ory because I am very curious about what might
have been going on in my internal world and external world.
- Original Message -
From: Gerald Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: tips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 6:54 AM
Subject: student dream
> A student in
Thanks to all tipsters who responded about the student dream. She
doesn't awaken with headaches, no history of seizures, migraines, etc.,
but as Cheryl S noted, a sleep lab would be a good way to eliminate some
factors. Student does not seem that interested, but I had suggest a
>I believe it is possible that she is having a seizure and the white light is like a migraine aura. Oliver Sacks suggest that there is a connection between migraines and seizures. Sacks, Oliver. (1992). Migraine. University of California Press
Interesting, and while not impossible, I stil
> My dream is just a white light that fills my whole field of "vision"
> and this sense of extreme terror. When I was younger and it would
> happen I would wake-up and try to call out for my mom but no sound would
> come out and I could not move. Now I realize it is just a dream and
> "fight" it
A student in my Gen Psych class asked about a dream/sleep phenomenon
she experienced. We were discussing hypnogogic and hypnopompic
experiences. It sounded to me like she was in a non-rem state and was
experiencing something akin to night terror, but she has had it since
childhood and it
