If you don't expect them to be frightening, they won't be. My hypnagogic images tend to be very tame. This morning as I was falling asleep, I saw a number of things. I don't recall them all, but one I remember most vividly was this man or humanoid (didn't look quite human) and all of a sudden there he was in my face kind of staring at me and bending over me, but it was not scary to me just kind of interesting. Then there was some other character that was repeating some action as if stuck in some endless loop. A previous time I remember a painting that was kind of like the Mona Lisa but not quite. It's in that in between stage before I am fully asleep, and I see stuff, but I don't remember ever really getting scared by it, nor any strong emotions.
Edit: I guess the reason why I was not scared was I knew my eyes were closed, and that I was falling asleep, but not quite asleep yet so I could just open my eyes, but I was trying to fall asleep and stay aware. I managed to fall asleep but lost awareness.
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