Pulsating Darkness?

[Lionheart]

 Hello, I have had this strange phenomenon lately when I do my Phase Sessions. It's something I can only explain as "pulsating darkness". I close my eyes, relax, then all of a sudden the darkness starts to come in waves. But, extremely intense waves. It can actually becomes quite quite powerful and if I wish to stop it I feel like I have to fight to open my physical eyes. Do any of you ever experience this? It gets so incredibly intense. The other night I tried to stay in the vision, I noticed that the pulsing seemed to pass by like a moving train. It went past my center of vision and exited to the left of my "screen". I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Thank you!  

[Bedeekin]

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis in some form or another. 'Intense' is the operative word that pricked my ears.

[ZiggyMike]

Yeah, it's always the left eye!

[Bedeekin]

aaah!!

After rereading your post... it strongly seems you are referring to the sort of illuminated waves of pulsating light that emanate from a point, usually to the side as a small point and then moving in larger pulses that and swipe across the visual field.

These are called hypnogogic phosphenes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

These are evidently an artefact of your retina powering down.

The exciting bit comes after the light show.

[Chris J.]

I would back up the idea of it being hypnagogia. I've had something similar happen in Focus 12, except instead of pulsing, it bulged at me.

[Lionheart]

 Thank you Bedeekin for that link to that "Phosphene" description. I am seeing different shades of darkness, kind of pulsing in waves. Kind of like a "dark vortex". This starts a minute after I close my eyes. But, this might be happening as a result of being on the computer at night time in the darkness, so "Hypnogogic Phosphenes" makes sense. The only thing illuminated in the room is the computer. I love the nights, always have. I usually go to sleep at 4 or 5 am. I have no curtains on the windows, my computer is right beside my main window, so I get to enjoy the beautiful stars, moon etc. at night. I live in the country so my view is approximately a 1/4 of a mile of distance.

[proyect_outzone]

These are evidently an artefact of your retina powering down.

These "Phosphenes" can not be an powering down effect. They occur also in darkness, if one is standing or sitting and watching weak illuminated things. The most interesting effect is, that these can become very very sharp visible and look nearly like real objects in the room. The pulsating can form nice colors. If one touches zones with this colors, one can feel them. The pulsating colors are the vision of (mostly own) aura. Here is the story of a verification.

I saw once the aura of a person in absolute darkness. The person came quietly to our group while i was trying to see aura and i didnt notice that the new person is standing now there. So i told the group it is a astral being, which stands there. The light was then switched on and we started to lough about the funny situation.