Possible "In my Nightmare Flashback"???? PLEASE ALL READ

So, it's been about 2 months since i last tripped. I've NEVER had a flashback as to what I know of. I just started taking acid in september, but have tripped over 7times I think. But i'll let you know right now, I just woke up and I'm scared as fuck lol...

So here's what I remember. (If anyone has played Diablo II you'll know what I mean by the second description)

I'm pretty sure I was dreaming that I had ACTUALLY just woke up, and when I was "awake" (still dreaming) I told my gf that I was scared as hell from an image I saw in my dream. Right after that, I "fell back asleep" (was still already asleep in dream state), and then IDK what was going on but a Diablo II tradescreen popped up, and SOMETHING that resembled a long tapeworm appeared on the tradescreen. Right after it appeared, it "flashed" and that "flash" meant to me that the tapeworm was REAL now (for some odd reason, but thats what it represented to me in the dream).

Now this is what has me freaked out. I ACTUALLY WOKE UP afterwards. After that happened, I remember RIGHT AWAY feeling like my heart dropped, and I sat up in bed SCREAMING really loud. Once I sat up, I BLACKED OUT, and don't remember anything until I stood up in my bedroom at my door to see my roommate in front of me seeing what happened, as well as my girl scared shitless because she saw the look on my face.

*Filled in from when I blacked out*
My girlfriend said after I sat up, I kept screaming, started looking around and was screaming. I GOT UP OFF MY BED, and went to my sliding glass door in my room and was POUNDING on it FULL FORCE screaming for 10 seconds, then my girlfriend grabbed me and I dropped to the floor, and started screaming "GET THEM OFF ME". Then my voice started slowly tapering off, and my girlfriend started screaming its just a dream just a dream, and I woke up at the point in my doorway.

Just a couple main points that scared me was that I asked my girlfriend if she remembered me "telling her about it earlier" which I found out was just in my dream, but I actually foresaw my "freakout" in the beginning of my dream. And also, that I really did WAKEUP and sit up while screaming and then I just blacked out, and kept going with it.

Any info, drug related or not, please reply. No flames please, I just wanted to open up to the forum for help cuz I still have the chills right now and can't get back to sleep.

(Been clean off ALL drugs for 2months) so it was nothing related to actual use.

Thanks in Advance!

EDIT- I've NEVER had a bad trip, always in a good enviornment. I've had a nightmare like this before, not anyway related to what happened, but when I was about 8, I had 2 reoccuring dreams that I woke up still thinking i was in it, but I hadn't blacked out or anything. Both times that happened, I had the flu. Once when I was 8, and I believe a year after that.

 

It's possible that it's somewhat drug-related; I too have been having much more realistic dreams that are actually fairly crazy but feel totally normal and real during the dream itself. There's an effect that has always happened to some degree, but it's way worse now, how sometimes something that I have dreamt comes back to me as a real memory, and vice versa. It can be quite difficult sometimes for me to tell the difference of certain memories/dreams.

There are two recurring dreams that I have, one has happened more than the other. The more common one is me swimming in our city's old municipal pool on a sunny day, by myself. I'm under water at the shallow end, looking towards the deep end, and slowly running out of air. I always end up breathing in water, and as I feel myself start to choke I wake up. I have a really strange feeling/premonition that I'm going to die by drowning or suffocating, but I think that's a subconscious fear being expressed in a dream from having asthma and waking up a lot when I was younger, barely able to breathe.

The other one is more complicated than I want to describe here, but essentially it's a WWII Europe kinda feel, walking towards what is a cathedral looking hospital type place; as it gets closer parts of it start to disappear - such as a circular tower on one side missing the bottom section and the top still being there. Then I'm inside walking toward a window, sometimes I see out the window, sometimes not. What I can't explain is how scary the dream is, and I'm not sure why it is that scary.


I too sometimes retain the feeling that I had had in the dream, and judging by how scared you said you were, it doesn't surprise me that you still have the chills. You probably got quite a load of adrenaline shot into your system as this was going on. If you're having trouble sleeping now, there are a few things I can suggest you try, though some of it is kind of hard to explain exactly how it works for me.

One thing to try obviously is reading a book, perhaps a novel or ...well anything really, though writers like Steven King probably aren't a good idea. Sometimes writing down what is making your jittery or w/e can help, but what works best for me is an active thinking process as you're laying in your bed. If sleep isn't coming, what I try to do is "rest my eyes" as my mom used to say she was doing - just close your eyes and let yourself think that in some way your body is resting, and focus on that concept of rest. It's an active process of making your brain turn itself off, so to speak. The other thing I do, which I've found harder to do since starting Adderall is sort of a free-association/acceleration thought process. I think that it's actually a technique that can help start the path towards lucid dreaming, but it helps me fall asleep faster (and I don't think that I'll ever be able to lucid dream) - you start with one thought, and let whatever else comes to mind take over, and continue that process. The point is to let it happen naturally, and then force it to go faster, and it tends to work better when you make it (or it just starts to happen) jump to elements that aren't that related. This sort of thought process draws you into sleep because that's how your brain works during sleep.

