The borderland of dreaming is hypnogogia. I've been working on this for a long time and know that it is really interesting but the more i've tried to seriously concentrate on these incredibly illusive visions the farther away I feel like I've moved. So I want to try to study this in a more organized way. If anyone wants to join me then by all means.
So my plan is that I will first spend 10 to 20 minutes doing visualization meditations, then lay down and record what I see.
November 16th. Did 20 minutes of visualization until the visualizations started moving on their own. I like to focus on tactile issues; I usually see myself sitting under a tree and feeling the bark of the tree. Then I look at the grass, ext. If I can't the color of something right, sounds funny but I imagine a color crayon with the right color and that usually works. After the visualizations started to go rogue I laid down.
There is definitely a tremendous difference between doing and not doing the visualization. When I don't do it I usually spend the first hour just trying to get anything to happen, after the visualization meditation it just goes.
Quality of H.I.: low to medium.
Brief description: spent some time flying, nothing too exotic. I lost it for a moment at one point and when I closed my eyes I could only see a residual bar of light so I visualized a woman scooping up the light with a cup like it was water, when she dumped out the water it would not intentionally turn into parts of a new scene. It became like tables and chairs and cups and things, then a castle and I used that to ride into a new scene.
State on waking: Felt jittery and strange, state stayed with me for several hours after.

Questions: Why can't I stop flying around, whenever I get in a good place I end up sailing off to the next one, I tried to stop it once and it killed everything, I ended up with a black screen. Its frustrating