Seeing faces before falling asleep
Very often just as I am on the verge of falling asleep I see faces coming at me.
My eyes will be closed and Im completely relaxed and faces seem to loom from all directions, zoom close to me then disappear to be replaced by another face. Its almost like a slideshow of faces. I am not asleep when this is happening, I am fully aware of it and if I concentrate on it it almost always stops.
All the faces are of normal regular people, all ages, both sexes, and from lots of different nationalites. Most of the time the faces have no expressions, some have slight smiles, lots of them have sad looking eyes.
My daughter gets this too but unfortunately for her the faces she sees often look smashed up like they have been in bad accidents or look like they are screaming or agonised. Also she sometimes sees entire bodies whereas I only ever see the head/face.
For me it is in no way a scary experience, for my daughter it is terrifying.
I have only ever come across one other person who experiences this which was when I asked about it on a general question and answer site, the person was a man who saw not faces but strange scenes (landscapes, buildings etc he had never seen before) I was told in my question that it was hypnagogic something or other. I googled this at the time and all I could find were references to sleep paralysis which I also get but is completely different.
Does anyone experience anything like this or know anything about it?
(sorry all my posts are so long, I am just trying to put as much info as possible into them):oops:
Seeing faces before falling asleep
I too, see the faces or beings when I close my eyes and am wide awake. I just accept them as beings visiting me from somewhere and sometime.
Henry B. Ellak