 Originally Posted by Elkfazer
Interesting technique the HIT method, I've tried it without much success, although I was able to imagine in my minds-eye what I wanted to see, but this never transpired into a proper visual image.
If you're actively visualizing, that's the VILD method, while the HIT method is passively viewing your hypnagogic imagery, which are produced all on their own.
 Originally Posted by Elkfazer
I've got a question though, and this is probably hard to answer as everyone's HI experiences aren't always the same, but, when someone sees something other than the regular swirling blobs in the blackness, like say an almost photographic outdoor scene, does this just make it a high quality HI or an actual dream image?
Really, they're all hallucinations, and a dream is just a hallucination that occurs while you're asleep. Hypnagogic hallucinations occur as you're on the threshold of sleep, and as you enter sleep, they can transform into dreams. Generally, the photographs that you get are the HH, but if you learn to just let them happen, they can start to form a dream around you, making you more immersed in the hallucination itself until it forms a dream world around you. This is a very hazy subject and there's not a lot of research or cold hard facts that I've been able to find, I think of it more like a gradient than just black and white. In terms of HH that appear almost as photographs though, it's still just HH.
 Originally Posted by Elkfazer
The reason I ask this is that I've had a few of those images lately where I've woken up at various times of the night and whilst laying there recalling my last dream I had, I'll get the swirling images for a while and then Bang! an instant image of a lady pushing her baby in a pushchair comes into view behind my eyes, but only for a second or two, and then it's back to the swirling stuff again.
Yup, that's that more photographic type stuff. I never get the swirling, abstract junk.
 Originally Posted by Elkfazer
The thing that doesn't make sense to me is that I'm not trying to DEILD/WILD or VILD at that time but it just appears out of the blue ( or in my case, the black, lol )
I know you said that you don't have to have SP to WILD etc, but don't you mean you don't have to "Feel" SP? For me though, I was quite aware that I was essentially awake and could feel myself lying on my left side.
Hypnagogic hallucinations are going to occur in the majority of the population, they're just going to have a difficult time remembering it and remaining conscious enough to be aware of it fully. These are just those hallucinations as you're falling asleep.
Sleep paralysis is the paralysis of your body while awake. This is much more rare than HH. But, this bodily paralysis can also be accompanied by hypnagogic hallucinations (or in the case of post-dormital SP when you wake up in it, hypnopompic), so you end up with vibrations, visions, fear and other emotions, weird perception of your body shrinking or floating or whatever. You can end up in SP with no hallucinations whatsoever, and just find that when you try to move you can't. You can also have no SP whatsoever, and some people don't even get HH.
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