Waking Sleep Paralysis

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1) Waking Sleep Paralysis: Sleep paralysis is a protection mechanismyour body uses when you fall asleep. If you were to dream you’redoing something very active such as running and you weren’t insleep paralysis then you would move your limbs when you’re asleepand you’d wake yourself up. !o prevent that from happening your

body disconnects your voluntary muscle system from your mind sothat you can dream all you like without waking yourself up.

"ormally you’re not aware that of this happening because by the timeyour body shuts itself down in sleep paralysis your mind is alreadyasleep and unaware of what’s happening. In other words you enter astate of ‘body awake#mind asleep’ before entering ‘body asleep mindasleep’.


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!he whole trick to lucid dreaming is to enter a subconscious focuswithout losing awareness.$ere’s how sleep paralysis does this for you.

When you’re awake your brain is in what’s called a ‘beta’ state.%eta means your dominant electrical brain waves are oscillating at

around 1& to '( cycles per second.

When you enter sleep paralysis your brain automatically puts itselfin “dream mode” which is called a ‘theta’ state. !heta is slower thanbeta and is around & to cycles per second.

*nowing this secret allows you to avoid one of the ma+or mistakesmost people make when ,rst starting out in -.%..s.

"ow how do you do that/ !he way you’ll usually become aware ofsleep paralysis is that you wake up in it and ,nd you can’t move or

make a sound.

Sleep paralysis often feels like there’s a heavy lead blanket on you. It’snot that there is really anything on you or that your muscles havebecome weaker. !he feeling is because your brain has to send astronger nerve signal than normal to get the same muscle movement. !hat makes it feel like you’re having to overcome some kind ofresistance when you try to move.


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!his feeling also usually makes it feel like it’s harder to breathe but it’sactually a natural sleep process. Sleep paralysis happens every singletime you fall asleep.

0ou may be wondering if sleep paralysis is dangerous and if there’s a

way to break free. Sleep paralysis is not dangerous because it’ssomething your body does every night. Plus here is a secret “safetyrelease” trick you can use to free yourself from paralysis so you alwayshave a backup plan.

!he only way your body knows for sure if your mind is awake is if youmove. !his is a problem when you’re in 1(( sleep paralysis Which ispreventing you from moving. 2uckily paralysis is limited to yourvoluntary muscle system like your arms and legs. 0our breathing issemi3involuntary so you still have control over it even in deepparalysis.

If you enter sleep paralysis and decide you want break free and wakeup simply change your breathing pattern to something other than thesleep breathing pattern your body is in. !he most e4ective way I havefound to do this is to begin breathing deeply and slowly.

5fter 1( or 16 seconds your body will notice the change and bring youout of paralysis. "ot many things are 1(( reliable in lucid dreamingbut this has worked for me every single time.


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5 very few people have reported that they woke up in sleep paralysisand noticed that they weren’t breathing at all. !he problem is not theparalysis itself but that they had an e7isting health condition called‘sleep apnea’.

Sleep apnea basically means that you stop breathing when you’reasleep. So this is one of the side bene,ts of using sleep paralysis tohave -%s: you’ll ,nd out whether or not you have sleep apnea.

*eep in mind there’s a big di4erence between the normal “heavy leadblanket” feeling that comes with sleep paralysis versus not breathingat all. If you ,nd you stop breathing entirely then you may have sleepapnea and should see a doctor about it. If you only feel the heavinesssensation then everything is normal.

So far we’ve talked about the case where you somehow manage towake up in sleep paralysis. $owever that’s basically an uncontrolledand accidental process. !he 8uestion is what can you do to make ithappen more consistently/


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!he idea is to 9ip the sleep order around so that instead of entering“body awake mind asleep” you enter of “mind awake body asleep”.When this happens you’re actually aware of the process your bodygoes through when it falls asleep. !his is our main secret trick for doingvisualiation3free lucid dreams and -.%..s. !his transition is the most

important skill to learn.

Why/ %ecause when you can put your body to sleep without losingconsciousness at any point you have 1(( perfectly clear dreamrecall. !his is called a “wake induced lucid dream” orWI2;. It’s as easy to remember what you did in a WI2; as it is toremember the last 16 minutes or so of normal waking awareness. Withthis method you don’t have to think back through and hay dreamphase like you normally do with most dreams.

So what does it feel like to actually watch your body falling asleep/

Instead of waking up in sleep paralysis and with the heavy lead blanketfeeling when you induce paralysis consciously you actually have thesensation of the heavy lead blanket being laid on your chest. It oftenfeels like it begins at your feet comes up over your chest and ends atyour head. When that process is complete you’re in sleep paralysis.


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So how to get this process to happen consistently/ $ere is the key. 5ndthis one fact is so important and so critical that Iundamental !heorem of Sleep Paralysis is that if you wake up and

fall asleep without moving at all sleep paralysis becomes e7tremelylikely.

5nd when I say without moving I mean you wake up and don


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Sleep starters are what you use to get the body to start thinkingthat maybe itor instance using stop drop androll is a sleep starter because it makes your body ask for permission

to fall asleep by arti,cially creating the roll signal.

Sleep triggers are how you then tell it =0es: fall asleep right now=.Stop ;rop and Boll has an implicit sleep trigger: when you simplyignore the roll over signal the body interprets it a trigger to entersleep paralysis.

In this section we


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Sleep breathing is simply mimicking your body


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!he second way to learn your sleep breathing pattern is to practicestaying perfectly still when you wake up in the morning. 0ou cancontinue to breathe the same way you did when asleep if you wakeup gradually.

!he third way which is the best is to record yourself sleeping. >orC'( you can get a digital voice recorder that can record the entirenight. 0ou can then use free software like 5udacity to ,nd the partsof the recording that have your sleep breathing.

When you use sleep breathing there are a ' gotchas to be aware of: !hese are the learning curve blackout breathing and the narcoticbreathing e4ect.


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!he learning curve means that it takes practice and if you don


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!he third gotcha is narcotic breathing. Sometimes instead of blacking outall at once you get a rela7ing feeling. It feels like when you ,rst wake upin the morning and the last thing you want to do is get up out of bed. 0ou +ust want to go back to sleep. !his is very useful in destroying insomnia.When you get the narcotic breathing e4ect it feels really good to lay thereand


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breathe and you


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!his brings us to sleep triggers which are used to convert partialparalysis into full paralysis.

!he ,rst trigger is pause breaths. When you reach D( paralysisthe reason the body doesn


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whim decided to try twitching my right forearm to see whathappened. !o my surprise my entire arm paralyed. I then twitchedmy right calf and my right leg paralyed. I gradually paralyed myentire body that way and completed the separation.

In other words muscle twitching only paralyses the surroundingmuscles. I’ve actually found that I could paralye +ust a single ,ngerby twitching it when in partial paralysis.

!o do this twitch once every second or two when you’re in aboutD6 paralysis. !he twitch is very gentle and only lasts the smallestfraction of a second. If you twitch your forearm the rest of your armshould not move at all. If you twitch too hard you’ll wreck theparalysis so keep it very light.

Probably the reason this works is when you dream you try to moveyour muscles but sleep paralysis prevents you from moving.

$owever you do move your muscles +ust a bit when dreaming whichcauses muscle twitching. !his means the body associates muscletwitching with deep sleep so one way to mimic deep sleep is to usemuscle twitching.

!he third sleep trigger is up and down eye movements. With youreyes closed you simply move your eyes up and down as fast as youcan for about 1( seconds. I


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reprocessing= or A;B which uses side to side eye movements. 0oumay try e7perimenting with side to side movement to completepartial paralysis but I ,nd up and down is a safer bet.

So which trigger do you use/ !he most reliable strategy is to startwith a few pause breaths which is usually all it takes to get to 1((

paralysis. If that doesn


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Aost books on rela7ation say to lay down and start rela7ing at yourfeet and work your way up to your head. !hat’s not the moste4ective way to do it because the vast ma+ority of your body’stension is in your jaws not your feet.

!he +aw is the strongest muscle area in terms of e7torted force. !heworld record for bite strength is D6 foot3pounds for ? seconds. "oother muscle in your body can e7ert more total force than your +awmuscles and no other muscle holds more tension.

Aany people go their whole lives and never consciously think torela7 their +aws. !his causes bru7ism or “teeth grinding” whichwears down your teeth and cause other problems such as:• !ooth aches• $eadaches• ar aches

• !innitus Ewhich is ringing in the ears)• ven diiness

1) So the very ,rst thing I do before an -% induction or fallingasleep is to rela7 my +aws. !his step is absolutely re8uired. Itonly takes a few seconds so it gives you the most bang foryour buck of all the rela7ations you can do.


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Start with a very ,rm massage of the meaty part of your upper +awsin front of and below your ears. !his is called your “massetermuscle” and is the single biggest culprit for locked up muscle knotsin the entire body. Press strongly with your ,ngers on both sides ofyour head and get a ‘good hurt’ feeling.

