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Yesterday night I have tried the SSILD technique, it was totally new for me (even if sometimes when I have problems to falling to sleep I use a similar technique, but I never spotted the relation with the LDs). I had a very strange experience: I have done the cycles (brief and normal ones) but i think I got caught up in some kind of hypnagogic hallucinations or maybe a dream itself. Basically at some point I was convinced of doing the cycles but I was actually seeing images of planets and galaxies, traveling back and forth between them. For the all time that I was seeing these things I was actually convinced that I was awake doing the normal cycles before getting into sleep, just like it happens when you see or do something odd in a dream but in the narrative of the dream itself is a perfectly normal thing. At some point I saw the word "sleep" in my visual field, and I moved it in a infinite symbol shape hoping that this could help me to relax and finally fall asleep. It was a feeling quite intense, and I actually woke up from this dream/hypnagogic state, hearing a loud noise in my right ear (a mixture between a scratchy noise and a popping one, like when there is a changing of pressure on a plane for example, but louder), and feeling almost all my body caught up in vibrations. I have tried to relax and get back to sleep but it only woke me up. I have done the Reality checks but I was really awake. Sadly I did not had any LD during the night, I think that I was awake for part of the night (I have kept doing RC regularly to be sure of it) or if I was sleeping I do not remember the dreams, which is something odd because I always remember my dreams. I have also tried the technique this afternoon for a quick nap but still no luck, I will try again this night.