Hallucinating voices near sleep
I’m sure this has been talked to death already, but I had what I consider to be my second experience with truly lucid dreaming last night and it freaked me out.
When it began, I could tell that I was halfway between sleep and waking. I knew I could move my body if I wanted to and I felt relatively conscious - I even remember recognizing “oh, I think I’m dreaming lucidly, I should try to conjure something fun.”
But I didn’t see much of anything in that surface level of sleep. Mostly, I started hearing things, voices specifically. I heard one in particular that was dominating everything. It was this deep, unsettling rumble and I can’t remember anything it said specifically but I do remember that it was reacting to my conscious thoughts. The voice almost felt sentient, maybe evil.
It freaked me out quite a bit, and I ended up resurfacing from sleep after talking to it for a while (and eventually feeling like I needed to get away from it), at which point the voices all totally disappeared.
Does any of this sound concerning? It sounds ridiculous but they say that anyone can develop schizophrenia at any point in their life. I never believed that the voice was real, but it felt so present, like it was talking to me, like it knew what I was thinking.