The following was posted by Gandalf about astral screens:
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I guess it is what would be regarded as a 'hypnogogic' image playing out in your minds eye; however it is ultra real, better than the best quality dvd! The scenes are usually full motion, full colour and sometimes with sound.
I'm pretty sure what I had was not the same thing, but it grabbed my attention when I read it. I put mine down to hypnagogic images but now I'm wondering...
A few days ago I was reading the posts on the forum on the computer which is in my bedroom, then decided it was a good time to practice attempting OBE. I lay down, relaxing, focusing, saw hypnogogic images then felt like I was floating around my bedroom, everything was exactly as Gandalf stated above; full colour, better than best quality DVD (no sound though but I wouldn't expect it in my bedroom). I had been on the forum and left my computer logged into the forum. I started floating straight towards the computer and I had the feeling I could have floated straight into it, like actually "into" the posts, if that's possible! I got a little worried about being trapped in the computer, lol!, and at that point the image faded away. At no point during this did I feel I had a body of any sort.
I felt no vibrations, at least only gentle sensations, not like the violent vibrations that have been described in many posts, so as I say, it was more than likely hypnogogic.
I haven't been using bwgen, but I have been reading many of the posts on phasing and have been focusing on awareness in points in my brain, moving energy between left/right hemispheres and in particular a point somewhere in the middle.
So what was this? Was it F10 hypnogogic images? Was I a point of consciousness? Was it a vision screen? Am I going nuts?
I get more confused every day!