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Anyone else seeing strange equations when waking up?
I'm talking like advanced geometry and calculus of a language only Jesus knows. It used to happen infrequently I would wake up to see writings and scribbles that would last a handful of seconds. Now, after four years, i'm experiencing equations, some of them are computing/running at different speeds/rates superimposed transparently atop one another using a wide varying of numbers and symbols I'm not familiar with. I looked it up and it is definitely not Hypnogogic or Hypnopompic Hallucinations because this doesn't compare...hell it does not even come close to it. It's every other day (1-3) that I wake up seeing them and they last 20-30 seconds now.
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Bob Nov 24, 2016 @ 7:51am 
Do you have any brain implants?
76561198152167391 Nov 24, 2016 @ 7:56am 
That just means youre gonna fail High School. Or you have another time frame thats still going through High School. You are our test subject now.
zepedachemical Nov 24, 2016 @ 7:57am 
Yeah dude make me paranoid LOL!

No. Never had a brain injury or anything. No surgery on my dome. I did have a dual procedure way back in the early 90's as a child where they took out my tonsils and put some tubes in my ears due to hearing issues but that's about it.
zepedachemical Nov 24, 2016 @ 7:58am 
Ok...seeing the responses tells me it is an isolated clandestine experience i'm having. Now I will proceed to look at do-it-yourself tin foil hat making videos while I wait for NASA and the CIA to question me with a handful of Nobel Laureats...
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Bob Nov 24, 2016 @ 8:24am 
Go see a neurobiologist.
Lusus Symphonia Nov 24, 2016 @ 8:27am 
They wouldn't be much interested in you but your brain, they will dissect your brain to pieces.
Run if trump knocks on your door.
C4Warr10r Nov 24, 2016 @ 8:46am 
No, but I regularly experience combat scenarios that my brain refuses to forget because knowing them was terribly important to our survival at one point. I'd be worried, but I also get near-waking dreams about whatever game I last played, if it was suitably intense. Dark Souls, man! I get the flashbacks and the PTSD! Roll for iframes! Do a barrel roll!

Now, you're faced with one of two possibilites with these equations, and I bet we can eliminate one right now. What is Pi to the 67th digit? If you see it in your head, almost like an afterimage, you are a savant and possibly autistic.

If you can't do that, you are just really stressed or enthusiastic about math, and your brain is trying to learn it, form associations, make sense of it all, in the downtime where it does that. Or so the theory goes. Brains learn by reverse association because all of their input is backwards. You see upside-down, all of your motor controls rely on negative input, you don't hear what you think you hear, human speech actually sounds like warbled nonsensical crap, but that all gets turned around, blanks filled in, patterns identified and turned into useful neural networks by the brain.

Same way that optical illusions work, and indeed, it is very possible for the "mind over matter" idea to work in a very real sense. People always see things that aren't there, particularly faces, because they are in fact evolved to combat their greatest and only natural predator, as well as source of support: other people. You may very well be experiencing the same thing, only with math. Weird, nonsensical equations that show up as afterimages, backwards and upside-down because your brain is actually triggering you optic nerves through simulation. If you start seeing them in random objects, like bushes, you can pretty much bet that's what is going on.

Well, I SAY that but we don't know for certain. It's all theory. Theory, not hypothesis, we can more or less replicate it all in a lab, but there is no conclusive model. We might be able to figure it out if SOME people would get over their butt-hurt about voluntary human test subjects and double-blind testing, but it's almost impossible to make the case to them without sounding like GLaDOS. Other than that, you can always go the "I don't know, therefore aliens" route that paranoid schizophrenics love. I'm told that at least they never feel alone.
zepedachemical Nov 25, 2016 @ 10:52am 
I remember the "Barrel Roll"
I'll always remember the...Barrel Roll...
Stop playing Dead Space 2 and problem solved.
zepedachemical Nov 25, 2016 @ 1:18pm 
Fusion. You may be right. On the up side I think I'll take Bob's advice. Hell! I might even be snatched away by the government as a guinea pig conduit to the machines LOL.

Seriously though someone else out there mayhap be experiencing the same thing so it wouldn't hurt contacting a few professionals.

thanks
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#LiftThatArmUp Nov 25, 2016 @ 1:20pm 
The numbers, Mason... what do they mean?




legit sorry that I made that joke
Virtual0Slayer Nov 25, 2016 @ 1:34pm 
Write them down. Show them to a mathematician/physicist.
Tesla dreamt of full blueprints in 3d like we now use AutoCAD.
Maybe you're dreaming of cold fusion or time travel and we will never know.
ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ Nov 25, 2016 @ 1:44pm 
are you a robot?
zepedachemical Nov 25, 2016 @ 3:58pm 
Originally posted by Virtual0Slayer:
Write them down. Show them to a mathematician/physicist.
Tesla dreamt of full blueprints in 3d like we now use AutoCAD.
Maybe you're dreaming of cold fusion or time travel and we will never know.

Sweet lord I was just thinking something similar to this. I'.m having waking visions of the actual Law of the Universe/Existence. Why not Stephen Hawking? Why me LOL
zepedachemical Nov 25, 2016 @ 4:03pm 
Originally posted by Vince:
So much b.s. here lol...


Originally posted by Skylx:
No, but I hear snippets of conversations sometimes upon waking. Like this morning I heard two people talking and one of them was saying, "....the oil barrels ruptured and all the oil soaked into the ground. The ground has been so frozen the and cows were so thirsty they were trying to drink it. But they're also starving so they're going to die anyway."

And one evening while sitting at the window in the dark I began to doze a bit then I heard a woman say outloud, "I'm speaking audibly now so you can hear me." And my eyes popped open and I looked around and there was no one.


....*shrugs

Damn. I had similar things like that happening arounf the time the numbers starting popping. Conversations and such of people I know talking about random stuff.

There's someone that says so much B.S. here. I'll admit it's a POV experience but I think enought people have these things happen often enough that someone is looking into it.

Better to study the human mind than to chase ranbows and flying saucers...
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