Dark NightShade’s Guide to Hypnagogia
Introduction: hello ^^. I’ve decided to make this guide on the hypnagogic state. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions as to what topics I should cover next ^^.
What is hypnagogia?: It is the transitional state between being awake, and falling asleep. The opposite of the hypnagogic state is hynopompia, which is the stage that happens when you are waking up from sleep. In both states you are able to take advantage of to manifest easier, shift or respawn in as well. You can induce the hypnagogic state at anytime. You may use this state to also enter other states, such as lucid dreaming, void state, god state, etc.
What would one experience during the hypnagogic/hypnopomic state?
During both states, you can experience strong visual and auditory hallucinations (along with other types of hallucinations). You may hallucinate someone calling your name, music, voices, people, etc. You may feel lightness, your body jerking, and sometimes sleep paralysis.
Methods to induce the hypnagogic state:
Meditation
-Meditate and relax deeply while you watch colors slowly forming behind your eyelids. Don’t force or manipulate anything. Don’t force any thoughts or hallucinations-just let everything flow.
Inducing images method
1. Lay in a position you are not comfortable in. This is so that your body “asks” you for the usual sleep position. Therefore you will feel discomfort and impulses to change positions, making you stay in the hypnagogic state for longer time.
2. Use any deep relaxation techniques to relax, deepen your breath, and letting go of all physical tensions.
3. Create random imagery. The more random it is, the better. Make them appear slowly, with ease. Make intrusive thoughts (if any) part of the process.
4. Return to step threw if the intrusive thoughts appear. Be gentle with yourself.
5. Follow whatever images come up next, generate a new one, and go with the flow.
Hyper-tiredness
With this method, you basically ro strenuous exercise or tire your body before going to bed, to induce the state easier. You can also combine this with the “forearm up” method, which you lay on your back and place your arm 90 degrees up. As you faol asleep, your arm will drop down and awaken you. As something extra, you can also hold something not too heavy nor light in your hand. Like a small ball, for example.
Imagining objects or animals
Ones that can be easily visualized, doing a constant motion. Like a horse galloping, or a puppy wagging its tail.
Phosphene
Softly observe the phosphene that floats around your eyelids when theyre closed. It can slowly turn into images.
Song method
You play a song in your head until the hypnagogic state takes over and the auditory hallucinations occur. You will realize that you are in the state when the song naturally plays in your mind, and/or your mind distorts the song, or makes up a random song that is completely different from the original one.
REM eye movement imitation
Note: this is recommend it to do it as you are going to bed, and not in th4 REM cycle itself.
You basically imitate the REM-like state by slowly moving your eyes left and right while observing your field vision.
SSILD method
-you can use the SSILD technique by focusing softly on what you see, hear and feel a few times. This will induce strong hypnagogic hallucinations, especially if done during the REM cycle.
Sigil for the hypnagogic state:
It is already energy charged. You can simply stare at it for as long as you want.
