Hypnagogia: A Bridge to Other Realities

Nice to see this blog. Last night was the 2nd time it happened. When I closed my eyes. On the left eye, i can see rooftops of a big place. No skyscrapers, red or orangish tile roofs. I was not moving, but the scene I am watching is moving. Like I am marvelling at the beautiful sight so I am looking laft to right. No vision on my right eye. After awhile, I opened my eyes and the light is on (night mode). I messaged my Aunt right away, she is into psychic stuff. I googled my experience and found out what it is called hypnagogic hallucination. Then tried to sleep again. The vision came back on my left eye. One person said, enjoy it. So, I did and I enjoyed the rooftops. But now, I am interested on what it means. The first time it happened, it was blurry, I had to think of what I am seeing, a coffee table and wooden sofa chairs around it. Oh, the ones we had when I was young. I thought maybe I miss my deceased parents and went to sleep.

Lately, I am interested in what I heard that we should be able to live all the different dimensions of life. What are the different dimdnsions and how to experience it? Maybe if I interpret my dreams, I wohld know. Thank you for this. I get to share my experience. And maybe explain what the rooftops mean. My husband said when he came home from work, maybe that will be our next holiday destination.

This has been happening to me for many, many years. The thing is; sometimes I feel at ease, other times I feel terrified as if someone is in my room that is not supposed to be there. The "fight or flight" thing kicks in. I don't think this is an accident. I believe that there is a thin veil that separates us from the spirit world and some people can access this better, whether they want to or not. Last night, a man with a plaid shirt was standing next to me, walked around my bed and stood at my bedroom door for a tick prior to walking out. I yelled because I was afraid. I keep the lights on at night. No wonder kids are afraid of the dark. I believe that our bodies are reacting to something external, and the scientific research is reflecting the "results" of what we see/and or hear.
I just say a prayer and hope that it goes away sometimes.

I had no idea what this was, but am still confused by it. I thought I had entities in the past in my house, too many things happened and all happened after a fall down the stairs. At night before I go to bed I see many faces, or people in full form, but they look like they are talking or walking - in other words these visions look like I'm watching a video. There are so many different people, men women children. Some are crying and it is quite vivid. They sometimes actually come off/out of the wall and what looks like a bubble/orb comes near me while trying to sleep. inside of it, I can see the person who I may have just seen on my wall. Two white crystal cylinder shaped mists are on one side of me head and two on the other - which sparkle, every night. I have wrong intuition which is scary and I don't open up much to others. I'm not afraid of the silver crystal mists, but when I see all those faces, sort of spooks me. I see quite a few crying, one vision is of a little girl about 5 years old walking down a dirt path, like she is from the 1930's, But all the visions are in motion. I have never had the problem of not being able to move while trying to sleep. I have also seen a silver coil reach out from my mirror which attaches to me. So weird, I used to drink a some wine before bed so I could sleep and not see thesis visions. The white mists do not scare me, it almost feels like Angels protecting me. Is there ANY connection to the spiritual world rather than just hallucinations? I never hear voices, I never see "shapes" - just people! The videos are always in black and white, few have been in color. Could someone please respond and let me know if you have had these experiences? I have never been asleep when I see them, I am lying in bed and they suddenly appear. HELP! Thank you,

Obviously, I have also had these experience which is what drew me to this forum. Usually it feels like hands are pushing at the base of my spine and I'm struggling to move but can't. I am not at all religious but felt compelled to call out Jesus Christ's name for 'help' and found that I was released from the grip of whatever it was. Last night it happened again... paralysis and the invoking Jesus' name. It felt like a struggle until I relinquished control and 'trusted' in the assistance. Then, poof, I was awake. Those debunking this as religious rhetoric need to understand that in the collective unconscious, the name JC would have been invoked umpeenth times in prayer imbuing it with hope, love, devotion, etc. So whether you believe it was actually some spirit of Jesus or not, the name itself has been ingrained with power over the Millennia and it is perhaps the positive thought power of this association that 'saves' the paralysed sleeper.

