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1) Waking Sleep Paralysis: Sleep paralysis is a protection mechanism

your body uses when you fall asleep. If you were to dream youre
doing something very active, such as running, and you werent in
sleep paralysis then you would move your limbs when youre asleep
and youd wake yourself up. To prevent that from happening, your
body disconnects your voluntary muscle system from your mind so
that you can dream all you like without waking yourself up.

Normally youre not aware that of this happening because by the time
your body shuts itself down in sleep paralysis, your mind is already
asleep and unaware of whats happening. In other words you enter a
state of body awake/mind asleep before entering body asleep, mind
asleep.

The whole trick to lucid dreaming is to enter a subconscious focus


without losing awareness.
Heres how sleep paralysis does this for you.

When youre awake your brain is in whats called a beta state.


Beta means your dominant electrical brain waves are oscillating at
around 14 to 30 cycles per second.
When you enter sleep paralysis, your brain automatically puts itself
in dream mode which is called a theta state. Theta is slower than
beta and is around 4 to 7 cycles per second.
Knowing this secret allows you to avoid one of the major mistakes
most people make when first starting out in O.B.E.s.

Now, how do you do that? The way youll usually become aware of
sleep paralysis is that you wake up in it and find you cant move or
make a sound.
Sleep paralysis often feels like theres a heavy lead blanket on you. Its
not that there is really anything on you or that your muscles have
become weaker. The feeling is because your brain has to send a
stronger nerve signal than normal to get the same muscle movement.
That makes it feel like youre having to overcome some kind of
resistance when you try to move.

This feeling also usually makes it feel like its harder to breathe but its
actually a natural sleep process. Sleep paralysis happens every single
time you fall asleep.
You may be wondering if sleep paralysis is dangerous and if theres a
way to break free. Sleep paralysis is not dangerous because its
something your body does every night. Plus, here is a secret safety
release trick you can use to free yourself from paralysis so you always
have a backup plan.

The only way your body knows for sure if your mind is awake is if you
move. This is a problem when youre in 100% sleep paralysis Which is
preventing you from moving. Luckily paralysis is limited to your
voluntary muscle system like your arms and legs. Your breathing is
semi-involuntary so you still have control over it even in deep
paralysis.
If you enter sleep paralysis and decide you want break free and wake
up, simply change your breathing pattern to something other than the
sleep breathing pattern your body is in. The most effective way I have
found to do this is to begin breathing deeply and slowly.
After 10 or 15 seconds your body will notice the change and bring you
out of paralysis. Not many things are 100% reliable in lucid dreaming
but this has worked for me every single time.

A very few people have reported that they woke up in sleep paralysis
and noticed that they werent breathing at all. The problem is not the
paralysis itself, but that they had an existing health condition called
sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea basically means that you stop breathing when youre
asleep. So this is one of the side benefits of using sleep paralysis to
have OBEs: youll find out whether or not you have sleep apnea.
Keep in mind theres a big difference between the normal heavy lead
blanket feeling that comes with sleep paralysis versus not breathing
at all. If you find you stop breathing entirely then you may have sleep
apnea and should see a doctor about it. If you only feel the heaviness
sensation then everything is normal.

So far weve talked about the case where you somehow manage to
wake up in sleep paralysis. However thats basically an uncontrolled
and accidental process. The question is what can you do to make it
happen more consistently?

The idea is to flip the sleep order around so that instead of entering
body awake, mind asleep, you enter of mind awake, body asleep.
When this happens youre actually aware of the process your body
goes through when it falls asleep. This is our main secret trick for doing
visualization-free lucid dreams and O.B.E.s. This transition is the most
important skill to learn.
Why? Because when you can put your body to sleep without losing
consciousness at any point, you have 100% perfectly clear dream
recall. This is called a wake induced lucid dream or
WILD. Its as easy to remember what you did in a WILD as it is to
remember the last 15 minutes or so of normal waking awareness. With
this method, you dont have to think back through and hazy dream
phase 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 blanket
feeling, when you induce paralysis consciously you actually have the
sensation of the heavy lead blanket being laid on your chest. It often
feels like it begins at your feet, comes up over your chest and ends at
your head. When that process is complete youre in sleep paralysis.

So how to get this process to happen consistently? Here is the key. And
this one fact is so important and so critical that I'm giving it a big fancy
name. It's called the "Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis".

The Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis is that if you wake up and


fall asleep without moving at all, sleep paralysis becomes extremely
likely.

And when I say, without moving I mean you wake up and don't move
your eyes, don't open your eyes, don't scratch any itches, you don't
move at all in any way. The idea is that your body doesn't really know
for sure if your mind is actually awake or not. If you don't give it any
signals otherwise, it will assume that the mind really is still asleep and
re-paralyze itself.

2) 5 New Sleep Commands To Trick Your Body Into Falling Asleep While
You Keep Your Mind Awake.
It turns out sleep commands come in two types: sleep starters and
sleep triggers.

Sleep starters are what you use to get the body to start thinking
that maybe it's time to fall asleep. For instance, using stop drop and
roll is a sleep starter because it makes your body ask for permission
to fall asleep by artificially creating the roll signal.
Sleep triggers are how you then tell it "Yes: fall asleep right now".
Stop, Drop, and Roll has an implicit sleep trigger: when you simply
ignore the roll over signal the body interprets it a trigger to enter
sleep paralysis.

In this section we'll cover sleep breathing and stopped eye


micromovements, which are sleep starters. Then we'll cover three
sleep triggers. The first is pause breaths, the second is muscle
twitching and third is eye movements.

Sleep breathing is simply mimicking your body's breathing pattern


when it's asleep. If you act closely enough like you're already asleep
then your body thinks that it really is asleep, even if your mind is
completely awake and not even slightly relaxed.
There are 3 basic ways to find out what your personal sleep
breathing is like.

First, when you enter waking sleep paralysis a lot of times your
perspective shifts slightly away from the center of your head and in
to your sinuses. It sounds like you're breathing in a cavern and you'll
find your body automatically breathes with quite a lot more force
than you do when you're awake. The breathing is much deeper and
longer. Pay attention to how this sounds in order to learn your sleep
breathing pattern.

The second way to learn your sleep breathing pattern is to practice


staying perfectly still when you wake up in the morning. You can
continue to breathe the same way you did when asleep if you wake
up gradually.

The third way, which is the best, is to record yourself sleeping. For
$30 you can get a digital voice recorder that can record the entire
night. You can then use free software like Audacity to find the parts
of the recording that have your sleep breathing.

When you use sleep breathing there are a 3 gotchas to be aware of:
These are the learning curve, blackout breathing, and the narcotic
breathing effect.

The learning curve means that it takes practice and if you don't
have the rhythm right it can prolong the time it takes to fall asleep.
It's best to practice using sleep breathing for a couple nights before
using it during an early morning OBE induction. However once you
have the rhythm right, sleep breathing is probably the single most
powerful of all the sleep commands.

The second gotcha is blackout breathing. A lot of times when you


use sleep breathing for the first few minutes it seems like it's not
working and you feel like you should give up. But then all of a
sudden you black out and you're in a dream or you're waking up the
next morning. The blackout breathing effect is very real so if you
use sleep breathing for WILDs make sure you have a timer because
otherwise there's a very good chance you'll send yourself so far into
sleep so quickly that you'll never become lucid without a beep.

The third gotcha is narcotic breathing. Sometimes instead of blacking out


all at once you get a relaxing feeling. It feels like when you first wake up
in the morning and the last thing you want to do is get up out of bed. You
just want to go back to sleep. This is very useful in destroying insomnia.
When you get the narcotic breathing effect it feels really good to lay there
and

breathe and you'll have no desire to get up. Narcotic breathing is a signal
that it's working and you'll be asleep very soon.

That wraps it up for sleep breathing. The second sleep starter is to


stop eye micromovements.
During the day the eyes are searching for changes in motion.
Because of this they make tiny micro movements all the time and at
the end of they day they are still making these micro movements
even though you may want to go to sleep.
If you close your eyes and try to keep them still youll find that after
about 30 seconds they are still twitching very slightly. Its not easy
to totally relax the eyes. However if you can keep them at complete
ease for several minutes the body will interpret that as a signal that
the mind may have fallen asleep. In fact if you keep your eyes still
your body will often fall asleep even if the rest of your muscles are
fairly tense.

Before sleep, relax your eye muscles by rolling them around in wide
circles in both directions several times and then letting them rest.
After 3 or 4 nights of practicing this you'll be able to keep your eyes
totally still and you'll fall asleep much faster.

This brings us to sleep triggers which are used to convert partial


paralysis into full paralysis.

The first trigger is pause breaths. When you reach 90% paralysis,
the reason the body doesn't go to full paralysis is it has a bit of
doubt about just how asleep the mind really is. This is because of
muscle tension. The best solution is to relax more deeply but
sometimes that's not possible.
What you can do is exhale and pause for 2 or 3 seconds. Relax as
much as you can and then begin breathing again like normal. By
relaxing your breathing you reduce your overall tension just barely
enough to send a signal to complete the paralysis. During those 2 or
3 seconds you'll feel the paralysis deepening. Sometimes you may
have to use 2 or 3 pause breaths about 15 seconds apart. When you
do this, you're not trying to alter your blood oxygen levels or
anything like that. The purpose is to simply lower your overall
muscle tension just long enough to paralyze completely.

The second sleep trigger is muscle twitching which was actually the
first sleep trigger I ever found. I reached partial paralysis and on a

whim decided to try twitching my right forearm to see what


happened. To my surprise my entire arm paralyzed. I then twitched
my right calf and my right leg paralyzed. I gradually paralyzed my
entire body that way and completed the separation.
In other words muscle twitching only paralyses the surrounding
muscles. Ive actually found that I could paralyze just a single finger
by twitching it when in partial paralysis.

To do this twitch once every second or two when youre in about


95% paralysis. The twitch is very gentle and only lasts the smallest
fraction of a second. If you twitch your forearm the rest of your arm
should not move at all. If you twitch too hard youll wreck the
paralysis so keep it very light.
Probably the reason this works is when you dream you try to move
your muscles but sleep paralysis prevents you from moving.
However you do move your muscles just a bit when dreaming which
causes muscle twitching. This means the body associates muscle
twitching with deep sleep so one way to mimic deep sleep is to use
muscle twitching.

The third sleep trigger is up and down eye movements. With your
eyes closed you simply move your eyes up and down as fast as you
can for about 10 seconds. I've never been able to get it to work
using left and right movements. However there is actually a type of
hypnotic psychotherapy called "eye movement desensitization and

reprocessing" or EMDR which uses side to side eye movements. You


may try experimenting with side to side movement to complete
partial paralysis but I find up and down is a safer bet.

So which trigger do you use? The most reliable strategy is to start


with a few pause breaths which is usually all it takes to get to 100%
paralysis. If that doesn't work use arm twitching. If that doesnt
work use up and down eye movements. If that doesnt work just
relax for a few more minutes before using the triggers again.

I've experimented using sleep triggers to go directly from awake to


asleep but that doesn't seem to work. I find that for up and down
eye movements to work you need to be in about 99% paralysis,
muscle twitching works at about 95% paralysis and pause breaths
work at about 90% paralysis. So it's best to start out using sleep
starters and then switch to triggers for the last step.
3) Fast Relaxation:
You dont have to spend hours relaxing every part of your body to
have OBEs. About 90% of your bodys tension is in about 10% of
your muscles. If you target just those key areas you can quickly
relax enough that your body will interpret it as a signal to sleep.

Most books on relaxation say to lay down and start relaxing at your
feet and work your way up to your head. Thats not the most
effective way to do it because the vast majority of your bodys
tension is in your jaws, not your feet.
The jaw is the strongest muscle area in terms of extorted force. The
world record for bite strength is 975 foot-pounds for 2 seconds. No
other muscle in your body can exert more total force than your jaw
muscles and no other muscle holds more tension.
Many people go their whole lives and never consciously think to
relax their jaws. This causes bruxism, or teeth grinding which
wears down your teeth and cause other problems such as:
Tooth aches
Headaches
Ear aches
Tinnitus (which is ringing in the ears)
Even dizziness
1) So the very first thing I do before an OBE induction or falling
asleep is to relax my jaws. This step is absolutely required. It
only takes a few seconds so it gives you the most bang for
your buck of all the relaxations you can do.

Start with a very firm massage of the meaty part of your upper jaws
in front of and below your ears. This is called your masseter
muscle and is the single biggest culprit for locked up muscle knots
in the entire body. Press strongly with your fingers on both sides of
your head and get a good hurt feeling.
2) The second step is to squeeze on both sides of your jaws with
your palms instead of just your fingers. You can use quite a bit
of force when you do this because your jaws are quite strong.
Let your jaw go as slack as you can while pressing.

