[Help] Hyper-Realistic Dreams

[Sedim Haba]

I'm asking for help to deal with this, perhaps someone has experience like this,
more likely here than elsewhere, for sure. It's happened to me once, therefore perhaps again.

Imagine you are wherever you are in the middle of the day, work, school.

Walking down the hall, and coming toward you is a tiny hippo, comes up to your middle.
Everyone just treats it as normal. Tiny hippo. what? What?? WHAT???
Must be dreaming, you think. But, wait, you've lived a full half day of life!
Woke, showered, ate, drove, talked to people. Changed classes/meetings/jobs.
It can't be a dream, how can it? All those experiences aren't real???

Welcome to my life, about a year ago. Went on like this, not for hours, days. Weeks! MONTHS!

How it began:
I went to a 'mental health professional' to get an official Autism diagnosis. Oh boy, I'm Autistic.

Same studies showed I had anxiety and depression. Well, ya. Sux being like this.

She was a good little shill for big pharma, 'Here, we have pills for that'. SSRIs.

Went on that, it takes a while to kick in, but when it did, that was the result above.

Unable to distinguish between reality and dream, as the dream is hyper real.

See: LInk here

This kicked it off.

So, what to do? At it's peak madness, I spent a year-minus-a-day in Astral realm?

It seemed real to me. A rather large town along a road running in a valley.

Behind it was a 'mall' megastructure. So big, takes a day to walk around.

A shopping mall + apartment complex + industrial park + medical labs.

I knew all of it, like lived for a year. I was a plumber there, we get around.

'Real-Time' maybe two months. Every time sleeping, right back there again.

Eventually I cracked, and threw away the SSRI's. You're supposed to wean off,

but I just had to leave there or go actually insane. What's real? WHO KNOWS.

Now, my Familiar won't let me Lucid Dream or Astral Project without her.

I guess, she feels I may get trapped there again. IDK what to do if I did.

I still have trouble sleeping, I get up at 4 or 5 or 6, whenever a dream wakes me up.

Post automatically merged: Sunday at 5:29 PM

My familiar just commented that I make this sound like the movie Inception.

I guess it was, but don't remember too much about that movie, except the end.

With the top. My tell(?) was digital clocks. HAD to have one at all times.

 

[Keldan]

What to do? Don’t take that medication again.

You just had lucid dreams when under the meds. And this meds in particular threw you in the same location. Since you’ve been off it for a while, taking it again would put you back into a single location, a different one than last time.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Yes, I will never ever take those again. May have even gotten more brain damage with sudden cold-turkey, I didn't care!

but...

I have to see a Neurologist. I may need some other psychotropic drug. I don't think the doc will care about my dreams.

See, I don't think these pharma companies even know how these drugs work, really. If they do anything good, they sell them.

I know for a fact the other thing I was on, they really didn't understand. Everyone responds differently, and my response is rare but not unknown.

Not knowing what's real is hell. I've had Lucid Dreams, not many but... these were different.

 

[Keldan]

You don’t need to see a neurologist just because you were having bad dreams while on medication. They’ll just respond by prescribing you another medication.

 

[Sedim Haba]

No, it's for other, non-related problems. I just am looking for advice if he does, and I do...

 

[Keldan]

No, it's for other, non-related problems. I just am looking for advice if he does, and I do...

Your familiar will give you better advice than the neurologist does regarding these problems that you don’t mention. And when the neurologist prescribes you another medication, you can always say no.

 

[Eliyel]

If a past medication was making it difficult for you to recognize reality, that's definitely something that a neurologist should be taking very seriously. I'd recommend just being very open about that past experience and your concern with the neurologist, and insist on not taking any medication in the future that's known to cause those kinds of issues. If you start a new prescription and it's causing problems you're not comfortable with, reach out to the doctor ASAP and ask to switch to something else.

