I have forgotten what that early stage of imagery is called (before you dream). But that's what I'm talking about, sorry if it's slightly off topic I don't know where else to put it.

Yeah so usually, at night I have all my green and blue colours and spirals flowing in front of my eyes, before I dream. But not last time! Last night there was NOTHING, not a single colour or circle: pitch black. It was wierd, at least for twenty minutes or something. Then, I had a new experience: I saw eyes forming! One after the other, this blue gassy cloud in the middle of my vision would transform slowely into an eye (a single eye each time), and then fade. And then do it again, forming many different eyes. These eyes would gather detail and then lose some. A lot of the eyes were different each time they appeared, some blinking, some looking around and at me, some completely different altogether. Some pretty, some real, rarely any were unrealistic. All of them were blue and black.

Sometimes I would be drifting off to imagine something else, and then suddenly revert back to these eyes, which were watching me-occasionally their pupils will explode and bleed (their physics resembled blood, regardless of colour)! Pretty scary sometimes!

I thought it was some kind of spiritual experience! Can someone help me identify what this was, and possibly why I had this experience?? I was sure I wasn't dreaming: Trust me, I was rolling over sometimes and pulling up sheets, looking at the time etc.

Sadly, I had no memorable dream about these eyes, and no lucid ones (at all). Anybody had a similar experience?