?) !he second step is to s8ueee on both sides of your +aws withyour palms instead of +ust your ,ngers. 0ou can use 8uite a bitof force when you do this because your +aws are 8uite strong.2et your +aw go as slack as you can while pressing.

') It’s common to stretch before and after e7ercise such asstretching your legs by touching your toes. %ut have you everstretched your +aws muscles/ 0ou may look silly doing thisbut it really goes a long way to rela7ing your +aws. So the thirdstep is to rela7 your +aws as much as you can then use your,ngers to pull your +aws open. 0ou may be surprised how

much your +aws resist your ,ngers but by stretching them youcan get the tension out.

Ay grandfather was a professor of a science called rela7ology. -neof his colleagues could rela7 his +aws so much that you could wiggleit with your hands and it felt like there was almost nothing holdinghis +aws on his head. 0ou don’t have to rela7 your +aws that muchbut I mention it to give you an idea +ust how much tension is in your +aws even if you think they’re rela7ed.


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&) Step & is to stretch your arms and chest against the wall.Place a palm 9at on the wall and turn the trunk of your bodyso that you get a good stretch from the very tips of your,ngers down your forearm you bicep shoulder and all across

your chest. 7hale all the tension out. Bepeat this twice withboth arms.

6) Step 6 is to stretch against the wall by placing both palmsabove your head against the wall and then bending forward. !his really targets your shoulder and chest tension. Inhale ande7hale fully and slowly ' times to work all the tension out.Stand up normally then repeat the vertical chest stretch.

F) Step F is to stretch the bottom of your feet by propping yourfoot against the wall and leaning forward. !his will also giveyou a good calf stretch. Bepeat this on each foot two moretimes then sit down and massage the individual muscles inthe soles of your feet with your hands.


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) Step is to stretch the palm of each hand by pushing your,ngers back with the other hand. !his also gives yourforearms a nice stretch.

G) Step G is the last stretching step. ;o some slow windmills to

rela7 your shoulders. It’s tempting to skip this step but yourshoulders carry almost as much tension as your +aw so it’simportant to stretch and rela7 your shoulder as much aspossible.

D) >or step D remember that one purpose of the roll over signalis to get you to roll over which causes you to gradually gatherand release tension. $ere’s a trick to speed that up or evenskip over it.


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2ay down in bed and rela7 a much as you can for 16 seconds or so. !hen roll over and rela7 for a couple more seconds. Boll again andrela7… Bepeat this several times and you’ll rela7 the rest of yourmuscles 8uite 8uickly. !his works because normally when you stretch one body part to rela7it you have to tense up another part.

>or instance to stretch one hand you had to tense up your other hand.%y laying down and rolling around for a minute you stretch and rela7everything a little bit at a time and get your “roll over” phase done allat once.

1() -nce you’re done rolling around step 1( is to start Stop ;rop5nd Boll. 2ay 9at on your back ‘with your arms above your headand start daydreaming.

5) !he Boll3-ver Signal: When your body has been very still andrela7ed for a long period your body starts to wonder if maybe your

mind has fallen asleep. It would be a very serious mistake if the bodywent to sleep too early so the body sends a test signal to the mind. !his test signal feels like a strong urge to roll over.


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If the mind is asleep then mind does not respond and the bodydecides that the mind really is asleep and shuts down. If the mind doesrespond to the roll over signal and you move then the body knows themind is still awake and does not fall asleep. So this a ma+or mistake

that you need to avoid: "ever respond to the body’s roll over signalbecause it sends a message to stay awake rather than fall asleep. !hiscan be diHcult because the signal can become so strong that it’se7cruciatingly painful.

0ou can visualie the way this works with the two dotted arrows on this

chart:5s you become more rela7ed the blue dotted line gets lower andlower. 5t the same time the red dotted line represents the strength ofthe roll over signal that the body sends out which grows and grows.When these two lines meet the body decides to enter sleep paralysisand shuts down.

So the 8uestion is: what can you do improve this/


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!here are four types of roll over signals you’ll encounter.

!he ,rst type is the ‘fast rela7’ case. !his happens when you rela78uickly and deeply and the body decides to +ust go ahead and paralyewithout sending much of a roll over signal if any. !his is a good case tohave because it happens 8uickly.

!he second type is the opposite case. If you’re tense but stay still longenough and if the body is tired enough the roll over signal builds andbuilds until it becomes very painful and e7tremely

hard to ignore. $owever if you’re too tense the body won’t paralye nomatter how long you’ve been still. !his is called a “signal swell”.


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!he third type is called an “urge surge” which is a very useful case. Inan urge surge the body sends out a strong signal out of nowhere. Ifyou’re able to resist the signal for three or four seconds the body ends

the surge and paralyses all at once. If you’re not rela7ed enough thiswill probably result in only partial sleep paralysis which is not ideal.

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>inally forth type of roll signal is called a “Juick Switch”.If sleep paralysis is the holy grail for new 5stral Pro+ectors the 8uickswitch signal is the holy grail of urge surges. It happens 8uickly andrewards you with nice and deep sleep paralysis almost instantly. It ’salso a very unmistakable feeling which is e7tremely useful because itlets you know what’s going on.

!his usually happens in one of two cases:>irst: when the body is really tired and wants to go to sleep right nowSecond: when the body was very recently asleep and is deeply rela7ed.

In order to make those cases more likely you need a way to bring onthe roll signal as fast as possible.


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So how do you do that/ !he trick is to use the right body position.

!he body position that brings it on the roll signal faster than any otherposition is to simply lay 9at on your back with your arms at your side.When you lay with your arms at your side you will probably tempted to

place your hands on your stomach or cross your ankles. !his is a veiledform of the roll over signal. If you get that sensation it means you’re onthe right track +ust make sure not to give in. *eep your arms at yourside and your ankles slightly separated.Ksing this simple bit of information we can eradicate the single biggestcause of insomnia: the toss and turn syndrome.

When you toss and turn in bed what you’re doing is resetting yourbody’s internal sleep timer each time you roll over. !he body is tryingto go to sleep by sending you a roll3over test signal but you keeptelling it not to sleep when you move. So you end up stuck in a toss

and turn loop and never get to sleep. !his results in insomnia.So you may be thinking is that it// 0ou +ust lay there/"ot 8uite… !here are a few things you can do actively to speed thingsup and tell your body to fall asleep.


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What we do is add body positions before and after the hands3at3your3side position. !he ,rst position is to lay with your hands above yourhead. !he ,nal position is where you roll over and then fall asleep in

that position.

We choose these positions very carefully so that when you move fromone step to the ne7t you release the ma7imum amount of tensionpossible.

!his way instead of haphaardly releasing small amounts of tension bytossing and turning over and over you release it in a e7actly twocalculated big chunks and get it over with all at once:


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$ere’s what is happening at each step.

“Stop” 3 !he Bela7 Step: In this step you have your arms above yourhead and rela7 as deeply as you can. -nce you feel you’ve rela7ed asfar as you can “drop” your arms down to your side which releases all

the shoulder tension that you couldn’t get rid of from +ust laying there. !his is the purpose of the ,rst body position – to get rid of shouldertension all at once.

“;rop” 3 !he 5sk Step: When you drop your arms down to your side andrela7 the body will seriously start to consider that maybe the mind isasking it to go to sleep. !his position will make you want to roll overwhich is what you want. !he stronger the roll over signal the more thebody is asking for permission to sleep. If you get to a point where itfeels like it’s plateaued slowly roll over which puts you in step '.

“Boll” 3 !he 0es Step: In this step you tell the body “yes it’s time tosleep.” Simply roll over and then don’t move until you’re asleep. 0ourgoal is to not move again the rest of the night.

!he sneaky thing is that the roll over signal changes based on howyou’re laying and that may trick you into moving. !he roll over signalwhen you’re on your back tends to center in your chest. $owever the


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roll over signal when you’re on your side tends to make you want tomove your legs. ;on’t fall for that ;on’t bend them or straighten themor anything. *eep your legs perfectly still. !he urge to move your legsis actually a disguised form of the roll over signal and you must resist itat all costs

$ere’s the best ,nal body position that’s the healthiest for your backaccording to researchers at the Kniversity of @leveland. 0ou want to layon your side so your neck and spine are neutral and rela7ed.%end your hips and knees a bit to lower pressure on your spine !o relieve sciatic nerve strain put a pillow between your knees.Sleeping on your stomach is not recommended because it puts yourback in an odd position

We have one last very powerful trick in reserve that you can use whenyou have a really hard time falling asleep. !he key is to build up a super strong roll over signal before evengetting into bed. Bather than trying to fall asleep in your bed lay downon the 9oor ne7t to your bed on your back and rela7.