Also, when I awake I see the fast flashing images right in front of me as if they are external and I have no control over them. They are often tableaux that look like hieroglyphics or some simplistic visual based language like an ancient emoji (for lack of better terms). I don't understand it and am plagued with the fear that information is being uploaded into me to affect some kind of change, like a computer system being upgraded to perform higher and higher functions. I say 'fear' because it feels like I haven't consented to this — perhaps my spirit has? In any case, has anyone else seen the weird visual language? The first time it happened it looked like a Mayan or meso-American/Indian prayer wheel of sorts with writing and pictures on it. Then it looked like Hebrew or Aramaic. The latest, just looked like little crude drawings but in a line - like they were intended to be 'read' as text.

I also have this condicton I expierience swirling colours and imagery like places and people I have not meet before I also hear family names being called out with warnings to be careful or congratulations. I do have a sleep disorder I have crhronic sleep talking . However I have experianced hypnagogia during day time as well I also see the aura around people the colours being the same as the colours in the hypnagogia experiance. As a spiritualist I always accepted this as a mystical experiance, and have enjoyed this experiance my doctor is now telling me that it is stress and has arranged appointments to help me I am not brave enough to tell him that I think it's mystical so have agreed to go along with this , I also work in mental I'll health Iand I know how this can be treated. Marlene inverness scotland

I am so relieved to see that I'm not alone, I heard the word Hypnagogia from a doctor today and went to look it up. Although a sleep doc said I might have narcolepsy I don't have the episodes of sudden sleep or muscle weakness. Sleep paralysis and terrifying experiences however. All my life. I will tell you about some of the most terrifying ones I had:

I wake up in my bathroom thinking "what am I doing here?" so I move to my living room, I noticed that I was floating and not walking it terrified me. Then in my living room something started to spin me in the air and threw me into a wall ( I remember thinking "ouch it's going to hurt") but it didn't...I am not a religious person but I was so terrified that I started praying real hard, I saw a yellow beam of light and was back on my bed, unable to move and hearing an eerie whisper in my ear, couldn't understand what it said.

the second one was when I heard someone unlock my door and get into the apartment, I asked "who is it?" He said ( the name of my ex) except my ex didn't have a key...terrified I closed my eyes and heard it come near me and lay down in my bed, beside me. I was so scared that I just kept my eyes closed untill I guess I fell back to deeper sleep.

I sometimes sleep in weird positions, I woke up to see a hand above my head- then i realized that one of my hands was beside me the other under the pillow. It wasn't My hand above my head.

I could keep going telling all the horrific things I've experienced. Sometimes I feel like I'm zapped my electricity when I wake up and unable to move and hear a buzzing sound. Once I heard a woman say "You know I love you"- with a playful tone etc;

The most important part of all this though..I often dream that I'm in alternate realities, worlds just like ours but I know they're not ours. I also know some people there that I don't know here on Earth. I also have had some premonition dreams, some silly some more serious. Examples: The night before going to my driving school the first time I had a dream that I came there and was told " Sorry we forgot to put you on the schedule for the computer, you will have to wait about half an hour" - The next day the very thing happens. Or most recent I dreamed that my sister got beat up my her b/f. they never had physical fights. I called my mom and told her about my dream and she said, "that's exactly what happened"... I had some more dreams like that but they don't happen often.

I am grateful that I at least have a name for all those scary experiences.

Sleep paralysis is the 'holy grail' of astral projectors. It is a special condition which allows one to experience astral projection (out of body experience, oobe). So, believe it or not, many try to achieve it deliberately. They do this by lying very still on their backs and not moving at all and waiting. The paralysis takes 15 or so minutes to achieve on average and takes over swiftly when it occurs. It is best achieved after having slept first. Because you know not to panic, you can try to move the astral body and explore. They say the 'evil' presence is often felt at first, but eventually dissapears as your fear of it diminishes.

The way to get out of sleep paralysis is to change your breathing, it is apparently the only thing you can still control. By doing this the paralysis soon goes away.

