Thread: 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.