Can someone explain these pre-sleep sensations?

I was lying down trying to go to sleep a minute ago. I was absolutely determined to have a lucid dream despite having not yet practiced any technique. Sheer will power. So instead of having any kind of dream, I was experiencing a lot of weird sensations as I lied down with my eyes closed. The entire time, I was fully aware that I was just lying on my bed. I'll try and describe this experience as best I can.


I felt like there was a pane of darkness sitting in front of me, as if there was a small distance between me the blackness I saw when I closed. When the sensations grew, it felt as though I had pressed my face against the pane of darkness and it was all I could see, making it somehow different from the regular darkness. I experienced something like jumping great distances and floating in the darkness. I felt as though my body were moving, but all I could see was shadows. My eyes seemed to be moving rapidly, but it seemed to be semi-voluntary. I couldn't tell if I was intentionally doing it or not. I felt weird things like my body being squished, and I could see the shaping of lights becoming images, but once I started consciously rationalizing them, I lost the experience of the images. But most strange was my cement-like posturing, as though I were permanently bound to this position. I don't think it was sleep paralysis because I feel as though I knew I could move if I chose to, but I wanted to remain still. My left hand was place on one leg or in between both, under my blanket. I had the distinct sensation that it was enveloped in a warm doughy substance, holding it in place. I could feel myself slowly curl, with my blanket pushing into my face. This happened twice, differently each time. The first time I could physically feel myself curling. It seemed somewhat involuntary, but as it happened, I began to voluntarily hastening it, which eventually ended the sensation. The second time it felt more like my blanket was pushing into my face from no discernible effort of my own. It was about this time I decided to get up and type this all out to find some explanation on here, lest I fall asleep and forget it.

"I don't think it was sleep paralysis because I feel as though I knew I could move if I chose to, but I wanted to remain still."

I'm sorry but it sounds like Sp to me haha. sleep paralysis, even though has the word paralysis, doesn't mean you are nessecarily paralysed.. in your dream.

I have to ask you if when you felt yourself curling upward did you actually in real life curl upward? If not then you were in SP. SP is somewhere between waking and sleeping, and its when you should feel vibrations and sounds and see images and feel as if your body could be moving or being pulled. It sounds as if maybe you were experiencing acute SP. When it comes as hard as it is I would suggest to try not to focus on it or else you will eventually start waking up. Just dont try to move anything and don't act like its a big ordeal or else you'll excite yourself, and then you may just be able to get into it deeper.

I'm just talking out of my own experience. Good luck to you, hope I was helpful.