Thread: question about hypnogogic state

hey all

last nite i had stayed up to 1:40am then when i went to bed for like 20 (or more) minutes i had trouble falling asleep. i am the type of person who falls asleep on their side, so i have been tossing and turning lots. anyway, at some point i layed on my right side and started to think about this scifi TV show (i forget which) and i began to see images and scenes of ships flying in space.

then i stopped imagining that and i realized i was in the hypnogogic state. immediately i began to feel light and floaty, and that i felt a sense of "one-ness" and that i was in some sort of trance. my state of consciousness was at the point where i could have attempted an OBE. (i have OBE before) But this trance feeling and floating and tingling feelings seem kind of weird, even for a precursor state to an OBE. Upon falling asleep i had no intentions of this, i just realized i was in the hypnogogic state and bam im in a trance state. Some time later i was dreaming, and had some lucid dreams in which i was flying.

What does anyone think of this? Is this normal to happen before an OBE? anyone else experience something similar?

Edit:
I blacked out after this happened (i dont remember going directly to a dream) and during the night i had several non-lucid dreams, as well as the lucid dreams someone in the middle. They were all very vivid. Just stating this because i just remembered it lol

I think you were already in a lucid dream, and had you done a reality check it would have proved it out.

You WILDed.

NeoNeo:

I am always puzzeled by what peole mean when they say a sense of oneness?
I'm probably asking alot but can you elaborate on that? I don't think I have ever experienced what people call oneness. Could any other word discribe what you are trying to say?
Rob

by oneness i mean the feeling of peacefulness with yourself and that you sense that your unconscious and conscious self are merged.

basically, you feel relaxed and that every part of yourself (mental and physical) is at peace.

if you want to experience this, meditation is a good way. another way is to just go out to a place where you can relax, or that you love (like a favorite outdoor spot or something) and clear your mind and enjoy being there. its not an earth-shattering feeling, its quite subtle. if other posts on here talk about "oneness" being very intense, they are probably reaching deeper levels of meditation or trying to OBE.

The best sense of oneness I ever had came with a feeling that the whole universe was connected - everything, as far as you could imagine, all part of one functioning whole.

Soultraveler:

Yes, that is what I would call a transcendental deffinition. I have read near-death experiencers accounts expressing the same thing. SOmetimes I actually read a spiritual kind of lucid dream account that discribes the same thing. So far I have not experienced this inner connectedness. I think for those of us who have not, we are really missing something important if not crucial to our development as a person.

Rob

Rob -

Maybe though - if the whole universe is connected - you can't miss anything crucial, and everything falls into place at the right time?? I try to believe that - and it's useful right now when I don't remember a single thing about what I dreamed last night. There's probably a reason for everything :-)

NeoNeo:

Ok. I understand your definition. I practice meditation and know exactly what your refering to. For some reason I had/and still do think people are giving the phrase "at one," a more transcendental meaning, where the self, the ego melts away and you are the universe and the universe is you; where the person on the street is you and you are them. I have never felt oneness in that transcendental sense.
ROb

It has happened to me before.

Sometimes, after playing video games during the day, I'll re-play some scenes of it. I use it as a sign to confirm I'm in the hypnagogic state. I'm still playing around with it. I was falling back asleep this morning and noticed after aimlessly wandering/imagining that I had successfully gone though the imagery and I could try to WILD.

It was the third time I succeeded. What was the same as the first two is that I 'knew' who and what I was doing. It felt very natural.

Funky stuff.