Lmao I still remember when I accidentally kicked the sharp corner of a table leg. I sat in my bathroom thinking I was going to bleed out (totally wasn't but it was relatively speaking, a lot of blood) 😂
Wow. You dove quite quickly into a very intimate detail of your personal life. I have never heard of hypnagogia. I’m so absolutely interested and sympathetic at the same time. You blow my mind on such a regular basis my friend. I absolutely appreciate your content. ✌️
I've been having it recently and feel a bit relieved as I thought I had late manifesting schizophrenia,I hadn't heard about the geometric moving patterns thing happening before and that's what I got the first time then the second a flash of a shadow person standing over my bed a differant time
Also Hypnopompia. Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations aren't that uncommon and can just happen in the transition between awake and sleep. Possibly many have them but don't realise it. I have them occasionally.
It can be very uncomfortable indeed. I use opaque drapes around my sleeping area to make the contours around me that the brain fills in as, ghosts,dead children, Keifer Sutherland etc durin REM less aparent. It works most of the time.
Yep, I have it... had it since I was a child. Worse than just seeing apparitions, I can see the structure of my roof through the ceiling... purlins, rafters, the lot. Sometimes it can take half an hour to clear the fog of the shadowy world, and what is worse... I'm seeing it with my eyes, and not with my imagination...🤔?!
I once forced myself into a state of hypnagogia. It was quite strage. I could hear a road with cars going down it and footsteps of people right next to my bed. It's so vivid and sounds so real! I purposefully kept my eyes open to see what would happen and I saw a guy looking in through my bedroom window, staring at me. Upon fully waking up, it all faded out quite fast. So I tried to get to half-sleep again and it all started to fade back in. Really bizarre experience! I can't imagine what it would be like living with the condition. Hope it isn't too bad!
When I was sleep-deprived, I was at work and wondered what the music I could hear was, as it sounded almost familiar. I asked a colleague, who said, "What music?" and the moment she questioned it, the music vanished and I realised it was just my brain interpreting background noise. It happened a few times. Weird experience.
When I was driving once, I saw the highway split off and go up into the sky, exits to somewhere, and other traffic phenomenon I knew was fundamentally impossible. Worst part is it was so vivid and I felt fully awake in that moment. I knew then to pull over and take a nap. When I snapped out of that hallucination, I felt super tired. It... is weird.
@@perstyr I have had similar experiences since my childhood, it starts with soothing music but suddenly a loud bang/thud wakes me up to full panic mode. Nothing changed in my room to cause the sound. The human brain is complex, indeed.
That's one thing you don't often get now, is actual, genuine darkness. As a kid I used to stay with my grandparents on the family farm, and back then there was nothing there but just the few houses that belonged to my relatives, and the rest was fields and woods. At night in the winter, the windows literally looked like they were in outer space. Just nothing beyond the panes except pure blackness, and this was in the time when a "flashlight" was just a tiny little incandescent bulb with two D-cells. If I was lucky, it gave just enough light not to smash my teeth out when outside. Lot different than now where its pretty much light out round the clock.
Oh my god, I have the fractal vividly colorful patterns. I never knew it was a named thing. It's rather disturbing and beautiful at the same time. The worst thing about it is no control over it and not being able to sleep because of it. Thanks for naming it!
When I saw the title I thought "What? another weird claim by an eBay seller for something simple?" but hearing your (heartfelt) explanation made me feel firstly humbled, then thankful that I don't suffer the same thing. Our brains are an amazing piece of engineering, to say the least, and we normally take them for granted. I remember having recurring nightmares as a child but thankfully they disappeared after I'd got through my teens - it must be something to do with the brain reorganising itself or whatever... Long Live simple solutions to complex problems!
Oh wow Clive, I am 54 and have never realised what it was. I get green swirling patterns sometimes and something like a lighthouse swirl, going round and round. I have probably every few nights where I can see all sorts of things in my room but I know I am asleep so it’s not frightening. I can even have an argument with people in my dreams “Look I know I am asleep, you are not real so why can’t you be nice. After all you are a creation of my mind.” I still get nowhere. I can now wake myself up if I don’t like the dream. Not great for my sleep patterns though. All very interesting. I also get sleep paralysis but that too I know is just how the mind works so it’s still crap but I can tell myself its just sleep paralysis when it’s happening. All the best for the New Year.
Not to be too off topic on this channel, but your referance to hypnagogia reminds me of my first shroom experiance many decades ago. After consumption, within two hours, I vocalized my closed eye visualizations of flying over brilliant green topo maps in 3D along with many other strange colorful geometric images in my head. No doubt, watching monty pythons reruns from BBC through PBS for six hours until sun up helped with my induced hypnagogia! Great channel to watch. Thanks.
@@Okurka. i believe bears aren't really lured by light, they're daylight animals (i assumed that because every case of bear ripping someone apart occured at day or when victim was asleep but had food nearby)
@@Okurka. Only thing bears seem to care about when deciding on a target to raid is smell, they'll happily strike my garbage bins in total darkness and not be perturbed in the least by the motion sensor floodlights they set off. I wouldn't really expect predatory/scavenging land animals to be particularly attracted to artificial lights since it's a recent thing in evolutionary terms and trait attraction to light is probably more likely to get you selected out of the gene pool than find a meal. Even just making a habit of eating trash isn't particularly healthy for the near-tame city proximal animals that do it.
I‘ve experienced hypnogogia 3 times as a child. I kept seeing weird patterns and hearing strange noises while having this weird dizzy, buzzing feeling in my head. It was so scary, it even made me cry. I now have a name for it, thanks for sharing!
For me, the patterns and noses are soothing. The terrifying part for me is that it ends with a loud bang/thud as if something heavy moved or had fallen in my room. I used to wake up in a panic and search the entire house for the source. Now I know it's probably in my head.
Thankfully I grew out of it. I used to have sleep paralysis and would see old men and women around my bed when I was a kid. The paralysis would wear off first, then the visions would go away after a few minutes. I was definitely partially awake because I'd draw under my sheets with a flashlight while waiting it out. This was after months of just freezing in terror hoping none of them looked at me. It really didn't help that it began when we moved into a 110 year old farm house that hadn't been inhabited in 30 years, and when we moved in we found half of a gravestone in the attic. I used to sleepwalk too, and got "dragged" down the stairs once. People witnessed me running around terrified of the house collapsing around us and/or ghosts. It was an absolutely terrifying time in my life but I look back on it with fondness. Both of the terror and that farm. It was all very surreal. I had it happen only once since 1993. It was 2005 and I woke up sometime around 2 am and knew the feeling. I couldn't believe it was happening again. I tried moving and speaking to wake up my girlfriend but couldn't. Then I heard the loud banging sounds that preceded the people showing up. This time though, as an adult, I just got incredibly pissed off and it faded away. Hopefully that's the last of it.
I've had the same experience as a kid, also after moving into an old house (in the middle of the woods). I just thought of them as very realistic dreams and I never knew this was a thing until I read your comment! Maybe the feelings of a certain place might potentially trigger this? I don't know but it's very interesting.
This just brings up all sorts of questions. Such as, "Why is there half a gravestone in the attic?" (Well, maybe that's an easy one: "A full gravestone would have been too heavy to carry up there." Though that just begs more questions....)
When I was a teenager sometimes I could fly in my dreams, like superman or more like flappy bird lol. At first I had to learn, get the hang of it by practicing jumping onto the roof, staying in the air etc. until I got confident. It was incredibly realistic. Being able to just jump in the air and travel quickly was very cool and surreal. It happened once again a few years later, this time it was a big flight across the ocean, guided by landmarks, towards home. I never heard of hypnagogia, thanks for the info on that, and the nifty little bat-pow LED
Today I learned about Hypnagogia. In return, I wanted to say something witty and delightful, because I enjoy your channel. The best I could come up with was : "I have a pair of Hypno-Goggles." Which I don't, so I don't know why I thought of saying it. I'm going to attach one each to our puppies. 3am toilet trips are fraught with danger.
I built this 3 Months ago with a 120Ω resistor and it's been lit 24/7. The battery voltage has only dropped from 2.458 V to 2.437 V with the LED still being about as bright as in the beginning. It's really amazing how "much" light it can put out over such a long period of time.
You have explained so many technical issues in so many videos so far, but I think you just opened a new term and understanding of my own world. Thank you for every video and thank you for my new understanding of the phenomenon!
This explains your fixation to lighting and how to make them last as long as possible, can not have one that fails or the ghosts will reappear. The plus side is that you give your knowledge and expertise to others and get them into a hobby that can be rewarding and relatively cheap.
Fascinating, Clive. I saw the title, and thought that you had bought some shonky device from ebay that claimed to lay ghosts. Not that at all, though. I saw 'Shadow People' when I was depressed after my parents died. They are scary - I'd wake up, and one might be lurking at the foot of my bed, or worse, leaning over my head, as if staring at me. They never actually did anything, but their presence was undeniably sinister and menacing. It probably wasn't ideal me living alone for eight months after my mum died, thinking about it. My neighbour has security lights in his back garden, and the light through my curtains would throw the figures into disturbingly sharp relief. I took to sleeping with my bedside light on. I did work nights, and did see them in the daytime, too. They always reminded me of the evil shadow people, trying to cross over into this dimension, that are featured in Alan Garner's brilliant novel, 'Elidor'. After my brother moved back in, in August 2007, I stopped seeing them regularly, and have not seen them at all now, for many years.
At my job, we often need to crimp new connectors onto our test leads. I've actually found that I like the cheap single jaw crimpers with like 8 different sizes the best, you do need to crimp the conductor and the strain relief separately but I find I get the best results and they'll work on nearly any connector brand. And they're cheap. "Open Barrel" or "molex style" seems to be the magic keywords for ones that look like the pair at work.
I am blind on the right side of my vision. Occasionally when I'm just waking up, or just falling asleep I'll have hallucinations on that side for a few seconds - things like seeing my deceased cat down the back of the bed, or a water bottle floating around in space.
There were a number of years where I intentionally tried to train my brain to stay aware and awake during hypnagogia. Or hypno, can't remember which one is which. Regardless, it is an absolutely fascinating mindset. I remember a very vivid, vibrant translucent blue orb surrounding my bed as I rocked back and forth, ultimately hoping to pop into an OBE or lucid dream. I say all this because a) it can absolutely be terrifying but b) honing and working with that state of being can result in some really amazing explorations. And there's my random morning aside, thanks as always for the content.
I think that low-level lighting is underrated. A year or so ago I wired up a dimmer switch to the upstairs hallway light. Then I set it to a low level, and have not touched it since. At night it's more than enough light to see by, without messing up my night vision. And it's using a non-dimmable LED bulb! I had meant to change it to a dimmable bulb, but it worked, and the slow flickering feels rather natural, like a candle. Of course this very under-powered LED bulb will last forever. I also have a power strip on the floor in my bedroom along where I walk. I do plan to re-route it when certain furniture can be moved, but as this powers my DVR computer, it is bad when one of the US-style plugs in it gets bumped. I plugged a very old EL panel night light into the power strip, so there is now a big green circle on the floor to avoid at night.
