Thread: Rapid induction of the hypnogogic state

i find having dim lights help hypnogogia. You know when you look at something bright adn then close your eyes you can see the outline of that. I usually just have a dim light and look at my room and close my eyes really fast. I can still see outlines of the corners in my room. I unfocus and try to look past the lines as if it were 3d. sometimes it fades but quite often i get a hypnogogic image of being in a 3 dimensional room. I once had a very short WILD this way.

That's a pretty interesting approach.

I experienced audio hypnogogia a few nights ago and found it easy to concentrate on the sounds and voices as they occurred. The only problem is that I equate hearing voices to being crazy, and although I knew I was just falling asleep it still felt uncomfortable and a little frightening.

I'm going to give this a shot tonight though, because I was using visual hypnogogia techniques at the time but it seemed to be the audio and sounds that really pulled me in.