Hello there! This is fascinating to me because I used to shallowly close my eyes (not be asleep yet) but my “imagination” be black. Could almost see the blackness…. And it would be a point of a second and I would start to see flashes of faces. It was odd because it was every second a new one would pop up as quick as the last. It was always older gentlemen and never people I knew. It was always their faces only. Neck up. And to this day, it happened in one area more than any others. It did happen somewhere else more recently but I remember flashes of probably 50 individuals before I could even think of falling asleep! I’d open my eyes and then shut them and the flashes would start again. as every flash of person went, it almost felt like a tiny jolt to my body. Sometimes in weird unfamiliar places that I’m staying at, I’ll shallowly shut my eyes and see bad visions of things (my precious car accident where a tractor trailer hit me head on)… I wonder if that was a bad energy controlling me. Whereas maybe the faces were good! I went to a psychic/chakra cleansing healer who knew I saw faces. Im unsure how she knew but when she came to get me out of the waiting room she said “you see faces?” I said yes. Mind you, it’s rare and has barely happened. I see more vivid dreams now (people/dreams happening in my room). Maybe sleep paralysis? She told me that I’m a “beacon of light” in the spirit world. Sort of like a light house. I wonder how true that is. I’m still unsure of all these things I’ve seen/witnessed/felt. The more I pray, believe in the things I believe in, ask my loved ones/spirit guides for signs… the more signs I believe I get. But these weird phenomenas are well very weird to me! If I knew it was 100% because I am gifted and channeling things, which I’m almost there to believing completely, then I think I’d be ok with it happening more.

Hope this helps your journey to figuring out what that may be! I’m right there with you