3) Its common to stretch before and after exercise such as


stretching your legs by touching your toes. But have you ever
stretched your jaws muscles? You may look silly doing this,
but it really goes a long way to relaxing your jaws. So the third
step is to relax your jaws as much as you can then use your
fingers to pull your jaws open. You may be surprised how
much your jaws resist your fingers but by stretching them you
can get the tension out.

My grandfather was a professor of a science called relaxology. One


of his colleagues could relax his jaws so much that you could wiggle
it with your hands and it felt like there was almost nothing holding
his jaws on his head. You dont have to relax your jaws that much
but I mention it to give you an idea just how much tension is in your
jaws even if you think theyre relaxed.

4) Step 4 is to stretch your arms and chest against the wall.


Place a palm flat on the wall and turn the trunk of your body
so that you get a good stretch from the very tips of your
fingers, down your forearm, you bicep, shoulder and all across
your chest. Exhale all the tension out. Repeat this twice with
both arms.

5) Step 5 is to stretch against the wall by placing both palms


above your head against the wall and then bending forward.
This really targets your shoulder and chest tension. Inhale and
exhale fully and slowly 3 times to work all the tension out.
Stand up normally, then repeat the vertical chest stretch.

6) Step 6 is to stretch the bottom of your feet by propping your


foot against the wall and leaning forward. This will also give
you a good calf stretch. Repeat this on each foot two more
times then sit down and massage the individual muscles in
the soles of your feet with your hands.

7) Step 7 is to stretch the palm of each hand by pushing your


fingers back with the other hand. This also gives your
forearms a nice stretch.

8) Step 8 is the last stretching step. Do some slow windmills to


relax your shoulders. Its tempting to skip this step but your
shoulders carry almost as much tension as your jaw so its
important to stretch and relax your shoulder as much as
possible.

9) For step 9, remember that one purpose of the roll over signal
is to get you to roll over which causes you to gradually gather
and release tension. Heres a trick to speed that up or even
skip over it.

Lay down in bed and relax a much as you can for 15 seconds or so.
Then roll over and relax for a couple more seconds. Roll again and
relax Repeat this several times and youll relax the rest of your
muscles quite quickly.
This works because normally when you stretch one body part to relax
it, you have to tense up another part.
For instance, to stretch one hand you had to tense up your other hand.
By laying down and rolling around for a minute you stretch and relax
everything a little bit at a time and get your roll over phase done all
at once.
10) Once youre done rolling around, step 10 is to start Stop Drop
And Roll. Lay flat on your back with your arms above your head
and start daydreaming.

A) The Roll-Over Signal: When your body has been very still and
relaxed 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 body
went to sleep too early, so the body sends a test signal to the mind.
This test signal feels like a strong urge to roll over.

If the mind is asleep, then mind does not respond and the body
decides that the mind really is asleep and shuts down. If the mind does
respond to the roll over signal and you move, then the body knows the
mind is still awake and does not fall asleep. So this a major mistake
that you need to avoid: Never respond to the bodys roll over signal
because it sends a message to stay awake rather than fall asleep. This
can be difficult because the signal can become so strong that its
excruciatingly painful.
You can visualize the way this works with the two dotted arrows on this

chart:
As you become more relaxed, the blue dotted line gets lower and
lower. At the same time, the red dotted line represents the strength of
the roll over signal that the body sends out which grows and grows.
When these two lines meet the body decides to enter sleep paralysis
and shuts down.
So the question is: what can you do improve this?

There are four types of roll over signals youll encounter.


The first type is the fast relax case. This happens when you relax
quickly and deeply and the body decides to just go ahead and paralyze
without sending much of a roll over signal, if any. This is a good case to
have because it happens quickly.

The second type is the opposite case. If youre tense but stay still long
enough and if the body is tired enough, the roll over signal builds and
builds until it becomes very painful and extremely
hard to ignore. However, if youre too tense the body wont paralyze no
matter how long youve been still. This is called a signal swell.

The third type is called an urge surge which is a very useful case. In
an urge surge, the body sends out a strong signal out of nowhere. If
youre able to resist the signal for three or four seconds the body ends
the surge and paralyses all at once. If youre not relaxed enough, this
will probably result in only partial sleep paralysis which is not ideal.
102 insert!!!

Finally forth type of roll signal is called a Quick Switch.


If sleep paralysis is the holy grail for new Astral Projectors, the quick
switch signal is the holy grail of urge surges. It happens quickly and
rewards you with nice and deep sleep paralysis almost instantly. Its
also a very unmistakable feeling which is extremely useful because it
lets you know whats going on.
This usually happens in one of two cases:
First: when the body is really tired and wants to go to sleep right now
Second: when the body was very recently asleep and is deeply relaxed.
In order to make those cases more likely you need a way to bring on
the roll signal as fast as possible.

So how do you do that? The trick is to use the right body position.

The body position that brings it on the roll signal faster than any other
position is to simply lay flat 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. This is a veiled
form of the roll over signal. If you get that sensation it means youre on
the right track, just make sure not to give in. Keep your arms at your
side and your ankles slightly separated.
Using this simple bit of information we can eradicate the single biggest
cause of insomnia: the toss and turn syndrome.

When you toss and turn in bed, what youre doing is resetting your
bodys internal sleep timer each time you roll over. The body is trying
to go to sleep by sending you a roll-over test signal but you keep
telling it not to sleep when you move. So you end up stuck in a toss
and turn loop and never get to sleep. This results in insomnia.
So you may be thinking is that it?? You just lay there?
Not quite There are a few things you can do actively to speed things
up and tell your body to fall asleep.

What we do is add body positions before and after the hands-at-yourside position. The first position is to lay with your hands above your
head. The final position is where you roll over and then fall asleep in
that position.
We choose these positions very carefully so that when you move from
one step to the next you release the maximum amount of tension
possible.

This way instead of haphazardly releasing small amounts of tension by


tossing and turning over and over, you release it in a exactly two
calculated big chunks and get it over with all at once:

Heres what is happening at each step.


Stop - The Relax Step: In this step you have your arms above your
head and relax as deeply as you can. Once you feel youve relaxed as
far as you can, drop your arms down to your side which releases all
the shoulder tension that you couldnt get rid of from just laying there.
This is the purpose of the first body position to get rid of shoulder
tension all at once.
Drop - The Ask Step: When you drop your arms down to your side and
relax the body will seriously start to consider that maybe the mind is
asking it to go to sleep. This position will make you want to roll over
which is what you want. The stronger the roll over signal, the more the
body is asking for permission to sleep. If you get to a point where it
feels like its plateaued, slowly roll over which puts you in step 3.
Roll - The Yes Step: In this step you tell the body, yes its time to
sleep. Simply roll over and then dont move until youre asleep. Your
goal is to not move again the rest of the night.

The sneaky thing is that the roll over signal changes based on how
youre laying and that may trick you into moving. The roll over signal
when youre on your back tends to center in your chest. However the

roll over signal when youre on your side tends to make you want to
move your legs. Dont fall for that! Dont bend them or straighten them
or anything. Keep your legs perfectly still. The urge to move your legs
is actually a disguised form of the roll over signal and you must resist it
at all costs!

Heres the best final body position thats the healthiest for your back
according to researchers at the University of Cleveland. You want to lay
on your side so your neck and spine are neutral and relaxed.
Bend your hips and knees a bit to lower pressure on your spine
To relieve sciatic nerve strain, put a pillow between your knees.
Sleeping on your stomach is not recommended because it puts your
back in an odd position

We have one last very powerful trick in reserve that you can use when
you have a really hard time falling asleep.
The key is to build up a super strong roll over signal before even
getting into bed. Rather than trying to fall asleep in your bed, lay down
on the floor next to your bed on your back and relax.
This is unpleasant and after forcing yourself to lay there perfectly still
for 10 or 15 minutes, when you finally allow yourself back into bed

your body will be so grateful that it will grab the chance to fall asleep
as quickly as it can.
In extreme cases you can even lay on an uncarpeted floor such as in
your kitchen which will build up the roll signal very quickly.

11)

Step 11 is to begin sleep breathing.

12) Step 12 is to relax your eyes and the stop


micromovements. Roll your eyes around both directions a few
times and then let them rest. The idea is to completely forget
that your eyes even exist. To do that count 150 heart beats.

13) Focusing on your heart for a long time will make it feel like
its going to beat its way out of your chest. However if you get
up and actually check your pulse youll find that its beating
like normal. The heart pounding sensation is just a trick of the
mind which will help to distract you from your eyes.

14) After 150 heart beats youve come to step 14 which is to


switch on the roll over signal. Drop your arms down to your
side and move to step 15 which is to tense and release each
muscle group.

15) By now you should be pretty deeply relaxed. Continue to


sleep breathe and sense where you still have some tension
left. Slightly tense that area for a moment then release it. This
will cause you to relax that muscle further than before you
tensed it. Start at your jaws and end at your feet.

To do this, count 150 heart beats starting at 300 which tires your
brain out a little faster. After every 10 heart beats pause the count
and tense and release another muscle group. For instance, when
you get to 160 tense and relax your jaws. At 170 tense and release
your face, at 180 your neck and so forth. If you lose track of where
what number youre on thats a good sign that its working and
youre falling asleep.
16) When you get to 450 youll either be asleep or feeling the
roll over signal. If you dont have a very strong roll signal then
just daydream and continue sleep breathing for a while until
its strong enough. When you really feel the need to roll over
youve reached step 16 which is to simply roll over and
release any remaining tension. Continue sleep breathing and
youll black out within a few moments.

Two things that really speed things up are socks and earplugs. You
may not realize how much your body temperature drops when you
fall asleep but when youre feet are just a little bit cold its really
hard to relax. So wear socks even if you dont think you need them.

Earplugs are also incredibly valuable for falling asleep fast. You can
get them on amazon or Target. The silicone putty earplugs work the
best and you can make them last several uses by washing them
with soap after each use.
Heres the complete system, step by step.
Jaw Massage
Jaw Palm Squeeze
Jaw Stretch
Horizontal Wall Chest Stretch
Vertical Chest Stretch
Stretch Your Feet
Stretch Your Hands
Relax Your Shoulders
Pre-Roll To Dissipate Overall Body Tension
Start Stop, Drop & Roll: Hands Above Your Head
Start Sleep Breathing
Roll Eyes To Relax Them
150 Heart Beat Count To Forget About Eyes
Bring Arms Down To Enter To Drop Mode
Tense & Relax Muscles That Are Still Tense
Roll

11)

How To Use The Sun To Avoid The ##1 Mistake In OBEs & How
To Optimize Your Brain Chemistry:

The ##1 mistake is: Dont do your O.B.E. attempts at night (like most
books say). Instead do them in the early morning!!!

Optimal O.B.E. brain chemistry is all about timing and your bodys
circadian rhythm. Ive had literally thousands of O.B.E.s in the early
morning. Ive had fewer than ten at night.

The two main chemicals involved are called serotonin and melatonin.

Serotonin is your on switch and helps you stay alert and lucid. Its a
"feel-good" neurotransmitter which helps your brain's neurons transmit
signals more freely.

Your body uses serotonin to make melatonin which is your off switch
and helps you relax. It tells your body to shut down for sleep and begin
repairing. Melatonin stimulates the immune system. Its also
associated with anti-aging and the human growth hormone and is an
antioxidant.

Serotonin is made when your body is exposed to light. Melatonin is


made from serotonin at night in the dark. Melatonin breaks down under
light. This creates the melatonin circadian rhythm.
At night time you have very little melatonin. It starts increasing around
dusk and peaks around 2 to 4 AM. It then breaks down again at dawn.

The other secret ingredient is the fight or flight hormone called


cortisol. Cortisol is depleted throughout the day but then surges back
in the early morning in preparation to wake you up. The interplay
between cortisol and melatonin creates THE ideal sweet spot for
O.B.E.s in the early morning.

This sweet spot is between around 4 AM and 5:30 AM. During the
sweet spot relaxation is easy because of relatively high melatonin
levels and youve been relaxed for several hours during sleep.
Alertness is easy because cortisol brings with it a rush of two other
stimulants called epinephrine and norepinephrin. These stimulants are
meant to help wake you up but you can use them for dream alertness
instead.

Bed time is the single worst time of all for OBEs because your brain
chemistry is geared for the opposite of lucidity at that point. Instead
its geared for zonking out which is what always happens in the
questions I see in forums. At bed time youre low on cortisol and
melatonin. By the time youve relaxed enough to fall asleep your
cortisol levels are so low you have virtually no chance or regaining
lucidity.

So thats the wrong way to do it. Heres the right way to do it. In fact if
there was only one method I could use, this is the one. Its called
wake-back-to-bed and was invented by former NASA engineer Dr.
Albert Taylor.