!his is unpleasant and after forcing yourself to lay there perfectly stillfor 1( or 16 minutes when you ,nally allow yourself back into bed


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your body will be so grateful that it will grab the chance to fall asleepas 8uickly as it can.In e7treme cases you can even lay on an uncarpeted 9oor such as inyour kitchen which will build up the roll signal very 8uickly.

11) Step 11 is to begin sleep breathing.

1?) Step 1? is to rela7 your eyes and the stop

micromovements. Boll your eyes around both directions a fewtimes and then let them rest. !he idea is to completely forgetthat your eyes even e7ist. !o do that count 16( heart beats.

1') >ocusing on your heart for a long time will make it feel likeit’s going to beat its way out of your chest. $owever if you getup and actually check your pulse you’ll ,nd that it’s beatinglike normal. !he heart pounding sensation is +ust a trick of themind which will help to distract you from your eyes.


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1&) 5fter 16( heart beats you’ve come to step 1& which is toswitch on the roll over signal. ;rop your arms down to yourside and move to step 16 which is to tense and release eachmuscle group.

16) %y now you should be pretty deeply rela7ed. @ontinue to

sleep breathe and sense where you still have some tensionleft. Slightly tense that area for a moment then release it. !hiswill cause you to rela7 that muscle further than before youtensed it. Start at your +aws and end at your feet.


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!o do this count 16( heart beats starting at '(( which tires yourbrain out a little faster. 5fter every 1( heart beats pause the countand tense and release another muscle group. >or instance whenyou get to 1F( tense and rela7 your +aws. 5t 1( tense and releaseyour face at 1G( your neck and so forth. If you lose track of where

what number you’re on that’s a good sign that it’s working andyou’re falling asleep.

1F) When you get to &6( you’ll either be asleep or feeling theroll over signal. If you don’t have a very strong roll signal then +ust daydream and continue sleep breathing for a while untilit’s strong enough. When you really feel the need to roll overyou’ve reached step 1F which is to simply roll over andrelease any remaining tension. @ontinue sleep breathing andyou’ll black out within a few moments.


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!wo things that really speed things up are socks and earplugs. 0oumay not realie how much your body temperature drops when youfall asleep but when you’re feet are +ust a little bit cold it’s reallyhard to rela7. So wear socks even if you don’t think you need them.

arplugs are also incredibly valuable for falling asleep fast. 0ou canget them on amaon or !arget. !he silicone putty earplugs work thebest and you can make them last several uses by washing themwith soap after each use.$ere’s the complete system step by step.• Law Aassage• Law Palm S8ueee• Law Stretch• $oriontal Wall @hest Stretch• Mertical @hest Stretch• Stretch 0our >eet

• Stretch 0our $ands• Bela7 0our Shoulders• “Pre3Boll” !o ;issipate -verall %ody !ension• Start “Stop ;rop N Boll”: $ands 5bove 0our $ead• Start Sleep %reathing• Boll yes !o Bela7 !hem• 16( $eart %eat @ount !o >orget 5bout yes• %ring 5rms ;own !o nter !o “;rop” Aode• !ense N Bela7 Auscles !hat 5re Still !ense• Boll

11) $ow !o Kse !he Sun !o 5void !he O#1 Aistake In -%s N $ow !o -ptimie 0our %rain @hemistry:


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!he O#1 mistake is: ;on’t do your -.%.. attempts at night Elike mostbooks say). Instead do them in the early morning!!!

-ptimal -.%.. brain chemistry is all about timing and your body’scircadian rhythm. I’ve had literally thousands of -.%..s in the earlymorning. I’ve had fewer than ten at night.

!he two main chemicals involved are called serotonin and melatonin.


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Serotonin is your on switch and helps you stay alert and lucid. It’s a=feel3good= neurotransmitter which helps your brain


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!he other secret ingredient is the ‘,ght or 9ight’ hormone calledcortisol. @ortisol is depleted throughout the day but then surges backin the early morning in preparation to wake you up. !he interplaybetween cortisol and melatonin creates !$ ideal sweet spot for

-.%..s in the early morning.

!his sweet spot is between around & 5A and 6:'( 5A. ;uring thesweet spot rela7ation is easy because of relatively high melatoninlevels and you’ve been rela7ed for several hours during sleep.5lertness is easy because cortisol brings with it a rush of two otherstimulants called epinephrine and norepinephrin. !hese stimulants aremeant to help wake you up but you can use them for dream alertnessinstead.


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%ed time is the single worst time of all for -%s because your brainchemistry is geared for the opposite of lucidity at that point. Insteadit’s geared for onking out which is what always happens in the8uestions I see in forums. 5t bed time you’re low on cortisol andmelatonin. %y the time you’ve rela7ed enough to fall asleep yourcortisol levels are so low you have virtually no chance or regaininglucidity.

So that’s the wrong way to do it. $ere’s the right way to do it. In fact ifthere was only one method I could use this is the one. It’s called“wake3back3to3bed” and was invented by former "5S5 engineer ;r.5lbert !aylor.


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$ere’s how wake3back3to3bed works. et up in the early morningduring the -% sweet spot stay awake for a period of time then goback to sleep. Kse the sleep paralysis methods we covered earlier andyou’ll likely have spontaneous -.%..s and lucid dreams. We’ll use

wake back to bed as the foundation for more an even more advancedinduction later on called the timer method.

!he reason wake back to bed works so well is because of thefundamental theorem of sleep paralysis. If you wake up and fall asleepin the early morning you’re pretty much begging for sleep paralysisand spontaneous lucid dreams. In fact before I knew anything about-.%..s I used to have waking paralysis episodes all the time and didn’tknow why. It was really irritating to wake up and not be able to move. Ilater realied it was because I was not sleeping well and was waking upfor a few minutes and then going back to sleep without moving. !hatcaused the paralysis and it’s the basis for pretty much all our other

induction tricks.

So how do you improve on wake back to bed/ !he immediate answer isto tweak the amount of time you stay awake before going to sleepagain.


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0ou have two options:

1.) !he ,rst is to stay up a short period. >or this strategy you wake updon’t move at all Edon’t even move your eyes) fall back to sleep and

keep awareness on your body for the sleep paralysis wave to come.

?.) !he second strategy is the long period. 0ou wake up get up stayup for a while then go back to bed.

%oth approaches work well but which should you use/

oing right back to sleep without moving makes it very easy to fallasleep again. $owever it’s very likely that you’ll fall completely asleepand not become lucid. ven so this is the method I use most because itre8uires no planning or e4ort.

With option ? where you get up from bed for a while it’s harder to fallasleep again. $owever it is very likely that you will become lucid if youdo sleep. Besearch by ;r. Stephen 2a%erge has shown getting up for anhour before going back to bed signi,cantly increases lucidity.

Ay personal e7perience and most the people I’ve advised suggests &6minutes works a slightly better than an hour. Several people who were


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not able to have success by staying up for an hour were able to have-%s simply by changing the wakefulness period to &6 minutes.Waiting until you start yawning again is a good rule of thumb.

!he amount of sun you get has a giant impact on your ability to have-%s because your body needs sun in order to make serotonin. et at

least an hour of outside sunlight at day break and sundown. !hose arethe best times to get sunlight without risk of a sunburn because thesun is so low in the sky.

5t night make sure to turn the lights down at least an hour or sobefore going to bed. !he body is not designed for the abrupt light todark change that you get with arti,cial lighting. %y turning the lightsdown gradually you’ll simulate sunset and greatly reduce and chanceof insomnia.


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>inally always avoid !M at night. !he ,rst problem with !M is that itprevents the gradual period of darkness you need before sleep.

!he second problem is more subtle. Besearch by psychophysiologist !homas Aulholland showed that within '( seconds of watching !M your

brain enters an alpha state. !here isn’t anything wrong with an alphastate by itself in fact there are a lot of bene,ts to alpha waves whichare beyond the scope of this section.

!he problem is that in alpha the mind is much more suggestible thannormal. 5lpha is actually the state the brain enters in response tosmoking pot. Watching !M is not the same as smoking pot but that isthe direction !M is taking your brain by putting it in alpha.

$erbert *rugman also showed that !M causes the left hemisphere tovirtually shut down and the right hemisphere to become twice asactive as the left. !he left hemisphere is what the brain uses for critical

thinking and analysis while the right side is more emotional. !hisswitch from left to right causes the brain to release a surge of opioidsinto the bloodstream which has an anesthetic e4ect on the mind.


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!his is why watching !M for a long time makes it feel like your brainhas turned to mush. !he combination of these three e4ects:

>irst being awash in opioids secondly having a numbed lefthemisphere and third being tuned to an alpha state leaves the brainvery susceptible to suggestion.

%rain mush mode opens the gate for all the commercials and other +unk on !M to go directly past the mind’s usual critical thinkingdefenses. If you go to sleep in that state it leads to hay dreams. If youdo have an -% in that state it’s very unlikely to be very clear.

