Thread: Woken up by hypnagogic imagery

I've had similar things happen... it seems like usually if my mind is overstimulated... like if it's been a stressful day or I drank too much caffeine. Not sure it's quite the same thing. I've had loud voices and laughter like you describe ring through my ears for a long time and keep me awake. Usually it ends after a while though and I can get to sleep.

very interesting - in the last 4-5 days I'm doing the everyman2 technique (basically sleeping 4.5 hours at night + 2x 20min naps during the day and still feeling "productive and not like a truck hit you" )

http://dustincurtis.com/sleep.html

- it's not specifically an LD induction technique, and is aimed ad creating more waking time without feeling like crap, but it is known to cause LD's - I've had 2 already. In any case I'm experiencing a new phenomenon where in the last week I've been woken up 3 times- indeed woken up would be too strong a word- just as I'm dozing off for a nap I suddenly hear a very loud noise - once it was a violin, once a laugh, once metal being hit, etc that I knew I was imagining but it was like I was imagining it VERY loudly - we all have a "volume limit" on how loud our thoughts can be - this exceeded that limit by 150% or so and startled me every time.