Thread: Very, VERY Strange Feelings/Vibrations

I used to be pretty interested in LDs/OBEs a while back, and used to do a lot of relaxation/energy work. I no longer believe in OBEs nor chi, but I do still feel distinct sensations when I do the exercises that are meant to move chi around your body (which I attribute to a stimulation of the central nervous system which causes slight sensory sensations), so I use that to relax.

Tonight I decided to relax a bit before bed and see if I could slip into a state of hypnogagia and experience hypnogagic imagery - trying to induce this is a pretty helpful way I combat insomnia. So, I focused on my body for about 20 minutes and felt the sensations of "moving energy" around until my body was more or less asleep and felt heavy. Then, I remembered a little trick I used to use where I would, with my eyes closed, focus my eyes upwards towards my forehead, where the 3rd eye is meant to be (which I also don't believe in at all). Once I did this I saw a few dashes of light, which almost look like mild lightning, and then immediately started to get very odd sensations.

I got vibrations, but not what I used to imagine them as - I always hear people describe them as rapid vibrations and a buzzing, but these were more like my mind and body going up and down, probably about once a second, as if I were on a stormy sea. I didn't really feel like my body was going up and down, but rather my awareness. In addition to this I felt MANY very weird sensations. I felt as if my body (or my awareness of it) was flattening out, almost like a pancake being compressed further. When I tried to sense my body it felt as it was extremely long, almost immeasurably long, so it's safe to say I completely lost all awareness of my body. Everything I perceived - even thoughts - seemed to feel extremely large, which is something I know makes absolutely no sense as it's a feeling I can't really put into words. Interestingly enough, I experienced this same thing when I had a very high fever when I was much, much younger (probably around 7). I felt my awareness and consciousness moving and being morphed, almost as if I was physically travelling (but not really, again, it's tough to describe). These sensations of distortion would come and go.

When I did this a few years back I'd back out after maybe 25 seconds, but this time I rode out the sensations for probably about 3 minutes. Eventually they more or less simmered down, and left me feeling very, very, very strange. I could hear the rain on my roof and my radiator, so I figured I wasn't in a dream. Nothing seemed to be happening, so I got up from bed to see how long it would take for my altered awareness/perception of things to fade away, which took about 15 seconds.

Has anyone experienced something like this? Is this what normal vibrations are like pre-LD/"OBE"? Is this basically my body entering REM? I suppose I should've waited a bit longer to see what would've happened 5, 10 minutes down the road...