12) “ !imer Aethod”: What if you could cheat and manufactureyour own lucidity trigger so that even if you fell completelyasleep you’d still end up having an -.%../ It turns out such asecret weapon does e7ist. It’s called a digital cooking timer.

!he idea is to fall asleep like normal and don’t even try to stayaware. 0ou set the timer to beep so it wakes you up a fewminutes later. %y waking up and falling asleep every few minuteswithout moving you’ve formed a safety net so that you don’t falltoo deeply asleep but enter a subconscious focus.


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!his uses a principle from hypnosis called ‘fractionation’.$ypnotic fractionation means that when you are put into tranceand then are taken from that trance the ne7t time you entertrance you’ll enter it more deeply than before. !hat means that if you can enter even the slightest trance then you can enter avery deep trance +ust by going in and out of that trance over and

over. !his is how you can hover on the awake asleep thresholdand ease your way into an -% without really having to use a lotof practice or skill.

Bemember that everything we covered earlier about the rollsignal still applies. !his only works when you use the timer anddo not move ever at any point.

If you wake up and fall asleep & or 6 times in an hour withoutmoving you’ll start to have spontaneous paralysis -%vibrations and -%s. $owever if you wake up and fall asleeptwice shift position and then wake up and fall asleep ' moretimes then it won’t work nearly as well.


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So here’s the big picture in a nutshell. >irst you wake up and fallasleep & or 6 times without moving using a timer and the sleepcommands from 2ucidology 1(1 parts ' and &. !his will put youin sleep paralysis. 0ou then use movement3free reality checkswhich we’ll cover below to check that you’ve shifted into anonphysical focus. !hen you use an e7it method to convertparalysis into an -% or lucid dream.

!o do this you have a couple options for timers including cooking

timers timer mp's and the 2ucidology >lash timer.

I started out using a C1( cooking timer and it works +ust ,ne. !ouse one of these memorie the buttons so you can reset it usingyour thumb without looking at it. Sleep with it in one hand move-"20 your thumb when resetting it and the rest of your body willstay in paralysis.


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0our timer setup has a giant impact on how many -%s youhave. I’ve spent countless hours testing various timer setups andhere is the most reliable workhorse setup. It’s called “ramp” andthe intervals are G minutes & G 1? 1F ?( ?( and then Fminutes repeating.

$ere’s what you can e7pect when you use the ramp setup.;uring the middle of the ?( minute intervals you’re likely to havelucid dreams and possibly spontaneous -.%..s. ;uring the tailend F minute intervals you’re likely to have -.%..s. $ere’s why…

If you’ve ever used an alarm clock to wake up at the same timeeach morning you may have found that you started waking up 6minutes before the alarm actually started beeping. 0ou hadconditioned the subconscious to e7pect the beep but it does notlike to be shocked awake. So its response is to wake you upbefore the beep.


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0ou can use this e4ect to your advantage by faking thesubconscious out. !he initial G minute interval is used forrela7ation. 5fter that the intervals start out short and increase inlength going from & up to ?( minutes. %y the time you get to the?( minute interval your subconscious is starting to e7pectanother beep in the ne7t & to 1F minutes. !o avoid the shock the subconscious goes on alert at around & Gor 1? minutes. $owever during the ?( minute intervals thosebeeps never come. !his is enough to make you becomespontaneously lucid in the middle of a dream in e7pectation ofthe ‘phantom’ timer beep that never happens.

!he phantom beep can also give you waking sleep paralysisbecause body continues to sleep and doesn’t care about thephantom beep.


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Whether you get a lucid dream or -% from this depends onwhere you’re focusing at the moment of the phantom beep:either in a dream or on your physical body.

If you get a lucid dream your clarity level will likely be less thanmost -%s. $owever lucid dreams are often a lot more funbecause they often start out in some kind of strange otherworldlyarea which is usually more fun to e7plore than the nonphysicalversion of your physical surroundings.

$owever -%s often have much higher clarity than luciddreams. When you use the timer method you’ll end up withplenty of each so you can decide which you prefer.


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!he shorter tail end intervals usually result in -%s rather thanlucid dreams. !his is because of the hypnotic fractionation e4ectwe mentioned earlier.

;uring the short intervals you don’t have time to slip very deeply into

sleep like you do with the long intervals. !his causes you to hover muchmore closely on the awake asleep threshold so that when a beep comesyou’re more likely to have a physical focus you can use for an -%.

!his is the simplest way to trick your body into falling asleep andfeel the paralysis wave. When the timer beeps your body may wakeup for a moment but as long as you stay perfectly still your bodywill create the paralysis wave and put itself to sleep after 6 or 1(

seconds . !his is also ane7cellent time to use the sleep triggers to command the body intoparalysis.


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So here’s the actual method to use to have conscious sleepparalysis for the ,rst time or even an-%.• o to bed at D PA• et up at &:'( 5A

• Stay up for &6 minutes until 6:16 5A and avoid lights• o back to bed and do “Stop ;rop 5nd Boll” to start to fallasleep• 5t the end of S.;.B set your timer to use a ramp timer session.>all asleep and let the timer wake you up and put you in an -%.


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5s good as this method is it does have two drawbacks. >irst isyour sleep cycle. !he second is false awakenings.

etting up early in the morning to do -%s is e4ective but it canleave you tired the rest of the day. !he solution is called

“Inductionless -.%..s”. Inductionless -%s are my favorite styleof accessing the subconscious because they allow you to have-%s without messing up your sleep cycle.

!he second disadvantage the timer method has is actuallybecause it’s so powerful. !his side e4ect is called a falseawakening loop in which you think you wake up physically butactually wake up into another -%. 0ou may have to wake upseveral times before you really do wake up in your physicalbedroom again.

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!o solve this you basically need a way to take the red pill and,gure out where you are and what’s going on. !his is called areality check. 5nd not +ust any reality check will do you need amovement3free reality check so that you can do it withoutdisturbing your trance.

1') The 4 Easiest Movement-FreeReality Checks For Lcid reams "nd#$Es% 2ucid dreams and -%s can be e7tremely realistic. Infact a lot of times it’s very hard to tell if you’re actually awake orif you’re dreaming. In fact sometimes they are actually morerealistic than waking awareness. Sometimes after an -% you’ll,nd that your physical sight is actually hay and dream3likecompared to the hyper detailed realism of the -%.

>or e7ample a lot of times your vision will have whatphotographers called “$igh ;ynamic Bange” or $;B. $;Bmeans that there’s a higher range between the bright areas andthe dark areas. $;B is anything but dream3like and you may notthink at ,rst that you’re actually in an -.%.. because your sighthas so much detail. 0our sight may also seem like it has a lotmore pi7els than you have when physically aware. In fact these-%s should be called “high bandwidth e7periences” because of all the e7tra sensory information you take in.


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!his e4ect is compounded when you use the timer method.Bemember that the hypnotic fractionation e4ect causes you tohover on the awake asleep threshold when you enter and e7ittrance over and over. !he ,rst couple times you wake up and fallasleep it’s relatively easy to tell if you’re nonphysical or physicalbecause it’s kind of a sloppy cycle and you swing wildly aroundbetween being awake and asleep.

$owever as the hypnotic fractionation e4ect kicks in the cyclesstart to get tighter and tighter.

!he -.%..s start to become more and more realistic. ventuallyit can be very diHcult to tell if you’re waking up into yourphysical bedroom or if you’re in an -%.


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!his is called a false3awakening loop in which you think you wakeup but end up in an -.%.. 0ou wake up again and end up inanother -.%.. It may take a couple tries before you really dowake up in your physical bedroom again.

!his is because you’ve started spirally o4 center toward anonphysical focus. What you need is a way to know that you’re inan -% and wake up for real.

%asically you need a way to take the red pill. !his is called areality check. 5nd not +ust any reality check will do you need amovement3free reality check so that you can do it withoutdisturbing your trance.


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In fact you need a set of reality checks because there is no singlesilver bullet reality check which is 1(( reliable.

$ere are the & most e4ective most reliable and easiest realitytests that you can start using immediately. I have tested each ofthese many times to see how well they work and what pitfalls towatch for. !hese are:

!he blindfold test transparent eyelids overlaid sight and thespoon bending test.

>irst is the blindfold reality check. !his is easiest reality check ofall.

5ll you do is put on a blindfold and rela7 into sleep. If at any timeyou ,nd that you can see the room through the blindfold then


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you know you’re in a subconscious dream environment andyou’re looking at the dream version of your room.

!he advantages are that it’s simple and re8uires no practice.

Secondly once it works there’s no doubt in your mind that itreally did work..

5lso it’s an ongoing reality check. It’s not something that comesand goes in an instant.

