Hello first post on this forum

So recently (not currently) I became much more aware of the process of falling asleep. It sort of felt like I was existing on a more subconscious level while heading towards the deeper levels of sleep. The issue is, I began having very frightening thoughts and images at this "subconscious" level that seemed to be between starting to fall asleep and falling asleep. Like I would be lying there then be very relaxed aware and calm and lose some consciousness but come in and out a bit, in a more subconscious zone, and I suppose this continued for a bit, but then I became aware that I was having very strange and scary thoughts in this zone, and I jerked myself out of it in quite a fright. This happened not once but several times and has also occurred in daytime when I am going in or out of a nap. I wonder if this just occurs all the time and I just became more aware of it. It seems odd because I am not a prolific dream remember-er at this time but I rarely have nightmares currently. I wonder has anyone else had similar experiences?


Ok that being said, I have 2 dreams that I would like to post and if anyone is interested in interpreting them have at it

In the first one, I was underground, at the entry level of an underground facility. I was in a room and interacting with a video game. I had an understanding that someone was digging beneath this room and that the whole facility was going to blow because this "scientist" (the one digging) was going to hit something radioactive. I think in the dream I actually thought of the scientist as evil, because he was going to blow everything up and take me away from my video game, but after thinking about the dream I decided that the scientist was not evil but he is/was my higher self or a deeper part of myself which is a "scientist of the human condition" and is/has been deeply investigating experience and may be about to set off a chain reaction which will result in something of a destruction of my "self" (the underground facility). In the dream I was being warned to get out of the room I was in before this happens, and leave the video game. This is because I have been addicted to a video game, I believe. Lol quite clear... But yes this is the basic way I have interpreted my limited memory of this dream.

the 2nd dream- this is very brief but very telling. I was on some kind of a giant plant organism and I was forced to do the same kind of work over and over. I felt like a slave and I decided to rebel. Some joined me. The thing is that we were all connected on this giant plant we were on. I think we were actually maybe plants ourselves too. But anyways soon after I had something of an ominous feeling that something was coming for me/us...and I saw a giant ball approaching our space and hunting us down. This thing operated by "sniffing" the beings on the place we were. It didn't exactly have a nose or "sniff" us exactly but it had the ability to sense anyone or thing that was not functioning as it "should" be. Its ability to "sense" anything operating differently was honestly a bit disturbing, because it viciously tracked down whatever was operating differently...because everything was connected, it was like tracking down something it was connected to and could tell was behaving "differently". It seemed to have the job of corrective measures...in a self-sustaining matrix. Now I have interpreted this a bit, and think it means that when I discover different ways of living and experiencing...different "modes" of consciousness...ie "waking" up...this immediately sends shock waves throughout the matrix of human and earth energy, and part of myself and this larger matrix will fight the part that is trying to become free, and it just comes down to which part is stronger, which determines what happens when the large entity finds myself and the others rebelling. Now I also see this as a cycle occurring over and over and in general it is to be thought of as not a single episode but recurring episodes, but there may come a single episode in which I am aware and stronger than the entit(ies) that come to check on me (which in reality may just be parts of myself, this may be a self-struggle in part) and come through this interaction conscious and more whole...That's my guess


Oh and actually one more. Does anyone have any idea what the moon coming to collide into the earth could mean? (in a dream) And I think Mars was coming too, or at least a red planet. And I had to escape to Oahu (a hawaiian island), where I was currently vacationing (IRL) from the east coast (in the dream)

Has anyone had this experience?

I just joined this forum yesterday too. I’m just replying to the first part of your post, as I haven’t read your dreams yet. I have had this experience that you mention before. It also happens to me when I’m in that in-between place of wake and sleep, aware that I'm just beginning to leave my physical body. Sometimes when I am drifting off I see faces of people I don’t know and some of them are frightening. Over time I realized that I was ‘passing by them’ on my way to other realms. My understanding is that when we begin to travel into the dream realms we pass through these first layers—the astral realms—where wandering ‘earthbound spirits’ and such reside. I find it’s full of a lot of unsavoury ‘thought-forms’ too. Although there are some pleasant places here, it feels like a very 'unfinished' place to me. It’s taken a little practice on my part but now I make it a point to remember that I'm just passing through and to not react/interact with anything that feels threatening to me here

Alright, thankyou for your response. That makes a bit of sense to me and I will try gently integrating that idea to the experience if and when it begins to happen again.