This is a common occurence for me as well. Most of the time I like it because of how surreal it is to have my thoughts and senses melting together as they so please, but sometimes I get spooked when the thoughts become too bizzare - oftentimes this is related to some deja vu sensation, where the thought streams that I'm having in the hypnagogic stage seem to me as if I've thought them and felt them before, even though the thoughts are completely ridiculous. The detachment from reality and rationality can be disconcerting sometimes, but at other times really fun.
Wednesday, I as well find myself snapping out of it, but sometimes this can be useful. Allow me to share a tactic I sometimes use. The moment I snap toward reality, instead of thinking about anything, I just stare blankly into the darkness, and sometimes what happens is my prefrontal cortex engages slightly toward awareness, but not so much as to disengage the hypnagogic activity; it all depends on how passively you react to the reality snap. This passivity allows me to experience the hypnagogic illusions in a higher state of awareness.
As an example, I may be having some random scenario unfolding in a half-visual hypnagogic state where I am mostly unaware, and suddenly I will realize the nature of my thoughts, and there is a pulling sensation in my brain and a snapping of the visual field that signals the engagement of the prefrontal cortex. I'm sure you recognize this. If I were to even BEGIN to analyze what just happened, or to reflect on the scenario, the entire hypnagogic state would totally dissolve...the brain activity would reset. But just like a lucid dream that fades when you become excitable, if you relax and adopt a passive state, the lucid dream state will usually not dissolve, and you will find yourself still lucid in another scene or an FA. So what I would do is to immediately accept the reality snap and stare ahead and let the next thoughts, sensations, or visuals present themselves rather than using the prefrontal cortex engagement for thinking. This can lead to great hypnagogic experiences! With a sharper visual field, and sharper awareness, the hypnagogia may start to wash right back in in the form of vivid geometric forms or scenes, or other visual/sensory illusions. As I understand it, this is because you create a very temporary engagement of the prefrontal cortex without disengaging the activity in the parts of your brain that are responsible for hypnagogic activity.
Sometimes I experience such success with this that when I snap to reality and then look into the void, the faint light patterns will suddenly warp and swirl into glorious living, moving forms that are so brilliant in geometric form and color. This usually is accompanied by REM-like movements of my eyelids. I am by no means a professional at producing this state at will, but I have learned a little about it. Consistency is difficult, because it's hard to depend on our remembering how to react when we are moving out of such a rationally disengaged state, but if our reactions are ingrained through cognitive planning in the awake state, the brain is much more apt to default the passive reaction.
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