Right before I feel like I am about to “pass out” I start thinking about it and I lose it. Is that feeling real or am I just imagining it? How does that transition from awake to asleep happen? Can one tell when it’s about to happen and maybe force it to pass that threshold even more?
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[https://www.healthline.com/health/hypnagogia](https://www.healthline.com/health/hypnagogia)
Hypnagogia is the state between waking and sleeping (conversely hypnopompia being the state between sleeping and waking.
>When you’re awake, your brain produces measurable alpha and beta waves, with beta waves being predominant. Once you become drowsy, alpha waves take over.
So basically your brain has a certain pattern to the electrical activity during wakefulness and that changes when you start to fall asleep. It is possible to not disrupt it while continuing to think about things but in order to not disrupt it you probably need to know how to lucid dream. Practice sleep edging maybe? Practice is generally the best way to train yourself to do stuff like this. My parents even taught me how to wake myself up after x number of hours or at x time in the morning without an alarm clock by focusing on the time, how many hours or what time I wanted to wake up and then gently plopping my head onto the pillow the number of hours for the time I was going to wake up or sleep (5 times for 5am or 5 hours, for example).
I lucid dream (although sometimes I have to flap my arms to fly). Success varies from attempt to attempt and hormones also play a part as to the nature of your dream (high progesterone in women causes vivid dreaming, for example). I dunno of any scientifically proven ways to learn how to lucid dream but generally my reality was not a fun place growing up and my life was much more fun in dreams so I lived in them and let life be the dream. Nightmares are now some of my favorite dreams because they engage so many parts of me as a person (emotionally, physically, etc).
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