staying aware while falling asleep/my dream

last night when i was taking a shower before going to bed as i do everynight and i was thinking of lucid dreams (which i have done before but cannot do them that often) and how you can be aware that you are sleeping in your dream but then i started thinking about if you could be aware you are falling asleep as you are doing so . so when i went to bed it took me awhile to go to sleep and i was just laying in bed waiting to go to sleep i wasent trying to stay aware that i was going to sleep but i somehow kind of did i remeber last time i looked at my clock it was 12:00 and then i got sleepy and started feeling myself kind of falling asleep and being totally aware in my head ,its kind of hard to explain but then i forget but i remember being in my dream pretty aware that i was dreaming but was not lucid i, but i remeber being very drunk and being at a basketball game with 1 friend sitting in my seat and passing out at the game and somehow(i dont remeber) ending up in my room with a bunch of other friends and their was somthing over my head and eyes all of a sudden and hearing my friends say like oh shit someone is coming up (like my dad or something) and then i tryed pulling the thing off my head and i woke up and it was 12:20

thankyou for reading and does anyone have any meanings in my dream

and also has anyone ever done this(stayed like aware that your falling asleep in your head and carrying it into your dream)


thanks for any answers

 

for a while, like at least 4 times a week i would be aware of the moment i fell asleep. its a weird transition, it starts with either a falling or rising feeling, with acceleration and anxiety. sometimes the anxiety makes me jerk awake-as if i fell up, into my body- lying on my bed. but when i can get past that feeling its weird. whatever i was thinking about, like on the second level of my consciousness down, you know, kinda like what was going on at the back of my mind, would just take over and i would already be involved in some situation. it made me feel like i was living multiple lives simultaneously, and that my brain was just one of itselfs, with like some bros he talks with that i dont know about.

i dont know if its like this with you, but I start feeling drunk, or more accurately, discombobulated, in a dream only when I start realizing im dreaming, or if I counsciously fall to sleep and am in the middle of trying to test if I'm in my room, or if my room is in my head. then everything starts spinning, or it gets foggy or something and it gets hard to cope with whats happening and i wake up. its hard to watch your dreams.

 

ye its kind of like a rushing or falling feeling im going to TRY it agian tonight but i probly wont be able to do it because im trying this time haha thanks for replying

anyone else got anything to add?

 

i know what you mean by, "it wont happen because im trying,". dont try, just be aware that its gunna happen. focus on unfocusing your mind. be in a relaxed state of alertness. get it? you gotta put your counsciousness into a state that accepts and feels comfortable with being in a paradoxical state. when your comfortable with this feeling of acceptance, you should start to begin to feel the pull of sleep. which way will you let the force pull you tonight? if you've done salvia, the pull is similar to that, but more elaborate as it is endogenous.

 

ye i tried it kind of for a little last night but couldent get to sleep so i jus stoped trying but still couldent get to sleep i think cause i was still subconciously trying to haha. but no ive never done salvia i would like to try it in the future though along with lsd

 

it sounds like you had an OTB(out of body experiences) your subconscious mind is tryin tell you somthing or maybe show you something. Im still dealing with one i had it was scary but it was real...but look into it maybe it will help

 

It's OBE, a form of astral projection... which I believe all dreams are. Just not many people are aware of it.
What you guys are describing is how I get to sleep every night and have done so since I was a child. I fact, I remember playing tag with my friends as we slept. I find that listening to music can help one achieve this form of astral projection, and why wouldn't it? Shamans/monks/medicine men have used chanting for centuries to achieve altered states.
Things can get real interesting once one starts entering these states on a regular basis... row your boat, all the world's a dream.

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i had very similiar expereinces, i always was finding it really weird though, so surreal, but nice

 

could you go more in depth about what an obe is please