So here’s way you can use the blindfold test for free -.%..s thatre8uire e7actly ero work. !he fact is you probably are already having many spontaneousmorning -.%..s but don’t realie they’re -.%..s because youdon’t have a system to catch these when they happen. 5ll you

need to do is get in the habit of sleeping with a blindfold on.Whenever you wake up and are able to see you’ll have +ustgotten a free -.%. without doing any e7tra work


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5s good as the blindfold test is it does have its disadvantages>or instance you may ,nd the blindfold is distracting and that it’shard to rela7 with it on. If you try this method I do recommendgetting a padded blindfold in the C?( to C'( range because I ,ndthe cheap ones are too uncomfortable to be of any real use.

!he second disadvantage is e7it blindness. 7it blindnesshappens a lot especially for new -%ers. When this happens youenter the dream and ,nd that you are blind and so you can’t seewith or without the blindfold.

;ream blindness happens a lot and there are solutions to it thatwe’ll cover later. $owever all of these solutions re8uire that yoube lucid in the dream so it won’t help if you’re trying to use sightas a reality check.

-ne solution is to use the transparent eyelids e4ect. !ransparenteyelids means that you see through your closed eyes into thenonphysical version of your bedroom.

!his has the advantage of not wearing a distracting blindfold.


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!he disadvantage with the transparent eyelids e4ect is it’sdiHcult to feel whether your eyelids are really open or closed.

So the way the transparent eyelids check often works is that it’safter the fact. 0ou ,rst become lucid then you notice you cansee and then you open your physical eyes and wake your

physical body up.

5nother scenario is that you open your eyes twice withoutclosing them in between. 0ou open them in the -% andthen open them again when you wake up physically.

In either case you may not know if you were nonphysicallyfocused until it’s too late and you’re already physical again.

!he third reality check to watch for is overlaid sight whichhappens as soon as you’re nonphysical. When you’re nearing anonphysical focus you’ll start to split your awareness betweenyour waking surroundings and the dream version of your

bedroom. -ften you’ll seeyour nonphysical surroundings from a slightly di4erent anglethan your physical surroundings. !his makes it look like you have two sets of sight overlaid on topof each other like two moviepro+ections.


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-verlaid sight doesn’t last very long usually you’ll see yourvision 9icker back and forth and then stabilie. It’s also rare toachieve overlaid sight because most of the time when you do-.%..s your eyes will be closed. %ecause of this you need alonger lasting check which brings us to the &th movement free

reality check called the “spoon bending” check.

!his brings us to the &th movement free reality check whichhelps ,7 this. !his reality check is the spoon bending check.

!o do it +ust fall asleep with a spoon in your hand.

When you think you might be in an -.%. s8ueee the spoon andsee if it bends.

5s long as you don’t move any other part of your body you canmove your ,ngers slowly and slightly and not disturb yourtrance. So even though you are moving a little bit this still countsas a movement3free reality check

$ere’s what it will be like when you bend a spoon in an -%. !hemetal will be e7tremely easy to bend. It’s about like bending awire twist tie.When you wake up the spoon will be back to normal


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In this section we mentioned e7it blindness and how very often in-%s when you ,rst enter a nonphysical awareness you’ll ,ndthat you can’t see. In the ne7t section we’ll cover the moste4ective and simple ways for ,7ing e7it blindness so you canmake the most of each -%.

1&) 7it %lindness 3 ' >ast Solutions: 7it blindness is due tothree main reasons:

>irst that your eyes have been sealed shut by some kind ofnonphysical glue.

Second that you don’t have enough energy to open your

nonphysical eyes.

!hird you don’t have energy to power your nonphysical eyes.

!he ,rst problem is that in the -% your eyes sometimes startout with some kind of glue that’s holding your eyelids together.Strange as it may seem this is a recurring e4ect that manypeople have reported and that I have e7perienced many times.

!he 8uickest solution to glued eyelids is to use your nonphysicalhands to pry your eyelids open. !his is called the ‘eye pry’ method. Sometimes the glue is very strong and it can actually be


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painful to pull them open. !he glue can also have a kind ofmagnetic e4ect so that once you have your eyes open the gluepulls them back together. 0ou have to keep on top of things andkeep pulling your eyes open in order to keep your sight turnedon. 0ou can also use eye pry in the ?nd case where you have

enough energy to power your eyes but not enough to open youreyelids.

In the 'rd case where you don’t even have enough energy topower your eyes there are ' main solutions. !hese are deepbreathing improving your mood and mental pro+ections.

!he ,rst solution is to use deep breathing to power yournonphysical body. !his solution is not a cure all but it cande,nitely improve your sight and make things brighter. 0ou needto be careful with this method because it can cause your physicalbody to wake up.


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Becall that one way to break paralysis is to simply change yourbreathing so your body notices you’re awake. While that doesbreak paralysis there is also a middle ground where you canbreathe deeply to power your nonphysical body but also notbreathe so deeply so that your body notices the di4erence. !he

only way to know what that feels like is to practice by enteringsleep paralysis and seeing how much you can deep breathewithout breaking the paralysis.

!he second main solution is to improve your mood in the -%. 0our mood often determines how bright and clear your -% willbe. %y putting yourself in a very positive frame of mind you canlargely avoid dark -%s and you may never have a problem withblindness in the ,rst place. $owever this solution isn’t 1((e4ective and isn’t very useful if you’re trying to recover sight in alucid nightmare.

!he third solution is what’s called a mental pro+ection. !his is anadvanced techni8ue that relies heavily on visualiations.$owever it’s also e7tremely powerful and this is actually what Irely on most because it is 1(( e4ective to cure e7it blindness.

!his is because in a mental pro+ection you’re able to see withoutseeing and so e7it blindness is not a factor.

5 lot of times when I enter an -% I won’t even bother to get myeyes working and I’ll +ust enter a mental pro+ection which givesyou all the sensory information you need but without actuallyseeing anything at all.


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1(? insert

16) -% Mibrations N ' Ways !o !ell:

If you’ve never done an -% before it’s e7tremely diHcult to

know if you’re making any progress until you’re actually alreadyout of your body or in a lucid dream. What you need are easy todetect signals that you can use like road signs to tell you howclose you are to succeeding. In this section we’ll cover the top 'most common road signs. !hese are:

1 – !he sleep paralysis wave

? – Pre -% rushing noises

' 3 Mibrations

ssentially when your body shuts itself down in sleep paralysisyou’ll feel something like a heavy lead blanket feeling being laidon your body. !his feeling is unmistakable and a sign that you’revery close to success and you can use the e7it techni8ues we’llcover below to turn the paralysis into an -.%..


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!he second road sign to watch for are pre3-% rushing noises.When you tune in between stations on a radio you get the soundof random static and white noise. -nce you’re back on a stationagain things come in clearly. It’s the same thing with -.%..s. 0oustart out completely focused in your normal waking environmentand as you drop into a subconscious focus you pass through akind of no man’s land where you’re not really conscious andyou’re not really subconscious.

When you’re tuned to that no3man’s land fre8uency you hearrushing noises that sound like random static or a train rushing by.

5bout the same time you hear rushing noises you may feel whatare called -% vibrations. Mibrations are probably the mostfamous phenomenon associated with -%s and they’re also thee4ect that has the most misconceptions. 5lmost everything to be


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found in books on -%s about vibrations is simply wrong and sothis is a place where a lot of people get stuck.

!he ' misconceptions about vibrations are: what they are whatthey mean and how to use them.

$ere’s what vibrations are not. Mibrations are not a sub+ectivekind of thing where you it’s like you’re “feeling the vibes manfar out” Mibrations are much more mundane than that.

If you make a Mvvvvv sound the feeling of vibrations in your lipsis very similar to the feeling of vibrations that often appear alongwith medium stages of paralysis. Sometimes the vibrations canbeen e7tremely strong and feel like electricity other times theyare entirely absent. It’s very rare for vibrations to be strongenough to be painful usually they +ust feel like a harmlessbuing in your head and chest area.


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$owever sometimes they can go throughout your entire body. !hese can be incredibly loud and feel like you’re holding on to achain saw. 5 lot of people report feeling them in the spine. In onecase I woke up into an -% in my bed and it sounded e7actly likethere was someone with a hedge trimmer outside my window. I

realied it was because I had o4 the chart vibrations that werecoming from what I later found to be the 21 lumbar vertebrae inmy lower back. I used deep breathing to return myself from the-% because I was running more energy than what seemed safe.

!hat was a very unusual e7perience and most of the time youactually won’t have any vibrations at all and if you do it’s nomore powerful than the feeling of a vibrating cell phone.

!he basic thing to know is that once you’ve had vibrations youwill know it. !here won’t be any 8uestion in your mind about itbecause it’s +ust a buing feeling and noise.

!he second misconception is that most books will tell you thatwhen you have vibrations you’re ready to e7it into the -%. !his

is completely the polar opposite of reality. Mibrations mean thatyou are "-! ready to e7it and here’s why.


