Hi guys. The other day, after a full night without sleeping, I finally went to bed around 8–9am. I was exhausted. Around 11am I became conscious and realised I was fully awake. I could hear my kids shouting and crying with their mother outside the room, and I noticed that “vibration / sleeping feet” sensation in my body.

So I thought: let me try to focus and see if anything happens. I’ve never projected before, but I stopped even trying about seven months ago. I was lying face-down, half of my face on the pillow and the other half slightly floating off the edge.

I started breathing deeply, and after about a minute I saw something. On the bottom-right of my closed-eye vision, a cloudy circular “opening” appeared. It opened and closed fast, and behind it I could see a dim pink light. At first I thought it was just my left eye slowly opening — that used to happen during meditation — so I tightened the left eye a bit to keep it closed.

Then I thought: let me move my eyes left and right quickly, because I heard on YouTube that some people use that trick for intuitive/closed-eyes vision. Nothing happened. A few seconds later the cloudy-edged hole opened wider and I could see into it. Inside, it looked like a tiny room — but the light was dim, like a soft moon-lit glow. Everything was pure fluorescent pink. I could see the corner of the room, the walls completely smooth and flat, like they were painted with a videogame shader or something straight out of Squid Game. No texture at all, just clean digital-looking surfaces. It lasted maybe 10 seconds and then it closed. I thought: damn, maybe I’m really deep. So I tried turning my “inner” body to see if I could project — but instead I physically moved. As soon as I realised I had actually turned my real body, I did that little smile you make when you feel stupid for trying something and messing it up. I was so tired that I just gave up and went to sleep. Later that night, when I woke up, I remembered the whole thing clearly. I remembered hearing my son shouting, the exact sounds, the YouTube tip about moving the eyes, and even tightening my left eye muscle to keep it closed. Only then I realised it made no sense to think that the “opening” I saw on the bottom-right could have been my left eye opening — that eye was on the opposite side of the pillow. That hit me only at night.

Also worth mentioning: the vision happened inside the darkness of my closed eyelids, not like a dream scene. I was clearly focused on the darkness behind the eyelids (especially the bottom-right area). And honestly, it freaked me out.

Any insight? I’m just curious.