So I’m pretty sure that I’m experiencing hypnagogia right as I’m dozing off. It’s like my mind is rapidly changing channels on a tv, occasionally pausing on a scene.

Ex. As I was falling asleep, I briefly stepped into a “scene” where I saw a celebrity in my house.

The problem I’m experiencing is that my brain will be like “Oh I’m dreaming. There’s no way this dude would show up here randomly.” And then I wake up. It also does this when it recognizes recurring dream themes, like animals. As soon as it recognizes these, it wakes itself up.

This is really annoying, cause now I can’t even fall asleep. I got three hours of sleep last night cause my mind just refused to settle somewhere. I even tried taking a nap later and the same thing happened. (It also didn’t help that my mom and brother were arguing downstairs).

Note: I’ve lucid dreamed before, several times, but they were all spontaneous. (I do regular reality checks and occasional journal entries, but now I’m doing it more frequently. I am also playing around with the Rausis method).