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Physical and nonphysical awarenesses are both types of signalsthat you focus on. ;uring the middle stage of an -% e7it you’remaking the transition from one to the other and you e7perience&oth physical and nonphysical signals. !hese signals haveenergy. When you sum both of these signals together you passthrough a phase where you’re running double the amount ofenergy you normally would.

If this energy is more than your system can comfortably handleyou get distortion. !he big fancy signal processing name for thisis intermodulation distortion. !he name is not so important asthe fact that this energy hump does not go on forever it comesand then goes and this is critical to understanding how to dealwith vibrations.


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%ecause the e7cess energy hump comes and goes you get a‘8uiet one’ once you’ve focused completely out of physicalfocus and in to nonphysical focus. So it looks like this: you startout in physical focus with no vibes. 0ou rela7 into a near -% andget light vibes. 0ou rela7 almost to the point of separation andget ma+orly heavy vibes. !his is where most people screw it upbecause of the bad advice in books. !he trick is to simplycontinue to rela7 deeper and deeper past the vibrations until thevibes have smoothed out completely. -nce you’re in the 8uietone after the vibes that’s how you know you’ve completelyshifted into the -%.

!he energy hump is like a truck I used to have with unbalanced

tires. When it got up to &6 AP$ it would start vibrating the entiretruck. 5t 66 AP$ it would smooth out again. !he range of &6 to66 AP$ was a transition range that caused the tires to vibratewith each other. Pre -.%.. rushing noises and vibrations are thesame thing: you’re coming in and out of phase with two di4erentphysical and nonphysical signals.


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*eep in mind that the vibrations only happen when the totalenergy goes beyond what your nonphysical body is capable ofconducting. !he more -%s you do the more energy you can runwithout problems and the less vibrations you’ll have. ventuallyalmost all your -%s will be vibration3free.

0ou’ll go from waking awareness with no vibes all the way tothe -% with no vibes which means you’ll have to rely on othersignals that we’ll cover later to tell if you’re in the -%. !he upside to this is that vibrationless -%s are much brighter andclearer than -%s where you have to punch through massivevibrations.


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Why would that be/ In a chainsaw the noise is caused byfriction. Mibrations are a form of noise so vibrations are a form of friction. >riction is waste of energy. @hainsaw noise is a waste ofphysical energy and so vibrations are a waste of nonphysical

energy.

When you’re in vibrations you’re wasting energy so it’s a stateyou want to rela7 through as 8uickly as possible.

!he ne7t misconception is what to do once you’re in vibrations.>or instance Bobert Aonroe wrote that you should try to ‘sweep’ the vibrations up and down your body before separating. Is thisgood advice or not/ !he only way to reduce vibrations is to reduce the pressure thatcauses friction and that means rela7ing.If you reach vibrations and then try to do something whether it’srunning the vibrations up and down your body or anything elsethen the one thing you’re "-! doing is rela7ing. 5nd rela7ing ise7actly the one thing that you need to do when you havevibrations because only way to release the friction is to rela7. "oother solution will work. !his is why vibrations are a ma+or obstacle for more -%ersbecause when they try to do something anything they are


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unable to simply rela7 into the 8uiet one.

!he only way to reduce vibrations is to reduce the pressure thatcauses friction and that means rela7ing.

If you reach vibrations and then try to do something whether it’srunning the vibrations up and down your body or anything else

then the one thing you’re "-! doing is rela7ing. 5nd rela7ing ise7actly the one thing that you need to do when you have vibrationsbecause only way to release the friction is to rela7. "o othersolution will work.

!his is why vibrations are a ma+or obstacle for more -.%..ersbecause when they try to do something anything they are unableto simply rela7 into the 8uiet one.

;e,nitely do "-! try to force your way out when you’re in themiddle of vibrations. 0ou’ll almost certainly +ust get pulled right

back into your body since you haven’t yet matched up with anonphysical focus.


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ven if you do manage to muscle your way out you’ll have spent somuch energy on the e7it that the resulting -% will probably be sodark and low energy that you’ll +ust stagger around and not be ableto do anything fun anyway. It’s far better to rela7 through vibrationsinto the 8uiet one and then slip out of body e4ortlessly.

%y the way there is a sneaky loop hole that allows you to cheatso you can do -%s even when you’re in the middle ofvibrations. !he trick is to enter something called a photographictrance which allow you to have -%s at much lighter levels oftrance so you don’t have to be in full sleep paralysis to separate.

See 2ucidology 1(? part '

!his loophole also opens the door to a techni8ue called ‘trancerecycling’ . !rance recycling allows you to have a doen or more

-%s in a row and 8uickly rack up a massive number of -%s ina single session.

%ecause many -%s are completely vibrationless you needseveral other road signs to tell how close you are to success. Inthe ne7t section we’ll cover the 6 crucial progress signals to tellhow close you are to an -.%..


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6 >ast 7it Aethods: !hese techni8ues are $ow you@onvert Sleep Paralysis Into 5n -.%.. 5nd Separate >rom 0our Physical%ody !o nter 0our "onphysical nvironment.

Becall our two3step strategy for visualiation3free -%s. !he ,rst stepwas to use sleep commands to trick your body into falling asleep. !hatstage put you in waking sleep paralysis so that your brain enters atheta brain wave and automatically sends you into a subconsciousfocus without you needing to use visualiations.

!he second step is to convert sleep paralysis into an -% using an e7ittechni8ue.

In this section we’ll cover this ,nal stage of an -% induction which isthe e7it stage where you separate your nonphysical body from yourphysical body.


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In completing the e7it there are ' basic problems we need to solve:

1. >irst that you can’t tell physical body from nonphysical bodybecause they’re overlaid

?. Second that you can’t separate them because they’re stucktogether

'. !hird if you move and you’re not ready to e7it you’ll tense up andruin your trance.

!hat last problem is a ma+or obstacle. !here’s nothing worse thangetting into a decent trance then ruining it because you movedphysically instead of separating from your body.

So we need “movement free” e7it techni8ues so you can make a bidfor an e7it and if you’re wrong and you’re not 8uite deep enough it’sno big deal.

So here are the 6 most powerful movement3free e7it methods that I’vetested many times and have found to be highly e4ective. !hese are:


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1. -pen Aouth 7it

?. ravity Press 7it

'. Safety @ap 7it

&. >ocused 5wareness With Aagnetic Spheres

6. Salvaging Partial 7its Ksing 2imb @reation

!he ,rst method is the Qopen mouth e7it.R In sleep paralysis DD of thetime even if everything below your neck is paralyed you can still moveyour eyes and mouth.

!o do this method simply open your mouth and take a few slow deepbreaths. %e sure not to breathe too hard or youRll break the paralysis. %ydoing this youRll feel yourself start to separate starting at your head.

!his method is a very reliable way to get the e7it process kick started.It’s actually more of an ‘e7it initiator’ than a full e7it method because alot of times it will get you half way out and then you need to switch toanother e7it method to complete the separation. $owever a lot of


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times once you start the separation using open mouth breathing you’llbe able to separate completely and get up into your nonphysicalbedroom without using any other tricks

!he reason this method works is you’ve split your focus between

physical awareness and nonphysical awareness. In sleep paralysis yourbody below the neck is still physically focused but your eyes and facehave entered nonphysical focus. %y creating movement in your eyesand face you draw the rest of your focus in to nonphysical awareness.

!he second movement free e7it method is the “gravity press” e7it. !odo this focus on the feeling of gravity pulling on your body.

In an -.%.. this will actually cause you to sink through solid ob+ectsand you can use this fact to test if you’re nonphysical without moving.

Aake sure not to pull yourself down too far because creating too muchof a feeling of heaviness can make the resulting -.%. more dark andlower energy.

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!o do that look at the ceiling and gravity press yourself to the 9oor.5s long as you keep your sight focused on the ceiling you’ll seethrough your bed. !his can help you be more sure that you really did a gravity press and

you really are nonphysical.

0ou can build on the gravity press e7it to make it more powerful. !hisbrings us to the third movement3free e7it method called ‘safety3cap’.With a safety cap bottle to open the lid you have to press down andthen twist.

!he problem with the gravity press method is even if you sink into thebed a few inches you may not be completely sure that you’ve reallyseparated. What you need is a better “selector” to be sure there’s

absolutely no 8uestion in your mind that you’re nonphysical. !o ,7 thiscreate the feeling of a force that rotates you around on your bellybutton so that your head swings around 1G( degrees and ends upwhere your feet are.


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5t that point there is no doubt you’re in an -% and you can get upwithout fear of accidentally moving your physical muscles andbotching the trance. In other words you +ust press down and twist andyou have an -%.

Aost books on -%s tell you to roll over on your side to complete thee7it. !his is a really bad idea because it’s an all or nothing gamble.ither you succeed and you roll over in to an -% or you movephysically and have to start all over again.