Heres how wake-back-to-bed works. Get up in the early morning


during the OBE sweet spot, stay awake for a period of time then go
back to sleep. Use the sleep paralysis methods we covered earlier and
youll likely have spontaneous O.B.E.s and lucid dreams. Well use
wake back to bed as the foundation for more an even more advanced
induction later on called the timer method.

The reason wake back to bed works so well is because of the


fundamental theorem of sleep paralysis. If you wake up and fall asleep
in the early morning youre pretty much begging for sleep paralysis
and spontaneous lucid dreams. In fact before I knew anything about
O.B.E.s I used to have waking paralysis episodes all the time and didnt
know why. It was really irritating to wake up and not be able to move. I
later realized it was because I was not sleeping well and was waking up
for a few minutes and then going back to sleep without moving. That
caused the paralysis and its the basis for pretty much all our other
induction tricks.
So how do you improve on wake back to bed? The immediate answer is
to tweak the amount of time you stay awake before going to sleep
again.

You have two options:


1.) The first is to stay up a short period. For this strategy you wake up,
dont move at all (dont even move your eyes), fall back to sleep and
keep awareness on your body for the sleep paralysis wave to come.
2.) The second strategy is the long period. You wake up, get up, stay
up for a while, then go back to bed.
Both approaches work well but which should you use?

Going right back to sleep without moving makes it very easy to fall
asleep again. However its very likely that youll fall completely asleep
and not become lucid. Even so this is the method I use most because it
requires no planning or effort.
With option 2 where you get up from bed for a while, its harder to fall
asleep again. However it is very likely that you will become lucid if you
do sleep. Research by Dr. Stephen LaBerge has shown getting up for an
hour before going back to bed significantly increases lucidity.
My personal experience and most the people Ive advised suggests 45
minutes works a slightly better than an hour. Several people who were

not able to have success by staying up for an hour were able to have
OBEs simply by changing the wakefulness period to 45 minutes.
Waiting until you start yawning again is a good rule of thumb.

The amount of sun you get has a giant impact on your ability to have
OBEs because your body needs sun in order to make serotonin. Get at
least an hour of outside sunlight at day break and sundown. Those are
the best times to get sunlight without risk of a sunburn because the
sun is so low in the sky.

At night, make sure to turn the lights down at least an hour or so


before going to bed. The body is not designed for the abrupt light to
dark change that you get with artificial lighting. By turning the lights
down gradually, youll simulate sunset and greatly reduce and chance
of insomnia.

Finally, always avoid TV at night. The first problem with TV is that it


prevents the gradual period of darkness you need before sleep.
The second problem is more subtle. Research by psychophysiologist
Thomas Mulholland showed that within 30 seconds of watching TV your
brain enters an alpha state. There isnt anything wrong with an alpha
state by itself, in fact there are a lot of benefits to alpha waves which
are beyond the scope of this section.

The problem is that in alpha the mind is much more suggestible than
normal. Alpha is actually the state the brain enters in response to
smoking pot. Watching TV is not the same as smoking pot but that is
the direction TV is taking your brain by putting it in alpha.

Herbert Krugman also showed that TV causes the left hemisphere to


virtually shut down and the right hemisphere to become twice as
active as the left. The left hemisphere is what the brain uses for critical
thinking and analysis while the right side is more emotional. This
switch from left to right causes the brain to release a surge of opioids
into the bloodstream which has an anesthetic effect on the mind.

This is why watching TV for a long time makes it feel like your brain
has turned to mush. The combination of these three effects:
First being awash in opioids, secondly having a numbed left
hemisphere and third being tuned to an alpha state leaves the brain
very susceptible to suggestion.
Brain mush mode opens the gate for all the commercials and other
junk on TV to go directly past the minds usual critical thinking
defenses. If you go to sleep in that state it leads to hazy dreams. If you
do have an OBE in that state its very unlikely to be very clear.

12)

Timer Method: What if you could cheat and manufacture


your own lucidity trigger so that even if you fell completely
asleep youd still end up having an O.B.E.? It turns out such a
secret weapon does exist. Its called a digital cooking timer.

The idea is to fall asleep like normal and dont even try to stay
aware. You set the timer to beep so it wakes you up a few
minutes later. By waking up and falling asleep every few minutes
without moving youve formed a safety net so that you dont fall
too deeply asleep but enter a subconscious focus.

This uses a principle from hypnosis called fractionation.


Hypnotic fractionation means that when you are put into trance
and then are taken from that trance, the next time you enter
trance youll enter it more deeply than before. That means that if
you can enter even the slightest trance then you can enter a
very deep trance just by going in and out of that trance over and
over. This is how you can hover on the awake asleep threshold
and ease your way into an OBE without really having to use a lot
of practice or skill.

Remember that everything we covered earlier about the roll


signal still applies. This only works when you use the timer and
do not move ever at any point.

If you wake up and fall asleep 4 or 5 times in an hour without


moving youll start to have spontaneous paralysis, OBE
vibrations and OBEs. However if you wake up and fall asleep
twice, shift position, and then wake up and fall asleep 3 more
times then it wont work nearly as well.

So heres the big picture in a nutshell. First you wake up and fall
asleep 4 or 5 times without moving using a timer and the sleep
commands from Lucidology 101 parts 3 and 4. This will put you
in sleep paralysis. You then use movement-free reality checks
which well cover below to check that youve shifted into a
nonphysical focus. Then you use an exit method to convert
paralysis into an OBE or lucid dream.

To do this you have a couple options for timers including cooking


timers, timer mp3s and the Lucidology Flash timer.

I started out using a $10 cooking timer and it works just fine. To
use one of these, memorize the buttons so you can reset it using
your thumb without looking at it. Sleep with it in one hand, move
ONLY your thumb when resetting it and the rest of your body will
stay in paralysis.

Your timer setup has a giant impact on how many OBEs you
have. Ive spent countless hours testing various timer setups and
here is the most reliable workhorse setup. Its called ramp and
the intervals are 8 minutes, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 20, and then 6
minutes repeating.

Heres what you can expect when you use the ramp setup.
During the middle of the 20 minute intervals youre likely to have
lucid dreams and possibly spontaneous O.B.E.s. During the tail
end 6 minute intervals youre likely to have O.B.E.s. Heres why

If youve ever used an alarm clock to wake up at the same time


each morning you may have found that you started waking up 5
minutes before the alarm actually started beeping. You had
conditioned the subconscious to expect the beep, but it does not
like to be shocked awake. So its response is to wake you up
before the beep.

You can use this effect to your advantage by faking the


subconscious out. The initial 8 minute interval is used for
relaxation. After that the intervals start out short and increase in
length, going from 4 up to 20 minutes. By the time you get to the
20 minute interval your subconscious is starting to expect
another beep in the next 4 to 16 minutes.
To avoid the shock the subconscious goes on alert at around 4, 8
or 12 minutes. However, during the 20 minute intervals those
beeps never come. This is enough to make you become
spontaneously lucid in the middle of a dream in expectation of
the phantom timer beep that never happens.

The phantom beep can also give you waking sleep paralysis
because body continues to sleep and doesnt care about the
phantom beep.

Whether you get a lucid dream or OBE from this depends on


where youre 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 than
most OBEs. However lucid dreams are often a lot more fun
because they often start out in some kind of strange otherworldly
area which is usually more fun to explore than the nonphysical
version of your physical surroundings.
However, OBEs often have much higher clarity than lucid
dreams. When you use the timer method youll end up with
plenty of each so you can decide which you prefer.

The shorter tail end intervals usually result in OBEs rather than
lucid dreams. This is because of the hypnotic fractionation effect
we mentioned earlier.

During the short intervals you dont have time to slip very deeply into
sleep like you do with the long intervals. This causes you to hover much
more closely on the awake asleep threshold so that when a beep comes
youre more likely to have a physical focus you can use for an OBE.
This is the simplest way to trick your body into falling asleep and
feel the paralysis wave. When the timer beeps, your body may wake
up for a moment but as long as you stay perfectly still your body
will create the paralysis wave and put itself to sleep after 5 or 10

seconds . This is also an


excellent time to use the sleep triggers to command the body into
paralysis.

So heres the actual method to use to have conscious sleep


paralysis for the first time or even an
OBE.
Go to bed at 9 PM
Get up at 4:30 AM
Stay up for 45 minutes until 5:15 AM and avoid lights
Go back to bed and do Stop Drop And Roll to start to fall
asleep
At the end of S.D.R set your timer to use a ramp timer session.
Fall asleep and let the timer wake you up and put you in an OBE.

As good as this method is it does have two drawbacks. First is


your sleep cycle. The second is false awakenings.

Getting up early in the morning to do OBEs is effective but it can


leave you tired the rest of the day. The solution is called
Inductionless O.B.E.s. Inductionless OBEs are my favorite style
of accessing the subconscious because they allow you to have
OBEs without messing up your sleep cycle.

The second disadvantage the timer method has is actually


because its so powerful. This side effect is called a false
awakening loop in which you think you wake up physically but
actually wake up into another OBE. You may have to wake up
several times before you really do wake up in your physical
bedroom again.

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To solve this you basically need a way to take the red pill and
figure out where you are and whats going on. This is called a
reality check. And not just any reality check will do, you need a
movement-free reality check so that you can do it without
disturbing your trance.

13)

The 4 Easiest Movement-Free


Reality Checks For Lucid Dreams And
OBEs: Lucid dreams and OBEs can be extremely realistic. In
fact, a lot of times its very hard to tell if youre actually awake or
if youre dreaming. In fact, sometimes they are actually more
realistic than waking awareness. Sometimes after an OBE youll
find that your physical sight is actually hazy and dream-like
compared to the hyper detailed realism of the OBE.

For example, a lot of times your vision will have what


photographers called High Dynamic Range or HDR. HDR
means that theres a higher range between the bright areas and
the dark areas. HDR is anything but dream-like and you may not
think at first that youre actually in an O.B.E. because your sight
has so much detail. Your sight may also seem like it has a lot
more pixels than you have when physically aware. In fact, these
OBEs should be called high bandwidth experiences because of
all the extra sensory information you take in.

This effect is compounded when you use the timer method.


Remember that the hypnotic fractionation effect causes you to
hover on the awake asleep threshold when you enter and exit
trance over and over. The first couple times you wake up and fall
asleep, its relatively easy to tell if youre nonphysical or physical
because its kind of a sloppy cycle and you swing wildly around
between being awake and asleep.

However as the hypnotic fractionation effect kicks in, the cycles


start to get tighter and tighter.

The O.B.E.s start to become more and more realistic. Eventually


it can be very difficult to tell if youre waking up into your
physical bedroom or if youre in an OBE.

This is called a false-awakening loop in which you think you wake


up but end up in an O.B.E. You wake up again and end up in
another O.B.E. It may take a couple tries before you really do
wake up in your physical bedroom again.

This is because youve started spirally off center toward a


nonphysical focus. What you need is a way to know that youre in
an OBE and wake up for real.

Basically you need a way to take the red pill. This is called a
reality check. And not just any reality check will do, you need a
movement-free reality check so that you can do it without
disturbing your trance.

In fact you need a set of reality checks because there is no single


silver bullet reality check which is 100% reliable.

Here are the 4 most effective, most reliable and easiest reality
tests that you can start using immediately. I have tested each of
these many times to see how well they work and what pitfalls to
watch for. These are:
The blindfold test, transparent eyelids, overlaid sight, and the
spoon bending test.

First is the blindfold reality check. This is easiest reality check of


all.
All you do is put on a blindfold and relax into sleep. If at any time
you find that you can see the room through the blindfold then

you know youre in a subconscious dream environment and


youre looking at the dream version of your room.

The advantages are that its simple and requires no practice.


Secondly, once it works, theres no doubt in your mind that it
really did work..
Also, its an ongoing reality check. Its not something that comes
and goes in an instant.

So heres way you can use the blindfold test for free O.B.E.s that
require exactly zero work.
The fact is you probably are already having many spontaneous
morning O.B.E.s but dont realize theyre O.B.E.s because you
dont have a system to catch these when they happen. All you
need to do is get in the habit of sleeping with a blindfold on.
Whenever you wake up and are able to see, youll have just
gotten a free O.B.E without doing any extra work!

As good as the blindfold test is, it does have its disadvantages!


For instance you may find the blindfold is distracting and that its
hard to relax with it on. If you try this method I do recommend
getting a padded blindfold in the $20 to $30 range because I find
the cheap ones are too uncomfortable to be of any real use.
The second disadvantage is exit blindness. Exit blindness
happens a lot especially for new OBEers. When this happens you
enter the dream and find that you are blind and so you cant see
with or without the blindfold.
Dream blindness happens a lot and there are solutions to it that
well cover later. However, all of these solutions require that you
be lucid in the dream so it wont help if youre trying to use sight
as a reality check.

