Thread: question about hypnogogic state

hey all

last nite i had stayed up to 1:40am then when i went to bed for like 20 (or more) minutes i had trouble falling asleep. i am the type of person who falls asleep on their side, so i have been tossing and turning lots. anyway, at some point i layed on my right side and started to think about this scifi TV show (i forget which) and i began to see images and scenes of ships flying in space.

then i stopped imagining that and i realized i was in the hypnogogic state. immediately i began to feel light and floaty, and that i felt a sense of "one-ness" and that i was in some sort of trance. my state of consciousness was at the point where i could have attempted an OBE. (i have OBE before) But this trance feeling and floating and tingling feelings seem kind of weird, even for a precursor state to an OBE. Upon falling asleep i had no intentions of this, i just realized i was in the hypnogogic state and bam im in a trance state. Some time later i was dreaming, and had some lucid dreams in which i was flying.

What does anyone think of this? Is this normal to happen before an OBE? anyone else experience something similar?

Edit:
I blacked out after this happened (i dont remember going directly to a dream) and during the night i had several non-lucid dreams, as well as the lucid dreams someone in the middle. They were all very vivid. Just stating this because i just remembered it lol