Thank you, Clive, you just gave me the proper name for what I have always experienced while on the edge of the hypnotic sleep state when slowly drifting off to sleep. Never knew the proper term for such. Thankfully I never saw bodies moving about at night as a child but I would see dark shadows that my childhood brain would predictably interpret as monsters! I will also experience very lucid dreams and occasionally hear odd sounds during that time. I learned from an early age to always sleep with a nightlight as a child and at least a hint of light as an adult. That usually includes some battery backed light, whether battery powered emergency lighting or a UPS, as my entire sense of balance is visual based due to SSCDS (or SCDS, depending upon the source) and so waking up to a pitch black room in a power outage is rather dangerous for me…especially given I’m a bit of a pack rat/hoarder as well nor do I wish to step on my feline friends!
When you had your poll up I didn't know you meant your condition was like this. Like- I see things in very dark areas in video games (usually horror games) but that's likely just the mind trying to see things that might be dangerous; it doesn't sound at all like this. Wow that sounds like a lot of ...'fun'.
When I was a kid I used to see what I described as a force field around my bed. It was as clear as day to me, made up of tiny weird particles that would swirl around eachother and altogether move at speed around my bed. Parents thought I was making it up. Nice to have a word to put to it.
From your description, this sounds like a condition I had as a young child, but I grew out of it SIXTY years ago. Now as an MS sufferer with bladder problems, night lights are important to help me keep my balance during nocturnal visits to the toilet. I might try your suggestion, thanks.
I occasionally have hypnogogia where I hear people talking incoherent sentences around me. This happened a lot when I was a teenager, but is super rare now. However, I always have had the psychedelic patterns when falling asleep and still get them every night. I kind of like it, because it lets me always know how close I am to falling asleep, as the pattern changes while I get closer to sleep. I see distorted waves of colors sweeping in to the center of my vision, with each wave getting faster and more frequently blue as I get closer to falling asleep. Additionally, it’s worth noting that I practiced wake induced lucid dreaming for a couple of years, and that was the natural next step of my hypnogogia. If I manage to stay conscious though the colorful waves getting more distorted and more blue, eventually it becomes a colorful noise that slowly transitions into complex, lifelike scenes. I get taken on a wild, trippy ride by my subconscious. After enough time, I can gently start to take control. The tricky bit is learning how not to “break the spell.” If you heighten your focus too much, you get kicked out of it and brought back to the early stages. You’re constantly walking on a tight rope, preventing yourself from falling asleep, controlling what you see and not activating your mind too much. As you go deeper and deeper, you slowly are able to gain more control and are able to be more active and look around more without being kicked back to an awake state. One of my friends who messed around with this a lot was able to get to a full lucid dream state consistently and actually interact with the world and create stories, but I’ve never gotten to that point. About 50% of the time I put in effort, I can see anything I want to see and go anywhere I want to go, but I’m just a passive observer floating around. The biggest problem, though, is that I’ll often abruptly get knocked out of it and end up in a fully awake state unable to go to sleep for another hour, which has resulted in me playing around with it less frequently as I have gotten older and have more responsibilities. Completely random question, but somewhat on topic. Do any of you have visual snow? It’s something commonly associated with hallucinogen persisting perceptive disorder, but I’ve had it as long as I can remember.
@@BPantherPink He is not smoking anything, just lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is controlling your dreams and making the dream what you want. You can do very interesting things in a lucid dream.
@@bigclivedotcom are you thinking of the cartoon little birds effect/seeing stars? I’ve had that from a head injury before. Visual snow is when flat colors or closed eyes leads to an effect similar to television static. I thought that was completely normal until I discussed it with my partner a few years ago and found out she didn’t have it.
I used to have sleep paralysis and see strange shadows in the bedroom until I got diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. After I started using CPAP it all went away. (Also I am a lot less tired during the days of course)
Thanks for sharing! To write a purpose is to leave a mark, so the brain is telling you the purposes it found all day (or so). Let yourself see pleasant things to reset the patterns- flowers, landscapes, or minimally-moving scenes. Try for about supper-time. Hope this helps!
I think i have experienced something simular to hypnogogia when i was a kid. Sometimes as soon as the door to my bedroom closed i saw crows flying all over the room. I am talking about dozends of crows and it felt absolutely real. I think i could even hear them if i remember correctly. Thankfully i only had that happen a few times as a young kid and never again as an adult, but i still vividly remember it!
I joined the New years live stream just as the "shadow people" poll was ending, didn't have a clue what that was about. First time I have heard of hypnagogia and I quite happy I'm not afflicted as I imagine it could be quite disconcerting! Amazing the things I learn from this channel!
I used to get hypnagogia as a child, people would come into my room at night and I was disappointed when my hand went right through them. Also a corner of my room would open up and flying creatures would come in and start biting me. Sometimes transparent luminous beings would circle around me, they were friendly. I'd also see blinding flashes of various colors in sequence, which were pretty until the bright white ones hit. The white ones were painful. I learned many many years later that those were migraines, nothing to do with the dark. I can still see kaleidoscopic color patterns in the dark, I think those are a normal aspect of human vision and perception. I needed a night light as a child, now I prefer it dark at night. Blinky lights are especially annoying, and any color other than red.
I didn't know hypnagogia is something you can't have. Didn't know its name either. I thought it's normal and everyone has it. I do love the patterns I see when going to sleep. If I've drunk a lot of coffee it's more like an old TV tuned to no station, but generally it turns into repetitive color sweeps. I even concentrate on them and try to "see" them as well as possible. What's more annoying are sounds. Snaps about as loud as a switch being flicked in another room sometimes turn into bright flashes (I do have that in a limited way while fully awake as well). And once in a while when I try to take a nap during the day, I often "hear" the doorbell waking me up again.
Hey really interesting to hear you talk about your hypnagogia. I know people who have ringing in the ears eg Ménière's disease they can sometimes use technology to alleviate their symptoms , so good on you for talking about it because you might be helping a lot of people..
One other thing on this, You have it all the time but maybe a proportion of us experience it periodically. By talking about it, I get a much better understanding about it when it happens. Thanks man. Cheers!
Ringing in the ears can just be Tinnitus which I have suffered from on and off for over the last 5 years, Ménière's disease is a lot more complex and is linked to vertigo amongst other conditions and is often seen as a final point for Tinnitus sufferers. More to the point it is annoying sitting here headphones on hearing and a sibilant hiss in your ears and knowing that there is nothing you can do about it.
So I get the random patterns, I'm genuinely considering going to a doc to see if its this cause my god that would blow my mind and prove that it's good that you've talked about this cause Id have no idea (worth mentioning I have a few sleeping conditions already diagnosed)
I see a sort of very faint version in some cases, the pattern on my carpet upstairs being barely lit by the sunrise produces unnoticeable shadows which are interpreted as vertices of some weird impossible shape, the lines through the bathroom tiles form a hologram that lifts off into the ceiling, generally the less light you have the more your brain guesses patterns. I always sleep with my bathroom light on because through the hallway it acts as a dimmable light shining into the room
Interesting bit about the hypnogogia! I used to say that when i close my eyes, i don't see "nothing" but rather a few different things... one of which is a pulsing diminishing circle. My ophthalmologist posited that i was perceiving the calcium shedding from when eyes go into rod mode in low light. Lately it's been manifesting as almost fractal plasma animations, or sometimes as a murmuration of a particle field. Surprised you didn't complicate things by making a joule thief to use up any non rechargeable bats you have lying around.
Wasn't aware of its name before now, but ever since moving into a hamlet outside of Reading I've seen shadows around the bed/in the bedroom in the dark, been pulled out of bed/had the feeling of being pulled out of bed, sleep paralysis. Parents didn't understand and insisted that I sleep with the lights off. Everything persisted until I moved to University, where things susbsided until I moved back home for an extended period and it all picked up again and has continued for the last decade. I moved house in the autum of 2021 and the incidents have decreased significantly, but I still sleep with a dim light on, or prefer to sleep during the day (that's probably also not helped by working nights for 15 years!).
Damn, I think I do have this hypnagogia then, never took notice if any shadowy figures etc. but I definitely do have weird shapes floating in my sight with closed eyes or when it's just completely dark, sometimes these shapes resolve into weird scenes, almost dream like. I only really noticed these things when I'm really tired, say not enough sleep the night before and a very long day at work or otherwise, when I got past the window when I'm sleepy, so just ended up very tired but unable to fall asleep. Normally the transitional state is quick enough that I don't think about it. Then again, maybe I don't experience the other stuff because it's not completely dark in my room, there is a wifi router and an extension cord giving a gentle glow, plus my drapes don't keep the street lights out completely. I always assumed it's normal for our brain to wander in this state.
Similar here Boring shadowy figures that move somewhat randomly, which are usually easy to ignore, but on occasion I find my mind chasing em around. Must be dark enough though.
I have mainly auditory hypnagogic hallucinations. It took me long time to stop jumping up to answer three very loud bangs on my front door knocker in the mornings. There was never anyone there? Penny finally dropped when I realised that I didn't have the old crappy cast iron door knocker on my door anymore and hadn't for about two bloody years! I recognise the sound now and just ignore it 🧡
I get that occasionally. I accused my lorry driving neighbour of knocking on my door in the early hours. Not him. it turns out, just in my head. These days I go to sleep by the gentle glow of my self built Numitron internet-radio alarm clock. I run the tubes at 3V to prolong their life and for better night time effect. Tubes are off during the day. Hard to find these days and expensive when you do. I spotted mine in a bucket (literally) of ex-arcade games machine stuff and got them for free as the bucket-o-junk guy didn't know what they were.
I didn't know seeing patterns in the noise was something associated with hyponogoia - interesting. I sometimes find it helps to fall asleep by concentrating on the very low contrast patterns I get when my eyes are closed in the dark. I focus on them and try to see patterns in the noise. Quite often it looks a bit like one of those "plasma" effects common in demos on the 16-bit platforms where the colour palette was cycled with a blobby image. They get more vivid and multi-coloured often turning into slow pulses of light. This sometimes helps me fall asleep as I start to perceive objects and scenes in the patterns and that sort of leads me into dreaming.
Thank you for reverse engineering your own design, complex crkt for sure :) I really enjoy how you speak, wonderful channel. The best presenter's are ones you want to watch because of their presentation personality, production values, more than sometimes the specific subject content. Thanks Clive; best wishes to your mom.
I turned a tiny CR2032 battery housing into a gentle red light recently. If you are walking about at night without wanting to disturb anyone, even your own eyes if just awoken, or if you want a simple indicator for if you are home-working and in a meeting, it works nicely. Dead simple and dead useful.
Might be a useful night lamp, here in central Australia ghosts and other entities are not a big issue but roaming Snakes at night more so. I have heard of solar powered Snake repellers that people can place in the garden, looks similar to a solar powered garden light. Apparently they emit some sort of pulsed ultrasonic sound waves that Snakes avoid and enough of those devices strategically arranged in the yard forms a Snake barrier. Be good to find one of those units and see how they are made and if they have an effect on a Serpent.
@@fenman1954 Yes, Snakes cannot hear so I figure those devices would not work. Walking around will disturb snakes and they do their jolly best to avoid trouble however people can accidentally step on one and get bitten. Often the bite is a dry bite without venom being delivered as a warning which is lucky as we have many deadly serpents. One snake we have is known as an Inland Taipan otherwise known as a Fierce Snake which is regarded as the worlds most venomous snake however despite the name it is very shy and reclusive and noone has actually died from a bite. I caught one once thinking it was a black headed python, it was rather docile like a python and not at all aggressive thankfully, I took photographs of it before letting it go and I showed the images to a friend who is more familiar with reptiles and told me what it was, lesson is always carefully identify a snake before catching it!
@@8bitwiz_ Unfortunately that's not quite true. These crap scam devices will continue to exponentially explode from China (et al) as more of their smarter crooks start to understand just how DUMB a huge proportion of the consuming world actually is! 😱
Been forced to drive while far too tired one too many times, those hallucinations you speak of are similar to the ones i had while on the road, on the brink of falling asleep on the wheel. Some wild hallucination would kick me out of sleeping every time, which is where i think people get the idea of gods and guardian angels from.
Interesting to hear you talk about hypnagogia. I have bouts of scintillating scotoma, which is apparently some sort of migraine, but I don't have pain. What I do have is distorted vision, with changing, rainbow, geometric patterns (typically zig-zag type shapes) all around the edges. It last for a few minutes, sometimes a bit longer. The brain is a fascinating thing.
Hi Erik, Thanks for that, I have the same thing occasionally. I didn't know it had a name, though I'd guessed it was similar to some symptoms of a migraine. Like you I don't have the headache , thankfully.
Interesting. Day before I had heart attack 30 years ago, I had the same thing, which lasted for circa 20 mins. Subsequently, it reppeated every 3 months or so, until I had a stent in 2 years ago, and it stopped completely.
I also have visual migraines (pain free and not harmful) causing hallucinatory geometric patterns in my vision. Having had a couple of real migraines in my life, I'm happy to settle for these psychedelic versions instead!!
Scintillating scotoma is a warning sign of incoming migraine to some people, in which case it's referred to as a "migraine with aura". For me it almost looks like a crack in the universe opening out to TV snow outside. When I get it, I know I'm getting a stonking 12 hour migraine within the next 30 minutes, so time to get safely into a cool, dark room. The underlying cause is dilation of a blood vessel on the back of the eye, and you're actually seeing the white blood cells travelling through! The exact appearance can vary from person to person depending on exactly how the blood vessel has formed, but it should be reasonably consistent each time you get it.
I'll take spooky manifestations over not being able to sleep any day (or night). Last year, for about a week, my brain "forgot" how to fall asleep. It's a really weird feeling, lying in the dark with your eyes closed for hours, realising that you never really knew _how_ to fall asleep, it was just something that happened... until it stopped happening. And not knowing if you'll ever be able to do it again. I wasn't sleepy, as such (as with normal insomnia); I'd feel tired at the end of the day, I'd feel rested after lying down for 5 or 6 hours, but there would never be a break in consciousness. Then one day I managed to sleep for a few minutes, then a couple of hours, and now I can generally sleep at least 4 hours a night (or a day), which feels a bit short, but I've always liked to a) go to bed late, b) wake up early, and c) sleep a lot, so at least one of those is always going to fail. Anyway, the real transition was from "none" to "some". Even just a couple of minutes make all the difference. It's like reaching a save checkpoint in a game, versus having to play it all the way to the end in a single session.
A very interesting vid, as usual. Thank you. A side note: those flickering candle bulbs and flickering candle night lights really do seem to help me fall asleep. I'd have laughed if you had told me that a couple of years ago, but I am now sure I sleep better because of them, so thanks again, BC.
@@Nine-Signs The one time it happened to me I was laying with my face inches from a spotted wallpaper, feeling unable to breathe and freaking out over the blue spots, probably the most frightening thing in my life, and I regularly handle biohazardous materials. xD
I have chromesthesia, which means that I perceive sound, particularly music, as colours. It’s like having a build-in music visualisation plug-in. The funny thing is that I didn’t even know that this was a thing until my late thirties because I assumed that everyone did this. It was only after spending an hour trying to describe to my fellow band members why our attempt at a song was chromatically chaotic that I realised that they couldn’t actually ‘see’ it that I realised that I was somehow different.
Thanks for telling us about hypnagogia. Fascinating stuff. Where I live it is very dark and unless I leave a little homemade digital clock running, I can get very lost and confused when I awake. Thanks again.
I always thought I had mild X-ray vision as with no light in the room with my eyes closed, I can still make out random things like the bedside table and my hands etc. Sometimes, the shapes would just morph into random figures, patterns or shapes, I just used to think I was too tired for it to work lol.
I've only had sleep/awake moments twice in my 60 years living. I was flying like a bird on the first one. It was indescribable. Since that day, I am jealous of all birds. For the second, I was standing in the middle of space and looking into the universe all around me. It was breathtakingly beautiful. God, I wish I could have another experience like that before I kick the bucket. I can't imagine how terrified you must have felt. It's too real.
Hi Clive, Me as a DIY person love your interesting videos and inspire me to try and make my own projects. But the biggest problem I have is finding the right type of connector for the projects. And since you recommend several diffrent molex style connectors maybe it would be interesting to make a video for persons like me how to identify different styles (mainly small low voltage) for indoor and outdoor usage. And where to buy them "cheap". Here in Belgium I find it hard to find suppliers who sell to non proffecionals. It would really help me personally to raise my DIY projects. Instead of always working with big wago connectors. Thanks!
The addition of the connector to make the LED modular is very nice. I didn't know I experienced hyprogogia, but now I know that the muscle jerk I usually experience while falling asleep (as an adult; as a child it was a falling sensation probably 90% of nights) is technically a manifestation of that.
Huh... So I guess I've had a suite of sleep disorders my whole life? I never realised the shadow people, the red and blue imaginary line traceries, the full-body twitch, and the loud snapping sound I experience before sleep were all part of one category.
@@bigclivedotcom let's not also forget someone calling your name and then abrupt silence. in my case, a family member, despite them being many miles away.
The loud snapping sound reminds me more of that wonderfully named sleep disorder called "Exploding head syndrome" (Because "Imaginary loud noise syndrome" didn't sound frightening enough I guess?)
I never thought there was a name for that. I remember when I was in grade school the shadows would play on the walls and doors when I was in that state between being awake and passing out. Now that I'm an adult I just flop on the bed and pass out. My mother even said I never wanted to sleep and force myself to stay up. I will say that there was this one time that was pretty vivid with my eyes shut I thought I felt something close. It didn't seem like I was in danger but I kept my eyes closed and I got that sensation of something being really close to my forehead similar to when you close your eyes and place your finger near the middle of your forehead. You feel "something" even though your not touching. I wonder if its the electrical currents inside your body that keeps your heart beating.
You probably feel something on your forehead when you bring a finger close to it because your brain knows where your finger is, and not because it's actually sensing something close to your forehead.
@@Lemon_Inspector I wonder. I remember getting someone to get close to touching that spot and I felt something. I wonder if it was anticipation. Also there is a story about native Americans being extremely good at tracking to the point they thought it was magical. The army hired them to test and after they shaved their heads they lost the ability. It was like the hair was acting like an antenna to something we don't know about.
hypnagogia, wow. This explains so much as a kid. The shapes, the colors, I remember waking up and going to bed freaking out from “seeing” this. Have always wondered what those few episodes were about. Thank You!
I never heard of hypnagogia until your video, but I have experienced the symptoms since childhood. I also get temporal lobe seizures which adds another level of crazy experience to life. Glad you found a way to reduce your symptoms!
I don't have the same issue, the closest thing I've got is a sea of gently glowing yellow, red and blue dots in pitch darkness, and when I get a bout of insomnia, the merest suggestion of motion. I have pretty good night vision so it's both a blessing and a curse because even the merest outline of something in the darkness can appear to start moving, and it's quite easy to freak yourself out when you're almost asleep. Now, sleep paralysis I do have experience with, thankfully not much, but it's horrifying.
I remember seeing a gorilla creeping past my window in an episode of hypnagogia. Stared at it for some time... it never moved. Of course I knew it must be a hallucination, but it was very real appearing.
I sometimes get the audible version of Hypnagogia where I hear a loud knocking or banging sound where I think someone is hammering on the door, it's rare and usually happens when I am very tired. My wife likes to sleep with the radio on low for half an hour or so. I never get it when the radio has been on.
"never charge it again" ... sounds good to me. But adding solar to such a lamp would end up terrible on my side. It would be like cordless dect phones. You always forget to put them back to their cradle (the lamp to sunlight), and they are always unusable when you need them. I had 51 ys to learn, but failed on this one.
I used to have a small neon bulb lamp with diffuser (like the ones you find in switches) that plugs directly into the socket. That emitted a nice orange glow all around the room. Always thought there was something special about that color that made me fall asleep really fast.
I love this idea. I don't have hypnogoggia myself but I like LEDs so to my that's good enough an excuse to make some of these. And I really like the look of the diffused pink LEDs. Nearly every time I order from ebay I'll put some in my basket. I am curious about what LEDs you have there where only a circle on the top seems to emit light.
There's a wide range of LED styles. Lens-end either clear or diffused, concave lens Xmas style LEDs that emit in all directions, flat top and the straw hat dome LEDs with the bare chip visible for a sharp point of light.
Usually during hypnogogia, I experience either the Tetris Effect or semi-lucid dreams, which is generally quite pleasant. But when I was younger, I often experienced depersonalization/derealization during hypnogogia, which was extremely distressing. Fortunately that's become uncommon in my adulthood.
You can buy 10 of those battery cases (with switch) from AliExpress for £6.39 (inc. shipping) - how mad is that! My Plusnet router provides all the light I need in my room at night.
I used to have it more but it pops up occasionally. For a while I used it to "enter" a lucid dream or rarely what some would call out of body experiences. Basically the hypnagogia would occur then a dream would form in my vision and I'd soon be walking around in the dream fully aware I'm dreaming. Occasionally I'd have hypnopompic visions like the room coverted in plants, spiders, geometric patterns etc. I think usually people have less awareness of near sleep and those with sleep issues, migraines, apnea, insomnia, or high stress etc notice it
I have a similar problem with retinal memory .If I'm in a brightly lit room I can still see the images of the bright reflective surfaces like doors that are painted white .I can go into a dark environment I can still see the white doors in different parts of my field of views even with my eye lids closed .And once my eyes get adjusted to the darkness I'm good to go .As a sparky having to work in dark places or very low light levels it's a bit of a nuisance at times .
