Thread: Does everyone see hypnagogic imagery?

I love hypnagogic imagery.
Sometimes when i'm intensily meditating, it takes me over, and i start having small spasms, and it feels like a drug trip...although i haven't done hardcore drugs...Its also fun before REM, to induce it...wow...the rush of energy.

it seems like ever since i was little i've been able to see HI. mostly at night when i see different shaped blobs of purple and black. cool thing is i seem to be able to move around the lights at will by focusing on one in particular and move my eyes around. its pretty cool. i reached dream paralysis pretty quickly a few nights ago but lost it cause i jerked up when i heard a loud crash and found out my guitar fell off its stand.

I think the answer would be simply yes.. If we dream dreams we can surely see Hypnagogic imagery.

It is the stage your body goes through from wakefulness to light sleep.(Half asleep)
Have you ever been lieing there and heard peoples voices or see quick images (dreamlets) pass before you?
Some people use this tecnique to induce (WILD) Wake initated Lucid Dreams. They focus on the images before their eyes and as the images become more vivid it leads them into sleep. - However they are aware of this transistion, therefore letting them become Lucid.

Why do you think some people don't see it anything then?

Maybe it is like that old saying: " can't see the forest for the trees". Maybe it is there but they are not intunded or introduced to the concept.

well if you have any visuals at all inside the dream I think you can do it. You know blind people only hear noises in dreams though, so that brings up further questions....

Its either there or its not, and if it is you will see it. It can't be there and you not see it. That would go against the entire concept.

I think the reason not everyone sees it might because the brain doesn't create any images untill your fully asleep. Like instead of slowly going through the stages, every thing all comes at once. I don't feel anything either(I have but only 2 or 3 times ever) or hear anything.

You may not be in the proper state of mind. relaxed, Focused? I can generally have hynagogic imagery at will but if I do not put any thought into it before going to sleep I will do just that -go to sleep. There is a very short window of opprotunity between sleep stages for hypnagogic imagery.

I can get very relaxed and that doesn't help any. I tried creating images and also tried just laying back and let what happens, happen. Did not see anything with either. I have even got into a dream before and still didn't see or feel a thing. Was nothing at all then out of no where was a flash of images and I was inside the dream instantly.

I am starting think to maybe I am just unable to see any.

Originally posted by Seeker
My HI begins with the blobs of light. *Sometimes grey, sometimes a very bright vivid purple. *After a few minutes, it developed into little 1 second sequences of dreams.

Interesting you say purple, cos thats what i often get. i read somewhere (a book) that purple is the spiritual colour, relating to chakras etc.

In an attempt to WILD, I saw whitish forms of a Stargate and Major Carter (from the Stargate SG-1 show)... but failed to enter a dream that time...

I never experience the Hypnagogic Imagery. Im kinda like my brother on it. Even though I've only did a WILD once, all the scenes just appeared all of a sudden.

This is just a thought.
I wonder if those who can fall asleep easily are the ones who do not see the images.
The reason I say this is because just out of my own expieriance, I cannot fall asleep easily. Average time about 25 minutes of lieing there to get to sleep. I almost always see images. BUT if I am very tired and can fall asleep fast I do not have sucess when I try for those images.
Likewise my freind sleeps easily and can never recall seeing hynogogic imagery.

It usually takes me a while to sleep, when I lie in my bed thats the only time I truely have the opportunity to think, my thoughts always keeps me awake for awhile before I drift off to wonderland.

Yea I am same as switch. I think a lot when I go to sleep and so it some times takes me a while to fall asleep, and I don't see anything. So I doubt its that.

Originally posted by Alric
Yea I am same as switch. I think a lot when I go to sleep and so it some times takes me a while to fall asleep, and I don't see anything. So I doubt its that.

To the contrary. When you are trying to engage hypnogogic imagery you are not suppose to be thinking of anything. You are suppoes to meditate and relax and not focus your attention on one particular thing.

I was talking about when I normally go to sleep, I think a lot about stuff. I also move around a lot in my bed. When I try WILDs though I lay still without moving and I try to keep my mind clear. Some times I think about stuff anyway, even tried forcing HI to show up before. Doesn't seem to matter either way though, I never see HI no matter what I try, even with a clear mind.

Alric Doesn't that suck. Somtimes when your wheels (mind) get spinning there is no stopping it. I cannot stand when I toss and turn thinking about this & that.

Yea, and then every once in awhile can stay awake for hours.

Originally posted by Alric
Yea, and then every once in awhile can stay awake for hours.

Everyone talks about melotonin for going to sleep. I wonder how long it would take before it took effect in your body. And pop a couple if you thought it was going to be one of those nights?

Since I been doing WILDs I found if I try and can stop thinking about a lot of the stuff some times and just lay there, and that helps me fall asleep.