What visions/images do you get?

[loveposion]

Hi again jaw,

Well last night I laid on my back whilst trying to sleep and sure enough the hypnogogic came yet again.  This time though I went into a light to medium trance on purpose whilst the hypnogogic imagery was playing and I heard two nosies like voices but they were very quiet indeed, I couldn't quite make out what it was, I only heard it once and it sounded like it came from the left of me.

Anyway what I generally see are people, in everyday situations like sitting, walking, talking to other people.  These are very brief images though and they are moving images not still like photographs.

I'm convined it's the dream mind, or your subconcious playing images onto your concious mind.  Which you don't usually notice whilst not in this relaxed state.  Who knows?

Take care

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[Zarklon]

My imagery is probably the strangest out of anyone else's here on astral pulse =/ Last night I saw a crazy bluish-grayish colored X-Box live Logo (Yes the Logo for the gaming console system...spinning around).  I remember my mind wandering about what tomorrow will be like and about my late school projects due and how I was gonna get over them and how I was going to react to seeing my girlfriend after 4 days of not seeing her and whether or not I was going to be mad for her not calling me etc...   Yes I rambled for a reason , that was my chain of thoughts before the X-box logo came into picture.. I think it first came as logical thinking and worrying then randomly started to get crazy .. x-box logos , and... crap I cant remember what else but I remember this morning I became aware that I was getting strong imagery of a red lighter laying on a desk.. The lighter was indeed on my computer desk and the texture in the imagery was the same as the computer desk in my room so I knew I was thinking of that lighter in that actual spot just a few feet from my bed.  I tried to take control of the imagery and suddenly realized just how REAL that lighter looked so I tried to feel for a body and felt none.  After a few seconds I managed to unwillingly switch awareness back to my physical body but next time I'll try to just change the scene and continue what felt like an astral phasing session.

I've kinda strayed away from your question but I've gotten imagery of X-mas lights popping up on a string with each count while counting my inhales during breath awareness.  It was definately imagery because the more relaxed I got more and more random images like that popping into my head trying to wisk me away into a dream.  Thats all those images do .. I believe they distract your focus of the physical body while it goes to sleep and keeps your mind occupied with a neverending cyrcle of random scenes/images.  They sneak up me and I end up falling asleep each time I try to project because my body gets so relaxed that my mind cannot block out the imagery good enough to maintain decent awareness through the whole process .... =/ Ok im rambling.. I'm procrastinating writing this booklet due tomorrow for school.. I'll leave you now! Ahhh *runs off for a cig*

[loveposion]

Quote from previous post:

(Last night I saw a crazy bluish-grayish colored X-Box live Logo (Yes the Logo for the gaming console system)

That verifies my conclusion on the subconcious mind playing out scenes on the concious mind and only being able to be observant of these in a particularly relaxed state.  You know what an Xbox logo looks like so your concious & subconcious reacted in some sort of way.  Proving it was Non-Astral.

I cannot be certain though as you never provided the situation in which you experienced this phenomena as me and JAW have previously.  Good post though!, can you give anymore information regarding your state of relaxation and situation?

[JAW]

Howdy,
In a similar vein to my previous post, Id like to know what people see while meditating/on the verge of projecting. Im particularly interested because apart from the standard floating lights and swirly colours, I see a lot of faces/eyes/people. Itd be interesting to know what other people see, and if theres much correlation. Generally the faces/people I see arent moving, are fairly fuzzy, and take on an orange/yellow colour before fading out again.

Also where do you draw the line between hypnogogic images and astral sight or images? Ive seen swirling colours a million times, but recently got visions that were much more real/bright than usual. How do you define what images your mind is making up in a dream like state and which are astral images?