Thread: Was I in a hypogogic state?

First of all, and to be clear, anything I offer as a possibility will always be based on my experience alone.
I can only speak for myself and can only claim knowledge of my own experience.

So,
Based on my experience the tingling "might be" the beginning of your body falling asleep faster than your conscious mind.
It seems to me when they're in sync I just fall asleep with no tingle.
The visuals, in my experience, are fairly common, and I just attribute them to 3rd eye activity.

Waiting longer is a good thing, in my opinion. I see no reason not to.

You 'might' have been on the verge of an OOBE.
That's how the tingle works for me, but then again the only way you'll know is to continue to experiment and see how things progress.

Hypnosis, to me, implies surrender of control so I'd not call it "a hypnotic state."
It sounds to me like you were in control of the process.