Good advice
It definitely sounds like a phenomenon that goes on with many people before sleep, or in that murky in-bewteen phase. None of us can tell you what it is, but I wouldn't come to any conclusions about its nature to quickly because then it gets filtered through more and more interpretations, and expectations. It might help to remain as calm as possible without projecting fear during the experience because thats probably counter-productive..whether it be aliens, ghosts, schizophrenia, or all of the above. Meditating can also help alot with clearing your head and maybe tackling this problem with a grounded mind.
Ur post reminds me of something i had thats sort of similar to this as a kid. During a trip last fall i remembered a strange thing that happened a few times when i was around 8 or 9, just before sleep, which for some reason my mind had blocked out for years. I'd go into a wierd hypnagogic state after listening to music, or just laying in bed, where an oily blob in my vision would sort of grow that i could kind of feel and coax to come closer.
The energy was very wierd but for some reason i just went with it since i was young and had daydreamed my whole life of odd things and that something miraculous would one day happen to me.. as every kid does during those years of openness. The thing started morphing into an oily liquid-like face and i got scared but that was quickly overshadowed by my amazement, and i couldn't really move anyway so i had no choice in watching. so it began morphing into countless faces, all with expressions that relayed their emotional states to me while i layed there crying and/or laughing with some profound sense of connection to these people. There was a zany cartoonish characteristic to it. The thing would keep on changing and changing into more peoples faces every split second in a fast paced way that i can only relate to the facial distortions that occur on lsd or mushrooms. I was ecstatic about what was happening but by the next morning the astonishment faded much like the memory of a profound dream does throughout the day. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have no idea what it was, i just have the memories. It was the strangest thing that i've ever gone through before encountering psychedelics, which are the only thing i can relate it to. The devil, insanity, god, were all things passing through my mind back then. Looking back i see how it could have impacted me much differently had i not relinquished my need to be in control and know exactly what was happening. i knew it was worthless to cling to any of these ideas of what the experience was since there was no way to find out for sure anyway.
If it doesn't want to leave, perhaps a different response besides resistance will aid you in getting to the bottom of this? Maybe try accepting that it is there and asking it questions like what are you? What do you want? ect ect. I really dunno man, these are just ideas that come up when looking back on our differing experiences of the bizzare and how to go about dealing with them. All i know is that what you resist, will persist. Good luck bro! and definitely let us know how it goes or stop by the chat if you need people to talk to!
