This sounds like am example of very vivid hypnagogic imagery resulting from being able to effortlessly transition to a state of hypnagogia in a short amount of time. people skilled at doing this, like you, are typically also very skilled with inducing states of near hypnotic relaxation using meditation of some kind. do you find that to be true about you as well? the ability to rapidly reach a trance-like state immediately after waking up (and still in a state of consciousness that is not yet truly fully awake by any means) translates into often near instantaneous full-hypnagogia.
The hypnagogic state, when entered while retaining awareness means the odds of accidentally rousing yourself from this state, like so often happens if one actually awakens in this state and the sudden conscious awareness of being in it cause enough excitation to knock you out of the state in an instant. This is a window of time that's ripe for inducing lucid dreams given really any number of techniques.
When I find myself seeing moving images like that, they rather quickly seem to be vivid enough that it is like viewing a dream scene from outside it, but otherwise you're essentially almost in a dream already but just aren't feeling it or experiencing it through any other sense of perception than sight. When I find myself at a time like this, I typically wait about 15 to 20 seconds so that the images have been playing out for long enough that what's happening is starting to be cohesive enough to form a tangible form of narrative and theme connecting and guiding the scenes going on, the idea being to stabilize the coherency of what as of yet isn't quite actually a "dream" yet, I don't know how much doing this actually helps with the lucid dream induction or not, but considering I've never failed at entering a lucid dream from states of hypnagogia, REM Atonia, and random bouts of sleep paralysis, I don't see a point in really questioning whether or not it actually matters. I'm not saying this to brag, just stating it as a fact to establish some credibility in my believed understanding of what to do and what's going on.
Anyway, after doing that, I decide to simply "step in" to what I honestly believe at that point is a dream scene playing out before me that my bodily sense of self hasn't yet integrated into the experience for one reason or another. "Stepping in" is honestly an almost heinously inept way of phrasing and conceptualizing what I'm doing to actually "step in" to the dream, but I guess maybe it's more accurate to say I don't have a clue what the behavior I'm performing is actually even doing, I just know that the first time I found myself in hypnagogia seeing vivid imagery like this, I decided to treat what I was seeing like the paintings of Super Mario 64 that you have to jump through to get to a certain world. I simply perceive it as permeable, fluid, and capable of being interacted with (obviously to include the ability to integrate your sense of self into the scene and enter a lucid dream). I simply recognize that I've waited long enough for the scene to become at leaves adequately coherent, so now is the time to step into it like you jump through the paintings in mario.
Essentially, my experience and the concepts of the paintings in mario itself being used to establish a believable and familiar framework of interaction is what my technique is doing... kind of like installing a basic input and output system (BIOS) for a computer so that software and an operating system can function I suppose. So when I say to "step in" after the imagery stabilizes and everything, that is a... well, passable enough explanation for what I'm doing.
I essentially do the same exact thing when I remain aware through REM ATonia. The first time I found myself in that state, I decided to transition from being stuck in that state and to a dream, I was going to "believe" or "understand" that there was a blackhole-like vortex above and behind my head that was going to suck me in, and when I was sucked all the way through, I'd find myself inside a dream scene. It's worked every time since I've done it since, and on a fundamental level, what's at the core of this technique is exactly the same as what I'm doing when deciding to "step in" to vivid hypnagogic dream scene imagery. I'm establishing basic rules governing the way the perceptions I'm experiencing can be manipulated and interacted with going forward that I have confidence and genuine belief in (because ultimately the ideas behind how I choose to interact with pre-dream phenomena are rooted in ideas that already know exist and are familiar with and have experience bolstering that confidence related to the non-dream related form of the concepts I'm using as a framework--that is to say, i already have played super mario 64 and know that i can jump through the paintings to change worlds, so I expect its success automatically).
I think for how almost absurdly simple the actual the acts required for performing the technique I'm using really are, it's almost suspicious how well it works... it just kinda seems like consistent and reliable success would require more effort to pull off, seems kinda silly lol.
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