Fast Flashing Hypnopompic Dream Still Images

I joined just because I had the exact description of this. Even down to the grogginess and headaches. Has anyone had any updates? I thought it was an acute seizure of some kind. It’s actually quite painful for me when it happens so I’m really not interested in discovering the “meaning†behind these images. It feels like these are random pictures being ripped from my brain as a small electrical impulse jumps around my memory. I didn’t understand what M.E. is, can anyone update with their thoughts?

I woke up this morning to this phenomenon that happened to me in the past. I think it might happen every morning when I wake up because this morning I noticed it but decided to pay attention to the images because I was very tired.
I focused my attention to the slideshow like photographs that were running from right to left in my minds eye. I related to the post from Cosmic Clair, I too have found the information for awakening and working on this daily. This information for me being, Wayne Dyer, positive head podcast, Abraham Hicks, Alan Watts, Buddhism style thought. I have the information I need but find myself not actually studying it and being comfortable in my old way of thought. I think this information might be associated with this phenomenon. I see color photographs in square picture form of events, people, people in motion. As if looking through photographs from a magazines archives. The images are running left to right. Flashing just long enough to barely see and then move on. I have often naturally came up with the word download for the experience. It feels to me like a download of past or future events that have happened. The images are neutral. Not sad, happy, mad, etc., just could be as simple as a woman handing a red ballon to a child, next image a doorway with a turquoise door, next and old man smiling while eating icecream., the images all seem to be a scene or pleasant human experience.
I don’t know what it is., I think I’m experiencing all the lives I have lived or all lives lived.
Anyone with help on how to understand this or if there is something I’m supposed to be doing with it? Please comment

I notice this from time to time when I wake up. Rapid flashing images, for me they are geometric in nature, sometimes a bit more realistic, looked like outline art. For me they flash in place. They exchange so fast that I can’t remember them. Usually I want to shake them off, I am a bit alarmed of them. I had them this morning, next time I’ll try to hold some of these in my mind.

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Ahh,I’ve been wondering if others experience this too!! I began a few searches but never really found much, and I’m kind of unsure how to even search properly for it.

For me, it happens as I’m laying still, slowly waking up and usually when I still feel fairly sleepy before fully waking up. A series of flashing images, more like bright lights really, in such fast succession and mostly in geometric forms, various colours.
Sometimes, though, it’s just one bright flash that peaks in brightness before disappearing.

I’ve noticed something distinct about the experience though: once it’s done, I’m 100% fully aware and alert. It almost feels like the full stop at the end of my sleeping/dreaming journey, kind of similar to the way a shamanic drum journey ends with a faster, more intense rhythm (which, without fail, brings one back to a fully awake state). It’s not ever really linked to the end of a dream, not even the dream state, but more so the end of a sleepy state.

[center][/center]I’ve had this happening for the past couple of weeks now. Just a fast flashing of still images that i can’t find a special meaning to. I will point out though that they only happen when i meditate before bed. I have no idea if that has anything to do with it. Its usually at the end where i am completely aware that im within a dream. Now i don’t know if anyone has experienced a feeling of being lifted up or feeling this warmth or seeing this bright light before this all occurs. For example today the light happened twice until on the final try it took me to go and see these images. I don’t know if im unconsciously controlling it? But i’d love to hear your thoughts!

I am new to this forum but am interested to hear your theory. How exactly can I email you? Or are you able to email me? snpowelson@gmail.com

spowelson, the post that you quoted is 6 years old. The poster only made one post and disappeared.

Upon waking, before being fully awake, I am aware of a “slideshow”. It used to run left to right, geometric shapes and symbols that I don’t recognize. Then it started to evolve into a 3D presentation of layers of shapes and movement, I could feel myself moving and being swept along. Then the shapes and images started to become scary somehow. I can’t even describe what I saw and felt, it was like nothing I have ever experienced or saw. It started to become frightening, so I asked my higher self to stop showing me these things and then they stopped. I am aware of ascension and I believe this to be an ascension symptom

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This phenomena has been happening to me, too - ever since my father passed away (Oct 2017). One thing I have been able to do that I haven’t seen anyone post yet: I have been able to TALK to the image.

For example, one of the images was a still of 2 women. I told the still to “stop.” It stopped. Then I said “Hello.” One of the women in the image “came to life” and said “Hello” back! I woke up in terror, shivering, had to catch my breath. It was so scary!

Anyone else experience this? Please email me at cabbagejenny@gmail.com. I am writing a short story that will be using this experience as one of the main plot elements.

Jenny

As I awake i see images flashing in my mind so quick I cannot recognize them. It feels like electric in some way. I find it upsetting like i am having a seizure. It frightens me and my mind stays foggy for sometime after waking.

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It happened to ne just 2hours ago and i woke up breathing heavily. When i checked the clock i was only asleep for like 10 or 15 mins. I saw flashes of pics its fast but ive seen all i even saw a name and a number and a pic of a lady i never met before. Before iit happened i remember feeling something heavy on top of me then it started flashing like im trying to recognize it but i dont understand and even the handwritings are weird.

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Just experienced this for the first time. I had just woken up and wondered if I could get a few more minutes of sleep. As soon as I closed my eyes the images started. At first it startled me but I immediately wanted to see what happens. The images were black and white moving very quickly from right to left. They were mostly shapes and symbols with heavy black lines. I recall one image was of a horse’s head. I was trying to acknowledge each image as it moved through. It lasted for about a minute and I just opened my eyes. I truly don’t think I fell back asleep. Very curious about this!

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Has anyone found out what the medical term for this is and what it means? I have had this happen a few times in my life… I’m about 50 yrs old… and it happened about 30 times in my life from young to just this morning. Like 1000s of images flashing VERY FAST in front of me like 10+ per second for several minutes, I feel like my mind is racing and I think I recognize or understand most of the images. It is MUCH faster than I think while normally awake. This is as I am waking up, it’s like where my subconscious meets my consciousness. Often I have a headache afterward.

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If its what you use to lucid dream,its a variation of wild and mild

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It’s technically termed a hypnopompic hallucination. I have them quite frequently, and I was twice able to make an image stop and say hello to me. It was so scary; struck me at my core. We are onto something here – I think the “mind” is collective, and we tap into it when we dream. It’s a small piece of evidence that we are beyond our physical matter. That’s my 2 cents.

I have had several similar experiences. During one of them, I was waking, either from a false awakening (dream) or in between sleep and a waking state. I just laid there with my eyes closed and the same rapid succession of images just came flooding through. During times before this, it was so fast and intense that it was too much to behold. This time, however, I watched carefully as some of the images slowed down at the end. They were busy scenes with places and people. Almost with an illustrated type of quality. Then, I noticed more clearly, that they were nonsensical shapes. Everything I was seeing was nothing recognizable. The shapes that I thought were people were just tall rectangles with little circles on top. The whole terrain and landscape in the images was just a bunch of random colors and shapes.

In other dreams, there were buildings, offices, text on computer screens, paperwork, and a whole host of other images that were flashing in extremely rapid succession. Then, they became incredibly small and were moving horizontally accross my field of vision like static. The smaller images began to make up larger images and the whole process kept repeating itself infinitely fast. In a dream where I woke, seeing what is described above in a partial waking state, I eventually awoke feeling something like static. It was a very euphoric, yet terrifying feeling. My heart was racing and I felt that if I were to let go at that particular moment of waking, that I could die (my heart is usually racing after waking like this). The fear eventually passed, however, and the euphoria continued on for several minutes.

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Hi
I would like to chime in on my experiences, very similar to those in this thread, for which I have been searching for an explanation for a while.
Periodically I see a rapid progression of still images just before waking fully. I am conscious of the images and able to remark to myself internally about them. It is not a dream, as I am able to ‘hang on’ to the experience for a little while and it continues so long as there is no distrubance. The images come at the speed others have mentioned, maybe 5 a second, or more. It feels odd that, even though they are very rapid, I can see the detail in each one. Sometimes the images are all well lit, with bright colours, others are dim. The images are grouped - at times I will see all faces, at other times the images will be all landscapes. Another curious thing is that none of the images are recognizable. there is no sound ,or movement.
The experience is not unpleasant, and I wake with no adverse feeling. In fact when I see many face images it is quite pleasant.
I wonder if this is caused by excitation of speciifc brain regions that store archetypal images, from which vision is constructred? A TED talk by Oliver Sacks suggests such a thing (sorry can’t include the link here)
It would be interesting to hear from brain/vision researchers on this.
David

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Thank you so much for sharing!

I really think we are tapping into something that’s beyond science (and I’m a true believer IN science!). I think that this is evidence of the collective consciousness.

I’ve experienced these still images when entering a dream. It starts from still images that spark some different memories until I get immersed completely into a train of thought that forms a dream world.

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I’m not sure how this happens,all I know is tat I don’t think I get these while having lucid dreams.

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