[ELI5] What does the actual moment of falling asleep feel like and why can we never notice/remember it?
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There are lucid dreaming techniques that actually get around this. I’ve only been able to do it a handful of times but there’s a moment when it feels and sounds like your head goes underwater. Everything gets muffled and your body becomes paralyzed. At this point it’s like there are two versions of reality happening simultaneously. The actual experience of the room you’re in and also a “dream room” that looks exactly like it. The two sorta fight for dominance in your perception. If the real one wins you come out of it and you’re awake again. Of the other wins you enter the dream, sometimes lucid and sometimes not.
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