Why do people see or sense demons instead of angels? The reason is stated as being because the closest astral plane to us in occupied by lower spirits and the angelic beings are in higher astral planes which this technique of projection does not enter.

Know that by lowering your fear during a paralysis, the incubus loses power. Know that you will soon move again and that the thing can't hurt you. Dont talk to it but command it to go. Make yourself feel powerful during the paralysis.

Try not to sleep on you back and don't concentrate on breathing etc as you drift asleep, just daydream about fancyful things.

If you hear voices during the day when fully awake, well then it is not hypnogogia, it could be schizophrenia or if you dabbled in some esoteric stuff like Ouija board contact ,and soon after you hear voices - possibly a spirit, which you invited to bother you. I'm not religious but am not arrogant enough to think that something else could not possibly exist.

7 years ago I was having lunch alone at my favorite Chinese Buffet, and I overheard a conversation at the table next to me. Two guys in business suits, one was explaining to the other how he woke up last night to find Tolstoy sitting at the foot of his bed, and how proceeded to have a conversation with him. He described a few more scenarios and went on about how this kind of experience was common for him. Under normal circumstances I would never interject myself into a conversation between two strangers at a restaurant, but this guy seemed to be describing my "freak-outs", as I have called them most of my life, and he seemed to have some insight about the nature of this phenomenon. So I did walk over to the table and talk to the gentleman, and that was the first time I had ever heard the word Hypnagogia. I finally had a proper name for my freak-outs. As soon as I got back to my desk, I Googled the word, and found that there was not much out there in the way of definitions, examples, or blogs like this one.
Every once in a while, I do another search to see if anything new has popped up. Tonight, I found this blog, and I just wanted to say, great blog, and thanks to all who have shared their stories. Reading through a bunch of them tonight, I'm struck by a few things, especially that others use the same exact phrase as me, calling these episodes, "Freak-Outs". Anyway, I've written too much already, I won't launch into examples of my own, maybe some other time. I basically just wanted to say thanks to all of you and to the blogger, and to reiterate what so many of you have already said... you're sure as hell not alone.

It's not exactly comforting to know others feel what I do because I would rather a solution lol

When I was younger I had an imaginary friend, I'd sleep walk, my parents would catch me standing infront of things talking and they actually changed the lock on the front door so I wouldn't walk out(they kept the key in their room). As an adult the sleep walking, the imaginary friend is just a funny story. The thing is As I grew older it all went away but it was replaced with something that's worse. See as kids nothing really creeps us out because we are innocent but as adults it's scary stuff. So, it began...sometimes I feel my chest warm and tingling, my heart racing, im fully aware im not asleep but im not awake either. feeling the presence of someone behind me. Waking up to shadow in front of me, sometimes I get pissed and tell it to just go away. Last night I caught myself saying "really? This s#it again? Go away!" sometimes I know I'll slap at the figures. I don't know if I actually do it or dream I do but it sure feels real. The reason I linked in my childhood experiences is because what if this is something other than dreams or sleep disorders. For a long time about 2 years while I was in a relationship all activity seemed to calm down as my partner slept next to me. A few times I awoke to a dark figure in front of me but I didn't freak out (maybe cause I felt safe my partner was laying next to me?) but now I sleep alone and the fear is back. Is it fear of the dark? Is it something more? I think not having an answer makes it worse.

i thought i was alone into this so never really expressed it to anyone around me...been having this experience for a long time...once i heard someone calling my name(like my grandmas voice whos been dead for the past 6 years)..back in 2006 a zombie like hand(completely white)slapped me on my face...scared me to death...then once while sleeping i felt as if someone whispered into my ears..although its scary i have started enjoying it in a weird sense(i know its not a pleasent experience)but all of u will agree to this it does make us a stronger person...all the trivial issues of everyday life seem to be nothing..i mean how many people experience this?but then again for some its otherworldy and some wanna get rid of it...anyways god bless all of us and let love prevail..