I have Narcolepsy. I know exactly what you're talking about! I've seen weird things like icicles falling from the ceiling or a bunch of framed paintings in my living room. Not as many sleep paralysis demons, thank goodness. Well, not awake, anyway. Once I had a dream about a demon, and then I started to wake up, and the demon tried to come through me out of my dream and roar at my wife, but all I could do was make this paltry little gurgling sound lol. It made the demon very angry. 😂
That transition between wake and sleep states is quite an interesting subject that warrants more (if any) research . . . Personally, I often perceive really loud and sudden noises, both waking and falling asleep, kind of like my ability to hear being suddenly activated and a massive amount of sound/volume flooding in!
Excellent, Clive. I too, am a lifelong 'beneficiary' of hypnagogia, and hypnagogic paralysis. While your and my experiences differ a bit, I will not belabor them here. Love your channel.
Just as a heads-up, Eneloop Pros are often sold pre charged but from what I understand they don't have the same low self discharge property that makes normal Eneloops so good
I made a night light for my cockatiel. Used a single lithium 18650 and one of the wide angle warm white LEDs off the Xmas light strings. The resistor I used was a lot higher, can't remember off hand but the LED runs at 2ma. I fitted it into an old 1970s Eveready front bike lamp. 👍🥰
I had hypnagogia when combined with a mold problem in the house. I saw bugs, though. Beetles, stinkbugs, spiders, etc. on my pillow, nightstand, or wall next to my bed. Happened when falling asleep or waking up. When I learned they weren't real I could concentrate and they'd fade out like a bad 1980s movie effect, which I found comical. Anyway when I remodeled the bathroom with the leaking shower and got rid of the mold hiding in the walls the hallucinations stopped. My layman theory is that they're made by a primitive part of your brain\subconscious trying to tell you something isn't quite safe in the area.
You wanted to *alleviate* hypnogogia? I find it absolutely fascinating, the sound of people talking in your head just before I fall asleep can be disconcerting (it doesn't happen when I'm fully awake, only when trying to sleep) but the feeling of falling back and then the patterns are amazing. If you bend your will to it enough you can make the patterns actually take form, I learned to do that in sixth form when we were trapped in a study for most of the day because letting us out when our classes were over would have made sense, which wouldn't do. Since then I've been able to create some of the most detailed cityscapes in my mind and walk around them just prior to falling asleep. They almost always end up being empty, half ruined medieval or roman-esque cities that stretch as far as the eye can see. What irritates me is the talking/acting out dreams. Neither partners nor pets have appreciated being slapped upside the head because I dreamed I was fighting.
Thank you for the hyponogogia explanation. When I was very young I gave memories of seeing shadows of people racing up outside past the closed curtains. I definitely saw people shapes but my parents wrote it off as car headlights or dreaming. But it only happened in that room in that house. Never anywhere else. It wore off but nice to have a name to put against it!
When I was much younger, I would frequently have the double whammy of sleep paralysis and false awakenings. Essentially, inside the dream I would realize I was dreaming (lucid dreaming), so I would panic and try to wake myself up, offending dreaming myself waking up… only to be in another dream. During this, I would “half walk up”, so I could feel myself in bed, but I could also feel myself moving around my dream jumping around to try to wake up (as if I was in two places at once). I don’t think words could really describe how terrifying and uncomfortable this is. It happened so frequently and vividly for me as a kid, that I would often be scared of falling sleep (fearing that I would get stuck in that half dream, half awake state again. I thankfully grew out of this, but I now find myself dreaming a lot less, and not being able to lucid dream anymore. The human brain is truly a magnificent and mysterious thing.
As a child and still today i see those vividly colorful patterns as well, maybe not as vivid as it used be. that also reminds me that during my younger years i always had a night lamp running in the hallway so that it just gave some light in my bedroom because i had so many nightmares, it became so bad that it made me afraid to sleep. this caused that i became really tried, and i remember one time that i got awake in the middle of the night and saw stuff moving around me I think i was 11 or 12 years old at the time. this scared me and i turned my bedroom lamp on, and it was gone. worst thing is that my classmates for instance called me crazy. :/
BigClive, the man, the legend. Happy New Year! Thanks for another fascinating video. A bit of reconfig and you could have a lighty up pen (think sonic screwdriver) - take it anywhere :) Not sure if you could wrap solar panels around it - but that would be a bonus.
Once when I was staying at my grandparents' house the bedroom was nearly dark but I could see shapes of furniture, etc. As I was looking at the closet door a shadow started to grow on one side of the doorframe where it looked like the door was slowly opening. It scared the living hell out of me. It must have been some effect like you describe but I have never forgotten it.
i'm both relieved and a little annoyed it wasn't suggested beforehand that the wild colours and patterns i see as i fall asleep was just this. i attempted to bring it up with my optometrist/doctor a few times and they couldn't find any indication of something being wrong. wild. learned something new.
Hope you are well, I enjoy watching because of the calm and relaxation provided by your unusual manner and truthfulness, I too see shadows, constantly and finally at 58, (we are exactly one month apart in age) I have had some guidance i can share with you and any others wishing to read on, I suffered a bad leg injury that required 5 different operations upon the 5th , i think the anesthetic played a big part, i died for about 5 minutes, I can tell you there is a heaven and unfortunately also a place of perdition, i pretty much fully recovered but immediately realized either i was going crazy or i was seeing shadows and glimpses of things other people either didnt see or couldnt see. I am told by my spiritual advisor, that some energies either get lost or refuse to cross over, there is no way i can tell you how terrifying it can be sometimes, I have found that using white sage and an Eagle feather along with normal every day prayer, works very well for me. I have also found that putting positive energy into the cosmos or into your world has given me great returns. I wish you Clive peace and serenity, and all of your viewers happiness.
Like you, we live waayyy off the "paved road"!! The directions to our home include turning off the paved road, go a mile then turn onto our drive. We LOVE having zero light at night!!! When we visit our city family, we have to put blankets over the windows to sleep as even a full moon gives us issues ;-) Love ya Mr BigClive, Happy New Year Sir!!! 🙂
While I don't suffer from that condition, I'm quite aware of noises around me. For example when the glazing on a piece of pottery in my kitchen develops a stress induced crack, it makes a pling noise that wakes me up, or keeps me from finding sleep. So I like to look around in order to make sure that what I think to have heard, is what I have heard. My solution was to take image intensifier goggles to bed. But your solution seems much more affordable.
I always thought it came with my sleep paralysis, I didn't know it had a seperate name. I wouldn't want to get rid of it as I have learn to use it for lucid dreaming. You learn something new every day !....cheers.
We have mains powered night lights all over but when we travel somewhere, sometimes the rooms have bathrooms that are completely dark. That can be annoying at best and dangerous at worst. I have a battery charger that I've added an LED to, but some bathrooms have no electrical outlets. I'm going to make one of these for those situations. Surprisingly, a milliamp of current is enough to keep you smashing your toes in an otherwise completely dark room.
I'm with you on the fractal patterns and swirling colours. I get that all the time, but intensely so when I'm tired. I've kept a light on for years. Ostensibly, it's there to keep the cats warm! My dad didn't sleep well in the dark, and ever since my mum died, he never slept without a light on. Now, I take various medications that play tricks in the mind, and some, I've had to stop. Metformin is one of the worst. While I was taking that, I could see cats, big black ones, lynx sized ones, that would leap across the room and disappear into thin air. In the shadows, I often see obscure faces and animals - maybe that's why I like torches?! If I shine a torch into the shadow, the face, or animal, disappears, at least until I turn off the torch. Only at times of severe illness, severe stress, do I see dark shadows standing around me, and that's usually only when I wind up in hospital for one reason or another, but there are times when I have seen full colour and life-like apparitions, usually born of tiredness and bad electrolyte balance.
Funny thing I really thought those sleep disorders are normal and happens from time to time to everyone - as I had some, never with visual hallucinations but with loud noises during waking up or falling asleep, or feeling of being immobilized for few minutes after being suddenly woken up by nightmares and those nightmares are so intense, often I try scream but I can't. It's hard to explain, sometimes I know that I am dreaming during those events and I try to wake up but I can't, I try to scream to wake myself up but I feel it's so hard to push my sleeping body to do that, in those moments it is like being half-awake and dreaming at the same time, usually comes with with fear, nightmares and those nightmares are hmnm specific.
A one-LED-battery-powered-light by bigclive and no joule thief involved ..shocking ;) 6:30 I built a similar thing with a lithium battery and a 5Voc solar cell, relying on the .7V drop of the diode. On the subject of 'shadow objects', I only get it when I lost a full night of sleep, but then pretty much exactly what you describe.
I don't have hypnagogia, but I do have a crippling fear of stubbing my toes in the dark. A night light is an absolute must for me.
Toe stubbing IMHO is equivalent to childbirth pain hahaha. In saying that, I am a man so there's that. Stepping on Lego is not far behind.
My very painfully throbbing toe would agree with you.
Lmao I still remember when I accidentally kicked the sharp corner of a table leg. I sat in my bathroom thinking I was going to bleed out (totally wasn't but it was relatively speaking, a lot of blood) 😂
Absolute banger of a comment! 🤣
Health and safety says you have to wear steel toe capped boots to avoid this happening.
Wow. You dove quite quickly into a very intimate detail of your personal life. I have never heard of hypnagogia. I’m so absolutely interested and sympathetic at the same time. You blow my mind on such a regular basis my friend. I absolutely appreciate your content. ✌️
I've been having it recently and feel a bit relieved as I thought I had late manifesting schizophrenia,I hadn't heard about the geometric moving patterns thing happening before and that's what I got the first time then the second a flash of a shadow person standing over my bed a differant time
Also Hypnopompia. Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations aren't that uncommon and can just happen in the transition between awake and sleep. Possibly many have them but don't realise it. I have them occasionally.
It can be very uncomfortable indeed. I use opaque drapes around my sleeping area to make the contours around me that the brain fills in as, ghosts,dead children, Keifer Sutherland etc durin REM less aparent. It works most of the time.
@@rimmersbryggeri Keifer Sutherland.
Yep, I have it... had it since I was a child. Worse than just seeing apparitions, I can see the structure of my roof through the ceiling... purlins, rafters, the lot. Sometimes it can take half an hour to clear the fog of the shadowy world, and what is worse... I'm seeing it with my eyes, and not with my imagination...🤔?!
I once forced myself into a state of hypnagogia. It was quite strage. I could hear a road with cars going down it and footsteps of people right next to my bed. It's so vivid and sounds so real! I purposefully kept my eyes open to see what would happen and I saw a guy looking in through my bedroom window, staring at me. Upon fully waking up, it all faded out quite fast. So I tried to get to half-sleep again and it all started to fade back in. Really bizarre experience! I can't imagine what it would be like living with the condition. Hope it isn't too bad!
When I was sleep-deprived, I was at work and wondered what the music I could hear was, as it sounded almost familiar. I asked a colleague, who said, "What music?" and the moment she questioned it, the music vanished and I realised it was just my brain interpreting background noise. It happened a few times. Weird experience.
@@perstyr When i was sleep deprived, background noise sounded like radio chatter with static.
When I was driving once, I saw the highway split off and go up into the sky, exits to somewhere, and other traffic phenomenon I knew was fundamentally impossible. Worst part is it was so vivid and I felt fully awake in that moment. I knew then to pull over and take a nap. When I snapped out of that hallucination, I felt super tired. It... is weird.
I sometimes get that, for me it’s some weird tune or horn going slowly more louder and distorted
@@perstyr I have had similar experiences since my childhood, it starts with soothing music but suddenly a loud bang/thud wakes me up to full panic mode. Nothing changed in my room to cause the sound.
The human brain is complex, indeed.
That's one thing you don't often get now, is actual, genuine darkness. As a kid I used to stay with my grandparents on the family farm, and back then there was nothing there but just the few houses that belonged to my relatives, and the rest was fields and woods. At night in the winter, the windows literally looked like they were in outer space. Just nothing beyond the panes except pure blackness, and this was in the time when a "flashlight" was just a tiny little incandescent bulb with two D-cells. If I was lucky, it gave just enough light not to smash my teeth out when outside. Lot different than now where its pretty much light out round the clock.
That would be amazing! For sleeping, I like absolute darkness to the point that there's no difference if my eyes are open or closed.
@@prow7 totally agree - I find myself waking frequently when there's street lights shining through the window...
I wonder if earth got more attention (👽) after lighting became 24/7?
Oh my god, I have the fractal vividly colorful patterns. I never knew it was a named thing. It's rather disturbing and beautiful at the same time. The worst thing about it is no control over it and not being able to sleep because of it. Thanks for naming it!
totally the same boat. It looks nice, but I want to sleep, dang it!
You might want to look up Retinal Migraine on the NHS site or similar. Not usually serious, but it is good to be informed.
My cat must have it too, poor thing. 😢
I get that too when I am overtired. Like having driven 20 hours and kept myself awake with energy drinks.
I have often woke from hearing a loud crash or someone shouting my name sta standing next to me or from a hypnic jerk .
When I saw the title I thought "What? another weird claim by an eBay seller for something simple?" but hearing your (heartfelt) explanation made me feel firstly humbled, then thankful that I don't suffer the same thing. Our brains are an amazing piece of engineering, to say the least, and we normally take them for granted. I remember having recurring nightmares as a child but thankfully they disappeared after I'd got through my teens - it must be something to do with the brain reorganising itself or whatever... Long Live simple solutions to complex problems!
Oh wow Clive, I am 54 and have never realised what it was. I get green swirling patterns sometimes and something like a lighthouse swirl, going round and round. I have probably every few nights where I can see all sorts of things in my room but I know I am asleep so it’s not frightening. I can even have an argument with people in my dreams “Look I know I am asleep, you are not real so why can’t you be nice. After all you are a creation of my mind.” I still get nowhere. I can now wake myself up if I don’t like the dream. Not great for my sleep patterns though. All very interesting. I also get sleep paralysis but that too I know is just how the mind works so it’s still crap but I can tell myself its just sleep paralysis when it’s happening. All the best for the New Year.
Not to be too off topic on this channel, but your referance to hypnagogia reminds me of my first shroom experiance many decades ago. After consumption, within two hours, I vocalized my closed eye visualizations of flying over brilliant green topo maps in 3D along with many other strange colorful geometric images in my head. No doubt, watching monty pythons reruns from BBC through PBS for six hours until sun up helped with my induced hypnagogia! Great channel to watch. Thanks.
Pretty neat it lasts so long. Would be amazing for camping as well, just to have a little bit of light in the tent on super dark nights.
@@Okurka. i believe bears aren't really lured by light, they're daylight animals (i assumed that because every case of bear ripping someone apart occured at day or when victim was asleep but had food nearby)
@@Okurka. Only thing bears seem to care about when deciding on a target to raid is smell, they'll happily strike my garbage bins in total darkness and not be perturbed in the least by the motion sensor floodlights they set off. I wouldn't really expect predatory/scavenging land animals to be particularly attracted to artificial lights since it's a recent thing in evolutionary terms and trait attraction to light is probably more likely to get you selected out of the gene pool than find a meal. Even just making a habit of eating trash isn't particularly healthy for the near-tame city proximal animals that do it.
I‘ve experienced hypnogogia 3 times as a child. I kept seeing weird patterns and hearing strange noises while having this weird dizzy, buzzing feeling in my head. It was so scary, it even made me cry. I now have a name for it, thanks for sharing!
For me, the patterns and noses are soothing. The terrifying part for me is that it ends with a loud bang/thud as if something heavy moved or had fallen in my room. I used to wake up in a panic and search the entire house for the source. Now I know it's probably in my head.
Thankfully I grew out of it. I used to have sleep paralysis and would see old men and women around my bed when I was a kid. The paralysis would wear off first, then the visions would go away after a few minutes. I was definitely partially awake because I'd draw under my sheets with a flashlight while waiting it out. This was after months of just freezing in terror hoping none of them looked at me. It really didn't help that it began when we moved into a 110 year old farm house that hadn't been inhabited in 30 years, and when we moved in we found half of a gravestone in the attic. I used to sleepwalk too, and got "dragged" down the stairs once. People witnessed me running around terrified of the house collapsing around us and/or ghosts. It was an absolutely terrifying time in my life but I look back on it with fondness. Both of the terror and that farm. It was all very surreal.
I had it happen only once since 1993. It was 2005 and I woke up sometime around 2 am and knew the feeling. I couldn't believe it was happening again. I tried moving and speaking to wake up my girlfriend but couldn't. Then I heard the loud banging sounds that preceded the people showing up. This time though, as an adult, I just got incredibly pissed off and it faded away. Hopefully that's the last of it.
I had a very similar experience, but it turned out to be just actual old people coming into my room and making loud noises.
Thanks, mum.
The ghosts became terrified you'd go DOOM on them
why didn't u just try punching one of them?
I've had the same experience as a kid, also after moving into an old house (in the middle of the woods). I just thought of them as very realistic dreams and I never knew this was a thing until I read your comment! Maybe the feelings of a certain place might potentially trigger this? I don't know but it's very interesting.
This just brings up all sorts of questions. Such as, "Why is there half a gravestone in the attic?" (Well, maybe that's an easy one: "A full gravestone would have been too heavy to carry up there." Though that just begs more questions....)
When I was a teenager sometimes I could fly in my dreams, like superman or more like flappy bird lol. At first I had to learn, get the hang of it by practicing jumping onto the roof, staying in the air etc. until I got confident. It was incredibly realistic. Being able to just jump in the air and travel quickly was very cool and surreal. It happened once again a few years later, this time it was a big flight across the ocean, guided by landmarks, towards home.
I never heard of hypnagogia, thanks for the info on that, and the nifty little bat-pow LED
Lucid dreaming?
Today I learned about Hypnagogia. In return, I wanted to say something witty and delightful, because I enjoy your channel. The best I could come up with was : "I have a pair of Hypno-Goggles."
Which I don't, so I don't know why I thought of saying it.
I'm going to attach one each to our puppies. 3am toilet trips are fraught with danger.
I built this 3 Months ago with a 120Ω resistor and it's been lit 24/7. The battery voltage has only dropped from 2.458 V to 2.437 V with the LED still being about as bright as in the beginning. It's really amazing how "much" light it can put out over such a long period of time.
You have explained so many technical issues in so many videos so far, but I think you just opened a new term and understanding of my own world. Thank you for every video and thank you for my new understanding of the phenomenon!
Thank goodness I've been having a hard time with wild ghosts while off grid this has been a life saver.
This explains your fixation to lighting and how to make them last as long as possible, can not have one that fails or the ghosts will reappear. The plus side is that you give your knowledge and expertise to others and get them into a hobby that can be rewarding and relatively cheap.
Fascinating, Clive. I saw the title, and thought that you had bought some shonky device from ebay that claimed to lay ghosts. Not that at all, though. I saw 'Shadow People' when I was depressed after my parents died. They are scary - I'd wake up, and one might be lurking at the foot of my bed, or worse, leaning over my head, as if staring at me. They never actually did anything, but their presence was undeniably sinister and menacing. It probably wasn't ideal me living alone for eight months after my mum died, thinking about it. My neighbour has security lights in his back garden, and the light through my curtains would throw the figures into disturbingly sharp relief. I took to sleeping with my bedside light on. I did work nights, and did see them in the daytime, too. They always reminded me of the evil shadow people, trying to cross over into this dimension, that are featured in Alan Garner's brilliant novel, 'Elidor'. After my brother moved back in, in August 2007, I stopped seeing them regularly, and have not seen them at all now, for many years.
At my job, we often need to crimp new connectors onto our test leads. I've actually found that I like the cheap single jaw crimpers with like 8 different sizes the best, you do need to crimp the conductor and the strain relief separately but I find I get the best results and they'll work on nearly any connector brand. And they're cheap. "Open Barrel" or "molex style" seems to be the magic keywords for ones that look like the pair at work.
They are very useful. I have ones by Engineer and iWiss and they are good.
I am blind on the right side of my vision. Occasionally when I'm just waking up, or just falling asleep I'll have hallucinations on that side for a few seconds - things like seeing my deceased cat down the back of the bed, or a water bottle floating around in space.
There were a number of years where I intentionally tried to train my brain to stay aware and awake during hypnagogia. Or hypno, can't remember which one is which. Regardless, it is an absolutely fascinating mindset. I remember a very vivid, vibrant translucent blue orb surrounding my bed as I rocked back and forth, ultimately hoping to pop into an OBE or lucid dream.
I say all this because a) it can absolutely be terrifying but b) honing and working with that state of being can result in some really amazing explorations. And there's my random morning aside, thanks as always for the content.
I think that low-level lighting is underrated. A year or so ago I wired up a dimmer switch to the upstairs hallway light. Then I set it to a low level, and have not touched it since. At night it's more than enough light to see by, without messing up my night vision. And it's using a non-dimmable LED bulb! I had meant to change it to a dimmable bulb, but it worked, and the slow flickering feels rather natural, like a candle. Of course this very under-powered LED bulb will last forever.
I also have a power strip on the floor in my bedroom along where I walk. I do plan to re-route it when certain furniture can be moved, but as this powers my DVR computer, it is bad when one of the US-style plugs in it gets bumped. I plugged a very old EL panel night light into the power strip, so there is now a big green circle on the floor to avoid at night.
Thank you, Clive, you just gave me the proper name for what I have always experienced while on the edge of the hypnotic sleep state when slowly drifting off to sleep. Never knew the proper term for such. Thankfully I never saw bodies moving about at night as a child but I would see dark shadows that my childhood brain would predictably interpret as monsters! I will also experience very lucid dreams and occasionally hear odd sounds during that time. I learned from an early age to always sleep with a nightlight as a child and at least a hint of light as an adult. That usually includes some battery backed light, whether battery powered emergency lighting or a UPS, as my entire sense of balance is visual based due to SSCDS (or SCDS, depending upon the source) and so waking up to a pitch black room in a power outage is rather dangerous for me…especially given I’m a bit of a pack rat/hoarder as well nor do I wish to step on my feline friends!
Ghost Repeller sounds like a scam to make you spend your money on something that give you a placebo effect🤣🤣🤣
When you had your poll up I didn't know you meant your condition was like this. Like- I see things in very dark areas in video games (usually horror games) but that's likely just the mind trying to see things that might be dangerous; it doesn't sound at all like this. Wow that sounds like a lot of ...'fun'.
When I was a kid I used to see what I described as a force field around my bed. It was as clear as day to me, made up of tiny weird particles that would swirl around eachother and altogether move at speed around my bed. Parents thought I was making it up. Nice to have a word to put to it.
Agreed I still have it
Didn’t know there was a word for thought it was the same for everyone
Me too omg!
From your description, this sounds like a condition I had as a young child, but I grew out of it SIXTY years ago. Now as an MS sufferer with bladder problems, night lights are important to help me keep my balance during nocturnal visits to the toilet. I might try your suggestion, thanks.
I occasionally have hypnogogia where I hear people talking incoherent sentences around me. This happened a lot when I was a teenager, but is super rare now.
However, I always have had the psychedelic patterns when falling asleep and still get them every night. I kind of like it, because it lets me always know how close I am to falling asleep, as the pattern changes while I get closer to sleep. I see distorted waves of colors sweeping in to the center of my vision, with each wave getting faster and more frequently blue as I get closer to falling asleep.
Additionally, it’s worth noting that I practiced wake induced lucid dreaming for a couple of years, and that was the natural next step of my hypnogogia. If I manage to stay conscious though the colorful waves getting more distorted and more blue, eventually it becomes a colorful noise that slowly transitions into complex, lifelike scenes. I get taken on a wild, trippy ride by my subconscious. After enough time, I can gently start to take control. The tricky bit is learning how not to “break the spell.”
If you heighten your focus too much, you get kicked out of it and brought back to the early stages. You’re constantly walking on a tight rope, preventing yourself from falling asleep, controlling what you see and not activating your mind too much. As you go deeper and deeper, you slowly are able to gain more control and are able to be more active and look around more without being kicked back to an awake state.
One of my friends who messed around with this a lot was able to get to a full lucid dream state consistently and actually interact with the world and create stories, but I’ve never gotten to that point. About 50% of the time I put in effort, I can see anything I want to see and go anywhere I want to go, but I’m just a passive observer floating around. The biggest problem, though, is that I’ll often abruptly get knocked out of it and end up in a fully awake state unable to go to sleep for another hour, which has resulted in me playing around with it less frequently as I have gotten older and have more responsibilities.
Completely random question, but somewhat on topic. Do any of you have visual snow? It’s something commonly associated with hallucinogen persisting perceptive disorder, but I’ve had it as long as I can remember.
Lovely read Sir...but I want to know what you too are smoking 😁😁
No seriously...your comment is most detailed and enlightening !
@@BPantherPink He is not smoking anything, just lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is controlling your dreams and making the dream what you want. You can do very interesting things in a lucid dream.
I've never had the visual snow. Other than an unfortunate event when I ended up on the ground getting my head kicked from all directions.
@@bigclivedotcom are you thinking of the cartoon little birds effect/seeing stars? I’ve had that from a head injury before. Visual snow is when flat colors or closed eyes leads to an effect similar to television static.
I thought that was completely normal until I discussed it with my partner a few years ago and found out she didn’t have it.
I used to have sleep paralysis and see strange shadows in the bedroom until I got diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. After I started using CPAP it all went away. (Also I am a lot less tired during the days of course)
Thanks for sharing! To write a purpose is to leave a mark, so the brain is telling you the purposes it found all day (or so). Let yourself see pleasant things to reset the patterns- flowers, landscapes, or minimally-moving scenes. Try for about supper-time. Hope this helps!
I think i have experienced something simular to hypnogogia when i was a kid. Sometimes as soon as the door to my bedroom closed i saw crows flying all over the room. I am talking about dozends of crows and it felt absolutely real. I think i could even hear them if i remember correctly. Thankfully i only had that happen a few times as a young kid and never again as an adult, but i still vividly remember it!
I joined the New years live stream just as the "shadow people" poll was ending, didn't have a clue what that was about. First time I have heard of hypnagogia and I quite happy I'm not afflicted as I imagine it could be quite disconcerting! Amazing the things I learn from this channel!
I used to get hypnagogia as a child, people would come into my room at night and I was disappointed when my hand went right through them. Also a corner of my room would open up and flying creatures would come in and start biting me. Sometimes transparent luminous beings would circle around me, they were friendly.
I'd also see blinding flashes of various colors in sequence, which were pretty until the bright white ones hit. The white ones were painful. I learned many many years later that those were migraines, nothing to do with the dark.
I can still see kaleidoscopic color patterns in the dark, I think those are a normal aspect of human vision and perception.
I needed a night light as a child, now I prefer it dark at night. Blinky lights are especially annoying, and any color other than red.
I didn't know hypnagogia is something you can't have. Didn't know its name either. I thought it's normal and everyone has it. I do love the patterns I see when going to sleep. If I've drunk a lot of coffee it's more like an old TV tuned to no station, but generally it turns into repetitive color sweeps. I even concentrate on them and try to "see" them as well as possible.
What's more annoying are sounds. Snaps about as loud as a switch being flicked in another room sometimes turn into bright flashes (I do have that in a limited way while fully awake as well). And once in a while when I try to take a nap during the day, I often "hear" the doorbell waking me up again.
Hey really interesting to hear you talk about your hypnagogia. I know people who have ringing in the ears eg Ménière's disease they can sometimes use technology to alleviate their symptoms , so good on you for talking about it because you might be helping a lot of people..
One other thing on this, You have it all the time but maybe a proportion of us experience it periodically. By talking about it, I get a much better understanding about it when it happens. Thanks man. Cheers!
Ringing in the ears can just be Tinnitus which I have suffered from on and off for over the last 5 years, Ménière's disease is a lot more complex and is linked to vertigo amongst other conditions and is often seen as a final point for Tinnitus sufferers. More to the point it is annoying sitting here headphones on hearing and a sibilant hiss in your ears and knowing that there is nothing you can do about it.
So I get the random patterns, I'm genuinely considering going to a doc to see if its this cause my god that would blow my mind and prove that it's good that you've talked about this cause Id have no idea (worth mentioning I have a few sleeping conditions already diagnosed)
I see a sort of very faint version in some cases, the pattern on my carpet upstairs being barely lit by the sunrise produces unnoticeable shadows which are interpreted as vertices of some weird impossible shape, the lines through the bathroom tiles form a hologram that lifts off into the ceiling, generally the less light you have the more your brain guesses patterns. I always sleep with my bathroom light on because through the hallway it acts as a dimmable light shining into the room
Interesting bit about the hypnogogia! I used to say that when i close my eyes, i don't see "nothing" but rather a few different things... one of which is a pulsing diminishing circle. My ophthalmologist posited that i was perceiving the calcium shedding from when eyes go into rod mode in low light. Lately it's been manifesting as almost fractal plasma animations, or sometimes as a murmuration of a particle field. Surprised you didn't complicate things by making a joule thief to use up any non rechargeable bats you have lying around.
Wasn't aware of its name before now, but ever since moving into a hamlet outside of Reading I've seen shadows around the bed/in the bedroom in the dark, been pulled out of bed/had the feeling of being pulled out of bed, sleep paralysis. Parents didn't understand and insisted that I sleep with the lights off. Everything persisted until I moved to University, where things susbsided until I moved back home for an extended period and it all picked up again and has continued for the last decade. I moved house in the autum of 2021 and the incidents have decreased significantly, but I still sleep with a dim light on, or prefer to sleep during the day (that's probably also not helped by working nights for 15 years!).
Damn, I think I do have this hypnagogia then, never took notice if any shadowy figures etc. but I definitely do have weird shapes floating in my sight with closed eyes or when it's just completely dark, sometimes these shapes resolve into weird scenes, almost dream like.
I only really noticed these things when I'm really tired, say not enough sleep the night before and a very long day at work or otherwise, when I got past the window when I'm sleepy, so just ended up very tired but unable to fall asleep. Normally the transitional state is quick enough that I don't think about it.
Then again, maybe I don't experience the other stuff because it's not completely dark in my room, there is a wifi router and an extension cord giving a gentle glow, plus my drapes don't keep the street lights out completely.
I always assumed it's normal for our brain to wander in this state.
Similar here
Boring shadowy figures that move somewhat randomly, which are usually easy to ignore, but on occasion I find my mind chasing em around. Must be dark enough though.
It’s normal.
@@pbp6741 that's what I always assumed, that everyone experiences it 🤷
I have mainly auditory hypnagogic hallucinations. It took me long time to stop jumping up to answer three very loud bangs on my front door knocker in the mornings. There was never anyone there? Penny finally dropped when I realised that I didn't have the old crappy cast iron door knocker on my door anymore and hadn't for about two bloody years! I recognise the sound now and just ignore it 🧡
I get that occasionally. I accused my lorry driving neighbour of knocking on my door in the early hours. Not him. it turns out, just in my head. These days I go to sleep by the gentle glow of my self built Numitron internet-radio alarm clock. I run the tubes at 3V to prolong their life and for better night time effect. Tubes are off during the day. Hard to find these days and expensive when you do. I spotted mine in a bucket (literally) of ex-arcade games machine stuff and got them for free as the bucket-o-junk guy didn't know what they were.
@@liquidsonly Knock knock. Who's there?
No one - we're both just mental.
I didn't know seeing patterns in the noise was something associated with hyponogoia - interesting. I sometimes find it helps to fall asleep by concentrating on the very low contrast patterns I get when my eyes are closed in the dark. I focus on them and try to see patterns in the noise. Quite often it looks a bit like one of those "plasma" effects common in demos on the 16-bit platforms where the colour palette was cycled with a blobby image. They get more vivid and multi-coloured often turning into slow pulses of light. This sometimes helps me fall asleep as I start to perceive objects and scenes in the patterns and that sort of leads me into dreaming.
Those patterns aren't normal? I see them all the time when I close my eyes. I assumed everyone else did too.
Thank you for reverse engineering your own design, complex crkt for sure :) I really enjoy how you speak, wonderful channel. The best presenter's are ones you want to watch because of their presentation personality, production values, more than sometimes the specific subject content. Thanks Clive; best wishes to your mom.
I turned a tiny CR2032 battery housing into a gentle red light recently. If you are walking about at night without wanting to disturb anyone, even your own eyes if just awoken, or if you want a simple indicator for if you are home-working and in a meeting, it works nicely. Dead simple and dead useful.
Buzzing bees followed by a sensation of "falling backwards" coupled with a disturbing array of alarm bells. Never gets old.
Might be a useful night lamp, here in central Australia ghosts and other entities are not a big issue but roaming Snakes at night more so. I have heard of solar powered Snake repellers that people can place in the garden, looks similar to a solar powered garden light. Apparently they emit some sort of pulsed ultrasonic sound waves that Snakes avoid and enough of those devices strategically arranged in the yard forms a Snake barrier. Be good to find one of those units and see how they are made and if they have an effect on a Serpent.
I've always found that the smell of gunpowder is the best snake repellent.
Snakes can not hear sounds but can feel vibration through the ground, I have seen videos showing these snake repellers don't work
@@fenman1954 Yes, Snakes cannot hear so I figure those devices would not work. Walking around will disturb snakes and they do their jolly best to avoid trouble however people can accidentally step on one and get bitten. Often the bite is a dry bite without venom being delivered as a warning which is lucky as we have many deadly serpents. One snake we have is known as an Inland Taipan otherwise known as a Fierce Snake which is regarded as the worlds most venomous snake however despite the name it is very shy and reclusive and noone has actually died from a bite. I caught one once thinking it was a black headed python, it was rather docile like a python and not at all aggressive thankfully, I took photographs of it before letting it go and I showed the images to a friend who is more familiar with reptiles and told me what it was, lesson is always carefully identify a snake before catching it!
The best part is that unlike cane toads, the snake repellers don't procreate.
@@8bitwiz_ Unfortunately that's not quite true. These crap scam devices will continue to exponentially explode from China (et al) as more of their smarter crooks start to understand just how DUMB a huge proportion of the consuming world actually is! 😱
Been forced to drive while far too tired one too many times, those hallucinations you speak of are similar to the ones i had while on the road, on the brink of falling asleep on the wheel.
Some wild hallucination would kick me out of sleeping every time, which is where i think people get the idea of gods and guardian angels from.
Interesting to hear you talk about hypnagogia. I have bouts of scintillating scotoma, which is apparently some sort of migraine, but I don't have pain. What I do have is distorted vision, with changing, rainbow, geometric patterns (typically zig-zag type shapes) all around the edges. It last for a few minutes, sometimes a bit longer. The brain is a fascinating thing.
Hi Erik, Thanks for that, I have the same thing occasionally. I didn't know it had a name, though I'd guessed it was similar to some symptoms of a migraine. Like you I don't have the headache , thankfully.
I get a similar thing when I'm falling asleep sometimes. What a fantastical lump of putty it is that is rattling around inside the old head bone, eh?
Interesting. Day before I had heart attack 30 years ago, I had the same thing, which lasted for circa 20 mins. Subsequently, it reppeated every 3 months or so, until I had a stent in 2 years ago, and it stopped completely.
I also have visual migraines (pain free and not harmful) causing hallucinatory geometric patterns in my vision. Having had a couple of real migraines in my life, I'm happy to settle for these psychedelic versions instead!!
Scintillating scotoma is a warning sign of incoming migraine to some people, in which case it's referred to as a "migraine with aura". For me it almost looks like a crack in the universe opening out to TV snow outside. When I get it, I know I'm getting a stonking 12 hour migraine within the next 30 minutes, so time to get safely into a cool, dark room.
The underlying cause is dilation of a blood vessel on the back of the eye, and you're actually seeing the white blood cells travelling through! The exact appearance can vary from person to person depending on exactly how the blood vessel has formed, but it should be reasonably consistent each time you get it.
I'll take spooky manifestations over not being able to sleep any day (or night).
Last year, for about a week, my brain "forgot" how to fall asleep. It's a really weird feeling, lying in the dark with your eyes closed for hours, realising that you never really knew _how_ to fall asleep, it was just something that happened... until it stopped happening. And not knowing if you'll ever be able to do it again.
I wasn't sleepy, as such (as with normal insomnia); I'd feel tired at the end of the day, I'd feel rested after lying down for 5 or 6 hours, but there would never be a break in consciousness.
Then one day I managed to sleep for a few minutes, then a couple of hours, and now I can generally sleep at least 4 hours a night (or a day), which feels a bit short, but I've always liked to a) go to bed late, b) wake up early, and c) sleep a lot, so at least one of those is always going to fail. Anyway, the real transition was from "none" to "some". Even just a couple of minutes make all the difference. It's like reaching a save checkpoint in a game, versus having to play it all the way to the end in a single session.
Maybe adding an LDR so it only comes on when it gets dark. Combined with the solar charging element it would become a totally automated circuit 😊
A very interesting vid, as usual. Thank you.
A side note: those flickering candle bulbs and flickering candle night lights really do seem to help me fall asleep. I'd have laughed if you had told me that a couple of years ago, but I am now sure I sleep better because of them, so thanks again, BC.
I have only twice experienced a prolonged "stay" in that zone between awake and asleep, but both cases were so peaceful, serene and wonderful.
regularly here, and I can assure you it is anything but serene and peaceful. Usually blood-curdling terrifying in my case, so I do envy you.
I like to do that every morning ! 🤣🤣
@@Nine-Signs The one time it happened to me I was laying with my face inches from a spotted wallpaper, feeling unable to breathe and freaking out over the blue spots, probably the most frightening thing in my life, and I regularly handle biohazardous materials. xD
I have chromesthesia, which means that I perceive sound, particularly music, as colours. It’s like having a build-in music visualisation plug-in. The funny thing is that I didn’t even know that this was a thing until my late thirties because I assumed that everyone did this. It was only after spending an hour trying to describe to my fellow band members why our attempt at a song was chromatically chaotic that I realised that they couldn’t actually ‘see’ it that I realised that I was somehow different.
At some point in our life, we are all afraid of dark!
Thanks for another great useful video.
Thanks for telling us about hypnagogia. Fascinating stuff. Where I live it is very dark and unless I leave a little homemade digital clock running, I can get very lost and confused when I awake. Thanks again.
I always thought I had mild X-ray vision as with no light in the room with my eyes closed, I can still make out random things like the bedside table and my hands etc.
Sometimes, the shapes would just morph into random figures, patterns or shapes, I just used to think I was too tired for it to work lol.
I've only had sleep/awake moments twice in my 60 years living.
I was flying like a bird on the first one. It was indescribable. Since that day, I am jealous of all birds.
For the second, I was standing in the middle of space and looking into the universe all around me. It was breathtakingly beautiful.
God, I wish I could have another experience like that before I kick the bucket.
I can't imagine how terrified you must have felt. It's too real.
Hi Clive,
Me as a DIY person love your interesting videos and inspire me to try and make my own projects. But the biggest problem I have is finding the right type of connector for the projects. And since you recommend several diffrent molex style connectors maybe it would be interesting to make a video for persons like me how to identify different styles (mainly small low voltage) for indoor and outdoor usage. And where to buy them "cheap". Here in Belgium I find it hard to find suppliers who sell to non proffecionals.
It would really help me personally to raise my DIY projects. Instead of always working with big wago connectors.
Thanks!
The addition of the connector to make the LED modular is very nice. I didn't know I experienced hyprogogia, but now I know that the muscle jerk I usually experience while falling asleep (as an adult; as a child it was a falling sensation probably 90% of nights) is technically a manifestation of that.
Huh... So I guess I've had a suite of sleep disorders my whole life? I never realised the shadow people, the red and blue imaginary line traceries, the full-body twitch, and the loud snapping sound I experience before sleep were all part of one category.
Bangs, phantom doorbells and voices. All part of the wondrous experience of sleep transitions.
@@bigclivedotcom let's not also forget someone calling your name and then abrupt silence. in my case, a family member, despite them being many miles away.
It’s not a disorder merely a transitory state. How your mind interprets that state can vary wildly.
The loud snapping sound reminds me more of that wonderfully named sleep disorder called "Exploding head syndrome" (Because "Imaginary loud noise syndrome" didn't sound frightening enough I guess?)
The resistor is important. Always connect one in series before powering LEDs.
I never thought there was a name for that. I remember when I was in grade school the shadows would play on the walls and doors when I was in that state between being awake and passing out. Now that I'm an adult I just flop on the bed and pass out. My mother even said I never wanted to sleep and force myself to stay up. I will say that there was this one time that was pretty vivid with my eyes shut I thought I felt something close. It didn't seem like I was in danger but I kept my eyes closed and I got that sensation of something being really close to my forehead similar to when you close your eyes and place your finger near the middle of your forehead. You feel "something" even though your not touching. I wonder if its the electrical currents inside your body that keeps your heart beating.
You probably feel something on your forehead when you bring a finger close to it because your brain knows where your finger is, and not because it's actually sensing something close to your forehead.
@@Lemon_Inspector I wonder. I remember getting someone to get close to touching that spot and I felt something. I wonder if it was anticipation. Also there is a story about native Americans being extremely good at tracking to the point they thought it was magical. The army hired them to test and after they shaved their heads they lost the ability. It was like the hair was acting like an antenna to something we don't know about.
hypnagogia, wow. This explains so much as a kid. The shapes, the colors, I remember waking up and going to bed freaking out from “seeing” this. Have always wondered what those few episodes were about. Thank You!
Damn, it pays off to read through the comments sometimes :)
I never heard of hypnagogia until your video, but I have experienced the symptoms since childhood. I also get temporal lobe seizures which adds another level of crazy experience to life. Glad you found a way to reduce your symptoms!
Much safer than a candle! Thanks for sharing!
I don't have the same issue, the closest thing I've got is a sea of gently glowing yellow, red and blue dots in pitch darkness, and when I get a bout of insomnia, the merest suggestion of motion.
I have pretty good night vision so it's both a blessing and a curse because even the merest outline of something in the darkness can appear to start moving, and it's quite easy to freak yourself out when you're almost asleep.
Now, sleep paralysis I do have experience with, thankfully not much, but it's horrifying.
I remember seeing a gorilla creeping past my window in an episode of hypnagogia. Stared at it for some time... it never moved. Of course I knew it must be a hallucination, but it was very real appearing.
Sleep paralysis is a similar thing. (I've had it a couple of times.) Human brain is kinda glitchy when it is somewhere between wake and sleep.
I sometimes get the audible version of Hypnagogia where I hear a loud knocking or banging sound where I think someone is hammering on the door, it's rare and usually happens when I am very tired. My wife likes to sleep with the radio on low for half an hour or so. I never get it when the radio has been on.
"never charge it again" ... sounds good to me. But adding solar to such a lamp would end up terrible on my side. It would be like cordless dect phones. You always forget to put them back to their cradle (the lamp to sunlight), and they are always unusable when you need them. I had 51 ys to learn, but failed on this one.
I used to have a small neon bulb lamp with diffuser (like the ones you find in switches) that plugs directly into the socket. That emitted a nice orange glow all around the room. Always thought there was something special about that color that made me fall asleep really fast.
I love this idea. I don't have hypnogoggia myself but I like LEDs so to my that's good enough an excuse to make some of these.
And I really like the look of the diffused pink LEDs. Nearly every time I order from ebay I'll put some in my basket.
I am curious about what LEDs you have there where only a circle on the top seems to emit light.
There's a wide range of LED styles. Lens-end either clear or diffused, concave lens Xmas style LEDs that emit in all directions, flat top and the straw hat dome LEDs with the bare chip visible for a sharp point of light.