Dreams are really cool, I wish I could remember more of what I dream. One of my friends remembers almost every detail, every night.

Tell yourself that you just had a really bad dream, don't let it get to you. The brain is fucked up, let it do its thang.

 

Ya thx a lot man, Just woke up. Finally was able to get back to sleep at like 10am. Shit sccared the HELLLL outta me haha. Just a bad dream though, but my neck hurts like hell because I remember when everything ended I still could feel my WHOLE neck bulging from blood pumpin, not just feelin my vein ya know. My gf said she thought I woulda broken are sliding glass window, if I did lmao, I prolly woulda jumped off our balcony, still running around screaming for a bit. Shit's bad/fun, wish I could wake up say in a highly euphoric state.

 

I have a lot of dreams were i feel like i'm trippin. Or i'm tripping in my dreams. Almost every other night i have one. But for me they have always been pleasentr. I never really have had a real nightmare, just shit like feeling like i'm falling off a cliff then waking up. That shit sounds like it sucks.

 

doesnt sound like a flashback just a strong dream. any experiences you've had are fair game for your dreaming mind.

 

I feel the same way. The majority of my dreams feel like a trip, where things are very fantastical but feel normal/real, but seem strange later. I've had a few dreams I would consider nightmares, but that was when I was younger and not so well equipped to deal with strangeness like that. Two or three dreams I had last winter/early spring caused a really strange mix of feelings the following day when I woke up, but I've learned to deal with that and it's really not such a bad thing anymore. Kinda fun actually.

Your neck probably hurts for one of two reasons - either you slept on it at an odd angle and were tossing around in your sleep and you've got a kink, or you're carrying some sort of tension in the muscles in your neck while you're sleeping, sort of like how some people grind their teeth while they sleep. I had a really weird combo of that, plus the muscles in my upper back (so, teeth hurt cuz of that plus wisdom teeth moving in, back hurt to the point of having trouble breathing, and my neck was so sore that I couldn't stretch it out) because of stress, which was also manifesting itself as incredibly odd dreams.

 

Nah I slept on my back, I was actually only asleep for an hour, which is crazy all that happened in that amount of time. I probably hurt it jolting up. But I've also had dreams where i've taken acid, sold/bought acid, tripped balls and its been amazing haha. Musta just been a crazy dream I just have never really came out of a dream like that... Crazy shit, scary haha. But hey... Looks like I'm gonna be lookin more into Lucid dreamin, If that happens w/o me tryin shit lol, I'm gonna work on controlling my dreams more N' having some fun haha. Thx a lot for your input

 

yeah i dream about acid all the time...just cause i love it so

i never usually trip when i dream, i just eat the acid and the dream is just the waiting period before i wake up...usually pissed off about the tease and craving some blotter

 

Haha yeah lucid dreaming seems to be a pretty common thing for people who trip to get into, as is meditation.

Any time that I dream that I'm getting acid, it's always a lot (or I keep eating some every so often cuz it's not kickin in hard enough) and it's ALWAYS RUBBERY. I mean I can understand gettin acid all the time in my dreams, cuz I wish that would happen in real life, but what's up with the doses always being real tiny and made of rubber?

 

I know what you mean about eating a lot. I always eat like a sheet or so in my dreams. Then i wake up most of the time before it kicks in and i'm like, "fuck!"

 

The last time I took acid in my dreams, it was REALLY REALLY REALLY tiny purple hershey kisses LMAO!

 

your higher self is trying to tell you something. i would consider finding something more positive and productive to do with your time other then playing horror type video games.



when a person experiments with LSD they usually find that some of their previous habits are not as fun as they used to be. LSD can also make your life very difficult if you fight a change.



are you a good person? do you have any reason to fear something? do you feel guilty for anything? are you doing anything in your everyday life that may be considered a waste of your time? do you have an enimy - maybe one your not aware of? do your friends trust you - do you trust your friends?



the nightmare - whether it be during a trip or a sleep - is trying to tell you something. and you are the best one to understand what that is!!!

