Eyelids

So yeah. Lately, on and off, I've been able to see through my eyelids and see my room when I'm going to sleep. It's only happened a couple of times but enough so that it's peaked my interest.

I was running a virus scan on my computer last night and I didn't really have much to do, so I just went and lied down on my bed to rest my eyes. I noticed after awhile I was staring at my room but it was much dimmer and I couldn't see as much around the fringes of my vision and I thought "what the-" and realized I couldn't see as much because I was seeing through my eyelids. Everything was normal, I'm not particularly overly familiar with this room since I just moved in here like a month ago but everything was in its place and all of the finer details were there. So, I did a reality check or two and confirmed I was indeed awake.

Later on I went to bed for real and was disappointed to find it wasn't happening anymore, but as I dozed off some I seen that I could see my body and my bed but something was off, my body was in a slightly different position than what I was actually seeing. Again, I tried some reality checks but I was definitely awake.

I realized afterwards something similar had happened a few months before, but that instance I could actually see me moving and checking my phone when I wasn't, I was just in bed trying to go to sleep.

It's pretty interesting though, how all the objects and scenery kind of just takes shape from vague to being identical to reality.

I found one thread here relating to it, but I'm not really satisfied with the whole "you must have amazing visualizing skills" explanation as I have a horrible time holding any image in my head and I'm not exactly the imaginative sort (all of this a disappointment to someone who wanted to be an artist, lol)

Anyway, any explanation or personal opinions welcome, I'm just trying to figure this out.

**Moved to Beyond Dreaming**

Your eyes don't see reality, your brain does, your whole body is like a giant eye. The feeling of 'being behind your eye organs' is just a convenient hallucination that your body uses.

Dude! I get this too!

You're just laying there when suddenly you realize you can see even though your eyes are closed. It's kind of like seeing through night vision goggles, everything is sort of greenish.

Good catch on the different position of your point of view. I've noticed that as well. When you finally do open your eyes, your point of view changes slightly, like looking out of only one eye, then out of the other. I was sleeping on my side, and my "night vision" seemed to be a couple inches closer to the mattress than my physical eyes were.

No idea what is going on here, but you're not alone in experiencing this. I've probably encountered close to a hundred people online who have experienced this as well. When it was happening to me, I was meditating regularly at the time. I was also seeing shadow people or worse when I woke up.

Yeah, it didn't scare me or anything it was just a surprise since it had never happened to me before. I've never meditated but while attempting wilds I learned how to clear my mind completely and pretty much use that every time I go to sleep since It turned out to help my insomnia a lot, maybe It's a sign I have a knack for meditation. I don't know! Now I wish it happened more often so I could explore it, lol.

@telethiese, I thought about that as well, at the time I was lying on the opposite end of my bed than I usually do, maybe that kicked in my bodies natural senses because of the unfamiliarity of that angle within a space I was familiar with.