Usually during hypnogogia, I experience either the Tetris Effect or semi-lucid dreams, which is generally quite pleasant. But when I was younger, I often experienced depersonalization/derealization during hypnogogia, which was extremely distressing. Fortunately that's become uncommon in my adulthood.
You can buy 10 of those battery cases (with switch) from AliExpress for £6.39 (inc. shipping) - how mad is that!
My Plusnet router provides all the light I need in my room at night.
At the moment Poundland are selling sets of Christmas tree lights for 50p which have have a 2 AA cell battery pack with switch.
@@richardturton6900 Wow, that's insane!
I used to have it more but it pops up occasionally. For a while I used it to "enter" a lucid dream or rarely what some would call out of body experiences. Basically the hypnagogia would occur then a dream would form in my vision and I'd soon be walking around in the dream fully aware I'm dreaming. Occasionally I'd have hypnopompic visions like the room coverted in plants, spiders, geometric patterns etc. I think usually people have less awareness of near sleep and those with sleep issues, migraines, apnea, insomnia, or high stress etc notice it
I would love to see all the lights and gadgets Clive has rigged up in and around his house 😁
I have a similar problem with retinal memory .If I'm in a brightly lit room I can still see the images of the bright reflective surfaces like doors that are painted white .I can go into a dark environment I can still see the white doors in different parts of my field of views even with my eye lids closed .And once my eyes get adjusted to the darkness I'm good to go .As a sparky having to work in dark places or very low light levels it's a bit of a nuisance at times .
I have Narcolepsy. I know exactly what you're talking about! I've seen weird things like icicles falling from the ceiling or a bunch of framed paintings in my living room. Not as many sleep paralysis demons, thank goodness. Well, not awake, anyway. Once I had a dream about a demon, and then I started to wake up, and the demon tried to come through me out of my dream and roar at my wife, but all I could do was make this paltry little gurgling sound lol. It made the demon very angry. 😂
That transition between wake and sleep states is quite an interesting subject that warrants more (if any) research . . . Personally, I often perceive really loud and sudden noises, both waking and falling asleep, kind of like my ability to hear being suddenly activated and a massive amount of sound/volume flooding in!
I have experienced extreme hypnagogia my entire life including the fractals. Definitely an odd experience.
have you ever tried LSD for comparison? because that produces mostly fractal vision, too.
@@Ass_of_Amalek ahh yes yes, the experience is very similar for sure!
Excellent, Clive. I too, am a lifelong 'beneficiary' of hypnagogia, and hypnagogic paralysis. While your and my experiences differ a bit, I will not belabor them here. Love your channel.
It looks like you could fit two D cells in there, but I'm pretty sure those are AA's. :)
Just as a heads-up, Eneloop Pros are often sold pre charged but from what I understand they don't have the same low self discharge property that makes normal Eneloops so good
Generally the higher the capacity, the higher the self discharge of these modern cells.
Do they make "D" cells a lot smaller on the Isle of Man?
Yes. They're tiny because we have nuclear batteries.
@@bigclivedotcom Envy level = 10
He's called BIG Clive for a reason. I thought I was a big guy but apparently his hands are huge. He makes those D cells look like A cells.
I made a night light for my cockatiel. Used a single lithium 18650 and one of the wide angle warm white LEDs off the Xmas light strings. The resistor I used was a lot higher, can't remember off hand but the LED runs at 2ma. I fitted it into an old 1970s Eveready front bike lamp. 👍🥰
I had hypnagogia when combined with a mold problem in the house. I saw bugs, though. Beetles, stinkbugs, spiders, etc. on my pillow, nightstand, or wall next to my bed. Happened when falling asleep or waking up. When I learned they weren't real I could concentrate and they'd fade out like a bad 1980s movie effect, which I found comical.
Anyway when I remodeled the bathroom with the leaking shower and got rid of the mold hiding in the walls the hallucinations stopped. My layman theory is that they're made by a primitive part of your brain\subconscious trying to tell you something isn't quite safe in the area.
"Mold" (mould) or Ergot? 🤔😉
You wanted to *alleviate* hypnogogia?
I find it absolutely fascinating, the sound of people talking in your head just before I fall asleep can be disconcerting (it doesn't happen when I'm fully awake, only when trying to sleep) but the feeling of falling back and then the patterns are amazing. If you bend your will to it enough you can make the patterns actually take form, I learned to do that in sixth form when we were trapped in a study for most of the day because letting us out when our classes were over would have made sense, which wouldn't do. Since then I've been able to create some of the most detailed cityscapes in my mind and walk around them just prior to falling asleep. They almost always end up being empty, half ruined medieval or roman-esque cities that stretch as far as the eye can see.
What irritates me is the talking/acting out dreams. Neither partners nor pets have appreciated being slapped upside the head because I dreamed I was fighting.
I do find that pretty repulsive.
Thank you for the hyponogogia explanation. When I was very young I gave memories of seeing shadows of people racing up outside past the closed curtains. I definitely saw people shapes but my parents wrote it off as car headlights or dreaming. But it only happened in that room in that house. Never anywhere else. It wore off but nice to have a name to put against it!
When I was much younger,
I would frequently have the double whammy of sleep paralysis and false awakenings.
Essentially, inside the dream I would realize I was dreaming (lucid dreaming), so I would panic and try to wake myself up, offending dreaming myself waking up… only to be in another dream.
During this, I would “half walk up”, so I could feel myself in bed, but I could also feel myself moving around my dream jumping around to try to wake up (as if I was in two places at once).
I don’t think words could really describe how terrifying and uncomfortable this is.
It happened so frequently and vividly for me as a kid, that I would often be scared of falling sleep (fearing that I would get stuck in that half dream, half awake state again.
I thankfully grew out of this, but I now find myself dreaming a lot less, and not being able to lucid dream anymore.
The human brain is truly a magnificent and mysterious thing.
The thumbnail wasn't clickbait. The device actually reduces one kind of ghostly apparitions.
As a child and still today i see those vividly colorful patterns as well, maybe not as vivid as it used be. that also reminds me that during my younger years i always had a night lamp running in the hallway so that it just gave some light in my bedroom because i had so many nightmares, it became so bad that it made me afraid to sleep. this caused that i became really tried, and i remember one time that i got awake in the middle of the night and saw stuff moving around me I think i was 11 or 12 years old at the time. this scared me and i turned my bedroom lamp on, and it was gone.
worst thing is that my classmates for instance called me crazy. :/
BigClive, the man, the legend. Happy New Year! Thanks for another fascinating video. A bit of reconfig and you could have a lighty up pen (think sonic screwdriver) - take it anywhere :) Not sure if you could wrap solar panels around it - but that would be a bonus.
Once when I was staying at my grandparents' house the bedroom was nearly dark but I could see shapes of furniture, etc. As I was looking at the closet door a shadow started to grow on one side of the doorframe where it looked like the door was slowly opening. It scared the living hell out of me. It must have been some effect like you describe but I have never forgotten it.
Was just ghosts and shadow people..
i'm both relieved and a little annoyed it wasn't suggested beforehand that the wild colours and patterns i see as i fall asleep was just this. i attempted to bring it up with my optometrist/doctor a few times and they couldn't find any indication of something being wrong.
wild. learned something new.
Hope you are well, I enjoy watching because of the calm and relaxation provided by your unusual manner and truthfulness,
I too see shadows, constantly and finally at 58, (we are exactly one month apart in age) I have had some guidance i can share with you and any others wishing to read on, I suffered a bad leg injury that required 5 different operations upon the 5th , i think the anesthetic played a big part, i died for about 5 minutes, I can tell you there is a heaven and unfortunately also a place of perdition, i pretty much fully recovered but immediately realized either i was going crazy or i was seeing shadows and glimpses of things other people either didnt see or couldnt see. I am told by my spiritual advisor, that some energies either get lost or refuse to cross over, there is no way i can tell you how terrifying it can be sometimes, I have found that using white sage and an Eagle feather along with normal every day prayer, works very well for me. I have also found that putting positive energy into the cosmos or into your world has given me great returns. I wish you Clive peace and serenity, and all of your viewers happiness.
Like you, we live waayyy off the "paved road"!! The directions to our home include turning off the paved road, go a mile then turn onto our drive. We LOVE having zero light at night!!! When we visit our city family, we have to put blankets over the windows to sleep as even a full moon gives us issues ;-) Love ya Mr BigClive, Happy New Year Sir!!! 🙂
While I don't suffer from that condition, I'm quite aware of noises around me. For example when the glazing on a piece of pottery in my kitchen develops a stress induced crack, it makes a pling noise that wakes me up, or keeps me from finding sleep. So I like to look around in order to make sure that what I think to have heard, is what I have heard. My solution was to take image intensifier goggles to bed. But your solution seems much more affordable.
I always thought it came with my sleep paralysis, I didn't know it had a seperate name. I wouldn't want to get rid of it as I have learn to use it for lucid dreaming. You learn something new every day !....cheers.
We have mains powered night lights all over but when we travel somewhere, sometimes the rooms have bathrooms that are completely dark. That can be annoying at best and dangerous at worst. I have a battery charger that I've added an LED to, but some bathrooms have no electrical outlets. I'm going to make one of these for those situations. Surprisingly, a milliamp of current is enough to keep you smashing your toes in an otherwise completely dark room.
I'm with you on the fractal patterns and swirling colours. I get that all the time, but intensely so when I'm tired. I've kept a light on for years. Ostensibly, it's there to keep the cats warm!
My dad didn't sleep well in the dark, and ever since my mum died, he never slept without a light on.
Now, I take various medications that play tricks in the mind, and some, I've had to stop. Metformin is one of the worst. While I was taking that, I could see cats, big black ones, lynx sized ones, that would leap across the room and disappear into thin air.
In the shadows, I often see obscure faces and animals - maybe that's why I like torches?! If I shine a torch into the shadow, the face, or animal, disappears, at least until I turn off the torch.
Only at times of severe illness, severe stress, do I see dark shadows standing around me, and that's usually only when I wind up in hospital for one reason or another, but there are times when I have seen full colour and life-like apparitions, usually born of tiredness and bad electrolyte balance.
Funny thing I really thought those sleep disorders are normal and happens from time to time to everyone - as I had some, never with visual hallucinations but with loud noises during waking up or falling asleep, or feeling of being immobilized for few minutes after being suddenly woken up by nightmares and those nightmares are so intense, often I try scream but I can't.
It's hard to explain, sometimes I know that I am dreaming during those events and I try to wake up but I can't, I try to scream to wake myself up but I feel it's so hard to push my sleeping body to do that, in those moments it is like being half-awake and dreaming at the same time, usually comes with with fear, nightmares and those nightmares are hmnm specific.
A one-LED-battery-powered-light by bigclive and no joule thief involved ..shocking ;) 6:30 I built a similar thing with a lithium battery and a 5Voc solar cell, relying on the .7V drop of the diode. On the subject of 'shadow objects', I only get it when I lost a full night of sleep, but then pretty much exactly what you describe.