Thread: What Just Happened?

Those patterns are called Hypnagogic Imagery.
Techniques to induce a WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream) focus mostly on hypnagogia in order to slip into the dream state while aware.

And you have no idea how I envy you...I haven't seen it more than once yet, let alone knowing for sure that it wasn't just my imagination. >.>

Originally Posted by Sil3nt

When I was trying to go to sleep, I started to see random mosaic type patterns and some yellow color... Was I close to LD'ing or something?
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Sounds like you almost did a wild.

You see Hypnagogic Imagery every night but don't always remember it. Look around in the tutorials and I think there's one that tell you how to induce lucid dreams by observing hypnagogia.
Personally I never see patterns but dream scenes instead, this is know as a half dream state

Exactly, tiddlywink, I see half-dream states every time as everyone (when one's thoughts go independant of one's will and one starts drifting off), in fact I usually recall seeing them but that state seems so far away when trying to reach it while aware. Of course impatience is a problem here but it seems quite tough.