12-09-2010, 09:28 PM
Had a very interesting experience today...I was having a short nap on the couch, and I ended up falling into a very, very deep sleep. I don’t even remember what I dreamed about, but when I started to wake up I could literally feel myself rising through the layers of sleep. It felt like I was so far down I would never reach the top. Eventually I achieved a state of half-awakeness, where I had a vague memory of what reality my body was located in.
At that point I got the strangest feeling. To say it was a numbness doesn’t describe it entirely accurately, but it is the closest I can get. My hands and feet suddenly felt very strange- somewhat numb and tingly, and then the feeling began spreading to my whole body. It was very intense, and entirely unlike the feeling one gets when an extremity falls asleep. I soon felt as if I was floating- my body seemed to just be hanging there, vibrating.
I perceived a lot of people to be in the room with me, including my mom and my husband, though I was alone in the living room. Still, I was very aware of my physical body on the couch. I started yelling “Hey, I feel funny!” in a slurred voice, but they didn’t hear me- they were like flickers or shadows. The thought “I must be dying.” popped into my head, followed shortly by “Oh, goody.” and then “This is kind of scary.”
Eventually I began climbing the layers again and finally broke completely through into the consciousness I know as my waking reality, just as my husband was getting up from bed. It felt like I had been on a long journey, traveling for days. It was very strange.
At that point I got the strangest feeling. To say it was a numbness doesn’t describe it entirely accurately, but it is the closest I can get. My hands and feet suddenly felt very strange- somewhat numb and tingly, and then the feeling began spreading to my whole body. It was very intense, and entirely unlike the feeling one gets when an extremity falls asleep. I soon felt as if I was floating- my body seemed to just be hanging there, vibrating.
I perceived a lot of people to be in the room with me, including my mom and my husband, though I was alone in the living room. Still, I was very aware of my physical body on the couch. I started yelling “Hey, I feel funny!” in a slurred voice, but they didn’t hear me- they were like flickers or shadows. The thought “I must be dying.” popped into my head, followed shortly by “Oh, goody.” and then “This is kind of scary.”
Eventually I began climbing the layers again and finally broke completely through into the consciousness I know as my waking reality, just as my husband was getting up from bed. It felt like I had been on a long journey, traveling for days. It was very strange.
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