My Fellows

Have any of you ever experimented with sleep deprivation, and compared the results to the use of psychedelics and other spiritual experiences?

Now that I am unemployed, I feel perfectly qualified to take advantage of my idleness and launch an exploration into my poor, exhausted, worn out material being.
To me, it's always seemed that the more weary I become, the more perceptive I become (counter-intuitive, I know). By perceptive, I don't mean the mundane though, but rather some sort of energetic, intuitive awareness regarding my immediate surroundings and interactions with people. I pick up on a lot more. I've never been able to venture into this fully though, due to "real-world" obligations and the constant desire to crawl into bed, turn on the drooooooooning boooooox faaaaaaan, and cuddle up with a pillow. But today (well yesterday) marks the start of my noble undertaking, for the benefit of all ye psychonauts. I will let you know......

....how it goes.

(Share your experiences and thoughts with this if you have any thanks)

 

No way brah.... Sleep is almost as good as sex, I recommend you get lots of it... every day.


In addition, get a job you damn hippie! lols jk

 

may you find what is looking for you

 

Over prepare, then go with the flow.*

 

after swims 1month 24hr benzo binge, swim, stayed up for days!!! no hallucinations, just little blurry. swim never wanna stay up that long, it was misery.

 

Doesn't swim get tired of talking in the third person?

 

swim is a swim and love swim, so swim

 

Swiy is gay. I remember i used to go to a drug forum where they forced you to say swim. That was so lame, i couldn't undrstand anyone including myself.

 

sleep deprivation and the psychedelic experience is very similar - either way you're opening up neural pathways you would not normally be using

........the definition of psychedelic is "outside the mind", simply put, and implies any experience or method that takes us beyond the boundaries of our normal perceptions/ways of thinking - sleep deprivation is one of the many ways to do that, along with fasting and sensory deprivation as well

 

or hitting ones self on the head with a hammer...

 

Fasting seems painful...all those hunger cramps gosh ow.

This sleep thing going weird though. Feel so much more perceptive. Things are energy, easier to notice movement throughout my entire field of vision instead of just concentrating on a central point. Get feelings better, read people better, understand them better, see into them better.
conversely, people see into me better. Almost like I am broadcasting my thoughts, and they are listening to them but don't know it and react to them.

 

Not to nitpick, but I thought it was "mind manifesting."

Also, I don't find the use of 'swim' half as annoying as when people complain about it.

 

I has some sort of mood disorder, anyway its heavily connected to the amount of sleep i get...it also has elements of psychosis in there...which is another definition of psychedelic, detachment and/or distortion of reality.

What I find when im sleep deprived, my emotional/physical/cognitive functions rapidly cycle (i suggest you look up biorhythms http://www.facade.com/biorhythm/ )

At first the three synchronize and I go from very able to very disabled a few times, as time goes on my rhythms become out of sync...ill be very insightful into people but unable to word it due to energy etc..and eventually i get a sort of over worked nerves feeling, like im a robot battered and my wires are sticking out but i can keep going if i try

 

After i Stayed up for 103 hours playing the new installation to the World of Warcraft (Lich King) I went to sleep for 21 hours. Lucid dreams like never before, tripping in a dream where there are no bounds of reality... wowwww an amazing psychonautical experience. i hope you find wonderful results in your journey

 

Lucid dreams FTW.

 

I've gone lucid before, but only once have I had a dream where reality fundamentally did not make sense.
I'm talking, like, triangles with four sides and 7 dimensions, and blues that were red. The thing that jolted me awake was me so profoundly questioning my sanity

 

oh sweet jesus life is too much to bear

 

Psychedelic means "mind manifesting", not "outside the mind". How does one get outside the mind?

 

I meditated watching my breath for 3 hours one time until my breath turned into particles of light. Then I went with some friends to a movie and when they spoke particles of light came out of their mouths. After the movie I couldn't remember any details from it. My mind was stuck in the present moment for hours. Good luck with your experiment.

 

I'm so drenched in maya I don't even know who I am anymore. Does this make me the evil one? Or have I been that all along? I dont know. I love this state, the constant cycle of desire and despair, want and disgust, everything here always ends in disgust and I want it all anyways for the experience, to do it, to raise myself up to fall back down, it's the motion that drives me, the change but who am i