Also if you're sensitive to medication side effects, most prescriptions will have alternatives that are less intense! I haven't had that exact experience, but have had nasty side effects in the past while on stimulants for ADHD. After talking that through with my current doc, he helped me land on a rarely-prescribed medication that's meant for young children, and it's worked well without any serious adverse effects.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Your familiar will give you better advice than the neurologist does regarding these problems that you don’t mention. And when the neurologist prescribes you another medication, you can always say no.

Neurologists deal with problems with the wetware, spinal column in this case. My trans son needed brain surgery at the base of skull.

I might too. She can't help with that, and it might impact her as well, so she's hella worried. I'm never seeing a 'shrink' again, if I can help it.

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I guess what I'm looking for is if anyone has had a similar experience, whatever the cause, and how they dealt with it.

I didn't deal with it good at all. Better to be prepared, with something in my toolbox, as it were.

 

[Durward]

I'm asking for help to deal with this, perhaps someone has experience like this,
more likely here than elsewhere, for sure. It's happened to me once, therefore perhaps again.

Imagine you are wherever you are in the middle of the day, work, school

Bufotenine was detected in urine from autistic patients and some depressed patients....

Might want to get checked for bufotenine and N-methylserotonin byproducts.

These can be highly hallucinogenic.

The other health check would be for mercury poisoning, which can do a lot of things.

I had a genetic test done, not the family gene check, but health check at a genealogist. It turns out that I have some active mutations that hike up things like acetylcholine levels and don't allow serotonin to be reabsorbed or degraded properly. I also had extreme levels of mercury and copper. This allowed for/caused me to experience things like full OOBE's without being able to tell the difference if I was in or out of my body.

 

[Sedim Haba]

I had a genetic test done, not the family gene check, but health check at a genealogist. It turns out that I have some active mutations that hike up things like acetylcholine levels and don't allow serotonin to be reabsorbed or degraded properly. I also had extreme levels of mercury and copper. This allowed for/caused me to experience things like full OOBE's without being able to tell the difference if I was in or out of my body.

Wow, that's harsh. How long did you have those OOBE's? That would be far more dangerous than dreams of any stripe.

I just saw Groundhog Day again, for the holiday. THAT would be even worse, as he lets himself get actually offed. If it was for 'real' ... wow.

All good ideas, when I see the Neurologist I will ask if these are in the blood panels they do, and add them if possible. I just had a blood panel,

I should go check what was actually tested. Probably not many, it was for cardio, electrolytes. Copper should be there.

 

[Durward]

Wow, that's harsh. How long did you have those OOBE's? That would be far more dangerous than dreams of any stripe.

I just saw Groundhog Day again, for the holiday. THAT would be even worse, as he lets himself get actually offed. If it was for 'real' ... .

All good ideas, when I see the Neurologist I will ask if these are in the blood panels they do, and add them if possible. I just had a blood panel,

I should go check what was actually tested. Probably not many, it was for cardio, electrolytes. Copper should be there.

LOL, it is impossible for me to tell how much was, or is, projected or lucid, or real life physical. I often just assume everything is real, because of safety. Most of the time, when something is not physical reality in this time and space, something will give it away. As an example, I got punched in the face, and knocked to the ground, but it didn't hurt, and my response was like I was a puppet because I then said things that didn't make sense, like "That's ok, I understand" instead of WTF! So lack of pain is a measure, I can pinch myself and 'wake up' from it.
The role playing 'others' are also semi-independent, and I have linked many of them to emotional or dream states that other people are actively engaged in at the time. So it feels I'm drawn into other people's cesspools and sometimes forced to participate. Another obvious one was when I was playing tennis. First, I don't play tennis, don't know how, never learned, never interested me. But I was playing anyway, and the ball kept coming back over the net, even though nobody was on the other side of the net. I was losing, of course, and the person playing with me on this side of the net was frustrated, and it made me laugh, and the laughter snapped me out of that world. It turned out that the person sleeping in the dorm room with me was dreaming that dream, and my laughter woke him up. When I told him, he went three shades of pale whiter and avoided me for a long time, claiming I was some kind of Hoodoo priest or warlock wizard mf'er.
So it isn't all just hallucination and fake, it has content and purpose. Controlling it better would be nice.

