You might want to keep an eye on your temperature when doing this Wink

Yeah, I have spent a good deal of time exploring the depths of drug induced seizure activity.

Although bupropion never scared me too much, it allowed me play around with some serious lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis activities, not to mention hypnagogic hallucinations.  In fact the entire time I was on bupropion I could have complex geometric open eye visuals any time I was in a completely dark room or surrounded by predominantly light backgrounds or surfaces, like in the shower or looking up from bed at a white ceiling.

Concomitant use of modafinil and bupropion makes bedtime even more fun.  Modafinil's half life is around 10-12 hours, I have found that right around bedtime when modafinil concentrations are at their lowest along with a lowered seizure threshold from bupropion one can actually experience narcolepsy like symptoms (falling directly into REM sleep).  I have many memories of laying in bed with my boyfriend having a conversation about something and the next second nodding directly in to REM sleep for a few seconds, when asked "are you listening to me" this would bring me from the deep dream attained in a matter of seconds and I would respond "yes the pigs look fine and the spaceship is ready for landing" or something tied into my dream.  Absolutely fucked I have to say, (experiencing narcolepsy)   

It sounds like you may have experienced on bupropion what I experienced after my first MDMA binge.  There are no words to describe the sleep disturbances that arise when the dopaminergic inhibitory neurotransmitter serotonin is completely exhausted from ones brain.

When this state occurs certain dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems have a fucking field day and without their inhibitory friend serotonin to keep them in check shit gets really dark, really, really fucking dark.

You know you need to sleep but you also know that in order to get there you have to break through some of life's most impossible boundaries, the minute you reach REM a flash of light and sound explodes through the inner most reaches of your brain and radiates to all extremities, thus waking you up, quite often you must endure this 15-20 times until you are strong enough to ride it out, and only then if you make it through the massive explosion of seizure activity at the gates of REM you then have to endure the feeling of falling perilously throughout the darkness, you know you must not wake up or else you have to endure the entire process again.  Every single time I experienced this "falling sensation" I would dissociate and in another dimension see myself finally fall off the side of the bed, hit the floor and proceed to full blown tonic clonic seizures.

If you finally make it through the perilous falling sensations then and only then are you allowed to dream, and dream you do, the most vivid, horrifying, darkest, dreams ever imaginable.  There are absolutely no words to describe the dreams that will ensue, none whatsoever, not the scariest movie, not the thoughts of the most fucked up disturbed individual that ever lived, one thing is for sure memories come and go but the memories of the dreams that you experience in such a state will be burned into your mind like a brand for the rest of your life.  They will always be there just like yesterday, the clarity, the sights, the smells, the fucking horror.

Enough about that...

Another thing I have found experimentally but have not found much documentation in the literature is that my seizure threshold is a hell of lot lower when I try to sleep on my back.  In fact all lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis experiments could only take place whilst laying on my back.  I have heard from a great many of others also that this is the case, especially accounts of sleep paralysis and folks stating they can't sleep on their back or else they get "stuck".  I feel there is a statistically significant population that experiences this and thus I hope someone can explore this further in a clinical setting.

Its all seizure related and all very very interesting.

much_love

methyl_ethyl

 

shock through my whole body just before falling asleep

Based upon IC50 values, L-tryptophan increased the potency of MDMA by approximately 3-fold

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shock through my whole body just before falling asleep

These are known as Hypnic jerks. From my reading I believe they originate in the nervous system and (do feel free to correct me if I am wrong) mainly the PNS. They can be eliminated by slight Skeletal muscular movements.

I imagine bruxism would interfere with these but that is unproved speculation on my part.

I get em all the time. Perfectly normal


I hope