I have massive time dilation when I have dreams. I can have what feels like an 8 hour+ dream in a 30 minute nap. Also if I go back to sleep right away I can rejoin the last dream.

I’ve had dreams that took place over years. An entire alternate lifetime in one of them. Always very disorienting to wake up from one of those.

Maybe you're being dropped into another instance in the simulation.

I I completely understand, my dreams are so real. I can smell, feel the breeze, etc. Sometimes when I wake up I have to look around and remind myself I'm in bed and its a dream.

Sometimes thats awesome, other times its a horror story. The last one was a mixed bag...

Could be, they had that guy that said if you take DMT and shine a laser along the wall you can see code running. He says other people see the same thing.

Found it:

https://youtu.be/iKzTfA_OG9k

Remembering your dream at all is consistent with not being asleep for long

Gotta try this before it gets patched

I would too, I'm no stranger to psychedelics except DMT. I wouldn't even know where to look for that and be able to trust it.

I remember waking up after a lifetime-long dream, seeing my partner asleep beside me, and hugged her so hard she woke up and got mad at me. Didn’t care, in my mind I hadn’t seen her in decades.

Are any of those people software developers? I'm curious what kind of code it is. I hope it's not JavaScript.

I took DMT once and it's in my top ten worst experiences I ever had. Didn't have a laser with me and even if I had I would've be unable to use it.

However, I also had a common DMT experience: The "dial in" tone. I don't know why it's called like that, it has nothing to do with modem sounds. It's just a really loud high pitched beep that distorts at the end.

Thats terrifying, amazing, and so sweet I have the I and II diabeetus!

Did you ever explain to your partner what happened?

Right after, and then she hugged me back just as hard. Though perhaps a bit concerned as she’s never had a dream like that.

Thats a good point I would love to know that as well. (not a coder)

Yeah I've heard about the bad experiences thats pretty much why I never actively looked to get any. Like salvia I saw or heard to many bad trips and just noped out.

Never heard of the "dial tone" just makes me want no not take it more.

If I could do it in a really controlled environment ok I would. I'm talking rich guy safe, Doc onsite and gentle orderly's.

When I was in high school, I heard this thing about getting "high" through blood pressure and oxygen manipulation. The technique (don't try at home):

1. Be seated.

2. Actively hyperventilate for 30s. Deeeeep breaths.

3. Stand up quickly.

4. Immediately stick thumb in mouth with full lungs and attempt to blow air out as hard as possible without actually letting any out.

5. That's it. That's the whole thing.

So, feeling dubious, I tried it while hanging out with some friends. I stand up, do the thing, and in <5s boom. Dreamland. I had what felt like a full 6-hour experience, semi-lucid dreaming. I had some control and awareness that I was dreaming, flew around some giant yellow and pink mushrooms. I dont remember any other details at this point, but it was a whole day pretty much.

Wake up to my head hitting my buddy's guitar. I somehow had an hours-long experience in the time it took for me to pass out and hit the ground. Haven't done it since, but man, I don't think I'll ever forget that. One hell of a ride.

Oh thats awesome! (I'm jelly lol)

This sort of thing is exactly why I don't take naps anymore. It happened a few too many times and it’s genuinely a horrible experience. Incredibly vivid. I got the sensation I could feel my actual body being unable to move. So no more naps no matter how tired I am.

Anon thinks normal experience is unique.

So no one told you you would never find your way
👏👏👏👏
You're trapped forever, you're lost, your one life's D.O.A.~
It's like you're always stuck going down some stairs!
When you're stuck a day, a week, a month, or even a year~ but

I'll be coming for you!
(When the rain starts to pour)
I'll be coming for you!
(Cause you've been here before)
I'll be coming for you!
(And there's nothing you can do~)
Dun da da di dum di di dum.

man the fuck up and explore the astral plane

I hope it's not JavaScript.

It's PHP all the way down.

You know, one thing i read recently... tons of people say all the wacky near death experiences are a result of dmt flooding your brain, right?

Well there's no good evidence for it. Literally they only say that because our bodies like most life produces the chemical, so anything crazy "must be a drug related experience". But they did studies on rodents which also produce dmt, and nothing showed dmt releasing near death.

It's a total cop out of an explanation with no scientific evidence.

Almost every dream I has a near death experience or multiple. My brain chemistry must be a mess!

I'll look into that though, I would like to hear peoples experiences and the theories behind them.

Guess OP never saw Inception. The time dilation is real.

