Strange sensation before falling asleep

[H1234]

I Wondered if anyone else had experienced this kind of thing before. Since I was about 6/7 years old before falling asleep I'd get a sensation that my whole body was rocking backwards and forwards very quickly, it's quite hard to explain. If I really concentrated I'd be able to make it happen. It sort of felt like floating and then the sensation would turn into a rocking motion. There would also be a slight humming sound in my ears too. It very rarely happens now, probably once a year if that.

[gab]

I Wondered if anyone else had experienced this kind of thing before. Since I was about 6/7 years old before falling asleep I'd get a sensation that my whole body was rocking backwards and forwards very quickly, it's quite hard to explain. If I really concentrated I'd be able to make it happen. It sort of felt like floating and then the sensation would turn into a rocking motion. There would also be a slight humming sound in my ears too. It very rarely happens now, probably once a year if that. Ohhhhhh! I LOVE that sensation! You know what's happening? I would bet that what you sense moving is your dream/second/subtle/ body. It had essentially already separated from your physical body, and part of your awareness is now in that second body. So you are experiencing/seeing/feeling the world around you from another perspective. Have you tried to make it move in a different way? All you have to do is think what you want to do. For example think about rotating your body clockwise. When I did this, my feet ended up inside the wall (my bed is right next to a wall) and my torso and head was over the carpet. Your can also try and move it out from bed. Either in that same flat position that you are already in. Just think "move to the window, door, another room..." Or think to stand up. Ok, so your body is already separated. But where are you guys? Haha. You are either in a dream, or in some other alternate reality, such as OBE or AP. For me, when I feel the separation, I just stand up. That's when I "realize" that I am lucid, and I just simply walk away. You can either exit through your door and see what is behind it. Is there what should be, or is it something else. Or, you can phase through the wall just by thinking about going through the wall. Or jump out the window and fly away. Please let us know when you try some of this, how it went. Good luck and have fun!

[H1234]

Ohhhhhh! I LOVE that sensation! You know what's happening? I would bet that what you sense moving is your dream/second/subtle/ body. It had essentially already separated from your physical body, and part of your awareness is now in that second body. So you are experiencing/seeing/feeling the world around you from another perspective. Have you tried to make it move in a different way? All you have to do is think what you want to do. For example think about rotating your body clockwise. When I did this, my feet ended up inside the wall (my bed is right next to a wall) and my torso and head was over the carpet. Your can also try and move it out from bed. Either in that same flat position that you are already in. Just think "move to the window, door, another room..." Or think to stand up. Ok, so your body is already separated. But where are you guys? Haha. You are either in a dream, or in some other alternate reality, such as OBE or AP. For me, when I feel the separation, I just stand up. That's when I "realize" that I am lucid, and I just simply walk away. You can either exit through your door and see what is behind it. Is there what should be, or is it something else. Or, you can phase through the wall just by thinking about going through the wall. Or jump out the window and fly away. Please let us know when you try some of this, how it went. Good luck and have fun! Thanks for your reply, it's so interesting! I've never been able to explain the sensation but I can totally relate to a kind of separation as you said, that's exactly how it used to feel! I'm new to this forum and lucid dreaming so I really don't know much about it at all. I've tried to explain the sensation to others but they've never really understood, I'm so glad it wasn't just my imagination! I'll definitely do some further research. It very rarely happens to me now unfortunately, is there anything you do to make it happen (if it works like that)? Thanks again for your advice! :-)

[gab]

Thanks for your reply, it's so interesting! I've never been able to explain the sensation but I can totally relate to a kind of separation as you said, that's exactly how it used to feel! I'm new to this forum and lucid dreaming so I really don't know much about it at all. I've tried to explain the sensation to others but they've never really understood, I'm so glad it wasn't just my imagination! I'll definitely do some further research. It very rarely happens to me now unfortunately, is there anything you do to make it happen (if it works like that)? Thanks again for your advice! :-) I'm happy for you that you have these sensations. As you found out by trying to explain them to your friends, they are quite unique. Not because they happen only to few select people, like lucid dreamers. But because only those people know how to NOTICE them. We can't really make them happen. They do happen pretty much every time we are falling asleep, but we don't always notice them. Simply because we don't even know that they exist, until one day we get lucky and we notice them. So all you have to do, is go to sleep as you normally do when you used to notice them. Let your body fall asleep. Normally your mind would be falling asleep almost at the same time as your body. But if you stay aware of what are you trying to do and you will passively pay attention, you will notice them. Then, when you feel the separation, you can have some fun. Try to move your hand in front of your eyes. Or bend your legs in your knees. This second one is something Daniel Love calls "IMP". Impossible Movement Practice. http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...Bvideo%5D.html You can try to do any movement you want. Levitate up from your bed, go to the kitchen, neighbors house or apartment, outside. You can check something out, like number of cars in the parking lot, then wake up and go see if it's for real. Or check out anything that you can confirm when you wake up. Maybe you will discover that what you are having are OBEs - Out of Body Experiences, and not Lucid Dreams. I would recommend for you to read this WILD tutorial - Wake Initiated Lucid Dream - WILD That is what you are basically doing. That's when you enter a lucid dream straight from being awake, without falling asleep first. If you have any question, I would love to hear them. happy dreams

[snoop]

I made a thread about a year and a half ago where I use this sensation to induce REM Atonia, transition into a dream, and get a WILD as a result. Here is the thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...her-night.html Let me find the relevant parts for you though. In any case, the way I was able to induce WILDs with tactile sensation was to do an exercise with my "dream" body, or non-physical body, however you want to phrase it. I would reach my arms up, so to speak, and rhythmically move my upper body (this is all with my dream body, just "visualizing" with thought-induced tactile sensations) a bit too, up and down a bit. I did it in this way so that eventually it felt like my body and the surface I was lying on was rocking like a boat. Once I got that sensation to stabilize as something that I didn't have to do, but was still happening to me, I increased the angles at which the surface would go in each direction. That is to say, I would get closer and closer to getting it to almost flip upside down, if the fulcrum of the rotating and rocking were at the base of your spine directly above your hips but slightly below the belly button. When I would go too far in once direction, I would fall. This fall would result in either going directly into a dream (as it did the first time), or "falling" into REM Atonia (like the other two). And, now to follow up the next day. I tried twice last night around the same time, using the boat rocking method (although this time was a bit different, it was more like I used my non-physical body to do inclined sit ups, where each time i go back down the incline gets closer and closer to 90 degrees), and it worked both times. Maybe it's just that I've found the technique for me, but 5 out of 5 times is pretty good, lol. If anyone needs me to try and explain it better or anything like that, feel free to ask. For some reason I haven't tried using the method since, but I don't really actively LD. I think the last LD I had was about two weeks ago where I had like two or three LDs and two instances of staying aware through REM Atonia, and I had them come up naturally after realizing I was dreaming once and staying in a sort of half-lucid state the rest of the night/morning, allowing for RA experiences and more LDs. I'll have to give it another try some time.