Hi, I would like to share a story about my morning today.
So, that night I had lots of homework, like an essay, lots of reading, speech to write, trig, history, chemistry even art project thing. So I was up to about 2:30 am, and I had to get up around 5:50 to get ready for school. When I woke up I was, the only possible thing, was I was high. Quite literally the stuff that makes you dream was still being produced. I was completely disoriented, barely making my way to the shower. I even would have a half dream, where I would hallucinate and image things, but be awake. I couldn't really control what I was doing, running off a sort of autopilot. It was insane, I mean, I couldn't even focus or see correctly.
Have any one of you had this sort of high when you woke up? I mean, I would have been nice if I wasn't rushed to get ready (warm and fuzzy feeling). And I almost want to do it again and that is scary.
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Welcome to my daily life, full of brief sporadic hallucinations. Your brain was probably still in a slow delta wave state, or moving into theta as the dominant wave. The subsequent effect is your brain continuing to secrete DMT.
However, I came here assuming this thread was going to be about the brain's ability to reproduce the effects of any drug and any compound, but the "pilot" (conscious mind) is locked out from that level of control. During a migraine once, out of sheer desperation I managed to force the very same chemical changes that occur following amphetamine use, with only conscious thought. Surprisingly, the migraine receded, then disappeared.
Was an interesting occurrence, worth noting in the future.
Welcome to my daily life, full of brief sporadic hallucinations. Your brain was probably still in a slow delta wave state, or moving into theta as the dominant wave. The subsequent effect is your brain continuing to secrete DMT.
That sounds like it could be quite distracting. I suppose it would depend on the situation and the hallucination though.
However, I came here assuming this thread was going to be about the brain's ability to reproduce the effects of any drug and any compound, but the "pilot" (conscious mind) is locked out from that level of control. During a migraine once, out of sheer desperation I managed to force the very same chemical changes that occur following amphetamine use, with only conscious thought. Surprisingly, the migraine receded, then disappeared.
Was an interesting occurrence, worth noting in the future.
Have doctors verified this? Was it a specific thought that caused this mental change, or did it just happen accidentally? I guess it would be hard to verify that it was not simply an artifact of the migraine unless it had happened consistently and predictably.
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That sounds like it could be quite distracting. I suppose it would depend on the situation and the hallucination though.
They aren't overbearing, or anything major. Just small bits of artifacting, or occasional flashes of things that may or may not actually be as they are. Patterns in long expanses of tile for example frequently stand out, even if the premise of "pattern" is temporarily being redefined. Hard to describe a direct example. I just consider it as an additional layer thats on top of my perpetual migraine aura.
Have doctors verified this? Was it a specific thought that caused this mental change, or did it just happen accidentally? I guess it would be hard to verify that it was not simply an artifact of the migraine unless it had happened consistently and predictably.
No, I haven't yet (or likely ever will) have medical science confirm what is actually happening neurologically, I only have subjective effects to judge by. If you imagine a migraine as plotted out in a bell curve (with one side sinking much lower than the starting point of course), I halted it during the initial climb, when it was still coming to its peak. The thought in mind was that if a wave of cortical spreading depression was actually the cause, that maybe widespread seizures in certain locations, or a large amount of depolarization could halt and diffuse it. I just imagined a sensation in my mind, that I later came to equate with a door opening, and then it running throughout the entirety of my mind frontals to occipitals. At first I felt disoriented, and still in pain. Over the next ten minutes I felt the migraine disappear, and recognised what I've subjectively known to be a rise in norepinephrine and dopamine.
It left me feeling somewhat drained afterwards, and although I've managed to do it at the start of at least 4 migraines, it isn't easy and doesn't always work. I still have no idea what physiological mechanism is actually occurring. For all I know, it does more harm than a migraine ever would.
So, that night I had lots of homework, like an essay, lots of reading, speech to write, trig, history, chemistry even art project thing. So I was up to about 2:30 am, and I had to get up around 5:50 to get ready for school. When I woke up I was, the only possible thing, was I was high. Quite literally the stuff that makes you dream was still being produced. I was completely disoriented, barely making my way to the shower. I even would have a half dream, where I would hallucinate and image things, but be awake. I couldn't really control what I was doing, running off a sort of autopilot. It was insane, I mean, I couldn't even focus or see correctly.
Have any one of you had this sort of high when you woke up? I mean, I would have been nice if I wasn't rushed to get ready (warm and fuzzy feeling). And I almost want to do it again and that is scary.
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I didn't take anything, no drugs, no meds, didn't even have beer
I had the same feeling, but I stayed up for 36 hours instead.
It's kinda... nice. In a way. Tempts me to do it again.
I reach the shallow part of the ocean...
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You were possibly just half asleep and having a sleep walking episode.
Wait for time
In the break of new dawn
We will never meet
Well I don't even know if it was, so
so that may have been the case, but still,
I probably experienced the same thing as him. (And yep I am tempted to do it again!)
...thank you haha. Yeah I was totally clean, it is just amazing that out brains are that powerful.
http://en.wikipedia....Sleep_paralysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
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It was probably hypnogagia!
However, I came here assuming this thread was going to be about the brain's ability to reproduce the effects of any drug and any compound, but the "pilot" (conscious mind) is locked out from that level of control. During a migraine once, out of sheer desperation I managed to force the very same chemical changes that occur following amphetamine use, with only conscious thought. Surprisingly, the migraine receded, then disappeared.
Was an interesting occurrence, worth noting in the future.
But really, maybe your brain is a heroine addict. Thats possible.
EDIT: Ah, someone did explain it.
That sounds like it could be quite distracting. I suppose it would depend on the situation and the hallucination though.
Have doctors verified this? Was it a specific thought that caused this mental change, or did it just happen accidentally? I guess it would be hard to verify that it was not simply an artifact of the migraine unless it had happened consistently and predictably.
I will often edit my posts after I have posted them in an attempt to improve their clarity (I value a few high quality posts over several low quality ones; the more lengthy the post, the more time it requires to edit) so you might want to wait for a while if this post is recent and refresh to see if anything has changed before replying to it.
They aren't overbearing, or anything major. Just small bits of artifacting, or occasional flashes of things that may or may not actually be as they are. Patterns in long expanses of tile for example frequently stand out, even if the premise of "pattern" is temporarily being redefined. Hard to describe a direct example. I just consider it as an additional layer thats on top of my perpetual migraine aura.
No, I haven't yet (or likely ever will) have medical science confirm what is actually happening neurologically, I only have subjective effects to judge by. If you imagine a migraine as plotted out in a bell curve (with one side sinking much lower than the starting point of course), I halted it during the initial climb, when it was still coming to its peak. The thought in mind was that if a wave of cortical spreading depression was actually the cause, that maybe widespread seizures in certain locations, or a large amount of depolarization could halt and diffuse it. I just imagined a sensation in my mind, that I later came to equate with a door opening, and then it running throughout the entirety of my mind frontals to occipitals. At first I felt disoriented, and still in pain. Over the next ten minutes I felt the migraine disappear, and recognised what I've subjectively known to be a rise in norepinephrine and dopamine.
It left me feeling somewhat drained afterwards, and although I've managed to do it at the start of at least 4 migraines, it isn't easy and doesn't always work. I still have no idea what physiological mechanism is actually occurring. For all I know, it does more harm than a migraine ever would.