Quote Originally Posted by mini0991 View Post
Ok, thanks. I just thought it was something different as that was basically all I could see, whereas in a SP state, you can see your surroundings except you see like an old hag sitting on you or something else. Sometimes, as i'm trying to stay awake and I snap awake after dozing off, I see the same thing, a sort of dark moving herringbone pattern, except as I come to, it seems to be a dark circle in the middle of my line of sight that gradually shrinks and then I can see normally. Does this happen to anyone else? Do my eyes 'turn off' when I sleep, or is that basically hypnogogic/hypnopompic imagery also?[/b]
SP, when experienced consciously, is just a physical sensation. The "Old Hag" that a very few experience is just an added hallucination.

The herringbone pattern and the circle/halo sound like CLASSIC hypopompic/gogic imagery to me. The herringbone in particular.