One solution is to use the transparent eyelids effect. Transparent


eyelids means that you see through your closed eyes into the
nonphysical version of your bedroom.
This has the advantage of not wearing a distracting blindfold.

The disadvantage with the transparent eyelids effect is its


difficult to feel whether your eyelids are really open or closed.
So the way the transparent eyelids check often works is that its
after the fact. You first become lucid, then you notice you can
see, and then you open your physical eyes and wake your
physical body up.
Another scenario is that you open your eyes twice without
closing them in between. You open them in the OBE and
then open them again when you wake up physically.
In either case you may not know if you were nonphysically
focused until its too late and youre already physical again.

The third reality check to watch for is overlaid sight which


happens as soon as youre nonphysical. When youre nearing a
nonphysical focus youll start to split your awareness between
your waking surroundings and the dream version of your
bedroom. Often youll see
your nonphysical surroundings from a slightly different angle
than your physical surroundings.
This makes it look like you have two sets of sight overlaid on top
of each other, like two movie
projections.

Overlaid sight doesnt last very long, usually youll see your
vision flicker back and forth and then stabilize. Its also rare to
achieve overlaid sight because most of the time when you do
O.B.E.s your eyes will be closed. Because of this you need a
longer lasting check which brings us to the 4th movement free
reality check called the spoon bending check.

This brings us to the 4th movement free reality check which


helps fix this. This reality check is the spoon bending check.
To do it, just fall asleep with a spoon in your hand.
When you think you might be in an O.B.E, squeeze the spoon and
see if it bends.
As long as you dont move any other part of your body, you can
move your fingers slowly and slightly and not disturb your
trance. So even though you are moving a little bit this still counts
as a movement-free reality check

Heres what it will be like when you bend a spoon in an OBE. The
metal will be extremely easy to bend. Its about like bending a
wire twist tie.
When you wake up, the spoon will be back to normal

In this section we mentioned exit blindness and how very often in


OBEs when you first enter a nonphysical awareness youll find
that you cant see. In the next section well cover the most
effective and simple ways for fixing exit blindness so you can
make the most of each OBE.

14)

Exit Blindness - 3 Fast Solutions: Exit blindness is due to


three main reasons:
First, that your eyes have been sealed shut by some kind of
nonphysical glue.
Second that you dont have enough energy to open your
nonphysical eyes.
Third you dont have energy to power your nonphysical eyes.

The first problem is that in the OBE your eyes sometimes start
out with some kind of glue thats holding your eyelids together.
Strange as it may seem this is a recurring effect that many
people have reported and that I have experienced many times.

The quickest solution to glued eyelids is to use your nonphysical


hands to pry your eyelids open. This is called the eye pry
method. Sometimes the glue is very strong and it can actually be

painful to pull them open. The glue can also have a kind of
magnetic effect so that once you have your eyes open the glue
pulls them back together. You have to keep on top of things and
keep pulling your eyes open in order to keep your sight turned
on. You can also use eye pry in the 2nd case where you have
enough energy to power your eyes but not enough to open your
eyelids.

In the 3rd case where you dont even have enough energy to
power your eyes there are 3 main solutions. These are deep
breathing, improving your mood, and mental projections.

The first solution is to use deep breathing to power your


nonphysical body. This solution is not a cure all but it can
definitely improve your sight and make things brighter. You need
to be careful with this method because it can cause your physical
body to wake up.

Recall that one way to break paralysis is to simply change your


breathing so your body notices youre awake. While that does
break paralysis, there is also a middle ground where you can
breathe deeply to power your nonphysical body but also not
breathe so deeply so that your body notices the difference. The
only way to know what that feels like is to practice by entering
sleep paralysis and seeing how much you can deep breathe
without breaking the paralysis.

The second main solution is to improve your mood in the OBE.


Your mood often determines how bright and clear your OBE will
be. By putting yourself in a very positive frame of mind you can
largely avoid dark OBEs and you may never have a problem with
blindness in the first place. However this solution isnt 100%
effective and isnt very useful if youre trying to recover sight in a
lucid nightmare.

The third solution is whats called a mental projection. This is an


advanced technique that relies heavily on visualizations.
However its also extremely powerful and this is actually what I
rely on most because it is 100% effective to cure exit blindness.
This is because in a mental projection youre able to see without
seeing and so exit blindness is not a factor.
A lot of times when I enter an OBE I wont even bother to get my
eyes working and Ill just enter a mental projection which gives
you all the sensory information you need but without actually
seeing anything at all.

102 insert!!

15)

OBE Vibrations & 3 Ways To Tell:

If youve never done an OBE before, its extremely difficult to


know if youre making any progress until youre actually already
out of your body or in a lucid dream. What you need are easy to
detect signals that you can use like road signs to tell you how
close you are to succeeding. In this section well cover the top 3
most common road signs. These are:
1 The sleep paralysis wave
2 Pre OBE rushing noises
3 - Vibrations

Essentially when your body shuts itself down in sleep paralysis


youll feel something like a heavy lead blanket feeling being laid
on your body. This feeling is unmistakable and a sign that youre
very close to success and you can use the exit techniques well
cover below to turn the paralysis into an O.B.E.

The second road sign to watch for are pre-OBE rushing noises.
When you tune in between stations on a radio you get the sound
of random static and white noise. Once youre back on a station
again things come in clearly. Its the same thing with O.B.E.s. You
start out completely focused in your normal waking environment
and as you drop into a subconscious focus you pass through a
kind of no mans land where youre not really conscious and
youre not really subconscious.

When youre tuned to that no-mans land frequency you hear


rushing noises that sound like random static or a train rushing by.

About the same time you hear rushing noises you may feel what
are called OBE vibrations. Vibrations are probably the most
famous phenomenon associated with OBEs and theyre also the
effect that has the most misconceptions. Almost everything to be

found in books on OBEs about vibrations is simply wrong and so


this is a place where a lot of people get stuck.

The 3 misconceptions about vibrations are: what they are, what


they mean, and how to use them.

Heres what vibrations are not. Vibrations are not a subjective


kind of thing where you its like youre feeling the vibes, man,
far out! Vibrations are much more mundane than that.
If you make a Vvvvvv sound, the feeling of vibrations in your lips
is very similar to the feeling of vibrations that often appear along
with medium stages of paralysis. Sometimes the vibrations can
been extremely strong and feel like electricity, other times they
are entirely absent. Its very rare for vibrations to be strong
enough to be painful, usually they just feel like a harmless
buzzing in your head and chest area.

However sometimes they can go throughout your entire body.


These can be incredibly loud and feel like youre holding on to a
chain saw. A lot of people report feeling them in the spine. In one
case I woke up into an OBE in my bed and it sounded exactly like
there was someone with a hedge trimmer outside my window. I
realized it was because I had off the chart vibrations that were
coming from what I later found to be the L1 lumbar vertebrae in
my lower back. I used deep breathing to return myself from the
OBE because I was running more energy than what seemed safe.

That was a very unusual experience and most of the time you
actually wont have any vibrations at all and if you do its no
more powerful than the feeling of a vibrating cell phone.
The basic thing to know is that once youve had vibrations, you
will know it. There wont be any question in your mind about it
because its just a buzzing feeling and noise.

The second misconception is that most books will tell you that
when you have vibrations youre ready to exit into the OBE. This
is completely the polar opposite of reality. Vibrations mean that
you are NOT ready to exit and heres why.

Physical and nonphysical awarenesses are both types of signals


that you focus on. During the middle stage of an OBE exit youre
making the transition from one to the other and you experience
both physical and nonphysical signals. These signals have
energy. When you sum both of these signals together you pass
through a phase where youre running double the amount of
energy you normally would.

If this energy is more than your system can comfortably handle,


you get distortion. The big fancy signal processing name for this
is intermodulation distortion. The name is not so important as
the fact that this energy hump does not go on forever, it comes
and then goes and this is critical to understanding how to deal
with vibrations.

Because the excess energy hump comes and goes, you get a
quiet zone once youve focused completely out of physical
focus and in to nonphysical focus. So it looks like this: you start
out in physical focus with no vibes. You relax into a near OBE and
get light vibes. You relax almost to the point of separation and
get majorly heavy vibes. This is where most people screw it up
because of the bad advice in books. The trick is to simply
continue to relax deeper and deeper past the vibrations until the
vibes have smoothed out completely. Once youre in the quiet
zone after the vibes, thats how you know youve completely
shifted into the OBE.

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


tires. When it got up to 45 MPH it would start vibrating the entire
truck. At 55 MPH it would smooth out again. The range of 45 to
55 MPH was a transition range that caused the tires to vibrate
with each other. Pre O.B.E. rushing noises and vibrations are the
same thing: youre coming in and out of phase with two different
physical and nonphysical signals.

Keep in mind that the vibrations only happen when the total
energy goes beyond what your nonphysical body is capable of
conducting. The more OBEs you do, the more energy you can run
without problems and the less vibrations youll have. Eventually
almost all your OBEs will be vibration-free.

Youll go from waking awareness, with no vibes, all the way to


the OBE with no vibes which means youll have to rely on other
signals that well cover later to tell if youre in the OBE. The up
side to this is that vibrationless OBEs are much brighter and
clearer than OBEs where you have to punch through massive
vibrations.

Why would that be? In a chainsaw, the noise is caused by


friction. Vibrations are a form of noise, so vibrations are a form of
friction. Friction is waste of energy. Chainsaw noise is a waste of
physical energy and so vibrations are a waste of nonphysical
energy.
When youre in vibrations youre wasting energy so its a state
you want to relax through as quickly as possible.

The next misconception is what to do once youre in vibrations.


For instance, Robert Monroe wrote that you should try to sweep
the vibrations up and down your body before separating. Is this
good advice or not?
The only way to reduce vibrations is to reduce the pressure that
causes friction and that means relaxing.
If you reach vibrations and then try to do something, whether its
running the vibrations up and down your body or anything else,
then the one thing youre NOT doing is relaxing. And relaxing is
exactly the one thing that you need to do when you have
vibrations because only way to release the friction is to relax. No
other solution will work.
This is why vibrations are a major obstacle for more OBEers,
because when they try to do something, anything, they are

unable to simply relax into the quiet zone.

The only way to reduce vibrations is to reduce the pressure that


causes friction and that means relaxing.
If you reach vibrations and then try to do something, whether its
running the vibrations up and down your body or anything else,
then the one thing youre NOT doing is relaxing. And relaxing is
exactly the one thing that you need to do when you have vibrations
because only way to release the friction is to relax. No other
solution will work.
This is why vibrations are a major obstacle for more O.B.E.ers,
because when they try to do something, anything, they are unable
to simply relax into the quiet zone.
Definitely do NOT try to force your way out when youre in the
middle of vibrations. Youll almost certainly just get pulled right
back into your body since you havent yet matched up with a
nonphysical focus.

Even if you do manage to muscle your way out, youll have spent so
much energy on the exit that the resulting OBE will probably be so
dark and low energy that youll just stagger around and not be able
to do anything fun anyway. Its far better to relax through vibrations
into the quiet zone and then slip out of body effortlessly.

By the way, there is a sneaky loop hole that allows you to cheat
so you can do OBEs even when youre in the middle of
vibrations. The trick is to enter something called a photographic
trance which allow you to have OBEs at much lighter levels of
trance so you dont have to be in full sleep paralysis to separate.
See Lucidology 102 part 3

This loophole also opens the door to a technique called trance


recycling . Trance recycling allows you to have a dozen or more
OBEs in a row and quickly rack up a massive number of OBEs in
a single session.
Because many OBEs are completely vibrationless, you need
several other road signs to tell how close you are to success. In
the next section well cover the 5 crucial progress signals to tell
how close you are to an O.B.E.

5 Fast Exit Methods:

These techniques are How you


Convert Sleep Paralysis Into An O.B.E. And Separate From Your Physical
Body To Enter Your Nonphysical Environment.

Recall our two-step strategy for visualization-free OBEs. The first step
was to use sleep commands to trick your body into falling asleep. That
stage put you in waking sleep paralysis so that your brain enters a
theta brain wave and automatically sends you into a subconscious
focus without you needing to use visualizations.
The second step is to convert sleep paralysis into an OBE using an exit
technique.

In this section well cover this final stage of an OBE induction which is
the exit stage where you separate your nonphysical body from your
physical body.

In completing the exit there are 3 basic problems we need to solve:


1. First, that you cant tell physical body from nonphysical body
because theyre overlaid
2. Second, that you cant separate them because theyre stuck
together
3. Third, if you move and youre not ready to exit, youll tense up and
ruin your trance.
That last problem is a major obstacle. Theres nothing worse than
getting into a decent trance then ruining it because you moved
physically instead of separating from your body.
So we need movement free exit techniques so you can make a bid
for an exit and if youre wrong and youre not quite deep enough, its
no big deal.

