colour tunnels and shapes

[amixa]

i haven't experienced these since i was little -- except for maybe 1 or 2 weeks ago. i tried googling it to see if there was something out there but no luck.
basically what usually happened when i would close my eyes to go to sleep i would start seeing colours, but they would appear in circles.. getting bigger, as if i'm travelling through a tunnel. they would be ongoing until i would become unconscious. sometimes they would be so distracting that i would not be able to sleep! i remember it driving me crazy a couple times.
so now that i've begun to experience it again i'd like to know if anyone else experiences this and how to control it so it doesn't become so intense that i can't sleep

i also would experience seeing ongoing shapes while 'awake'. kind of like patterns that would continually move enveloping within its shape -- its energy came from itself and would renew itself. i believe the shape i would see was a diamond and they were laid out like a wallpaper pattern. i only recently remembered it while doing an interview with an artist and he was showing me trance images that carried similar repetitive patterns in their backgrounds.
EDIT: I always forget to ask questions and it seems like i'm just 'talking' about it. I'm wondering if other people have experienced either of these and could share their thoughts on it. Thanks.
thanks for reading

[StellaBlue]

That happens to me often, Amixa. I've asked others, thinking it was normal, but apparently it is not. I don't know what it is or how to control it either, so I'm probably no help, sorry!

[amixa]

thanks for the reply, i actually learned what it was when i started typing in different names you *could* call it into google:

Closed-eye hallucination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Playlife]

Does that tunnel turn too? Like a bobsled track or those tubes in water parks, left and right, up and down, and changing colours at the same time? I had them all the time(with closed eyes) when I was a kid. Interesting I don't have them any more. Or I just don't notice them now. I have no idea if it's normal or not. It was pretty normal for me..

[StellaBlue]

Originally Posted by amixa

thanks for the reply, i actually learned what it was when i started typing in different names you *could* call it into google:

Closed-eye hallucination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting, thanks for posting that. Apparently, I have had every level of them (and not JUST on drugs or JUST in a meditative state either!). I wonder what they actually are?

[StellaBlue]

Originally Posted by Playlife

Does that tunnel turn too? Like a bobsled track or those tubes in water parks, left and right, up and down, and changing colours at the same time? I had them all the time(with closed eyes) when I was a kid. Interesting I don't have them any more. Or I just don't notice them now. I have no idea if it's normal or not. It was pretty normal for me..

Yes, always spinning. I feel as if I travel in and out of the tunnels. That is the most frequent visual I see, although there are others. I had them when I was a kid also, and I am not sure when or if I stopped, but I have started noticing them again over the past few years.

[amixa]

Originally Posted by StellaBlue

Interesting, thanks for posting that. Apparently, I have had every level of them (and not JUST on drugs or JUST in a meditative state either!). I wonder what they actually are?

so you have done the drugs? my friend who has done a bit says he can just see it whenever, patterns though.
i haven't done the drugs.. so i haven't really experienced it on that level. i wasn't really meditative.. just quiet.. i guess i wasn't trying but it was easy for me to reach those states when i was little.

interesting though i've asked around and usually the people who say they've experienced something on that level usually has some form of artistic quality in them..

[StellaBlue]

Originally Posted by amixa

so you have done the drugs? my friend who has done a bit says he can just see it whenever, patterns though.
i haven't done the drugs.. so i haven't really experienced it on that level. i wasn't really meditative.. just quiet.. i guess i wasn't trying but it was easy for me to reach those states when i was little.

interesting though i've asked around and usually the people who say they've experienced something on that level usually has some form of artistic quality in them..

Yes, I have done psychedelic drugs in my past, but not for a very long time. I don't think that this is necessarily a result of them, because I had it before I ever touched them (as a child), but it's possible that a past with drugs makes them more intense. I am an artist though