Did you know that if you smoke weed every day, you will stop dreaming entirely? It messes with REM sleep, but it's the only way I can get any sleep at all; legalization was a quite a few years ago now where I live so I haven't had a dream in forever.

Just something to consider if you have easy access to cannabis in your jurisdiction.

It seems like your whole life flashed in front of your eyes...alas, you did not die

Bruh if that was my life sign me the fuck up. 98% of my dreams are better and more interesting than my life, including whatever the hell this was. Alas is right.

Anon discovers sleep apnea.

Almost got eaten by a bear in my dream tonight, I didn't even get a near-death experience out of it, just trying to fend off an angry bear with a pole I found. Man :(

There is a really interesting experiment there, right? I guess we have all watched or heard of Matrix, wondered what if everything is a simulation, and seen code somewhere. What if you take a guy from some backwater place who has never seen any code, give the poor guy DMT and shine a laser at a wall? Is it a thing we imagine because the brain is wired that way? Or because we are culturally primed to imagine this? A guy who has never driven a car probably won't have that classic "car with no/broken brakes" dream either, right?
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I found I am way more likely to experience weird, nightmare-ish bs if I sleep on my back, or when I drank some alcohol. Maybe there are factors that control it for you as well.

My last was a tornado, I was holding on for dear life. I could feel the wind sucking me up, the debris, smell the rain. It was so bad I woke up...

And like I said in the other post the dream started right up as soon as I fell asleep. That tornado passed, I tried to find shelter and another came thru. I was in a wrecked mechanics garage between a classic C10 and holding on yet again for dear life to a car lift...

Oh wait that was 2 and 3 tornadoes, there was the near miss in the grocery store earlier. I hid under an old school checkout stand.

I'm glad you found a pole in your dream. I would have killed for a cellar in mine.

You can get the precursors pretty easily and there are a lot of guides

don't try at home

Should I try this at a train station then?

If reality was spackled together with js and PHP, it would explain quite a few things

https://inception.davepedu.com/

If you can. If not, a dim alley or gas station bathroom is fine.

This is why friends don't let friends watch Friends

My salvia experience was like that.

My dislike for PHP is close to my dislike of JavaScript. As far as I know (don't correct me if I'm wrong, I'd better not know) PHP doesn't have such an insane community that reinvents every wheel in JS and builds the worst dependency hell one could imagine. Everything else is yanky as hell though.

It's a bit unethical but I like the idea. Hate the car dream though.

this thing about getting “high” through blood pressure and oxygen manipulation. The technique (don’t try at home):

Where the hell am I going to try it, then??

For me it was bit like this but much louder and higher pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZsQ-8yntM

Interesting, maybe its the humans ability to hear the background radiation/noise of the Universe?

We've gone soft as a society, I tell you! If science cannot progress without kidnapping a guy from Sentinel Island and giving him psychosis, then that is a sacrifice I am willing to make!

Of course it's because of culture.

Sleeping on my back and extreme tiredness used to make it more likely for me to experience sleep paralysis.

But I haven't experienced those in a long time, even if often sleep on my back.

Mere The Matrix movie influence. Do you see code running along the walls in game glitches? No? Because simulating that is stupid (just like rendering the sea waves on the whole map in Crysis 2, because of a deal with Nvidia). And our reality is made of atoms anyway.

Average sitcom viewing experience

Napping is the factor in my control.

Im on prazosin for nightmares/night terrors and it works fine for my full sleep cycle (because I take it before bed, probably) but it doesn't seem to apply to naps.

First, when you hyperventilate you expel CO2 from your system. Desolved CO2 in blood causes it to be slightly acidic so when you rid yourself of it, it leaves your blood more alkaline. Oxygen uptake into the cells is highly pH dependent and its efficiency degrades with higher pH such as when breathing fast.
Second, when on your knees, or squating, your blood circulation adepts to the blood pressure increase. Once you stand up it takes a while for your system to catch on leaving you with a brief moment of low blood pressure. People with POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) are very aware of these frequent moments of light-headedness.
Third, compressing air into your chest cavity (breathing out but obstructing the air) is called the valsalva manoeuvre and overall decreases blood pressure further while decreasing pulse rate.
Combining the rapid breathing in a sitting position followed by standing up and the valsalva manoeuvre will cause temporary oxygen deficiency in the brain causing you to pass out. For obvious reason this isn't advisable to do but if you must, then do it with someone present who can monitor you to make sure you fall safely on a soft surface and make sure you lay flat to aid blood circulation and call emergency services if you're not coming to after a few seconds and can administer CPR just in case.