So here are the 5 most powerful movement-free exit methods that Ive
tested many times and have found to be highly effective. These are:

1. Open Mouth Exit


2. Gravity Press Exit
3. Safety Cap Exit
4. Focused Awareness With Magnetic Spheres
5. Salvaging Partial Exits Using Limb Creation

The first method is the open mouth exit. In sleep paralysis 99% of the
time even if everything below your neck is paralyzed you can still move
your eyes and mouth.
To do this method simply open your mouth and take a few slow deep
breaths. Be sure not to breathe too hard or youll break the paralysis. By
doing this youll feel yourself start to separate starting at your head.

This method is a very reliable way to get the exit process kick started.
Its actually more of an exit initiator than a full exit method because a
lot of times it will get you half way out and then you need to switch to
another exit method to complete the separation. However a lot of

times once you start the separation using open mouth breathing, youll
be able to separate completely and get up into your nonphysical
bedroom without using any other tricks!
The reason this method works is youve split your focus between
physical awareness and nonphysical awareness. In sleep paralysis your
body below the neck is still physically focused but your eyes and face
have entered nonphysical focus. By creating movement in your eyes
and face you draw the rest of your focus in to nonphysical awareness.

The second movement free exit method is the gravity press exit. To
do this, focus on the feeling of gravity pulling on your body.
In an O.B.E. this will actually cause you to sink through solid objects
and you can use this fact to test if youre nonphysical without moving.

Make sure not to pull yourself down too far because creating too much
of a feeling of heaviness can make the resulting O.B.E more dark and
lower energy.
If you lay on your back while looking at the ceiling, you can do a
transparent bed reality check:

To do that look at the ceiling and gravity press yourself to the floor.
As long as you keep your sight focused on the ceiling youll see
through your bed.
This can help you be more sure that you really did a gravity press and
you really are nonphysical.

You can build on the gravity press exit to make it more powerful. This
brings us to the third movement-free exit method called safety-cap.
With a safety cap bottle, to open the lid you have to press down and
then twist.

The problem with the gravity press method is even if you sink into the
bed a few inches you may not be completely sure that youve really
separated. What you need is a better selector to be sure theres
absolutely no question in your mind that youre nonphysical. To fix this,
create the feeling of a force that rotates you around on your belly
button so that your head swings around 180 degrees and ends up
where your feet are.

At that point there is no doubt youre in an OBE and you can get up
without fear of accidentally moving your physical muscles and
botching the trance. In other words, you just press down and twist and
you have an OBE.

Most books on OBEs tell you to roll over on your side to complete the
exit. This is a really bad idea because its an all or nothing gamble.
Either you succeed and you roll over in to an OBE or you move
physically and have to start all over again.
On the other hand, because the safety cap exit is also a type of reality
check you can first test to see if youre actually nonphysical. If either
the press or the twist stages dont work, then you know to relax a little
deeper and your trance is still in tact.
Your success rate will be many times higher when you use safety cap
than if you simply try rolling over.

Our forth movement free exit method is called Magnetic Spheres


I know this is supposed to be visualization-free O.B.E. methods but
this one is really easy and it will really help with your exits. So Im
going to sneak it in.
By practicing to focus your awareness while awake, you can better
direct your nonphysical body when in an O.B.E.
Imagine a magnetic sphere hovering above your hands. Move the
sphere around and feel it pull on your nonphysical body in different
directions.
Youll start to get a feeling of a fuzzy ball of awareness around your
hands.

Double the strength of the sphere to get a stronger feeling. After a few
moments double it again, then double it once more after a bit. Keep
doubling it every minute or so until you have a very strong feeling of

attraction around your hands.


Remember this is the feeling for when you use gravity press and safety
cap. When you want to press out or rotate around, create the feeling of
the force you want and complete the exit.

Remember with gravity press, one of the disadvantages was that if you
press down too far it can make the resulting OBE darker and lower
energy. One way around that is to use focused awareness to imagine
gravity is pulling you up. This is slightly more difficult to do but it
actually helps make the OBE brighter.
To do this, first put your awareness on the feeling of gravity like
normal. Then rotate that feeling around so its pulling you up and
youve created inverse gravity.

Another variation is to simply use an imaginary magnetic sphere to


overpower gravity and pull you up. Both of these methods work well. I
actually am lazy and usually just do gravity press and twist, but you
should definitely experiment with creating strange forces and odd
angles because theyre very useful for manipulating the world once
youve transitioned to an OBE.

Focused awareness is used in many disciplines including qi-gong, tai chi,


reiki, and others.
Its also the basis for Robert Bruces system called N.E.W. (or New Energy
Ways) which is used in O.B.E.s.

A lot of times youll make it half-way out of your body but parts will still
be stuck. For instance, you might find that you can free your arms but
your legs are still glued in place and that even if you use your
nonphysical hands to pull your legs out they just wont budge. This
brings us to the fifth movement-free exit technique called Limb
Creation.

Once you have about half of your body out, instead of trying to get the
rest of your limbs out, just imagine a completely new set of legs or
arms or whatever is stuck. This is actually much easier than it sounds.
You just imagine what it would feel like if your legs were already
beneath you and you were already standing on them. Imagine the
feeling of pressure on your feet, how your socks feel, and what your
toes feel like when you wiggle them against each other. Youll quickly
lose awareness of the limbs in your physical body and refocus into the
copies of your legs that youve created. This process actually only
takes a couple seconds and is a billion times easier than trying to yank
your limbs out of your physical body.

11)

4 Cheating Strategies:

4 Cheating Strategies:
1. Micro OBEs
2. Waking OBEs (not WILDS)
3. Trance Recycling

4. Inductionless O.B.E.s

The first cheat well use to get 100 O.B.E.s in 100 days is called
Micro-O.B.E.s. Micro O.B.E.s are very short O.B.E.s where
you go in and out of your body very quickly so you can have 5 or
10 in a row. For instance you set might your O.B.E. timer on 2
minute intervals and only spend a few seconds in the O.B.E. then
return to your body, then do another one.
So you might wonder if youve gone through all the trouble of
doing an O.B.E, why return right back to your body? Its because
the whole trick to getting good at O.B.E.s is knowing the states
and sensations and what the exit feels like. The more time you
spend on the awake asleep threshold the faster you progress. If
you only have one O.B.E in a day then you do make some
progress but really not a lot. If you have two in a day youve just
doubled your progress rate.

Heres the best part. The easiest time to have an OBE is right
after youve come out of an O.B.E. because after an O.B.E, your
body is already deeply relaxed and you already have a strong
memory of your subconscious focus. So if you can have one
O.B.E, you can have several. So how do you actually do this?

When you start out a lot of relaxation is needed to get to a subconscious


focus. So to have micro OBEs well shorten the distance you travel into
trance to have an O.B.E.

The more skilled you get the less you need to relax to access the
subconscious.

Pretty soon you can have an OBE while the body is fully awake! You go
directly from a waking focus to a subconscious focus and the body
remains awake.

In this System youll use a special type of timer setup to do the second
type of cheat called Waking OBEs. Youll fall asleep and have an OBE on
the timer beep. However by the end of the session youll be able to lay on
your bed and complete the separation even though your body is still wide
awake. That means you can have a lot more OBEs faster and spend very
little time in the boring relaxation stages.

Keep in mind that a waking OBE is not the same thing as a wake induced
lucid dream. In WILDs your body falls asleep and you enter your
subconscious. In waking O.B.E.s you enter your subconscious but your
body is still fully awake.
In order to do this youll need to develop a solid stream of memory
impressions. Memory impressions are the how you access information in
O.B.E.s without actually having any visuals, tactile sensations, sounds or
any other sensory information at all.

So what exactly are memory impressions? First, imagine your memory as


like a dry beach of powdery sand.

Second, imagine your mind comes in contact with a bit of nonphysical


dream information.
Dreams arent made out of atoms like the physical world, so how does the
mind make sense of the information?

As you relax into a WILD youll start to sense environmental clues that youre nearing a
dream even though youre not in the dream yet.
You will start to pick up memory impressions of these clues. For instance, you may find you
have the memory that someone had just said something even though at the time you didnt
consciously hear anything. You might also recall that a moment ago you were looking at a
landscape and that you remember what the landscape looked like but you cant remember
exact moment when the landscape came into view.
The landscape is a concept that you find has been impressed into your short term memory
much as if you were to impress the shape of a word into clay. You might not know how the
impression got there but you do have the information that the impression represents.

In the course of your lucid dream induction you may find a lot of times
memory impressions seem to be the result of dipping in and out of
coherency. You dip down, pick something up, waver up again and find that
you have an impression. Once you're back in conscious coherency you are
operating with your perceptual filters again so you cant remember how
you got the impression.

However at deeper levels of trance there is no dipping in and out of


coherency and you find that youre getting a steady stream of
impressions. At that point youll can tap into your subconscious and
gather sensory information from memory impressions without going into
full sleep paralysis.

The third way youll cheat to get is to use trance recycling. Trance
recycling is where you enter into an O.B.E and then immediately flip it into
another type of O.B.E. For instance, youll learn how to turn lucid dreams
into O.B.Es and O.B.E.s into lucid dreams.

Youll also learn how to do mental projections, phasing and teleporting


O.B.E.s. By learning to flip in between these states youll be able to
multiply your progress and quickly rack up your first 100 OBEs.
The fourth way youll cheat to get to 100 OBEs in 100 days is called
Inductionless O.B.E.s. Inductionless OBEs are my favorite style of
accessing the subconscious because they allow you to have OBEs without
messing up your sleep cycle. One of the problems with wake back to bed
and the timer method is that it can leave you tired the rest of the day.
Once you learn to do
inductionless OBEs youll be able to easily average an OBE or more each
morning without having any effect on your sleep cycle. Inductionless
O.B.E.s combined with trance recycling will accelerate your O.B.E.

progress faster than you may even think possible.

Then in part 3 youll find out how to achieve a photographic trance. This is
the gateway loophole to rapid-fire O.B.E.s with the minimum amount of
effort possible. Knowing this keeps you from making the main big time
wasting mistake almost everyone makes when using visualizations to
induce O.B.E.s. And well cover how to quickly sense when you have a
stream of nonphysical information flowing to you by recognizing the 5
types of trances you pass through on the way to an O.B.E.

12)

The Mental Geography Map.

The location where you visualize something has a big impact on


the results you get from the visualization. Most books tell you to
visualize one thing or another without really telling you how or
where to imagine it. So in this section were going to precisely
define each of the 6 types of spaces to choose from and cover
how to use each one for maximum effect.
The 6 spaces are:
Head space
Physical space
Eyelid space
Nonphysical dream space
Memory space
Mind space

First well define what each space is, then well cover how to use
them

1) Head space is simply imagining the visualization is taking place


in the center of your head.

2) Next is physical space which is just is the space around you


while youre awake. For instance, physical space may be your
bedroom or the next room over. or the other side of the
world.

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

your eyelids. This space is very fertile ground for collecting


memory impressions. When you get deeper into trance, there
is an actual screen you can see on which imagery is
projected. So how does that work?
Robert Monroe wrote about observing 3D Blackness in your
closed eyelids when you reach a decent trance. There are two
cases that give eyelid blackness a 3D quality:
Nonphysical Screen: This case is because youre seeing the
eyelid blackness screen that sometimes has a texture like
burlap. You literally see a canvas-like screen hanging in front
of your eyes.
Phasing O.B.E.s: In other cases youre starting to do a
phasing O.B.E and youre peering into an open 3D
nonphysical space which you can eventually enter as an
immersive O.B.E. Well talk about phasing later on.
Right now were concerned with the 1st case of the burlap
canvas screen. How is it that imagery makes its way on to the
screen?

First the information starts out in nonphysical space as just a


bunch of data.

Second, when you reach a good trance your memory space starts to
collect impressions of the data. This is the start of memory
impressions. At this point youll start to interpret the raw
nonphysical information as actual recognizable imagery.

Your memory space translates the impressions into imagery. It then


projects the imagery on your eyelid screen. The eyelid blackness
screen allows your memory space to project dream imagery you can
see.

You may be thinking thats all fine and well but who cares? The reason this
process is important is it shows you the main big mistake not to make
when using memory impressions. The main mistake is watching the
swirling colors in the blackness and thinking that those will lead to
memory impressions.
The swirling hypnagogic imagery is just a biological process your eyes go

through, they have nothing to do with collecting nonphysical information.


If you try to watch them youll be distracted from the real impressions
when they finally come.

