First of all, by hypnagogic imagery i also mean image streaming, those images and feelings we use to get before sleeping but still awake.
I have been reading forums like these for years and i read so much... for what i see here, most of the persons that descrive psychic experiences, such experiences are always SO similar to the things i have in the hypnagogic imagery stage and also when i am falling asleep. The problem is that just the idea of me having all this work in wanting to develop psychic abilities and the only "results" is... falling asleep is very very un-motivating to me, hence why i had quit SO many times before because to me falling asleep means absolutly not any progress at all and that i am just wasting my time, so you get the idea, just because of this lack of motivation, such exercices most of the times become almost like torture, because usually absolutly nothing works on me ever (not even brainwave entrainment). By the way i use to have hypnagogic imagery almost everytime i do any meditation at all (that is, only when i actually suceed in clearing my mind)
Is there a way to know if such experiences are REALLY some results from psychic development exercices/energy work/meditation or JUST a natural side effect of falling asleep?? Unless maybe these two indications are what i am looking for can someone tell me if these things could be indicators of progress or not :
- many times, when i have hypnagogic imagery and i don't fall asleep afterwards, i feel my whole upper body pulsating. This is quite strange, because i never had any other side effects from this, besides just hypnagogic imagery, maybe this is normal when trying to go to sleep ?
- during hypnagogic imagery state about half of the times i have it, i think i DON'T lose conciousness at all before having it and i am actually aware that i am having it and that i am not actually sleeping. The other times tought, it seems more like a dream and when i awake i notice that i had losed conciousness, and also during it i wasn't aware that i was having those visions. Could this difference mean, that it's actually good progress being aware during hypnagogic imagery state and not losing conciousness ?
I have been reading forums like these for years and i read so much... for what i see here, most of the persons that descrive psychic experiences, such experiences are always SO similar to the things i have in the hypnagogic imagery stage and also when i am falling asleep. The problem is that just the idea of me having all this work in wanting to develop psychic abilities and the only "results" is... falling asleep is very very un-motivating to me, hence why i had quit SO many times before because to me falling asleep means absolutly not any progress at all and that i am just wasting my time, so you get the idea, just because of this lack of motivation, such exercices most of the times become almost like torture, because usually absolutly nothing works on me ever (not even brainwave entrainment). By the way i use to have hypnagogic imagery almost everytime i do any meditation at all (that is, only when i actually suceed in clearing my mind)
Is there a way to know if such experiences are REALLY some results from psychic development exercices/energy work/meditation or JUST a natural side effect of falling asleep?? Unless maybe these two indications are what i am looking for can someone tell me if these things could be indicators of progress or not :
- many times, when i have hypnagogic imagery and i don't fall asleep afterwards, i feel my whole upper body pulsating. This is quite strange, because i never had any other side effects from this, besides just hypnagogic imagery, maybe this is normal when trying to go to sleep ?
- during hypnagogic imagery state about half of the times i have it, i think i DON'T lose conciousness at all before having it and i am actually aware that i am having it and that i am not actually sleeping. The other times tought, it seems more like a dream and when i awake i notice that i had losed conciousness, and also during it i wasn't aware that i was having those visions. Could this difference mean, that it's actually good progress being aware during hypnagogic imagery state and not losing conciousness ?