I'm interested in hypnagogic states: to what extent can

>>19333270
Probably a bunch of Tibetan monks know how

>>19333270
>hypnagogic states
i have this when im not sleeping enough. I just get really disoriented and start hearing my dreams and crash. I'd be careful if I were you. Make sure your family doesn't have a history of mental illness because you could very well activate your predisposition fucking with such states of mind.

>>19333729
The only thing running in my family is alcoholism and depression (I've avoided the former, and have managed greatly the latter)

>>19333689
Are Western Buddhist temples a good place where to find people who have mastered things such as meditation and hypnagogia? Or is it more likely that I'll just find wannabes?

Have you ever tried Binaural beats? There are.a few designed both to lull you to sleep and awaken intelligence and creativity.

>>19333270
Don't think of it as a state, think of it as a scale.

I've been developing the ability to sleep on command and I've noticed that it's a gradual process, not a definite state of awake/hypnagogic/sleep, it's more of 100%/0%/0% -> 50%/25%/25% -. 20%/40%/40% -> 0%/15%/85%
Meaning that I go from awake to partially inbetween and sleeping to full sleeping

Learn to focus on actions, not on results of actions. Once you focus on acting, you can realize how you acted, and repeat

>>19335849
How did you learn how to do it?

>>19333729
when i was about 10 years old i've experienced hypnagogia one time. my mind woke up but my body was still asleep and it felt like something was sitting on me and that the room became bigger and bigger. it was so fucking terrifying, 22 years later i can still recall it.

>>19336865
That sounds more like sleep paralysis

>>19333270
Why are those shoes screaming?

>>19336933
Because they haven't mastered hypnagogia yet.

>>19336933 That was exactly my thoughts.

>>19336911
Because it is sleep paralysis.