-n the other hand because the safety cap e7it is also a type of realitycheck you can ,rst test to see if you’re actually nonphysical. If eitherthe press or the twist stages don’t work then you know to rela7 a littledeeper and your trance is still in tact.

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-ur forth movement free e7it method is called “Aagnetic Spheres”

I know this is supposed to be ‘visualiation3free’ -.%.. methods… butthis one is really easy and it will really help with your e7its. So I’mgoing to sneak it in.

%y practicing to focus your awareness while awake you can betterdirect your nonphysical body when in an -.%..

Imagine a magnetic sphere hovering above your hands. Aove thesphere around and feel it pull on your nonphysical body in di4erentdirections.

0ou’ll start to get a feeling of a fuy ball of awareness around yourhands.

;ouble the strength of the sphere to get a stronger feeling. 5fter a fewmoments double it again then double it once more after a bit. *eepdoubling it every minute or so until you have a very strong feeling of


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attraction around your hands.

Bemember this is the feeling for when you use gravity press and safetycap. When you want to press out or rotate around create the feeling ofthe force you want and complete the e7it.

Bemember with gravity press one of the disadvantages was that if youpress down too far it can make the resulting -% darker and lowerenergy. -ne way around that is to use focused awareness to imaginegravity is pulling you up. !his is slightly more diHcult to do but itactually helps make the -% brighter.

!o do this ,rst put your awareness on the feeling of gravity likenormal. !hen rotate that feeling around so it’s pulling you up andyou’ve created inverse gravity.

5nother variation is to simply use an imaginary magnetic sphere tooverpower gravity and pull you up. %oth of these methods work well. Iactually am lay and usually +ust do gravity press and twist but youshould de,nitely e7periment with creating strange forces and oddangles because they’re very useful for manipulating the world onceyou’ve transitioned to an -%.


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>ocused awareness is used in many disciplines including 8i3gong tai chireiki and others.It’s also the basis for Bobert %ruce’s system called "..W. Eor "ew nergyWays) which is used in -.%..s.

5 lot of times you’ll make it half3way out of your body but parts will stillbe stuck. >or instance you might ,nd that you can free your arms butyour legs are still glued in place and that even if you use yournonphysical hands to pull your legs out they +ust won’t budge. !hisbrings us to the ,fth movement3free e7it techni8ue called “2imb@reation”.


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-nce you have about half of your body out instead of trying to get therest of your limbs out +ust imagine a completely new set of legs orarms or whatever is stuck. !his is actually much easier than it sounds.

0ou +ust imagine what it would feel like if your legs were alreadybeneath you and you were already standing on them. Imagine thefeeling of pressure on your feet how your socks feel and what yourtoes feel like when you wiggle them against each other. 0ou’ll 8uicklylose awareness of the limbs in your physical body and refocus into thecopies of your legs that you’ve created. !his process actually onlytakes a couple seconds and is a billion times easier than trying to yankyour limbs out of your physical body.

11) & @heating Strategies:

& @heating Strategies:

1. Aicro -%s

?. Waking -%s Enot WI2;S)

'. !rance Becycling


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&. Inductionless -.%..s

!he ,rst cheat we’ll use to get 1(( -.%..s in 1(( days is called

“Micro-#.$.E.s”. Aicro -.%..s are very short #.$.E.s whereyou go in and out of your body very 8uickly so you can have 6 or1( in a row. >or instance you set might your -.%.. timer on ?minute intervals and only spend a few seconds in the -.%.. thenreturn to your body then do another one.

So you might wonder if you’ve gone through all the trouble ofdoing an -.%. why return right back to your body/ It’s becausethe whole trick to getting good at -.%..s is knowing the statesand sensations and what the e7it feels like. !he more time youspend on the awake asleep threshold the faster you progress. If

you only have one -.%. in a day then you do make someprogress but really not a lot. If you have two in a day you’ve +ustdoubled your progress rate.


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$ere’s the best part. !he easiest time to have an -% is rightafter you’ve come out of an -.%.. because after an -.%. yourbody is already deeply rela7ed and you already have a strongmemory of your subconscious focus. So if you can have one-.%. you can have several. So how do you actually do this/

When you start out a lot of rela7ation is needed to get to a subconsciousfocus. So to have micro -%s we’ll shorten the distance you travel intotrance to have an -.%..

!he more skilled you get the less you need to rela7 to access thesubconscious.


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Pretty soon you can have an -% while the body is fully awake 0ou godirectly from a waking focus to a subconscious focus and the bodyremains awake.

In this System you’ll use a special type of timer setup to do the secondtype of cheat called “Waking -%s”. 0ou’ll fall asleep and have an -% onthe timer beep. $owever by the end of the session you ’ll be able to lay onyour bed and complete the separation even though your body is still wideawake. !hat means you can have a lot more -%s faster and spend verylittle time in the boring rela7ation stages.


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*eep in mind that a waking -% is not the same thing as a wake inducedlucid dream. In WI2;s your body falls asleep and you enter your

subconscious. In waking -.%..s you enter your subconscious but yourbody is still fully awake.

In order to do this you’ll need to develop a solid stream of ‘memoryimpressions’. Aemory impressions are the how you access information in-.%..s without actually having any visuals tactile sensations sounds orany other sensory information at all.

So what e7actly are memory impressions/ >irst imagine your memory aslike a dry beach of powdery sand.


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Second imagine your mind comes in contact with a bit of nonphysicaldream information.

;reams aren’t made out of atoms like the physical world so how does themind make sense of the information/

As you relax into a WILD you’ll start to sense environmental lues t!at you’re nearin" a

ream even t!ou"! you’re not in t!e ream yet$

%ou &ill start to 'i( u' memory im'ressions o t!ese lues$ *or instane+ you may in you

!ave t!e memory t!at someone !a ,ust sai somet!in" even t!ou"! at t!e time you in’tonsiously !ear anyt!in"$ %ou mi"!t also reall t!at a moment a"o you &ere loo(in" at a

lansa'e an t!at you remem-er &!at t!e lansa'e loo(e li(e -ut you an’t remem-er

exat moment &!en t!e lansa'e ame into vie&$

.!e lansa'e is a one't t!at you in !as -een im'resse into your s!ort term memory

mu! as i you &ere to im'ress t!e s!a'e o a &or into lay$ %ou mi"!t not (no& !o& t!e

im'ression "ot t!ere -ut you o !ave t!e inormation t!at t!e im'ression re'resents$


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In the course of your lucid dream induction you may ,nd a lot of timesmemory impressions seem to be the result of dipping in and out ofcoherency. 0ou dip down pick something up waver up again and ,nd thatyou have an impression. -nce you


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!he third way you’ll cheat to get is to use “trance recycling”. !rance

recycling is where you enter into an -.%. and then immediately 9ip it intoanother type of -.%.. >or instance you’ll learn how to turn lucid dreamsinto -.%.s and -.%..s into lucid dreams.

0ou’ll also learn how to do mental pro+ections phasing and teleporting-.%..s. %y learning to 9ip in between these states you’ll be able tomultiply your progress and 8uickly rack up your ,rst 1(( -%s.

!he fourth way you’ll cheat to get to 1(( -%s in 1(( days is called

“'ndctionless #.$.E.s”. Inductionless -%s are my favorite style ofaccessing the subconscious because they allow you to have -%s withoutmessing up your sleep cycle. -ne of the problems with wake back to bedand the timer method is that it can leave you tired the rest of the day.-nce you learn to doinductionless -%s you’ll be able to easily average an -% or more eachmorning without having any e4ect on your sleep cycle. Inductionless-.%..s combined with trance recycling will accelerate your -.%..


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progress faster than you may even think possible.

!hen in part ' you’ll ,nd out how to achieve a photographic trance. !his isthe gateway loophole to “rapid3,re” -.%..s with the minimum amount ofe4ort possible. *nowing this keeps you from making the main big timewasting mistake almost everyone makes when using visualiations toinduce -.%..s. 5nd we’ll cover how to 8uickly sense when you have astream of nonphysical information 9owing to you by recogniing the 6types of trances you pass through on the way to an -.%..

1?) “The Mental Geography Map”.


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!he location where you visualie something has a big impact onthe results you get from the visualiation. Aost books tell you tovisualie one thing or another without really telling you how orwhere to imagine it. So in this section we’re going to preciselyde,ne each of the F types of spaces to choose from and coverhow to use each one for ma7imum e4ect.

!he F spaces are:• $ead space• Physical space• yelid space• "onphysical dream space• Aemory space• Aind space


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>irst we’ll de,ne what each space is then we’ll cover how to usethem…

1) $ead space is simply imagining the visualiation is taking placein the center of your head.

?) "e7t is physical space which is +ust is the space around youwhile you’re awake. >or instance physical space may be yourbedroom… or the ne7t room over…. or the other side of theworld.

