Did you have one spontaneously? Randomly read about it online? Are you one of those lucky people that have had them since childhood?
Did you have one spontaneously? Randomly read about it online? Are you one of those lucky people that have had them since childhood?
Was seeing Waking Life for me also that introduced me to the topic. Still not able to do it voluntarily, but fun to read about.
That scene where they talk about it was so weird for me. It was a mixture of “never heard about this” and “well, of course this is a thing!”
I was a psychedelic-inclined teenager at the time - and it was during the first Salvia boom where I’d had a few chemically-induced of body experiences at far too young an age. I was so excited by it, like “People can just trigger this and do it whenever!?!” Unfortunately none of the tricks really seemed to work for me, falling asleep is the end of my ability to control what’s up. But I do occasionally have very vivid dreams where I feel conscious of my decisions and even occasionally aware that I’m dreaming.
Still hilarious to me that it’s also the first place I saw and heard about Alex Jones.
Interesting experiences :) I know right? I remember years later, when I had already heard of him, thinking “Wait a minute, is he the crazy yelling guy in Waking Life?”