This brings us to the 4 step system to tell where the real imagery comes
from in visualizations.
To do this, divide your awareness between whats inside your field of view
and everything outside your field of view.

Step 1: Imagine your field of view as like a blackboard. In order to see


anything not on the blackboard you have to use your imagination.

Step 2: Next imagine a blackboard immediately outside your field of view.

Step 3: Shift the imaginary blackboard so that its halfway overlaid in


your field of view. Leave the other half still in your imaginary space.

Step 4: Write imaginary text on the imaginary background so some is in


your field of view and some is imaginary. When you have sticky
awareness of what you wrote youre accessing the right spot for memory
impressions. This is called the shifted blackboard trick and enables you to
feel where the real imagery comes from by causing you to forget about
your visual awareness.

When you use intent to write on your imaginary blackboard, youre using
mind space to write into memory space. The memory impressions you
form in memory space fall on to eyelid space.
This forms the active visualization circuit that leads to memory
impressions that you can actually see.

In this circuit, mind space is the builder. Memory space is the raw
materials used to build thoughts. When you form an intent to do
something, its mind space that creates the intent.
Mind space then builds within memory space to come up with a solution
to the desired intent.

So why not just imagine what you want directly and forget about all this
mind space and memory space business?
The reason is without it youd be tempted to write directly into eyelid
space when visualizing rather than developing your memory impression
space. In other words: always use the mind space circuit. Do not write
directly on to eye space.

This is really important so Im giving it a big fancy name like the


fundamental theorem of sleep paralysis. This is the Principle Of Indirect
Visualizations which states: Do not imagine directly into eyelid space.
Always imagine into the space you cannot physically see in order to
develop memory impressions.

Once you start doing this it causes your mind space to open up memory
space.

Heres an alternate way of thinking about this. An extremely simple and effective trick is to
close your eyes and imagine you have two sets of eyeballs. Relax and forget about your
physical eyes.
Imagine youre looking through a second set of eyes that are looking off to the side. Rotate
your imaginary eyes about 60 degrees off to the side and youve created a good viewpoint for
imagining into memory space.

Its OK to have a little bit of overlap between your imagined and physical
sight, but most of your attention should be in imagined space.
Heres how you can tell when youre making progress with the double
eyeballs trick. Youll get to a point where it really does feel like youre
looking off into the blackness with your imaginary eyeballs. It will actually
start to become hard to tell exactly where your physical eyes are actually
looking. If you open your eyes it will be disorienting for a moment because
all of your focus has been shifted away from your physical eyes. This

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

To see how this all fits together, heres the complete mental geography
map for building visualizations. Well cover in detail exactly how these
spaces are used later, but heres an overview of what each space is best
for:
1. Head space Use to return to your body
2. Physical space Use to do teleporting OBEs
3. Eyelid space Use for mental projections and phasing
4. Mind space Use to build new nonphysical locales
5. Memory space Use in active visualization to define where you want to
go
6. Nonphysical dream space The target space to focus on to have OBEs
Now, how do you actually do all this? The first step is to achieve
something called a photographic trance.

13) How To Achieve A State Of


Photographic Trance

In order to speed up your OBEs we need to find the absolute laziest possible route with the
least amount of effort to have an O.B.E. What we need is a sneaky loophole to exploit. The
loophole is that you dont need to wait for actual visuals to have a photographic trance. You
actually achieve photographic trance way before the visuals come. How is that possible?
How can you have a photographic trance if you arent seeing anything?

This is because the word photographic refers to the fact that the memory impressions are
fixed in place just like images are fixed in place on a photograph. Once you enter an O.B.E.
thats stable, you can pick things up and move them around just like you can while awake.
The objects remember their placement. This is the critical attribute, and once you have
reached this photographic level youre virtually in an O.B.E.

So heres the trick to a photographic trance. Normally when youre awake the only place you
have to store mental information is your physical memory. However when you focus into an
OBE or dream you also have access to nonphysical space to store information. The trick to
using a photographic trance is to not rely on you own memory at all. Instead put things in the
nonphysical space youre focused on. When they stick in your awareness you have a
photographic trance even if you cant see any of the objects. So in effect youre using the
nonphysical environment as if it was part of your memory.

Now heres the really sneaky part that will speed up your OBEs by a factor of two or more.
Remember that in a lot of OBEs you dont have any signals to tell you whats going on. For
instance, a lot of OBEs are vibrationless and sometimes you also have no sight at any point.
So usually you have to wait until youre really deep in trance to tell if youre ready to
separate.

For example, earlier you used the safety cap exit as a selector to tell between your physical
and nonphysical bodies. When you could rotate your body all the way around 180 degrees
you knew for certain that you were nonphysically focused. That works well but you can
improve it by finding a selector that works at much lighter levels of trance and thats where
photographic trance comes in.

Once you find that the impressions are sticking youve selected the difference between
physical and nonphysical awareness. You dont have to wait until you have awareness of a
complete nonphysical body like you did with safety cap. You only wait until have you
awareness of two storage locations. This is about twice as fast as using the biology-only
methods from earlier.

Heres a 3-step Test Visualization to tell between these two storage locations. Its called the
Blind Chessboard and is very similar to the Shifted Blackboard trick.
First imagine a chessboard into nonphysical awareness. Put a dozen or so random chess
pieces at random places around the chessboard.
Second zone out for a bit and forget all about where you placed the chess pieces.
Third, look back in nonphysical space after a couple minutes. If you still have awareness of
whats there then you have a photographic trance.

If this sounds like its going to be hard, remember that this is NOT a memory exercise! You
are not trying to remember where you put the pieces. In fact if you do physically remember
where you put them then you arent using the Blind Chessboard correctly and probably dont
have a photographic trance.
When its working, its exactly like if you were to set up a physical chessboard with random
pieces and come back to it an hour later. You can simply see where you put the pieces, you
dont have to try to remember anything at all. With the Blind Chessboard, you may not be

able to see the pieces, but you have awareness of where they are without using memory in
any way. That way you can easily tell what is nonphysical and what is physical memory
because the nonphysical part stays but your physical memory forgets.

Now the big secret to getting it to work is knowing that youre going to pass through a
photographic state on the way into sleep whether you try for it or not. That means that its
more about knowing when youve reached that state than it is in doing things to make the
state happen. It works best when you just relax and watch for the following 3 attributes in
your trance

When the memory impressions become sticky, stable and surprising then youve got it made.
For example, stickiness means that the impressions dont vanish as soon as you stop thinking
about them. On the other hand, stability is very different especially with things like
nonphysical text. Stability means Can you observe your visualization without changing it?

For instance, heres an example of impressions that are sticky but not stable. You may have
found books in your dreams that you could read but each time you read a sentence and then
read it again the words changed. The books were sticky because they didnt flit in and out of
existence. However, they were not stable because they changed as soon as you observed
them.
Once you get into an immersive O.B.E where you can see and feel things just like physical
awareness, it may not be a problem if things lapse so that theyre not perfectly rereadable any
more. You can still fly around and have fun so its not a big deal if things shift. However,
when youre first starting a visualization the impressions DO need to be rereadable so you
can measure if youre making progress.

Getting a sticky and stable trance is good - but its actually not what you really want in the
end because if you only were able to see what you put in to the OBE it would become pretty
boring. The FUN in O.B.E.s comes when they actually SURPRISE you with information you

didnt put into them. When you start to get back more information from your visualization
than what youre actively imagining, youve reached the surprise threshold. For instance, in
O.B.E.s you get to explore strange new worlds you never would have thought of on your
own. These worlds are information that you didnt generate, they are actually very surprising
to discover! By the way well go into these types of worlds in much more detail in
Lucidology 103.

So heres a visualization to jumpstart the surprise factor. Once you have the blind chessboard
sticking, imagine a 2 by 2 grid of desk drawers. Open up each drawer and look inside,
imagine finding a random surprise object in each one.

For instance, you may find a calculator in one, a ruler in another and a stack of paper in
another. Take out each object you find, turn it around in your imaginary hands to get a good
sense of its weight and texture and make it solidify, then put it back in the drawer and close
it.

A 2 by 2 grid of drawers may be too easy to remember so increase the grid to 3x3 and then
4x4 and then 5x5 if you want. Zone out for a few moments then go back and look in
randomly in the drawers to see if the objects are still there. The more objects you find that
look like theyre probably in the right drawers the more photographic your trance is.

You can also imagine that you open up Christmas presents under a tree. Look at what each
present is inside then close the boxes and come back to them after a few minutes to see if
they stuck. You can get an extra bit of surprise element by seeing how each present is
wrapped and what size and shape it is.

You can also imagine a long hall of doors and see whats behind each door. Come back and
open them up again after zoning out and see if they stuck. Whatever visualization you use,
once you have a level of sticky surprise coming in youve achieved the stage after
photographic trance which is called a live trance.

A live trance is a photographic trance with the element of creativity which comes from it
having surprise. So when youve reached sticky, stable surprise you have a live trance.
Heres what this looks like step by step

Stage 1: You can imagine the attention you give a visualization to be like money. At first
when you visualize you get no feedback:

Stage 2: You soon reach a point where you start to get feedback but it vanishes as soon as you
stop thinking about it. Youve made a connection to the visualization:

Stage 3: You then get to where it sticks and once you visualize something you continue to
keep awareness even after you stop thinking about it. You can forget about it for a few
moments and come back to it and its still there. This is a photographic trance.

Stage 5: In the next stage not only does it stick but it starts automatically generating
information that you didnt give it. This is an automatic visualization and once you get to it
you have an information surplus.

Stage 5: Finally the visualization no longer needs your attention to generate new
information. It has taken on a life of its own and has become live trance. You may find that
if you do have visual images at the point that they suddenly go from being still images to
self-animating all at once.

Here are the 5 stages of trance in one concept: You go from putting energy in to the
visualization and getting nothing back, to eventually putting nothing in and getting a lot back.

When you chart it out the 5 trances look like this. You start putting imagery in and getting
nothing back. Eventually you make a connection and start getting imagery back. However its
fleeting and vanishes as soon as you stop concentrating on it. Once it stabilizes and you have
photographic ownership it sticks in your awareness but none of it is surprising. When it starts
to take on an automatic life of its own it gives you back a tiny bit more information than you
put in. Eventually you reach enough of an information surplus that you can stop thinking
about the visualization and its still giving you more and more imagery back. That stage is a
live trance which is sticky, stable and surprising. This will come in handy when we cover
mental projections later.

When youre relaxing into trance your intellect may be wavering in and out of consciousness
and this makes it hard to keep checking if you have all three Ss. However gut feel is always
on alert! When you achieve a photographic trance you may not realize it at first. However
youll suddenly get a sense that you own the memory impressions and thats the signal
youre looking for.

For example, imagine you go fishing in a boat. You sail around dragging a fishing line behind
you. Eventually you feel a fish bite your line so you stop the boat and drop anchor. Even
though you dont have the fish in your hand yet, you still claim ownership of the space your
boat is in.
At the stage of photographic trance you drop your anchor and claim ownership of the space
youve entered.

Heres one of the easiest ways to get a feel for the photographic ownership feeling.
Recall the overlaid sight effect from earlier where you wake up in the morning and see both
your physical and nonphysical versions of your bedroom from slightly different perspectives.
A variation on this thats closely related to photographic trance is closed-eye overlaid sight.
When you have closed-eye overlaid sight your physical eyes are closed and your nonphysical

eyes are open. However your nonphysical eyes arent tuned to anything so all you see is
black.

The way youll know this has happened is when you start to move physically youll bring
yourself out of any trance you were in. This causes your nonphysical eyes to close. In your
behind the eyelid blackness space youll see black eyelids close within your already mostly
black vision. When your nonphysical eyes shut, the behind the eyelid space will look slightly
darker than it did a few seconds earlier when your nonphysical eyes were open.

Heres what this has to do with photographic trance. When your nonphysical eyes are open
but not really seeing anything you get a weak form of photographic trance. You will get a
slight sense that things stick but instead of them sticking and hanging around indefinitely
they only last maybe a second.
This is exactly the same kind of weak stickiness you get right before youre ready for an

OBE.
Watch for the feel of this stickiness as youre going to sleep and waking up. When youre
familiar with it youll have a much easier time recognizing it in your OBE inductions.

As soon as your nonphysical eyes close your gut feeling photographic trance will probably
also vanish. This is also very valuable because its a way to feel the contrast between when
you have a photographic feel and when you dont.
Closed eye overlaid sight tends to happen the most when youre laying flat on your back, or
at least its easiest to tell you have it when youre laying on your back. If you cant sleep the
entire night on your back, an easy alternative is to wake up in the morning and slowly roll on
to your back and then fall asleep again for about 15 minutes. When you wake up, if you
dreamed during that time, your nonphysical eyes will probably still be open when you wake
up with your physical eyes closed. You can then watch for closed eyelid overlaid sight and
the photographic gut feel.