 

Yes, actually I'm a really good person. I have dealt some stuff etc til november, and I'm turning around from that. Never screwed anyone over, but I have been robbed at gun point 3 times... I WAS playing that game too much which could have been a problem. I finally got a job though (thats the reason I was playing, just to pass time til I got calls back)

I have the fear of getting robbed again, especially by the last one who said if I talked he'd go to my families house. And I think thats what the whole on my knees saying "GET THEM OFF ME!!" was because that was like a previous attack that happened just by a convenience store... I yelled for help when a person came at me with a gun to get my shit, and after screamin for 2 minutes, NEXT TO A CONVENIENCE STORE, someone walked by, saw us... And the guy ran back towards us to help... HIM.......

My FRIENDS I trust with my life, and same with them. After stopping dealing I got rid of the "FRIENDS" and kept my real friends.


Lately I've been sleep talkin a lot, no idea why. Never anything bad though. My girlfriend wakes me up if she gets scared thinking I'm having a bad dream. Not sure why this is all coming about now... (Lately I have been drinking a decent amount at home since I have my own apartment now. Either every night 4-10 beers, or every other night... Wonder if that has to do with anything. Even if it doesnt, probably should stop now so I dont become an alcoholic haha.

 

the alcohol will only make matters worse!

good things happen to good people and vice versa. i know this may sound weird but there is something that you are doing that contributes to the horrors in your life. there is something that you can do in your life to increase the chances that you will not be robbed again. there are obvious and simple things like - dont go out walking alone in certain areas at certain times. 'stay out of trouble' so to speak. you seem like a target so i wouldnt go out alone at all for the next while. you say that there was stuff you were just dealing with - there may be some negative karma left over from whatever that was - you may still need to learn your lesson completely.

i would suggest you learn meditation - it will calm you down and help you see things clearly.

i have had similar experiences with psychedelics - after effects and nightmares as well. i also went through a time when i kept dreaming about some stupid video game that i was playing - so annoying, so i have since stopped playing video games entirely. i have actually taken that a step further and watch much less movies and tv then before. i got rid of my tv and only watch the occasional movie on my computer.

psychedelics can amplify the good and the bad in life. you are going through a rough time right now and it seems like psychedelics may be making life harder then it has to be. in a way the psychedelics are trying to force you to make some changes in your life that you may not have known to make.

please stay away from anything destructive like booze. alcohol makes you forget your problems while they are still there. psychedelics make sure you are aware of your problems so you can make changes to fix them.

please do not be afraid of the LSD. you seem to be experiencing much difficulty at this point in your life and i am sure the expanded consciousness from the LSD is helping you see and understand this. sometimes it is difficult to understand what is happening and one blames the acid for making life more difficult when it is actually helping you by making everything clearer then before. try to understand that if you are to embrace this 'new you' and be thankful for what is happening your life is sure to get better.

"the only thing we have to fear is... fear itself"

how much research have you done on psychedelics?

 

I haven't done too much research on psychs. Looked into it a little though with the whole WWII tests with the military, doctors using it for drug abuse on patients etc... After tripping, I found out that I really want to be work with psychology type stuff, so I'm adding that onto my work load as well as my business major. It really helped me find out a lot about myself, especially a drug abuse problem I had and I've been clean for 2 1/2 months. Planning a "trip" about 2 months away, involving me, 4 CLOSE friends, girlfriend, camping, and a 15 strip of acid . So hopefully in doing that since before I tripped WEEKLY, after having 2 1/2 months off everything itll be stronger and happier finding out other things I need to work out.

 

sometimes, after laying in bed for about 5-10 minutes, I start to dream/trip while laying in a conscience state.. and if by chance something wakes me from this, I'M FUCKING TRIPPING IN REAL LIFE.

I remember this from 4 days ago

I was on my bed, over the covers, laying on my side. I was fully clothed. I had been laying down with my eyes closed with the television chatter in the back of my head and my brain started to draw within my mind. It was just some lines at first and then it turned into something like a race track. I saw the blue race track from above at first, and then the view relocated, making the track shift position. Now, the view was something like the finish line facing me. three orange iridescent motorcycles headed towards me in a very fast speed. Suddenly my computer made the "You got an IM" sound and I opened my eyes. The room was spinning and my body was absolutely weightless. Shit slowed down but eventually sped back up and I just realized what happened...

I love dream->reality.

 

ive heard constant nightmares are the key to lucid dreams. next time something scary like that happens block your nose and try to breathe air through it. if you can breathe, your dreaming. anyways, everyone has nightmares, whether they take drugs or not. sure yours sound like they have sleepwalking involved, but heaps of people who dont do drugs still have sleepwalking nightmares. one guy even bashed his girlfriend while he was asleep and dreaming and had to go to court and prove he was asleep.