Closed eye visualizations?

Last summer I had them on severe sleep deprivation. It felt like when I closed my eyes my body immediately skipped to dreaming, (or something.) It started with me laying with my eyes closed, (awake but relaxed), hungover and then I saw and heard my ceiling light crash to the floor. (It didn't, of course.) With my lovely judgment at the time, I thought it was cool. There were many more to follow during the period of no sleep. Now I'm just curious about them. Anyone ever experienced this?

I get them when very tired - or what sound similar to you - they are being awake but seeming to dream and are not the same as visual hallucinations. They have always been linked to sleep deprivation for me.

Cracked

Sounds like you're experiencing hypnagogic imagery. Some people have a lot of fun with it. Others get really freaked out. The closest I've come is thinking I'm hearing voices as I fall asleep even though I know there's no one else around me talking. I usually can't tell what they're saying.

Every night when I close my eyes it does not get dark even though I am in an extremely dark room. It feels like there is a light on. The same thing happens when my eyes are open, but again in an extremely dark room. I wait for 10 minutes to make sure I am not seeing an afterimage.

4 or 5 times the light was extremely bright. With my eyes closed it felt like someone was shining a flashlight into my eyes.

I know that eyelids don't block all light, but as I said the room was always extremely dark.

I had this for 2.5 years. My memory got increasingly bad. After 20 years of taking a med to help me fall asleep, for 1 year I did not need to. Then over a short period of time I had to take more meds than before to fall asleep.

This went away for a couple of months. My memory got back to normal. Now once again the light has started & my memory is getting slightly worse.

I have Bipolar Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and OCD.

I take lamotrigine, quetiapine, lorazepam, simvastatin & dexilant (similar to Prilosec)

I have a cornea condition though 3 cornea specialists have never heard of this.

It is not hypnagogic -- which would only happen for a short time between awake & asleep.