WTF did I just experience?
I have never read or heard about this type of experience in the past. What happened was, I wasn't feeling well so I lied down to take a nap. I was lying on my back and had a pillow over my eyes to block out the sunlight coming through the window. After sleeping for a couple of hours I woke up. My eyes were still closed and the pillow was still covering my eyes. To be clear, the pillow was resting on my head and brow and primarily the loose pillowcase fabric was covering my eyes. I lied there for a while with my eyes still closed trying to assess how I was feeling. Not much better. I then open my eyes with the fabric still covering them, I could feel my eyelashes brushing the fabric, and each time I blinked and that's when this weird experience happened. What I saw when I open my eyes was what looked like an old style film strip one frame, and slightly enlarged. The image was black and white and slightly blurry. Also everything around the outside of the film strip image was black. The image appeared centered in my vision but at a bit of a distance not like I was holding it in my hand looking at it close up. A bit like Like watching TV on a small screen at a distance. The first image I saw was of the parking lot across the street that I can see out of my window. It was a video of a one car crashing into another but in a weird way that was not normal almost a cartoon animation but the images were lifelike only the crash was cartoonish, because it defied physics. When I blinked my eyes there was another image same format but it was a still image of two people playing large life size chess Outdoors , the kind you see at resorts. I blinked my eyes again and the next image was a still image of people sitting in a movie theater . At this point I began to Blink purposely and with each blink a new image or video. I lingered on the first three images for quite some time trying to figure out what was happening each time but then I began to Blink faster and as I did the images changed with every blank and I don't remember what they were. I was consciously aware this was happening and mystified how it could happen when I felt I was very much awake, not consciously dreaming, at least that's what I thought. It didn't feel the same as lucid dreaming and my path in and out of lucid dreaming wasn't in the right order. Once coming to this realization I decided to prove it to myself by getting up. I concluded that I was very much awake the whole time. This experience was so unique to the way I normally dream I don't know if it was a dream or something else completely. Has anyone else had this experience?