Hypnagogia is a state in which a person is between being awake and asleep. It is the moment where what they are thinking about begins to become more important than what they are seeing. It is a moment of euphoria as the imagination takes over and guides the person to a point where his mind stops working altogether which will inevitably lead to dreaming during the course of one's sleep.
I have always seen this moment in the likeness of falling down a great tunnel. Your bed simply collapses under you and you fall to some other frequency within reality. You are still there in reality, but reality itself has fallen off your radar. You are traveling into the realm of dreams powered by an untethered imagination. Here, what you see is what you are thinking. Welcome to your subconscious.
Surrealism is the aspect of seeing something that conflicts with standard reality (reality as in when you are awake.) You see much of this when dreaming, but the part of you that can tell the difference is turned off. You are free of the forced oppression of the disbelief in impossible things. The impossible things make sense and you embrace them. This only lasts while you are asleep and for a short period after you wake up. You soon realize that what you saw and heard was only your imagination. This allows you to shrug it off.
You are sitting at your desk at work. Suddenly you look down and notice a pencil appears to be floating about half an inch off of your desk. It isn't doing anything else, but you do notice it. You lower your head down to the desk to make sure you are not going crazy. You aren't. The pencil is actually floating. You try and touch the pencil. A moment later, you are not sure if you tried or not. You try and remember if you did and cannot seem to recall.
You lean on your elbows and try to figure out what it happening. Are you awake? Have you lost your mind? The pen is still floating. But wait. Wasn't it a pencil? Actually, it may have been a pen all along. You never keep pencils at work anyways. You haven't used an actual pencil since school.
Suddenly you stand up and walk to the window behind you. You look out of the window and down to the ground level. It's bright out, but no one is walking and no one is driving. The streets are empty. You open the door to your office. The entire place is empty and the lights are off. Is the place closed? Why would they close so early?
You look back into your office at the window. It's nighttime outside. It makes sense. Why would it be bright out when the office is closed. It must have been night all along. You sit back down at the desk and see the marker that is still floating on the table. You try and touch it.
Surrealism is generally used to describe the concept of feeling like you are in a dream when you are actually awake. Odd things begin occurring that you cannot explain. The common reaction to this is to try and figure out exactly what is going on. People are both fascinated and frightened of the surreal. It generally means something is wrong but not obvious. Hypnogogia is the condition in which you slip into these odd frequencies and begin to experience what lies behind the reality that you are accustomed to.
When experiencing these things, you may feel confused, but don't dismiss it out of hand. Your brain may simply be having difficulty interpreting what it is seeing. It is trying to make sense of it. Take a deep breath. Calm down. Look at what you are seeing and attempt to interact with it based on instant judgement. Don't try and calculate it. Don't try and figure out its meaning. Operate entirely by the heart and make your way through the corridor. The truth is on the other side, and you will be better for having found it. It's time to believe.
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Wow! The mutable scenario was very mesmerizing. Yes, we are confused when things are not as we "remember" and dismiss the obvious as something other. Sadly, most people deliberately corrupt what they sense into something they prefer. They would rather be comfortable in misery than uncomfortable for the better. This is how the Father of Lies rules this world. The righteous leave their comfort zones in search of the truth. They judge themselves as they do so, thus, shall not be judged.
ReplyDeleteThese things happen while we are awake, and we tend to miss them. We really should pay closer attention to the world around us and try and find these glitches. We'll never know what they mean if we don't first acknowledge their existence in the first place.
DeleteIn dreams, the imagination flies free. The things which happen there have a logic of their own. To understand them, you must realize that the rules of the waking world do not apply.
ReplyDeleteDreams are dreams, but life sometimes mimics a dream. Rules don't apply here either. I'm not trying to always pick on you, but you do try a bit too hard to use logic to explain everything.
DeleteVery stimulating subjects, I find hypnagogia especially fascinating as it is the result of the logically imposed barriers being lifted. Imagination is without limits but our brain imposes all sorts of rules based on the physics of reality. Realizing that this physical reality is a construct that was born from imagination is one of the first steps in becoming free of these rules. Surrealism can cause a mind that is trapped within these confines to come to a sudden halt, we have to think outside the box and dream or we will fall victim another's agenda. We have to take the reigns from the logical side of our mind, in other words We must first go to sleep in order to wake up.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it takes a little crazy to figure these things out. These strange moments in ecnetsixe are not a part of our frequency. So we have to determine what they are outside of normal logic.
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