I'VE BEEN SEEING FLASHES OF LIGHTS AS I GO TO SLEEP

do they change color ?

Nope. They're always a golden/orange color.

researchers have found that some people have very benign
"hallucinations" during the brief "twilight" period just
before you fall asleep. your's would be "visual". i have
a "audio" hallucination which is loud bangs (and, very rarely,
"booms"). and my doctor told me that they are benign. though,
many many people get very frightened by them.

could be something spiritual. do you believe in the existence of spirits ?

Interesting. Mine do not scare me though. They fascinate me really. I guess I want them to be something more than just hallucinations.

I've seen them on occasion also. They are very bright. I also see on occasion very fast flashes of unknown faces. I don't watch tv, so it's not a replay of that. This is all for a very brief time, like maybe 15 or 30 seconds before I fall asleep.

I have heard the "booms" and it is scary.

look for the vibration

Your third eye is becoming more active. Research Pineal Gland/third eye chakra. You're waking up

same happening here, if you pay attention it happens before you go to sleep

also seeing blue dots..

Odd to see this. Past few weeks, I've noticed when I go to bed, lights out, eyes closed, I've occassionally seen a "white flash" -- It kinda started at left side, got bright, moved to the right real fast, then disappeared.

Sometimes when you lay down and close your eyes, they can still be open, just a tiny little slit.

Sometimes, I notice my little orange light on the dimmer switch and it makes a "streak" in my vision, but I realize "Oh, my stupid eye is still open a little" then I close it and the orange light (and future streaks) disappears.

With this white flash, I thought to myself, "Oh, stupid! Your freakin' eye is open again!" so I close and squint my eyes more, only to realize, they weren't open in the slightest.

I just think, "Oh wow, white flashes in the black.. Wonder what the pineal gland is receiving in the airwaves?" Still unknown. I keep expecting it to shape up into some form or something, I dunno -- just keeping an open mind about the whole thing...

..or I'm just having a minor brain aneurysm and will stroke out and die in a few weeks...

oo much time looking at computer monitor. im not joking. it means our eyes are being fucked with in a bad way.

Maybe something to do with the third eye (opening?). And/or communication with whatever.

its a retinal detachment...seek eye care immediately

Or Schizophrenia, either way see a doctor.

Maybe it's a tumor.

I've always considered them the counter to the moving dark streaks or shadows. The lights come in a variety similar to the shadows. You have the pulsing or flashing lights and the little mufti-colored/translucent orbs that seem to float around like flying bubbles. As I tend to see most around the same time myself.

Personally I hop between them being optical/mental hallucinations to being spiritual entities. It's a tuff call because when ever I'm certain they are just hallucinations something happens to get to me to question that so I'm left at square one again. I just keep telling myself it's not real and it keeps trying to convince me it is.

or Aids

but if you've already had it once, you should be OK

Been happening for years...no retinal detachment...been examined...healthy eyes.

researchers didn't actually start studying the phenomenon
until the 1980s. i don't even know what it's called.
but a common term for the "audio" one is: "exploding brain syndrome" :)

i think a poster above said it right.. probably due to looking at a computer monitor for too long..

any issues with skin aswell ?

Have you recently started taking Mirtazapine?

For me this has been going on since before computers.

No its called exploding head syndrome, i've suffered from that, but not so much these latter years, in my 20's it would happen frequently as i treied to sleep, i'd wake up from an exposion, the reverb still echoing in my head as i'm fully awake....weird shit, so i searched online for it and found EHS, but it still answers nothing slapping a label on it.

Not attributing any significance to this 'phenomenon,' however, I also have been recently percieving flashes of bright light as I lay to fall asleep. This is a recent development, never happened before, ever.

In my case, I also find that I'm having a flurry of brief and unusual visions with no real discernable pattern or divinable meaning.

Odd.

Get a cheap Geiger counter and check to see if the area where you're sleeping has any unusually high radiation levels. They're fairly cheap to get online, you don't need nothing fancy. Are you living near any power station or newly built power facility of any sort? Hearing any un-explained cracks or "pop" like sounds at anytime? If you have a tape recorder of any kind record in the area for a set amount of time then playback the recording for any of these sounds or other unexplainable sounds and don't scare yourself because it could be entirely atmospheric what you're experiencing, not a boogeyman as many people often think. Is your home or building well electrically grounded? Do you know?

Last Edited by MuslimAmerican on 01/29/2013 10:55 AM

there is a whole entirely different field of study that
has to do with the effects of flickering images and strobing lighting.

i mention this only to underscore that researches are are
definitely on top of all the nuances of the human brain.

you are correct: "exploding head syndrome".

but, i just think "exploding brain syndrome" sounds really much cooler :)

This happens to me sometimes but its just a quick flash of white light and will happen if i hear a noise.. But yeah right before i fall asleep. And it takes me a while to get to that state