Early morning, birds chirping, cool wind, sunny day. I was sitting in the bus and going to office. As I was enjoying my trip to office, everything around me start to blur and fade out. At first, I thought I was going to fall asleep, but it seems that I am shifting to another dimension or being teleport away.

When everything become clear again, I realize I was sitting in the office already. The first thing came in to my mind was WTF. Am I sleep walking? Or some alien had just abduct me? Or I just time traveled.

After a few seconds of confusion, I start to remember what had happen. The truth is I had reach office earlier. I was just hallucinating that I am still sitting inside the bus. I am very sure I am not dreaming. If I was dreaming, then I must be sleeping with my eyes open. But why am I hallucinating? I don’t take excessive amount of drug or alcohol. In fact, I don’t take drug or alcohol at all.

Upon searching through the web of what might cause my hallucination, I found this definition in Wikipedia:

Hypnagogic hallucinations and hypnopompic hallucinations are considered normal phenomena. Hypnagogic hallucinations can occur as one is falling asleep and hypnopompic hallucinations occur when one is waking up. - wiki

It seems like that I am experiencing some “Hypnagogic Hallucinations”. It is one type of hallucinations that occur when one is falling asleep. Well, now all make sense to me. This few days, I had been staying quite late at night and doesn’t have enough sleep. I was damn sleepy in the comfortable office, but I can’t “meditate” because this place is new to me and I got work to finish.

This hallucination experience is quite weird and some how “enjoyable”. Give me a bit of “time travel” and “matrix” feel. No wonder so many people are looking for hallucinations drugs and mushroom nowadays. Well, not for me. I prefer to have enough sleep rather than hallucinating due to lack of sleep.