Well, I've begun my journey down the road of Lucid Dreaming recently and I've begun to notice something about about entering my sleep.

I've been using a CD I made to help induce the sleep and my awareness of it, and recently I have noticed that when I get to say... the count of 10, what is normally black turns into a sort of deep purple (no, not the band )/black/slightly orange pulse of colors... sort of like those seisure inducing flash movies. It's very odd, and I can feel myself start slipping into a different state of conciousness, but after I "realize" that this is happening, I wake up, completely energized as if I took a power nap.

So I guess my question is, what is this?

It starts as a small dot and grows into a circle a little bit bigger than the smilies. From this those random pulses of color emit, mold, and morph, around what I percieve as my vision. I see nothing but black and those colors.

Is this what happens before I enter a dream state? My eyes move insanely rapidly as if it I were in REM, and this could go on for a number of minutes, but as soon as I realize this is happening, I wake up. I usually wake up from my arm slowly sinking into my pillow and hitting something such as a char, or it sometimes feels like someone is nudging me.

Thanks =P.