I tried the Hagart's (sp?) FILD tech and scared myself absolutely shitless. First I alternated my fingers to my heartbeat, mentally imagining the "swish" "swosh" of the blood flowing. I mentally said "swish" "swosh" every heartbeat. I forced myself not to think about anything in my mind--I feel a wave that pulls me deeper into sleep each time doing this.
After a while, I immediately realized my eyes started moving very rapidly and I felt like I was seeing a black 3d room. As if the backs of my eyelids now had depth. A lot of tiny objects and tingly feelings darted across my eyes. It was like I was in a huge football stadium (but in a negative form, so everything that is normally white was black), and darting my eyes around and seeing the white seats and aisles. All of a sudden and without any reason, my heartrate just skyrocketed and I came out of whatever stage of sleep I was in.
My second attempt, I waited around for about 45 minutes, and I was on the edge of being asleep, but I hear a pounding on my room's door. This was a terrifying pounding though, it was almost worse than someone putting all of their energy into banging my door down. This was so terrifying I started crying when I got up (I'm still shaken by it).
I think it was someone else just pulling a prank (I'm in college), but when I heard that loud banging/clashing, I opened my eyes, and as soon as I did that, I felt a finger on my shoulder. I felt some pressure and then I basically was scared out of my mind (like someone was in the room with me). I have a single room to myself.
I'm now terrified about going back to sleep =) We'll try this again in a few minutes... Going to play some soothing music lol