11) The O.B.E. Blueprint & The


Visualization Construction
Toolkit

So now were ready to go from start to finish with an actual induction from physical focus to
nonphysical focus using visualizations.

The first step is to create a space in your subconscious.

The second step is to fill that space with a nonphysical dream focus.

The final step is to immerse your focus completely in the nonphysical space and have no
physical focus left.

To do this using visualizations, there are 4 critical questions you need to be able to answer.
These questions are:

The Pump Primer


What are you going to use to get the visualization started?

The Energizer
What are you going to use to get make the visualization more solid and real once you get a
connection going?

The Selector
How are you going to make a distinction between physical awareness and nonphysical
awareness?

The Separator
How are you going to free yourself from physical focus and enter a nonphysical focus?

To answer these 4 questions we have the 6-step O.B.E. Blueprint to take you from waking
awareness to O.B.E. Once youve done a couple O.B.E.s using the Blueprint youll be able to
use the Visualization Construction Toolkit to make your own customized inductions based on
what works best for you.
The 6-step O.B.E. Blueprint is:

Step 1: The first thing is to clear a subconscious space. When you start the induction you
may be distracted by thoughts about your physical day and those need be cleared out.

To do that, just use a lazy random daydream.


Its tempting to make this stage harder than it needs to be, but all you really need to do is:
Daydream randomly for 5 minutes or so
Be as lazy as you possibly can be. Dont start visualizing too early
Use physical relaxation methods such as Stop Drop & Roll, sleep breathing and the still
eyeballs relaxation from earlier.
Definitely do not start right into a visualization without daydreaming first.
Let the mind relax for at least 5 minutes before trying to visualize anything.

Once you get to a point where youre more focused on your lazy random daydream than your
physical body and physical memories it means youve started accessing memory impressions.
In particular, what youre doing is getting out of head space and in to a random memory
space. At this point youre ready to move to step 2 which is to prime the pump.

Step 2: The pump priming visualization will be more directed than random daydreaming and
will use mind space to seed memory space with your deliberate intention. A highly effective
way to do this is with something called the computer menu visualization.

Imagine clicking randomly around on a computer screen on the menus and windows that pop
up. Drag them around and click the buttons randomly. The screen will respond back to you
with the various widgets and fields all over the place.

Youll quickly get to a point where youre not consciously thinking about what the computer
screen shows you. You just get a sense that you click and something is there already, and
THEN you consciously observe what youre being shown. This is my favorite pump primer
because it works so fast and starts getting you the element of SURPRISE almost
immediately.

The element of surprise brings you to the state of information surplus very quickly.
The memory impressions may not actually be sticking but you WILL start getting back more
information than you put in to it right away.

Doing this quickly forms memory impression bait for your O.B.E. When you start
visualizing something in this way, your imagination acts as bait that attracts a nonphysical
signal. Once you have your bait, the next step is to cast your line.

To cast your line speed up the visualization. Click and click and click all around to cast your
line and fish for memory impressions.
You can also imagine the feeling of friction of your hand on the mouse. Drag your mouse
across menu bars so that the menus pop out automatically without you needing to click them
individually.

Step 3: This brings you to step 3. When your pump priming starts to take root your eyelid
space will form and start collecting visual memory impressions. These will be very fleeting at
first. In fact theyll be so delicate that you dont want to look at them.
Fleeting visuals that appear either in your normal field of vision, or in your imaginary
blackboard space are incredibly fragile. All you need to do to destroy a fleeting memory
impression is to look directly at it and it will vanish.
To get past this stage you need to train yourself not to automatically look at them. This is
hard because the human eye is hardwired to reflexively respond to movement. It may take a
few nights of relaxing your eyeballs to make it past this part easily but once you get the hang
of it youll be able to move into O.B.E.s much faster than before.

In order to strengthen the impressions you need to use stimulus spikes. One very good
stimulus spike is to imagine shining a very bright flashlight directly in your eyes. It's very
important to STROBE the light so it flashes on and off. You want to have a giant contrast
between the light flashes and the dark period. When it starts to work and you see flashes you
may actually feel pain in your eyes from how bright it is!

While youre using the flashlight, imagine loud clicking sounds which will add extra stimulus
spikes. You can imagine clapping, or explosions or anything else that has a sharp attack to
strengthen the memory impressions. Eventually the impressions will become stronger and
last a bit longer. Once they reach a certain level of persistence they will become frameable
memory impressions.

Remember that in the timer method you used hypnotic fractionation to enter and exit trance
over and over and each time you completed a cycle you slipped deeper and deeper in trance.
Do the same thing here except instead of using beeps, use stimulus spikes. First imagine
flashes and clicks, then relax your mind and forget about things for a few seconds. Then use
more stimulus spikes for 10 or 15 seconds then relax for another 10 or 15 seconds. Repeat
this until you start to get the photographic ownership gut feel.

This will bring you to a state of photographic ownership where you get a gut sense that the
impressions are starting to stick and you are taking control of them. This point where you
reach photographic ownership is the biggest landmark on the way to an OBE because once
you really have a feeling that youve locked on to the impressions youve got it in the bag. At
this point theyve become frameable memory impressions.

Step 4: Step 4 is to stabilize the memory impressions. At this point you STILL dont want to
look directly at them because youll destroy them. Instead imagine placing glowing picture
frames around them which causes them to stabilize. Be sure to do this without looking
directly at them. Remember that even at this point you may not be seeing anything, and
everything may still be invisible because its possible to go all the way and separate into an
O.B.E. but still be nonphysically blind. What matters is that awareness of the memory
impressions is lasting long enough that you can start to frame them. Remember to use the
shifted blackboard trick to feel what memory impression space is like so youre not relying
on sight.

Once theyre lasting long enough that you can frame them youll be very close to an O.B.E.
This stage means your memory space is getting a much stronger connection to nonphysical
space.

Using the fishing analogy, you can tell when fish are starting to nibble your hook when your
fishing bob starts to move. With O.B.E.s you can tell how much of your impressions are
coming from nonphysical space based on how much they are surprising you. This is because
surprise comes from some source other than your own intentions. At this point you may also
be getting other phenomena such as vibrations and rushing noises.

If youre getting good signals that the fish are starting to bite and youre collecting a steady
stream of nonphysical memory impressions, try looking directly at a memory impression. If it
doesnt vanish then things are stable enough for you to energize the memory impressions and
then reel them in.

Step 5: Step 5 is to energize the impressions. This will cause the nonphysical signal to send
impressions directly to your eyelid space instead of coming through memory space first. To
do that, take an impression youve framed and make it spin really fast.

Spinning the impression will cause it to solidify. Make it spin as fast as you can imagine, then
imagine spinning it twice as fast as that, and then twice as fast again. This will make the
impression will start to glow and become permanent.

You should only need to use the spinning trick on one memory impression. This is as if
youre reeling it in so you can use it to complete your separation and enter the O.B.E.

Step 6: Step 6 is the last step! This is the actual O.B.E. separation process. By this time
youll be deep enough in your subconscious that you can probably use just about any exit
method.

The one were going to use is called spin & grab This is a new exit method which works
very well with the induction weve done so far. By now you should have a sense of where
you nonphysical body is so you can use a nonphysical hand to grab your spinning memory
impression. When you grab the memory impression it will cause you to get sucked into the
nonphysical space and youll be in an O.B.E.

Heres the what to do and when reference chart which is in your notes. It summarizes how
to tell what stage youre in and what to do once youre there.

Now that you have an idea of what a complete visualization-powered O.B.E. induction looks
like, you can use it as a template to construct brand new inductions which are just as
powerful.
Heres how the O.B.E. Blueprint answers the 4 critical questions in the visualization
construction toolkit.
First you cleared a subconscious space with a lazy random daydream.
You then prime the pumped with the menu visualization. Those steps form the pump
priming step.
Next you strengthened your memory impressions by alternately using stimulus spikes then
pausing. This brought you to the important a state of photographic ownership.
That was an energizer phase.
After that you stabilized memory impressions by framing them. Thats a selector step.
You then energized memory impressions by spinning them. That was another energizer step.
Finally was the immersion & exit where you grabbed the impression. That was the separator
step.

You can also see how the above methods answer those 4 questions as well.
You first fell asleep and dreamed. Those were pump priming steps.
You then entered waking sleep paralysis using the timer. Waking sleep paralysis energized
your subconscious by putting you in a waking theta state.
Next you used safety-cap to tell between your physical and nonphysical bodies. That was
the selector step.
Finally you stood up in the nonphysical version of your bedroom. That was the separator
step.
Now that you have the toolkit, you can check visualizations youve seen in other books and
see if theyre missing any parts
Then you can add whats missing and make them much more effective. For instance, a classic
induction is to let yourself become very thirsty and place a glass of water on the other side of
the room.

The idea is that by strongly willing yourself to pick up the glass of water you can end up
projecting your consciousness to the glass of water and have a conscious O.B.E
This induction creates a strong sense of separation between your physical location and your
target projection location. In other words, it has a Selector and Separator stage but its
missing the Pump Primer and Energizer steps. You can fix it with the Lucidology 101
methods to get to the point where youve energized your subconscious and then switch to the
thirst method once youve reached waking sleep paralysis.

11)
Sneaky Speed Cheats: Mental Projections,
Phasing And Rezooming.

Here in part 5 well cover sneaky speed cheats to further accelerate your O.B.E. skill using
mental projections & phasing O.B.E.s. These are types of OBEs which you can do at much
lighter levels of trance than traditional style OBEs. That means you speeds things up so you
to get to 100 OBEs much quicker.
Ill also show you a unique way to recycle trance in mental projections using a special type of
memory impression that acts as a portal into your subconscious using a technique I call
rezooming.
In the O.B.E Blueprint we talked about the Spin & Grab Energizer/Separator combo in
which you energized a memory impression by spinning it, and then separated into the O.B.E
by grabbing the impression. Another way to use memory impressions is to use them as
memory impression portals to otherworldly nonphysical planes. To do that you use Zoom
And Phase which is both a Selector and a Separator. Heres how to do Zoom and Phase

Sometimes in eyelid space youll see a glowing white dot off in the distance. If you zoom
your focus in to it you find its actually a rectangle. Zooming is a selector to focus your
attention on the impression. It also acts as an energizer to make the memory impression more
solid and detailed.

When you zoom in closer youll often see that its actually a door. If youre deep enough in
trance you can use a dream hand to open the door.

Once its opened youll see where leads. Usually it will be to some otherworldly
place.

Use intent to bring it closer still and it will start to fill your vision.

Enter the doorway completely and youll be completely immersed in the nonphysical area
you see. Youll be able to walk around in it exactly like you can while physically awake.

The previous example actually covers two distinct types of O.B.E.s:


Mental projections and
Phasing projections
A mental projection is where you just watch the impressions without fully immersing in
them. A phasing projection is where you do immerse in the nonphysical space. So its the
difference between doing zoom and phase or just zoom and watch.

You might wonder why stop at a mental projection if you can just go one more step and get a
fully immersive phasing projection?
There are three main reasons:
Its easier
Its faster
You can more easily keep a physical focus with mental projections.

Phasing requires that you actually separate from your body using phasing pressure to push
yourself into the memory impressions. Phasing pressure is a separator thats almost the same

thing as creating a feeling of a force in order to do the safety cap exit when you do a
traditional O.B.E and separate into the nonphysical version of your bedroom.

Because of this, you need to be deeper in trance to fully pull off a phasing projection. If
youre not deep enough youll run into vibrations and rushing noises, just like you would
with safety cap. With a mental projection you can just sit there and watch the impressions.
This makes mental projections quite a bit faster.

If you choose not to fully phase into the portal youre watching then you can back out of it
quite easily. This means if you get bored of the space youve tuned to its a lot easier to just
rezoom into another memory impression channel to watch. Just stop focusing on the
memory impression portal youve found, find another dot in the blackness and zoom into it.
You can quickly have several mental projections in a single session using rezooming.
Rezooming is one type of trance recycling. Well cover other ways to recycle trance when
we get to teleportation. This is an important way you can cheat and very quickly get to 100
O.B.E.s.

This also means you dont have to go through the entire process of waking up and falling
asleep to have another O.B.E. Just tune to another portal and enjoy a completely different
mental projection. The more time you spend in the in between states the faster you learn
those states and the easier it is for you to return to them on your next session.

The third advantage mental projections have is you can do them even while you have
complete awareness of your physical body. Some people, like Bruce Moen, are able to enter
mental projections and make physical tape recordings by narrating what happens in the
projection.

