Quote Originally Posted by M28226 View Post
Yes thats exactly how all this started. I started getting images, about a year later I started to notice videos. I then started to notice I want to say bluish color swirls right when I layed down at night and then those swirls would form right into the image/dream. About a year or so later is when the sleep paralysis started and to be honest with you I have experienced this sleep paralysis probably a few hundred times over the past 18 months. Many times multiple times per night. I got this ability(if you want to call it that) out of the blue and I have no clue why it came to me. I have also started seeing at times random images during the day even when I am not tired. I have 5 sisters and 2 brothers and not one of them have any of this. I just hope I dont turn out to be one of those nutty type of people. But yes I will check out that book that you mentioned. Thank you
I think this is what happened. When you started seeing first swirls, you started paying more and more attention to them, then you were able to see images and then dreams forming. Each time you were able to keep your mind awake little longer, while your body was falling asleep.

Everybody is able to to the same, if he would start paying attention to the falling asleep process. These images are there every night, but we don't notice them conscioussly, because they happen after we start to fall asleep.

Normally, body and mind would fall asleep almost at the same time. But if we try to keep our mind awake while our body falls asleep, so we can enter dream directly from being awake, we witness the HH and other sensations that are normal signs of body falling asleep.

When do you see those images during day? If it is when you are just sitting, maybe watching tv, I think that's ok. Since I started practicing LDing, when I watch tv, just chilling on a sofa, if I close my eyes just for a second when kinda falling asleep, I sometimes get these clear images right away.

If you take a nap during day, you go straight to REM. That's when you can see those defined images clearly and almost right away. You could be already falling asleep and not even realize that. If you wake someone up from first stages of sleep, while in light sleep, they deny they were asleep. They feel, like they were still awake. Could something like this be happening to you?