Lucid Dreams: Good Vibrations

What I'm about to describe may or may not be directly related to lucid dreaming. Often the two are co-incident, but either can also occur without the other. It may simply be an unrelated phisiological phenomena that triggers consciousness when I'm asleep or in the hypnogogic stage.

So... have a big yawn. Go on, do it now. Notice the buzzing, hollow, reverberating sensation in your ears.

Imagine there's a little feather tickling you deep in your inner ear.

Now stick your tounge on the terminals of a 9-volt battery, and add that to the sensation in your ears.

We're approximately getting there. It's not forced like the yawn, it's a self powered vibration that starts out gently, always in my right ear. I took the opportunity to ask an audiologist about it once, he suggested it might be something to do with air being trapped in the eustachian tube. Maybe but...

Turn up the power. It comes in waves, becomes too much vibration for one ear, and spreads through my whole head. It can become so powerful that eventually my entire body is being vibrated until it (or at least the psychological model of it...) is catapulted from the bed and into a lucid dream.

It's an extremely pleasant experience, although sometimes the timing is out and I get jolts and shudders as the waves of vibration overlap. When I was young it was at first scarey and I fought it, but the sensation became stronger until I could not. Now I have some control over the vibrations, I can will them to become stronger and I can, sometimes, subdue them.

This is one part of the pre-lucid state, and other things associated with sleep paralysis can occur here; 'The Hag', the 'presence' in the room, if the vibrations are not so powerful, the presence might grab my ankles and drag me off the bed. I stopped fighting that too, once I knew it was a dream. If you let him drag you right off the bed, you end up... back in bed! Sometimes he tries again, sometimes he gives up.

Somewhere I'll talk about the physiological body, it's physical tactile nerves, and the psychological model your mind creates of these nerve positions and the information they send. I want to find some video clips of 'alien abductees' talking about the way they are restrained. And about the 'drilling in the ear'.