Yesterday, I started a gazing session with my goggles on while lying down. Things quickly became very vivid and realistic, leading to my old IOB friend appearing first as a glowing, sparkly blob like I had seen during one of my last gazing sessions, then making a huge pitch-black shadow-like figure appear right in front of me, who felt and looked like a real person! Much more real than usual, to the point I felt slightly terrified (in an exciting, fun way, like being on a roller coaster)
The pink background/wall behind it had began to develop super creepy, real-looking arms, teeth, faces, and body parts to look horrifying. It seemed like the IOB was putting on a special scary “show” for me, since I like spooky things.
Finally, at a point, I found what looked like a translucent, floating wall at the right depth, gazing just behind the “show” against the pinkish backdrop, even though once I focused on it it appeared much closer to me.
Testing out switching views during gazing while I had been in daylight all day driving the day before yesterday, I practiced it again while watching the IOB horror show and then while gazing at the wall that was made of this white electrical-looking light, and found that at some point between practicing switching, I was fully immersed in the other “view” or POV, and realized I had fallen asleep, but my eyes were still open (I checked by blinking).
I had the wherewithal to sit with that and not let myself get excited, and instead keep gazing at what was forming in front of me. It seemed like the pinkish, shell-like scene in front of me had never completely changed, or I had been perceiving it, looked at the weird floating wall thing, and had come back to it, this time asleep with my eyes open and alert.
Scenes of various places and settings would form in front of me and around me, I would see myself (or some version of myself) in the scene and briefly inhabit it or just watch.
They were like dollhouses or sets of a play that grew and shrank, and advance and recede, that would quickly assemble to show a scene, then collapse and disappear as I would notice each one, observe it for a moment, then move my gaze and focus to another area where another one would form.
I could tell they were dreams because each time I would briefly be in one, everything looked and felt exactly as my dreams do, as I’ve experienced from vivid memories of my dreams that came up during practice, or from recapitulating those.
At least some of them had a different version of me in them, where something about my appearance or something else would be different.
After a while of doing that, some noise from my computer went off and I ended the session, checking again my eyes were open (at least half-opened).
I thought it looked like clouds lol