How did I tap into the Hypnogogic state ?

 Hello everyone, its been a break since i am getting back onto this blog of my. Its almost 7 years, i forgot that i started this small blog. As i saw the response i am getting, it made to refresh and start to continue on this blog. I will be regularly posting on this blog. Without further adieu.Please do check it out. I would like to share my recent experiences on the hynpogogic state. 

It happened accidentally, i had a light lunch and was just sitting on the sofa and doing nothing and there was bright sunlight from the windows. I closed my eyes and tried to pull a little siesta nap. The timing after the lunch is really special to tap into the relaxed yet aware state. I went into light drowsy sleepy state in around 30mins. As i was in the living room of my house, there were family, parents who were moving around and its difficult to sleep deeply. But there was no sound conversations.

Gradually, I was fully aware of drifting into a colorful wonderland of optical illusion and vividly changing colors of light like shown in the above picture. It slowly emerged from the darkness of the closed eyes and became more vivid and vibrant. It is pure energy wave forms colliding and forming interference. Then, i was going deep into the dream landscape, but there is no longer dreams, just little 3-5 seconds episodes that flashes one after the another without any correlation to my conscious mind. But, who knows everything that arises from subconscious has deep meaning and sacredness, that the conscious mind is too dumb to understand.

I researched online more about it. The hypnogogic state is highly hyper-associative. Any creative expressions you see is hyper-associative, that is to connect to unconnected things. This can be useful for all of us. There is a saying “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise." I thing this would get us closer to it.

I tried repeating this experiment in a closed dark room and i went to deep sleep experiencing nothing. So, i guess the things that keep us gently awake, in the first case the sunlight and people moving around, kept me right in between the infinite abyss of sleep and wakeful state. Many famous peoples like Edison and Salvado Dali has tapped into this state for many inventive and artistically creative pursuits.

Nowadays, scientific community is researching more into the consciousness. The MIT media lab has created a glove "DORMIO" which will give us more time to be in this state and dream state. There are even apps to find through our heart rate and rapid eye movement in which state we are in. The future is really going totally awesome in these kind of tech gadgets. 

If we can solve problems, find new inventions and everyone can learn and tap into this would be infinitely beneficial to us. I have also been trying lucid dreams. I will write about my experiences in this altered states of consciousness more in the upcoming blogs. Stay tuned. Please do give your comments on what you feel about it  ? if you have access to this states, What would you wish to do ?