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For a long time now I've had excessivly sweaty hands and feet, I've tried quite a few treatments but to no avail, except marijuana.  If I smoke marijuana and relax just right my hands become warm and dry... I feel comfortable and alert, but in this trance I have a very hard time communicating, or talking breaks it and my hands begin dripping again.

I've got a few ideas about what causes it... I've got ADD which is frequently related to an adrenaline deficiancy, maybe in school I learned to rev up the sympathetic response (fight or flight) to stay alert and focused, aside from possibly being unhealthy, it is very inconvienient.  I don't think it has too much to do with state of mind anymore, or at least it has become incorporated with all my states of mind, because I even sweat in my sleep, judging from the wet areas around my feet and hands.

Also, as a child I needed very little sleep, but because of boredom I now get 8 hours of sleep like everyone else.  It's worst in the morning, and if I stay up all night it's virtually cured for the next day.  Maybe it has some corrolation with oversleeping?

I've heard of the awesome amounts of mind and body control gained by yogi's, able to speed up and slow down metabolism and heart rate at will.
While looking for cures and remedies for HH I often wondered why none of my fellow *sufferers* on the yahoo forum ever blamed something other than "genetics" or "predisposition"  and maybe tried to get sweating under concious control.
So far meditation has been helpful to me, but not with this.

Does anyone know anything about this?  Maybe specific techniques for controlling the sympathic response, or perhaps spiritual causes.
"never trust a man with clamy hands"
anything would be helpful.

Heh, that's smart.... now to find some peppermint... thanx

I know what you mean about the geometric shapes... I find I usually hit that hypnogogic state when I am listening to music while meditating (I know I know it's a distraction.)  But maybe thats the point, cause the musical distraction helps you lose your intent to meditate.

I was just thinking that maybe you don't meditate in visual n e more or something,  maybe just imagining scenes or images before you let go could help stimulate visual thinking.  Also, after a workout or something physically tiring I drift out of meditation into that just zoning out state where you see alot of thoughts easier.

Make like pavlovs dog and think of food, that would probably make you salivate.
Maybe your body is used to turning off salival glands as you near sleep.
You might try keeping a wetstone, or something small in your mouth to keep your glands active.
These things may interfere with meditation though, I don't know.