Films in my head..

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What is the name for the phenomenon (and surely it must have a name) whereby one 'sees' a running set of images in their head right before dozing off?

It only happens occasionally to me, but when it does, it's a carnival of surrealistic/impressionistic images that bob and weave and morph into a mess of different things. While I have to be in a fairly relaxed/dreamlike state for it to happen, it is most definitely *not* a dream (I'm lucid during the process, but I have no agency in controlling the imagery).

I've poked around in hopes of finding more information about what this is (and, ideally, how to 'grow' it), but I've so far come up short. I am therefore deferring to your collective expertise...

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 October 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

New answers before I go to bed!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 October 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

you still up mark?
i think i know what you are talking about though i dont know what its called. i often have a similar thing, and sometimes the movie has been so clear i wonder if i am actually being sent a vision or something ( dont laugh ).mine arent generally a morphing mess .
i know i am awake during these episodes too.
sorry i have no idea what it is though.
i put it down to a shift in my level of awareness ie: ability to perceive/receive other things than the norm.
but then, im quite mad.

― donna (donna), Friday, 18 October 2002 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm disappointed in all of you.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 October 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"flashbacks"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe you are falling asleep in front of the television.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

now i'm even more disappointed.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Lucid dreaming innit? Mine have pans, zooms, interesting camera angles and sometimes even a plausible plot. Practice a bit and you can influence them, drop into them fairly easily and improve your recall of them.
It's like your own personal film industry. The day you can record and playback your your dreams I will be rich, rich I tell ya!

Look up lucid dreaming.

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

It's called Hypnosagogeus (sleep guide) or if you like "a pre-dream condition". There was an article about it in the October 2002 issue of the Fortean Times. If you want I could send you a photocopy of the article.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

some links:

http://skepdic.com/hypnagogic.html

http://trikuare.cx/~magenta/gallery/writing/Hypnagogia/ch004.html

hypnagogic seems to be the word to google.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

jel you rule.

thanks.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

[are you not just coming up with Kitchens of Distinction fansites?]

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.iansmith.co.uk/lotr/weblogs/images/TheOneParty2003/Large/ECCS0211.jpg

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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