Hi Everyone
I know this is a lucid dreaming forum but i'm not very good at lucid dreaming but since I was a child i've been experimenting with hypnagogia, inducing images, and keeping them going, creating my imaginary body and learning to control it and too many other things. I've found that hypnagogia is a fascinating and complex field which does have a rules system and of course it conjuncts quite readily into dreaming and especially lucid dreams (but there is some kind of threshold that I haven't been able to cross).
On the main my experiments in hypnagogia are based on the premise of how to have vivid images and how to induce them at any time. That's what i've been working on since I was really little. Just about every night I would watch a hypnagogic movie and over the years i've developed quite a few techniques to create and guide the HI.

So I will explain a bit about how I see HI and perhaps other can tell me if this matches their experiences and what they think. Firstly I tend to see the visual space, which is connected with the optic nerve (as opposed to the active visualization space in which you can create anything but it probably won't move on its own) as a three dimensional block made up of many invisible planes, a hypnagogic show can exist on any of these different planes at the same time which creates interference so its necessary to understand the three dimensionality and be able to focus on only plane at a time.
To me I find hypnagogia a balance as there are many alternative possibilities but they must all be kept in check. For example it is possible control the images by simply feeding conscious messages into the stream. Like for example if you see a shape that looks vaguely like a vase I would think 'look at that vase' then it becomes more vase like then 'oh no, the vase is falling over' and sure enough the vase will fall over but what I discovered from this active controlling is that true hypnagogia is 'alive' it moves on its own volition and if the control is too conscious then it 'dies', it won't move on its own anymore. So there is this threshold between active visualization (like meditative visualization) and hypnagogia. But the lines blur considerable, for example visualize yourself standing in a grassy field, I like to look at my hands first then at the rest of my body, try to position my point of consciousness somewhere in the vicinity of the eyes, then move around a bit, wave your hands, clapping is good, trying to feel the texture of the palms, after this initial warm-up I then see the hand and arm as a suit and then shove my own hand into it like a long glove. That will increase stimulation. Ok then imagine that there is a soccer ball on the ground in front of you and chances are that suddenly your imaginary self will start playing with the ball, without your say so, in fact it can be difficult to stop. Or if you are working with the hands image that you are holding a snake and then watch the snake suddenly come to life. I can only speculate why this would be but it seems that there is some kind of preprogrammed series of actions that immediately take effect in certain situations. But again this crosses the line from active to hypnagogic events.
What is really interesting is the attempt to increase resolution, because a lot of my experiments have been under low resolution but as lucid dreamers will testify as well it is possible to get the resolution so high as to become like super-real. So real that it makes ordinary life like seem totally boring. In defining these super-real events I would say its like 5 dimensional because it has the basic three, plus time and the 5th is that the viewer feels connected to all the parts of the display in a visual, tactile, emotional symbiosis and yes, needless to say it is really really cool. They are also really hard to get to happen. I've only had about 3 sr's in H.I. and I remember all three as clear as day, they don't fade away really. One of them that I had was some kind of huge demon's face surrounded by fire and it looked right at me before consuming me with flames, I snapped right awake, I really thought I was in hell, I could feel the fire.
So how to increase resolution? One thing that I discovered is that it is possible to clean the viewing planes and this has increased generally clarity greatly. Also it is possibly to dispel light-noise. Light noise is I think the biggest reason for low resolution. But there is still plenty I don't understand about light noise, I figure it comes from outside and its some kind of impression on the optic nerve, so even in dark rooms its possible to have some, but sometimes the HI is completely basked in white light which completely destroys resolution. It could just be that there is a light source coming from a particular direction (like a crack of light from under the door) and for some reason that gets amplified. I can't seem to fix that yet.
Also I can't easily W.I.L.D from an H.I state, I think i've done it maybe twice over many many attempts. I think its because i'm not really asleep in HI so i've skipped a step in the sleep process so I can't go into a true dream, i'm really not sure. Also of course messing with HI screws up sleep patterns making it highly unlikely to get any kind of restful sleep let alone dreams.
So can anyone testify whether this is similar to your experiences or not? I'd be really curious to find out, also what other techniques and experiences people have had.