u/heywhatsimbored

Spotify gave me this playlist of my top played over the years that I’ve had Spotify. Most of these are my absolute favorites. Would love to know what you all think!

I have a hyperactive imagination (hyperphantasia) and certain forms of synesthesia.

As a kid, I would lucid dream almost every night. I have so many memories of hypnogogic hallucinations as well. Visual, audio, both. To the point where when another was in the room I could just lie there, eyes open, and talk while experiencing “dreams” while awake. I have a lot of dreams where it’s like a movie, where I can fully comprehend and watch what’s going on. I am not in the dream itself but am watching it.

Also, I can read in my dreams, very well and apparently most people, especially those who aren’t dream trainers, cannot do. I read constantly and I write a lot.

Today, I had a dream that I was sitting on the couch, a documentary just out of sight in the tv next to me, my grandma in her chair, and I was reading and fully comprehending a story on my Kindle. That is exactly what was happening around me when I fell asleep in real life.

Another oddity is that, a lot of times before bed, or even if I just focus hard enough anywhere without being tired, I can hear conversations in my head play out, where I don’t even know what direction they’re going. Just like an audible movie or story. And I get so interested in wanting to know what’s next I typically get cut out of them.

I also can vividly recall dreams. Sometimes I immediately write them down, or through out the day sometimes a dream from even over ten years ago I can recall randomly in full detail.

Something that happens frequently, now, almost every time I close my eyes to sleep, is that I see the room I am in, like I never closed my eyes. Like I’m just lying exactly there eyes wide open. But no. In reality I have my eyes shut head sometimes turned to the side. It can get freaky.

I also used to CONSTANTLY get sleep paralysis, but it’s much less often now. Used to even be multiple times a night sometimes.

Another thing that I can do is “play” music in my mind. It really is like a song stuck in my head. Because I have those too and that’s different. This is sometimes just simple notes or sounds or guitar strings or piano noises. I used to do this a lot more as a kid too. Just lay on my bed stare at my ceiling and “listen to music” in my head.

Maybe I should see a psychiatrist, haha.

Anyway, I feel as though I am more in tune with my imagination and mind than others are. Another thing I can do is play a song I love, and with enough focus, I can just “watch” a music video in my mind while listening to it. Like…full production, high-quality, extremely specific scenes. Music also is very textural to me, almost. Like I can feel it in my mind. Certain videos can do that to me as well. Not always positively. Sometimes it can be so intense I have to turn it off.

I don’t mean to ramble on, and honestly, I’ve probably left some things out. But I’ve always been interested in lucid dreaming, and I just wondered if I could be a good contender for it.