seeing images of faces

[jendreams]

Read Robert Moss, he is the dream master. This is a more common experience than you think. News Flash!

[mjep]

I also see faces on the backs of my eyelids right before I drift off. But they are never defined, realistic human faces, it's always vague outlines of exxaggerated expressions rolling by that I can't focus on perfectly. Sometimes I try to control it and bring the face to the forefront of my focus but I have minimal success. Or I'll try to see somethign other than a face, and sometimes what I'm trying to think about will appear but always fades after like one second.

[katring]

Do you like to help people in anyhow.

[erikuchanster]

August 12, 2009...
First time I have ever seen so many random faces passing behind my eyelids. I can usually see images and spirals and fractals, but never clear faces. They would come and go quickly. I was awake but with my eyes closed. It last nearly 4 hours. From about 1am to 5am. At 5 I got up and still couldn't sleep. I laid back down at 5:30am and woke up at 8:30am. I experienced this first the day before when I did an audio relaxation hypnosis session. As i relaxed the faces came. Most of them were blank expressioned, but then more and more they came animated with all sorts of emotions. Some were terrified, some were happy, and some actually made eye contact with me as well. I felt no emotions during all of this. I don't know what to make of it. Any answers???

I sort of thought it may have something to do with the meteor shower that morning. I found about about the bnext day... which is today...

[kellielynn83]

I've laid down, and although still awake closed my eyes and had a rush! of images of faces of people I have never known. Usually in color, sometimes in black and white. There like photographs. One right after another real quick. All ages from the elderly, middle aged, teenagers, and children, all different races, cultures, and I see there faces so clearly. It doesn't stop, but I don't want it to either. I often find its real easy to let it run its coarse, which is usually until I fall asleep. But I don't feel the desire to have it stop, I don't want to open my eyes, I find myself smiling, with a very happy and content feeling. Its amazing and I love when it happens. Whatever it is, whatever it represents, which I haven't figured out yet, I think its something good.

[MysticalJazz]

I've also see faces as part of a hypnagogic experience before falling asleep. This tends to happen when I'm overly tired or have stayed up too late. I've often enjoyed the parade of faces and scenes that is extremely vivid and ever shifting. Recently I found myself in a room in Asia where an earthquake was happening.

When this happens, what are we tapping into? Real-time events and people? The collective unconscious? Another plane or dimension?

Sometimes I have similar occurrences in a hypnopompic state upon waking, though they don't tend to be visual. For instance, I've heard a friend's clear laughter as I woke up. Other times there was lush music. Once I could distinctly smell Earl Grey tea in the room.

[DreamFocused]

I also have these same visualizations of faces when I close my eyes before falling asleep. I too am very surprised that other people experience this same thing.

[strider]

Yep I get this too - used to be pretty often but now just occasionally. I was reading a book on Tesla and he was like this too, so we're not in bad company ;-)

[Sleepwalker]

So glad I found your guys. I've been searching for someone who has experienced the same thing. The faces usually come to me just before I drift off to sleep and when I awake in the morning. They aren't horrifying, just faces I have never seen before. They never speak. Some smile, others have neutral expressions.

Our minds take in so much information during the day, could it be that we've stored these images away and they are revealing themselves later or is it something else...perhaps the spirit world? I experience this on a regular basis and find it interesting.

[geena]

well...thank god this site exists... i see many faces too, especially when i go to bed..or whenever im reaally relaxed and calm..i thought it was just faces my mind had memorized for some reason and then it was calling them back...lately i dont faces that much, i dont know why, but when i did it was only for a second so i rarely had the chance to keep the image in my mind..usually i could see them in a black backround..like a negative photo, with a hint of red..i have some issues with my sleep and i used to try not to pay much attention to those things and overreact but now i see that other people have the same problems and it's soooo relieving!!!