Guest guest Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Namaste all Advaitin friends, I would like opinions on this issue: many people have told me that I sleep with my eyes open (since I was about 12 years old). Now, this is making me a bit worried. My former two girlfriends were scared of sleeping with me because I seemed to be looking at something although I was asleep. They thought I was awake and passed their hands over my eyes, talked to me, but I didn´t wake up. Yesterday it happened again. Two friends came by after a night in a club we came to play games in the computer here then I arranged two places for them to sleep with blankets on the floor and I slept on my bed. One of them was still playing when I slept and when he woke up he told me the same thing: I seemed to be looking at him. He talked to me, passed hands over my line of sight but my sight remained fixed. He said I had a look in my eyes like I was awake but I was so asleep I was making noise when I breathed in and out. And of course I do not remember anything. This is making me worried. I won´t tell this to my doctor cause he´ll tell me to take psychiatric medicines or something of the sort. I´d like to know if this is common or not among ppl interested in spirituality (I know already it is NOT common in ppl in general). Any opinion is valuable. Thanks in advance. Sat Nam, Frederico Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 advaitin, "atmadarshanam" <fsgss wrote: > > > medicines or something of the sort. I´d like to know if this is > common or not among ppl interested in spirituality (I know already > it is NOT common in ppl in general). Any opinion is valuable. Thanks > in advance. > Sat Nam, > Frederico > Namaste, Many years ago when I used to drink alcohol, prior to 1985, this also happened to me. Obviously your 'I' isn't in residence, perhaps putting something over your eyes before you sleep may help....ONS..Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Thank you Tony, this sheds some light to me. It nowadays happens most frequently (that I know of) when I have drunk alcohol (because that is usually when I invite friends to sleep in my room as they´re too tired to go home). Anyway when I DON´T drink alcohol I do not know whether this happens because I sleep alone in my room. Evidence tells me this happens since I was 12 when I slept in the same room with my grandmother in a house of my family down south and one morning everybody was in the living room laughing at me when I woke up and they told me my grandmother had seen me sleep with eyes open and called them to witness it. I don´t think this is much to be worried about anyway. It´s just another form of sleeping. It is interesting that one is able to sleep even though light is coming to one´s eyes (normally when you open someone´s eyes during sleep or flash a light the person wakes up). Om Namah Shivaya fred advaitin, "Tony OClery" <aoclery wrote: > > advaitin, "atmadarshanam" <fsgss@> wrote: > > > > > > medicines or something of the sort. I´d like to know if this is > > common or not among ppl interested in spirituality (I know already > > it is NOT common in ppl in general). Any opinion is valuable. Thanks > > in advance. > > Sat Nam, > > Frederico > > > Namaste, > > Many years ago when I used to drink alcohol, prior to 1985, this also > happened to me. Obviously your 'I' isn't in residence, perhaps putting > something over your eyes before you sleep may help....ONS..Tony. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Namaste Atmadarshanam-ji. Yours is a very common problem. In fact, it is not a problem at all if you read the results you get with a search on "sleeping with eyes open". While doctors relate it to facial muscular atrophy, the fanciful have gone poetic over it. My youngest daughter often sleeps with her eyes open. She seems to do so mostly during afternoon siesta or when she rests after sleepless study. Most babies doze off with their eyes open. It is a beauty to watch them. Now, in your case, if your slumberous gaze has kept your girlfriends off, you are doubly-blessed unlike others who sleep with their eyelids tightly shut and find it hard to shake their bothersome feminine admirers off! I am joking. Now before anyone asks what all this has got to do with advaita, let me add: To the advaitin in me, sleeping with eyes open to the world is sahaja samAdhi. I wish I could one day. PraNAms. Madathil Nair __________________ advaitin, "atmadarshanam" <fsgss wrote: > > > I would like opinions on this issue: > many people have told me that I sleep with my eyes open (since I > was about 12 years old). ............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Madathil Rajendran Nair <madathilnair > wrote: Now before anyone asks what all this has got to do with advaita, let me add: To the advaitin in me, sleeping with eyes open to the world is sahaja samAdhi. I wish I could one day. Dear sankarraman, In my present predicament I find it possible to have samadhi only with the eyse closed, to speak rather in an euphemistic way. One should welcome both the samadhis, asleep or awake, I feel. Could you a bit exapitate on the experience of a few who state that they enter into a state of no-mind state in the course of their meditation, suddenly realizing this and then picking up their thread of thought-stream? How far is this different from sushupti? Is there an element of conscious slipping into the self in this experience as different from sushupti? Shorn of the scriptural delienations, where do we demarcate between sleep, fleeting states of no-mind, and finally the authentic samadhi? I remember having read in Tirupura Rahasya that everyone undergoes fleeting samadhis even in day-time; but by virtue of want of acquaintance with this, their experience goes waste. So also some are well acquainted with these thoughts intellectually, apparently even better than the realized ones; they do not have the experience of samadhi. Tirupura Rahasya emphasies the need to have both. I would like to have your considered views on this since you seem to have some good understanding on these matters even without reference to scriptures which becomes merely repetitious after some time, and one is not able to move further or prevent moving retrograde. yours sincerely, sankarraman __________________ New Message Search Find the message you want faster. Visit your group to try out the improved message search. Share feedback on the new changes to Groups Recent Activity 7 New Members Visit Your Group Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Ganesan Sankarraman <shnkaran > wrote: Madathil Rajendran Nair <madathilnair > wrote: Dear sir, I may be excused for the fatal error of addressing to myself instead of you, which is attributable to my preoccupation with myself. But all names and forms are illuory even though having a transactional reality. In a way I am happy that I have objectified myself though unconsciously. sincerely yours Sankarraman .. Talk is cheap. Use Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Dear Fredrico I have been out of town hence the dely to reply. My brother has been sleeping with his eyes almost open right from his childhood. He has very big eyes. He is 47 years old now. when we aksed the doc, he said his eyes are so big that the eyelids donot stretch enough to be closed completely. This was another bunkum of an answer. We did not bother much nor did we give any importance to this. he is also not disturbed by this. I have been Yoga therapist. i have had many students who have got this breathing pattern corrected. You must check with the Ent if there is any blockage in the nose. This can be corrected. The breathing noise can also be stopped with the practice of pranayama which are suitable. Please consult a Yoga therapist to handle this particular issue. Either from Bks Iyengar institute or Shri Krishnamacharya yoga Mandiram. Their dedicated students are found all over the world. May be you could visit their website and find out their addresses Or you may even contact Dr. Nagarathna from SVAYASA Bangalore through their website. She is a medico yoga therapist. Wishing you all the best om namo narayanya Lakshmi Muthuswamy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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