Hiya JAW!
Wow, I have exactly the same experience when I lay on my back and relax sort of trying to sleep. I can usually never get to sleep on my back, it has to be my front.
If I lay on my back though and try to sleep, around 5 minutes later I get the hypnogogic images. They are like brief flashes of dream imagery. It feels as if I fall asleep for literally 30 seconds and then wake up. The images dissapear then. Then when I close my eyes again and act like im trying to sleep it happens again, over and over. I have tried to control these images to be whatever I choose with various results. Mostly visions come of the same type I imagine but not exactly what I wanted.
Very peculiar thing indeed and I have no idea what it is or why it occurs. I never get any projection related symptoms (eg, vibrations, floatiness) with it though.
I wonder if anybody else has experienced this.
Hi lovepoison,
hehe, I also sleep on my front. Wierd. My neck suffers for it but I cant sleep any other way.
Ive never been able to control the images, they just seem to appear whenever and as whatever. For some reason, mainly faces and eyes. The only thing Ive been able to half control is seeing my "awareness hands" as RB puts it. They still dont do exactly what I want them to though.
What sort of stuff do you see?
Hi people,
I just had my most "profound" experience yet and wanted to share it, and see if anyone could shed any light on certain aspects.
Ive been doing meditation and the odd projection attempt, maybe once or twice a week for a month or two now, sometimes more sometimes less, and Ive tried the whole "drink lots of water, wake up, try AP" method quite a number of times. Seems as though I got quite a result the other night. When I just wake up my memory is terribly poor, its always been like that, so the sequence of events isn't too clear, but I know it was definitely not a dream. When I went to bed I laid on my back (I can rarely get to sleep in that position), and I focussed on trying to stay conscious, concentrating on my breath, etc.
So I either woke up to this "event", or I was borderline asleep, and I found myself having pulsing images, similar to the hypnogogic images I usually get, but they were pulsing/turning on and off. This in itself I found quite bizzarre, because I usually have them or I dont, or they fade slowly in and out (any ideas?) I also cant remember what I was feeling physically, but by the overwhelming feeling/experience of it all, I think I was either getting the rushes/tingles or possibly vibrations or maybe nothing. Maybe my body was totally asleep? Pity I dont know... So anyway... From here as I said, I was feeling quite overwhelmed by all of this, and I ended up opening my eyes, again I cant remember if I tried to or not. I do remember seeing the images overlaid over my normal sight for a second or two though (yep you remember wierd stuff like that I guess!) I closed my eyes and tried to get "back into it" and lo and behold seconds later everything starts up again.
This time the images aren't turning on and off, but are quite bright/vivid, and while the sequence of events aren't clear, I remember seeing/flying through tunnels and at one point I saw the most remarkably clear image of a woman sitting down. Not sure if she was doing anything or just sitting there, but it was just her, no surroundings. I was blown away to say the least. Sometimes when I meditate I see various faces and sets of eyes which aren't heaps clear, but Wow! This was just really something different. I was thinking to myself Im about to project for sure, I was just waiting for it. At one point I even tried to move my astral legs but nothing happened. I must admit I wondered to myself what to do, but I think at the time I was in the middle of hurtling through a tunnel and my mind maybe wasn't quite with it enough to control what was happening... I haven't ever read anything like this happening to other people, and Im very interested to know what people think of the faces/woman sitting and the flashing hypnogogic images, or the whole experience in general.
Thanks for reading as always.
Cheers!