') When you close your eyes you see the blackness behind


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your eyelids. !his space is very fertile ground for collectingmemory impressions. When you get deeper into trance thereis an actual screen you can see on which imagery ispro+ected. So how does that work/Bobert Aonroe wrote about observing “'; %lackness” in yourclosed eyelids when you reach a decent trance. !here are twocases that give eyelid blackness a '; 8uality:

• "onphysical Screen: !his case is because you’re seeing theeyelid blackness screen that sometimes has a te7ture likeburlap. 0ou literally see a canvas3like screen hanging in frontof your eyes.

• Phasing -.%..s: In other cases you’re starting to do a“phasing” -.%.” and you’re peering into an open ';nonphysical space which you can eventually enter as animmersive -.%.. We’ll talk about phasing later on.

Bight now we’re concerned with the 1st case of the burlapcanvas screen. $ow is it that imagery makes its way on to thescreen/

>irst the information starts out in nonphysical space as +ust abunch of data.


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Second when you reach a good trance your memory space starts tocollect impressions of the data. !his is the start of memoryimpressions. 5t this point you’ll start to interpret the rawnonphysical information as actual recogniable imagery.

0our memory space translates the impressions into imagery. It thenpro+ects the imagery on your eyelid screen. !he eyelid blacknessscreen allows your memory space to pro+ect dream imagery you cansee.

0ou may be thinking that’s all ,ne and well but who cares/ !he reason thisprocess is important is it shows you the main big mistake not to makewhen using memory impressions. !he main mistake is watching theswirling colors in the blackness and thinking that those will lead tomemory impressions.

!he swirling hypnagogic imagery is +ust a biological process your eyes go


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through they have nothing to do with collecting nonphysical information.If you try to watch them you’ll be distracted from the real impressionswhen they ,nally come.

!his brings us to the & step system to tell where the real imagery comesfrom in visualiations. !o do this divide your awareness between what’s inside your ,eld of viewand everything outside your ,eld of view.

Step 1: Imagine your ,eld of view as like a blackboard. In order to seeanything not on the blackboard you have to use your imagination.


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Step ?: "e7t imagine a blackboard immediately outside your ,eld of view.

Step ': Shift the imaginary blackboard so that it’s halfway overlaid inyour ,eld of view. 2eave the other half still in your imaginary space.


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Step &: Write imaginary te7t on the imaginary background so some is inyour ,eld of view and some is imaginary. When you have ‘sticky’ awareness of what you wrote you’re accessing the right spot for memoryimpressions. !his is called the shifted blackboard trick and enables you tofeel where the real imagery comes from by causing you to forget aboutyour visual awareness.

When you use intent to write on your imaginary blackboard you’re usingmind space to write into memory space. !he memory impressions you

form in memory space fall on to eyelid space.

!his forms the “active visualiation circuit” that leads to memoryimpressions that you can actually see.


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In this circuit mind space is the builder. Aemory space is the rawmaterials used to build thoughts. When you form an intent to dosomething it’s mind space that creates the intent.

Aind space then builds within memory space to come up with a solutionto the desired intent.

So why not +ust imagine what you want directly and forget about all thismind space and memory space business/

!he reason is without it you’d be tempted to write directly into eyelidspace when visualiing rather than developing your memory impressionspace. In other words: always use the mind space circuit. ;o not writedirectly on to eye space.


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!his is really important so I’m giving it a big fancy name like thefundamental theorem of sleep paralysis. !his is the “Principle -f IndirectMisualiations” which states: ;o not imagine directly into eyelid space.5lways imagine into the space you cannot physically see in order to

develop memory impressions.

-nce you start doing this it causes your mind space to open up memoryspace.


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/ere’s an alternate &ay o t!in(in" a-out t!is$ An extremely sim'le an eetive tri( is tolose your eyes an ima"ine you !ave t&o sets o eye-alls$ 0elax an or"et a-out your

'!ysial eyes$

Ima"ine you’re loo(in" t!rou"! a seon set o eyes t!at are loo(in" o to t!e sie$ 0otateyour ima"inary eyes a-out e"rees o to t!e sie an you’ve reate a "oo vie&'oint or

ima"inin" into memory s'ae$

It’s -* to have a little bit of overlap between your imagined and physicalsight but most of your attention should be in imagined space.

$ere’s how you can tell when you’re making progress with the doubleeyeballs trick. 0ou’ll get to a point where it really does feel like you ’relooking o4 into the blackness with your imaginary eyeballs. It will actuallystart to become hard to tell e7actly where your physical eyes are actuallylooking. If you open your eyes it will be disorienting for a moment becauseall of your focus has been shifted away from your physical eyes. !his


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makes the double eyeballs trick a little easier to achieve than the shiftedblackboard trick.

!o see how this all ,ts together here’s the complete mental geographymap for building visualiations. We’ll cover in detail e7actly how thesespaces are used later but here’s an overview of what each space is bestfor:

1. $ead space – Kse to return to your body?. Physical space – Kse to do teleporting -%s'. yelid space – Kse for mental pro+ections and phasing&. Aind space – Kse to build new nonphysical locales6. Aemory space – Kse in active visualiation to de,ne where you want togoF. "onphysical dream space – !he target space to focus on to have -%s

"ow how do you actually do all this/ !he ,rst step is to achievesomething called a photographic trance.

1') “How To Achieve A State Of

Photographic Trance”


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In orer to s'ee u' your 345s &e nee to in t!e a-solute la6iest 'ossi-le route &it! t!eleast amount o eort to !ave an 3$4$5$ W!at &e nee is a snea(y loo'!ole to ex'loit$ .!e

loo'!ole is t!at you on’t nee to &ait or atual visuals to !ave a '!oto"ra'!i trane$ %ouatually a!ieve '!oto"ra'!i trane &ay -eore t!e visuals ome$ /o& is t!at 'ossi-le7

/o& an you !ave a ‘'!oto"ra'!i’ trane i you aren’t seein" anyt!in"7

.!is is -eause t!e &or '!oto"ra'!i reers to t!e at t!at t!e memory im'ressions areixe in 'lae ,ust li(e ima"es are ixe in 'lae on a '!oto"ra'!$ 3ne you enter an 3$4$5$

t!at’s sta-le+ you an 'i( t!in"s u' an move t!em aroun ,ust li(e you an &!ile a&a(e$.!e o-,ets remem-er t!eir 'laement$ .!is is t!e ritial attri-ute+ an one you !ave

rea!e t!is '!oto"ra'!i level you’re virtually in an 3$4$5$


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8o !ere’s t!e tri( to a '!oto"ra'!i trane$ 9ormally &!en you’re a&a(e t!e only 'lae you

!ave to store mental inormation is your '!ysial memory$ /o&ever &!en you ous into an

345 or ream you also !ave aess to non'!ysial s'ae to store inormation$ .!e tri( to

usin" a '!oto"ra'!i trane is to not rely on you o&n memory at all$ Instea 'ut t!in"s in t!e

non'!ysial s'ae you’re ouse on$ W!en t!ey sti( in your a&areness you !ave a '!oto"ra'!i trane even i you an’t see any o t!e o-,ets$ 8o in eet you’re usin" t!enon'!ysial environment as i it &as 'art o your memory$

9o& !ere’s t!e really snea(y 'art t!at &ill s'ee u' your 345s -y a ator o t&o or more$0emem-er t!at in a lot o 345s you on’t !ave any si"nals to tell you &!at’s "oin" on$ *or

instane+ a lot o 345s are vi-rationless an sometimes you also !ave no si"!t at any 'oint$

8o usually you !ave to &ait until you’re really ee' in trane to tell i you’re reay to

se'arate$


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*or exam'le+ earlier you use t!e saety a' exit as a seletor to tell -et&een your '!ysialan non'!ysial -oies$ W!en you oul rotate your -oy all t!e &ay aroun 1: e"rees

you (ne& or ertain t!at you &ere non'!ysially ouse$ .!at &or(s &ell -ut you anim'rove it -y inin" a seletor t!at &or(s at mu! li"!ter levels o trane an t!at’s &!ere

'!oto"ra'!i trane omes in$

3ne you in t!at t!e im'ressions are sti(in" you’ve selete t!e ierene -et&een

'!ysial an non'!ysial a&areness$ %ou on’t !ave to &ait until you !ave a&areness o a

om'lete non'!ysial -oy li(e you i &it! saety a'$ %ou only &ait until !ave youa&areness o t&o stora"e loations$ .!is is a-out t&ie as ast as usin" t!e -iolo"y;only

met!os rom earlier$


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/ere’s a !ess-oar+ you may not -e


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a-le to see t!e 'iees+ -ut you !ave a&areness o &!ere t!ey are &it!out usin" memory inany &ay$ .!at &ay you an easily tell &!at is non'!ysial an &!at is '!ysial memory

-eause t!e non'!ysial 'art stays

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