*** This could possibly be triggering ***

This may not be the place to put this, but I didn't really know where else to put it.

If it needs to be moved, that's fine, I understand.

Has anyone experienced a somatic hypnagogia experience?

I may be totally off base with this, but it seems to be what I'm experiencing and I'm just curious if anyone else has.

Example:

Sometimes I'm lucky enough to catch a cat nap, during the day while I have a break. There are times that I just sit and clear my mind and not think about anything and breathe deeply.

I have experienced, several times during these breaks, the feeling that someone is popping/hitting my head. It truly feels real. It snaps me back to reality and I can still feel the feeling on my head. One time I remember putting my hand on the spot and it was hot.

It didn't really start until I started working through all of this with my counselor. Working back through trauma issues/events maybe have brought this to me in some way?

I have also had some very vivid dreams when I sit and clear my mind, or am on the borderline of being asleep.

They mostly happen during the day, when I am not really in REM sleep just cat napping.

I have had a couple of experiences when I was really going to sleep at night, but they were different. They were more sound things. I've heard the sound of a very big door being closed with "force" and that snapped me awake. I've also been snapped back by hearing a male person whistling for his dog. Now don't ask me how I know he was a male or what he was whistling for. I don't know for sure, but a part of me does.

This sounds out there I know, but I just wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this.

Here's the wikipedia definition of it, if you don't have knowledge of it. I didn't until something brought it to my attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

I've read a lot about it today. It's a very curious subject.