😄 I'll definitely be giving the light sleeping a shot again then. Thanks again ^_^

Tatsumi · 31-35, M

@Era90: Mhm. No worries. Just remember to keep your body still. I should add, though, so you know what to expect, doing this will make it possible to enter a dream state directly from a waking state.

And, if you reach that boundary, then you will first experience numbness of your body, first 10-20 mins, then possibly vibrations growing in intensity, and feeling like your body is twisting or moving in strange ways at around 1H-1.5H. Or very realistic hallucinations.

And possobly sleep paralysis. If you cant move your body at all, just relax and wiggle your toes, and you will beckme un-paralyzed.

If you get to that stage, youve gone too far for your purposes. But, you could remain calm and follow it to have extremely intensely vivid dreams--with near complete dream control. The WILD is known to be the most vivid type of lucid dream, like entering another world.

G'luck in any case.

Persephone93 · 31-35, F

I've had all sorts of weird experiences like that. I'm tired and about to head to bed (it's 5 am here in Aus) but I love talking about weird and mysterious things. I'll friend you.

Era90 · 31-35, F

Thanks

shadowplay · 22-25, M

Dissociation can feel like what you describe. for me it only happens under extreme stress .never heard of it just happening for no reason.

Era90 · 31-35, F

Yeah I agree and understand this but I feel more stressed like i just don't belong here. I have a very good rewarding job. Loving family. Great friends and boyfriend yet I just still never really felt like I belonged here. Thinking about it all just reminded me of the first situation I couldn't really explain. I guess I'll need a lot more discussion with someone than just a simple post to expect answers.

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Era90 · 31-35, F

I don't understand what you mean

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