This takes practice and patience and a non-grasping, very calm state of mind.
You might be more successful if you try observing hypnagogia while sitting propped up instead of lying down.
And try nap time rather than 4am, so your brain is fresher.
Plenty of tips in The Art of Lucid Dreaming.
Good luck 🙂

That sounds beautiful. Yes, everything is interlinked, the body, imagination, dream images and all states of consciousness.

Hi Pegasus, I have seen this ‘static’ or ‘snow’ you mention. Now I’m not sure if it is a random hallucination or actually a side effect of my mental state at the time.

A little background info: I’ve been sectioned on 3 occasions after loosing touch with reality briefly, hearing voices and other psychotic type symptoms. I took a large dose of LSD in my early 20s and things got very strange and scary AFTER my trip ended (the trip was actually rather pleasant). It was drug induced psychosis and I have to take antipsychotic medication to prevent relapses into what I can only describe as temporary madness.

While I am coming out of this state (over the course of weeks or months) I see either black and white dot type fuzziness or shining type distortion. Usually by that time my paranoia has left and I am rather ‘with it’. I’ve described it to doctors and therapists and they said it was most likely the lingering effects of the psychosis.

I believe that because my brain is firing at such a rapid rate and my mind is still not quite right that it has some sort of connection.

I hope that helps with your survey. (Lol) ✌️

1. I was wondering if anyone’s hypnopompic imagery look like tv static fuzz when you wake up your eyes closed and/or with your eyes open in a somewhat lighted room and it looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Red-blue-noise.gif

2. If so, Is it persistent or lasting throughout your day or life such as walking into a dark room or looking into the dark and still seeing the static described here or shown in the .gif or in other words,do you have visual snow?

Here is a link to visual snow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow

Visual snow is basically seeing the static everywhere you go and on everything you look at.

3. If you don’t have visual snow but the tv static fuzz when you wake up your eyes closed and/or open, how many years have you been able to see the static fuzz when waking up.

4. Have you taken drugs or any medication

Many thanks, everyone.

Hi Nadia,

In lucid states, our emotions are reflected in dream imagery/hypnagogic imagery. If you are frightened, the imagery will get more frightening. But if you feel safe within yourself, the imagery will tend to reflect your inner calmness.

I’d suggest working with calming breathing techniques during the day to help you to feel safe and relaxed. If you combine these with an affirmation like “I am safe”, and perhaps visualise yourself surrounded by protective light, then you are building a valuable skill to help you to feel safe and relaxed in the hypnagogic state.

Remember, you will wake up safely from your experiences, so there is no need to feel fearful. Instead, try to cultivate an alert sense of curiosity and relax.

There are so many ways of working in positive and healing ways with inner imagery. My book Dream Therapy: Dream your way to health and happiness, has lots of practical dreamwork techniques that can be used to transform any internal imagery. And my big book that just came out this week, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, has chapters on hypnagogia, nightmare solutions, and practical exercises for facing scary imagery.

Another thing you can try is to transform the negative hypnagogia by sending it love and light. This can work absolute wonders in sleep/dream states.

Good luck and I’m sure you’ll soon have happier hypnagogic experiences!

Clare