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I have strange powers...?
3 weeks ago i woke up hovering above my bed maybe only 10cms, when i realised i quickly droped onto my matress.
i am an atheiest and dont believe in superstition or religon,
now almost every second day this happens sometimes im hovering higher than the last, infact the last time this happened i was about 20 cms above my bed, and i can almost hold it for sevral seconds now before i drop,
i strangley now always find myself waking on my back,
i told my parents and sevral work mates, they think im either joking or lying, noone believes me, i also mentioned it to a doctor who doesnt believe me? what does this mean?
im %100 telling the truth, this is the strangest thing ever happened to me and its not my imagination i know im droping cause once i hit my head on the phone i left on my bed the night before
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its not simply an out of body experience,
as it my seem to you,m but im physicaly falling to my bed, which gives me a big scare cause i get butterflies when i fall, even tho a short distance,
similar gut-feeling to when on a rollercoaster, this is real people, and i dont do drugs.
NONO i have woken from falling many times, im sure we have, this is no hullusination *spelling*
i wake up i.e wake up and go toilet
then i drop onto my bed, its no dream of falling, this is completely different, im litrally leviating above my bed, and i have no idea why or how, it defy's the laws of physics, as im an athiest this is impossible but im very confused but happy cause its a totaly random thing and its happening almost everyday, and like i stated i can hold it for several seconds now, please understand what i am saying, your only repeating what the doctor said to me and this is VERY FUSTRATING CAUSE NOONE UNDERSTANDS OR BELIEVES ME!!!
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Good news--this is actually normal.
Many people hallucinate when they fall in or out of sleep. Often it's accompanied by sleep paralysis--the body is paralyzed but you can still see. It's actually thought that this is the cause of so-called "alien abductions" and many people do experience exactly what you are describing. The often also feel a pressure on their chest. By the way, sleep paralysis is very common, the numbers I've heard are from 30% to 100% of the population. Not everyone hallucinates.
http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html
And this does occur right when people are falling asleep or waking up. Essentially the mind and body are both somewhere between being awake and being asleep.
Here's an article about the Harvard professor who figured out the alien abduction business:
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/09.22/11-a...
From the above article: "Electric sensations zing through their bodies, which may rise up in levitation."
And finally, I have experienced sleep paralysis many times, along with some minor hallucinations (but no floating). It's no big deal.
p.s. Hallucinations and dreams seem real. Surely you've woken in terror from a nightmare that you were convinced was real. And obviously the people who believe that they are survivors of "alien abductions" also believe that what they saw and remember happening to them was genuine.
EDIT: A quote from the first reference in regards to your falling and roller coaster sensation:
"Horrible sensations of falling or rising at high speed. Like a lift or driving down a hill. G- acceleration and deceleration. Almost makes you want to throw up." The floating is usually described as less violent than this, however."
What you describe are textbook symptoms of sleep paralysis with hallucinations--no magic and nothing to be concerned about.
EDIT 2: I have no doubt that you are convinced you are experiencing this--in that sense it is real. The sleep paralysis sense of floating is not like falling in a dream--you essentially are awake and you can see normally. That's why it's so freaky. If you are positive it is not sleep paralysis or a dream you need to see a psychiatrist (best) or a Ph.D. psychologist. Do this as soon as possible--set up something today. If your doctor becomes an obstacle for getting help, find another way--it's important. By the way, if you are in you late teens or early twenties, you especially need to take this seriously. Regardless of what you think is going on, trust me on this one. Good luck.
p.s. Can you move your body--your head, arms, etc. while you are floating (or if you've never noticed, maybe just before or after)? If not, there's no question it's sleep paralysis. If your body stays stiff, that also suggests sleep paralysis--how could your body possibly do this if floating? If you were really floating things would bend.
Let me put it this way--if someone is lying on their back in bed in the morning and experiences unusual things--and floating is one of the most common--the chance that this is due to sleep paralysis is extremely high. That's precisely when this happens. This is the only time most people would experience anything remotely like this, and it's common. If someone does not experience delusions or hallucinations at other times of the day, I can pretty much guarantee you it's sleep paralysis.
I assume that you won't challenge the observaton that people do hallucinate during sleep paralysis and that it often seems real. There's no reason to think that you're any different--it's just how the human brain works and plays tricks on us--all of us. Sometimes the only way to distinguish hallucinations from reality is that they are impossible--the laws of physics cannot be violated for example. And you've already noted this--which is better than a lot of people. For sleep paralysis, you don't even need to think of it as an hallucination--it's essentially a dream intruding on the waking state. It's really creepy.
Some of the other possibilites, such as schizophrenia or a brain tumor would be much more difficult to deal with, by the way.
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Source(s): Ph.D. Biochemist - 6 years ago
Don't worry.
I've experienced similar.
Not levitating but moving things without touching them, moving power to something just by touch. And about that last one, without being a part of a circuit.
Email me if you want to talk about it more.
Hope to hear from you soon.
- MrZLv 61 decade ago
You say twice that you "wake up". That suggest to me that this is just a dream that you are remembering. It is normal.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
dude that's cool. i believe you. i'm also an atheist, but levitating isn't really about religion or spirituality. it's more of a science thinng. go here:
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