Hi,

first of all, sorry if this has been discussed before. I've tried searching but I'm not good at it so it's very difficult for me to find things.

I'm new in this forum, but I thought I might tell something which happened to me a few years ago, in order to get some comments.

Usually I dream a lot of strange things, and occasionally 'special' things happen. Anyways, this event happened about 3 years ago while I was in the navy in the mediterranean, on one of these NATO 'fighting terrorists'-missions. It was very stressing and tiresome, so a lot of strange things happened on that trip.

Well, one of these times, in the morning, I was half asleep when I noticed I started to 'fall into myself' (the kind of feeling when you are sinking into deep sleep). I lost the outside world but remained conscious. I sunk deeper and deeper into myself, much more so than when I usually sleep. It was extremely comfortable and I felt very relieved. I wanted to sink even deeper. But then, I got a feeling that I was sinking too deep; I was about to sleep away for good and never wake up. It still was immensely comfortable, but I didn't want to allow myself anymore sinking, afraid of what might happen.

I had to struggle to get awake. I can usually awake myself from a dream if I find it necessary, but this time it was very difficult. At last I got higher and higher, and finally opened my eyes.

The whole experience was a bit scary, especially since it was so very comfortable to 'sink'. To this day I still don't know what would've happened if I hadn't stopped. This kind of thing has happened once or twice before that, I think.

Any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated.