Okay, this has been happening to me for many years... randomly. It's my WTF for my demented dream world and my guess is that it may extend further than the dream plane. I'm not sure what brings it on because it used to happen when I was completely exhausted. Sometimes it happens out of the blue.

The first signs of this are a bizarre, acute sensation in the head, like a super-high frequency vibration of pins & needles combined with a low frequency bass tone. Sometimes the sensation is felt in my entire body. This is also accompanied by a sinking feeling in the gut. This is NOT a pleasant sensation 99% of the time. It feels almost like helplessness, as if something is dragging me into some kind of dream state. On rare occasions, it doesn't feel as intense and I know I'm going to slip into a dream, good or bad.

This happens for varying time intervals. 1 second, 4 seconds, etc. and usually over the course of 30 seconds to several minutes it persists.

During this time I may or may not be seeing hypnogogic imagery, and it usually happens soon after I lie down.

Now here's the most disturbing and strange part. After this happens I usually have a rapid procession of lucid dreams. I fall into dream, many times a negative one, or one where I'm being told things about myself or others. Then I pull myself out, and immediately get sucked back into a different lucid dream. These dreams are usually extremely vivid. Picture IMAX quality x10. I can see detail my eyes usually don't see in waking reality and remember almost every detail.

Every time I get pulled into another dream, I feel the same sensation and tone and sinking feeling. Being exhausted when this usually occurs, it is very hard to stop it from happening and can be overbearing and frightening. I've had this happen where several dozen dreams seemed to pass in a few minutes.

This is one of those things that is not pleasant when it happens, but it's so intriguing to me that I want it to happen sometimes so I can try to fully understand it and control it to make the dreams last longer. It is similar to how I used to WILD as a child, but the sensation is so intense it almost feels (what my brain tells me) is like dying. Like my spirit is being forced out of my body.

I would love to know if anyone else has experienced this and if it has a name, if there are ways to make it happen/control it, and any other info that seems relevant as I have no answers.

Thanks

LS