On Loss of Consciousness

When I am losing consciousness and am able to be aware of this happening, whether it's from drugs, being in a hypnagogic state, something physical like dehydration, or otherwise, I have a few distinct things I notice. For one I hear a distinct sound I can never remember, but every time I hear it I know it. I always think at first it's just my hearing distorting but I noticed no matter what noise is going on in the background I hear the exact same noise, like all the noise around me gets condensed into this one series of sounds. Two more internally I hear a kind of piper drumbeat type music. Very sort of fast paced and trance like, and I begin seeing sort of neon lines of color forming vivid images in my mind. Its as if im at a little internal micro rave. What sort of experiences and memories do you have of losing consciousness? Whether its a regular thing you are made aware of the process of through sleep paralysis or hypnagogic states, or from some grand event in your life.

Not really loss of consciousness but sometimes I have this experience where I keep hearing a sound like someone mumbling and I visualize the things I'm touching (like I can feel the bed sheets, it's difficult to explain) and even light head rushes. It happened when I was a kid and I had a fever, and It happens now when I smoke too much cigarettes before bed. I can stop it by getting up.

>>4458 Very likely a hypnagogic state of some sort. Hypnagogia just being the state of transition from being awake to sleeping or being asleep to waking. You may already know what that is so sorry if im like explaining something you know but its for other lainons too With fevers its super common, and my guess would be the mild stimulant effects of nicotine are causing you to not be fully asleep and half aware as you transition to sleeping. I dont pay enough attention to my smoking to know if its the cause but I frequently get sleep paralysis on going to bed rather than waking up, also something that happens during the transition of waking to sleeping. I also on stims when I finally fell asleep would have weird things where I was seeing my room with my eyes closed and grabbing and messing with stuff that wasnt there till id inevitably actually pick up my real phone and the light would kinda break through my eyelids and snap me out of it

Once, I remained awake during the passage between the sleep-paralysis state and the unconscious dream state. After several experiences with sleep paralysis I was no longer disturbed by the waking inability to move my body. So I decided to experiment. I wondered if I could willfully 'let go' and fall into unconsciousness from my semi-conscious state. (I had been awoken by nightmares several times concurrently so I no longer cared about losing sleep on a work day.) Earlier in my life I had tried - unsuccessfully - to induce lucid dreaming by slowly wiggling my fingers as I fell asleep, a technique called FILD (Finger-Induced Lucid Dreaming) if I'm not mistaken. The idea is to keep some tiny part of your brain conscious and active while the rest of your body falls asleep. Like I said, it had never worked for me before. This time was different. As I lay paralysed on my back observing my dimly lit bedroom I attempted to move my fingers while I closed my eyes and gave in to that warm sensation of nodding off, sinking into sleep. I could not actually move my fingers (being paralysed and all), but it seems that the conscious act of willing my fingers to move is sufficient to let one cross the wake-sleep barrier. (To those without experience, sleep paralysis is like being in a dead cockpit: all the controls are in front of you but no matter how hard you pull on the joystick, your craft does not change course. The hydraulics are metaphorically cut.) Within seconds, I was 'unconscious.' A sharply discontinuous transition between how I just was and how I now felt, akin to the difference between waking reality and waking sleep-paralysis. Plunged into my subconscious I heard a cacophonous roaring-crashing-breaking-crunching. The auditory sensation of having been dropped out of a helicopter at pitch-black midnight into the cold ocean - simultaneously being buffeted by the cold wind and the roaring whitecaps. Waves crashing on a beach; dogs barking; cars crashing - that distinct sound of machined metal giving and tearing one can instantly recognize as coming from a car crash, despite never having seen or been involved in one; and finally a red school bell ringing loudly, announcing the start (or end?) of class. All these sounds merged into one and drawn out to last indefinitely. What I describe above is simply an approximation. I am not sure what exactly I heard, but this is the closest description I can manage. The only visual image accompanying was that of the red school bell. The sound was so unbearably loud, the experience sufficiently unsettling that I jolted myself awake (which I immediately regretted). Looking at my alarm clock on my bedside table, less than a minute had passed.

Sounds become quieter, vision starts going dark, can no longer really 'feel' the ground I'm walking on very well, and barely have any strength to not lay down. This gets progressively worse until it just blacks out completely. Happens a few times or so every year, I have low blood pressure. I just wish that one of these days I wouldn't wake up from it.