As far as testing, they usually have to use a chelator to release heavy metals before testing for them, and then you can see them being flushed out in urine samples. Then, it is very important to put back other things you need, like iron.

 

[Sedim Haba]

LOL, it is impossible for me to tell how much was, or is, projected or lucid, or real life physical. I often just assume everything is real, because of safety. Most of the time, when something is not physical reality in this time and space, something will give it away. As an example, I got punched in the face, and knocked to the ground, but it didn't hurt, and my response was like I was a puppet because I then said things that didn't make sense, like "That's ok, I understand" instead of WTF! So lack of pain is a measure, I can pinch myself and 'wake up' from it.

I can so relate to this, and not to Groundhog Day, because you HAVE to treat everything as real because 'real life' is intermixed, not day-day-day
like in that movie. SOME things will be real. Good LUCK figuring out which 'day' is real and which is not. My wife, she mostly was avoiding me
during the worst of it, (Autism too) and AFAIK the worst was during covid lockdown, so little other contact happening. No going out in public.
Wife is a nurse, some nurses moved out to motels or RVs during the worst of it. Distancing.

Nope, just me and my demons. Quite literally.

As far as testing, they usually have to use a chelator to release heavy metals before testing for them, and then you can see them being flushed out in urine samples. Then, it is very important to put back other things you need, like iron.

So, you have to purposefully test for heavy metals. Good to know. I was tested for lead years and years ago, I was a professional surface-mount
PCB repair tech, it was a real worry, they didn't give us fume hoods, like at all. I soldered with a freaking stereo microscope. Close, delicate work.
I don't remember how the test was done, it's been a long time. How did you get such high mercury poisoning, if you don't mind sharing.

 

[Durward]

How did you get such high mercury poisoning, if you don't mind sharing.

If I only knew. I have some ideas, and it might end up being correct, because I had my brother tested and he was also toxic, but not as bad as I was.
Anyway, I grew up in the literal backwoods, where the closest thing to home was gold, copper, and silver mines. I fished and played in the downstream water from where they were using mercury to mine the gold, for many years. The fish tasted great, and I would catch and eat them every day, all Summer long. Yummy toxins. So that is a likely source. Second, like many kids of that era, the thermometers we broke and played with were all liquid mercury. I remember cupping mercury in my hand and rolling it around, Yay! Liquid cold metal, how cool. Not knowing that mercury can literally absorb right through your skin and that the fumes can be inhaled.
The area I grew up in is now a Super Fund Federal Cleanup site, and the answer to fixing the mercury problem was to dump concrete on it and contain it, because it was too expensive to try and actually clean up the area.
The chelation did drop my mercury levels from 800 points, down to 6 points. That took 2 years and about 8 treatments. But some of the damage done is done. I lost the sensitivity of my feet, so you can tickle those all you want and it just feels good.
An interesting find was that mercury loves to sit in the frontal lobe area, which is the same area that is presumed to be blocking or filtering Psi phenomena. So perhaps there is a link there?
Another thing you might want to look at is called Mad Hatter's, a problem that is less common now because we don't have people making felt hats using mercury to do it with.

A neurobiological model suggests the frontal lobes, particularly the left medial middle frontal region (Brodmann areas 9, 10, and 32),
act as a filter that suppresses innate psi abilities (telepathy, precognition, mind-matter interaction). Studies with frontal lobe damage or rTMS-induced inhibition (temporary inhibition) showed increased psi, supporting the idea that the brain acts as a filter.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Yikes, and I know they still have so many untreated sites in China right now. The things humans will do to the world to make money.

I knew about mad hatter, but NOT that mercury is just used in massive mining operations, in modern day world, criminal if you ask me.

Yes, the brain is mostly filter, if every filter stops, you just go insane. Like you and me did, to an extent. Glad they (mostly) detoxed you.