Bruce Moen has written several excellent books using this method, all of which I
recommend. His first four books are accounts of his nonphysical explorations. His 5 th book
called The Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook is more how to oriented. Ive read them all
and recommend them to anyone else whos seriously interested in nonphysical exploration.

Sometimes instead of focusing into a black void with glowing doors youll find yourself
looking into a scene of some kind. It can be hard to lock on to the scene. This is a good time
to use stimulus spikes we covered earlier such as bright flashing lights, clicking noises and
spinning the objects. To stabilize it further, pick a small part of the scene and frame it. Then
zoom your focus in to which will make it brighter and sharper. This will also make the rest
surroundings become more blurry and dark. This is what you want. Looking at the entire
scene when you first start the mental projection leaves you unfocused which is why its hard
to enter.

If theres a lot going on in the scene just frame and zoom smaller and smaller parts. For
instance, in this scene after youve zoomed into the macadamia nut stand, you can then zoom
into the sign on the stand to sharpen your focus even more. Sometimes you may not actually
be able to zoom in, but the act of focusing on one small part will cause it to sharpen and
brighten up which is all you need to start phasing.

Once youve stabilized your focus on one part of the image enough youll become anchored
to it and get drawn into the scene. Youll be able to phase into the imagery and enter it like a
giant portal. The imagery will be just as solid and detailed as waking physical awareness.

This trick also works when you have absolutely no portals or scenery to zoom in to at all.
Once youve done a couple phasing OBEs youll get a sense for how deep you need to be in
order for it to work. If you get to that point and still have no imagery then instead of waiting
for it you can use the crosshairs trick. Imagine crosshairs in the center of your vision and
repeatedly zoom in it over and over. This will put you in a deeper and deeper trance and
youll start to attract memory impressions that you can use to phase. You probably wont
actually see the crosshairs youre imagining. Just pretend that theyre there as a reference
point to feel yourself zooming further and further in.

You can also combine crosshair zooming with the shifted blackboard trick to make sure
youre zooming in to your nonphysical awareness and are not distracted by physical
hypnagogic swirling.

With the exit methods weve talked about so far we used passive visualization. They were
passive because you mainly just used your intent to prime the pump with memory
impressions, then you used those impressions to attract the actual nonphysical environment.
In active visualizations you dont just use intent to prime the pump, you visualize the whole
way through all the way up to the exit itself
Heres how this affects the OBE. The environment you wind up in when using passive
visualizations can be pretty much anything. This is because there was nothing in the
visualization to tell it otherwise. This is good and bad

Passive visualization usually creates much more interesting O.B.E.s than you could ever
think of on your own. Using passive visualization where you just roll the dice you can very
easily end up in amazingly fantastic areas that are way beyond anything Earth has to offer.
Forrest Gump would say passive visualizations are like a box of chocolates. You never

know what youre going to get and you can end up almost anywhere. Passive visualization is
also relatively easy because you can lose focus here and there and youll still end up
somewhere thats probably interesting.

On the down side, what you get with passive visualization depends a lot on your mood. If
youre feeling crummy you may end up in a dark locale thats no fun. You might even get
attacked by negative nonphysical beings. These do exist and I dont recommend seeking
them out because they are not always harmless. Well go into that in more detail in
Lucidology 103. You may also want to target a specific place to visit in your O.B.E. and
thats not likely unless you make it happen somehow.

11)
How To Use Sense Splitting To Teleport
Where You Want To Go.

Here in part 6 well cover even more sneaky speed cheats. Youll find out how to use sense

splitting to teleport where you want to go. By using teleporting O.B.E.s youll be able to
specifically target locations you want to explore.
So what is a teleporting O.B.E? In a teleporting O.B.E you teleport directly out of your body
without having to pass through any of the points in between.

You may wonder why should anyone both with teleporting? After all, dont the other
inductions work well enough?
Here are the 3 main advantages teleporting O.B.E.s have:
You can target a specific location you want to visit nonphysically by teleporting to it.
You can use teleporting to speed up phasing O.B.E.s by teleporting into your imagery rather
than phasing into it.
You can speed up your O.B.E.s into the nonphysical version of your bedroom by teleporting
out instead of having to relax past the vibration stage
So heres when and how do to teleporting O.B.E.s

You generally can do teleporting O.B.E.s when you have spinnable memory impressions.
Sometimes you can do them when theyre merely frameable. It helps a lot to be in sleep
paralysis, but its not completely required.

If you dont have visuals, you can also start at the point where you have a photographic
trance. Photographic trance combined with sleep paralysis is an especially effective point to
start a teleporting visualization.

To do a teleporting O.B.E. imagine youre outside looking at the wall of your house. Look its
texture and use your hands to feel the tiny grains and bumps on it. Run your fingers through
the grooves and note how different parts of the wall are smoother than others. Imagine
running your fingers down to the ground and feel the texture of the grass. Imagine running
your fingers through the grass and see if you can feel where some parts are more supple than
others. Find a patch where there is no grass and you can see the bare dirt. Dig out some of the
dirt and find a rock and roll it around in your fingers.
Next crouch down and smell how the air is more damp toward the ground than it is above.
Listen for the air blowing through the blades of grass and think about how things sound
differently when your head is low to the ground because it reflect noises away. Then look up
at the sky and see if you can see any shapes in the clouds. Next walk to a door and look at the
pattern on it.
Use your hand to wiggle the knob and see if you can feel the mechanism working inside.
Look around to see what else you can interact with. Feel their textures and see if any of the
objects make any noises. Next, speed up your exploration to achieve an information
surplus

Remember with the computer menu visualization you imagined clicking the screen really fast
to get more and more feedback from the visualization. This was how you got an information
surplus when you primed the pump.

Do the same with the teleporting visualization, speed things up and run around so that youre
getting feedback faster than you can think about it. This forces you to start absorbing the
information automatically. Once the information just flows to you youll get a sense that you
already know what is in the environment. Youll be aware that its right there in front of you
without consciously thinking about any of it. Develop the visualization so that the sensory
information starts coming in all in parallel rather than memory impressions one at a time.
When youre no longer thinking about each thing you see or touch one at a time, youll be

very close to literally being able to feel and see everything in the visualization just like its
physical awareness.

The key to successfully teleporting anywhere is to put your complete focus on the final result.
Focus on anything else will slow things down. Definitely do not imagine travelling in
between where-ever you want to teleport. The key to getting it to work is to imagine that
youre already there and youve already completed the teleportation.

Once youre out and have teleported, if you want to return the easiest way is to focus on head
space. We havent mentioned head space much so heres a refresher. Remember when you
first start a visualization the first step is to get out of head space using lazy random
daydreaming.

Then when its time to return, just do the reverse and focus on physical head space.

With mental projections, you could cheat and get multiple O.B.E.s using Rezooming by
tuning in to different memory impression portals without ever exiting trance. With the
teleporting exit, you can use Focus Straddling to shift your focus back and forth between
your physical and nonphysical body and effectively have multiple O.B.E.s without having to
do multiple O.B.E sessions. Focus Straddling is another type of trance recycling that allows
you to speed up your progress.
To do this, waver back and forth between your two bodies in order to gain confidence in your
abilities. Compare the differences in how each feels and note if your nonphysical copy is

missing sensory details that your physical self takes for granted.

Just like with mental projections, hovering between physical focus and teleported focus is a
great way to learn the transition state.
Each in/out cycle counts as a new O.B.E.

Something thats fun to do is to focus your sense of feel in your projected copy but keep your
sense of sight and hearing in your physical body.

Use your projected copy to knock on the walls loud enough that your physical body can hear
it. Since your physical body has nonphysical hearing at this point, youll be able to hear the
knocking off in the next room, or where ever your copy is. Youve effectively created a
poltergeist of yourself. This is a great way to quickly become adept at developing fine tune
control of where your focus is.

You have 5 physical senses, see how many ways you can focus certain parts nonphysically
and the others physically. This exercise will make you especially skilled at the selector stage
of O.B.E. inductions. For instance, you can leave your sense of sight and touch physical but
focus your hearing, smell and taste in your projected nonphysical copy. Or you can leave
your sense of touch and smell physical and project your sight, hearing and taste.

Using teleporting you can also convert lucid dreams into O.B.E.s and O.B.E.s into lucid
dreams. This allows you to recycle your trance and have more O.B.E.s even faster. Lets say
youre in a lucid dream where youre a Roman gladiator and you want to convert it into an
O.B.E.

In the lucid dream, get a focus on your physical body. Thinking about your head space is
usually the best way to get a physical focus inside a lucid dream. From there you can use any
of the O.B.E. inductions to convert headspace focus into an O.B.E.

Once you teleport back to your physical body you may actually already be in an O.B.E and
what you think is a physical focus may be a nonphysical focus. This is important to know
because if youre already in an O.B.E and try to induce paralysis to have another O.B.E it
probably wont work. The danger is that youll lay there trying to do an O.B.E induction and
never get anywhere because you already have a nonphysical focus. So the very first thing to
do after teleporting back to your body is to immediately do a movement-free reality check. If
your check works out, then you can just get up out of bed and youll already be in the O.B.E
for free!

You can also go the other way and convert an O.B.E. into a lucid dream. To do that, instead
of imagining youre teleporting into the next room over, recall what a dream you had was like
and teleport there.

Using this you can cycle between O.B.E.s and lucid dreams. This is a great trance recycling
technique to have a lot of O.B.E.s quickly.

The big take-away here is that lucid dreams and O.B.E.s are interchangeable. That means
they are really equivalent phenomena.

In fact, all the states weve talked about are really the same thing. The key requirement is that
you shift your focus to a nonphysical environment. Lucid dreams, O.B.E.s, mental
projections and all the rest are just ways of focusing in to various nonphysical environments
so theyre really all the same thing: They are all forms of nonphysical focus.

One thing youll find with teleporting is that its a lot easier to teleport into the next room
over than it is to teleport into really high energy heaven type areas. This is because the
nonphysical planes have their own rules. You cant always just invite yourself in to anywhere
you like.

12) Sleep Training

You now have all the theoretical tricks, tips and techniques you need to have lots and lots of
O.B.E.s. Now its time to condense them all into a final training cycle to take you from where
ever you are now, to 100 O.B.E.s in 100 days.
This is training cycle is the 100 OBE Battleplan. Here in part one well cover the two week
sleep training phase. Youll sync up your sleep cycle with the sun and if you have jet lag Ill
show you how to cure any amount of jetlag in a one day to get you back on track. Then youll
do test OBE practice routines to find out your sleep type and adjust your O.B.E style to fit
your specific needs.
There are two basic approaches to get to 100 OBEs in 100 days. The first approach is the
Weekday Drip. During the weekdays the goal is to have a morning O.B.E every few days.
The second approach is the Weekend Blitz. On the weekends the goal is to have multiple
O.B.E.s per morning session using all the cheating techniques weve covered. To do that? Its
3 steps to get there

The 100 O.B.E Battleplan is broken into 3 phases:


First the 2 week Sleep Training Phase where you calibrate your sleep cycle and practice
falling asleep quickly to have O.B.E.s more easily.
Secondly the 6 week O.B.E. Workout Phase where you practice doing each major style of
O.B.E. and find out what which kind youre best at.
Third the 6 week Rapid Fire Induction Phase where youll have multiple O.B.E.s per
session and rack up the majority of your O.B.E.s to bring you to a total of 100 O.B.Es in 100
days

In this section well cover the Sleep Training Phase which has 5 goals:
To condition yourself to never move or open your eyes when you wake up, but to always do
a movement-free reality check to what is happening.
To be able to get up with the sun and not feel tired.
To always fall asleep by 8 PM or 9 PM at the latest. The earlier you can fall asleep the
easier it is to get up early in the morning which makes lucidity much easier.
To use Sleep Training to be able to fall right back to sleep again quickly once youve woken
up and to do this without needing to roll over or move in any way.
To experience some new O.B.E related effect you havent had before, such as vibrations
rushing noises or sleep paralysis.

The first goal is to be asleep by 8 or 9 which has a giant impact on your ability to do early
morning O.B.E.s without feeling tired the rest of the day. The Sleep Training phase gives you
2 weeks to sync up your sleep schedule and be asleep by 9 PM at the latest. The simplest way
to do that is to CONSISTENTLY go to sleep 15 minutes earlier each night until you reach 9
P.M.
Always go to bed the instant you start to feel tired, and never resist sleepiness because that
quickly leads to insomnia. Any time you start to feel tired and you say, Ill just stay up
another 5 minutes youre training your body for insomnia and sabotaging your morning
OBEs before you even start.

If your sleep schedule is completely turned around and you have jet lag heres a trick you can
use to flip your sleep cycle back around in a single day Lets say in a typical day youre
awake for 15 hours and asleep for the other 9 hours. Suppose youre waking up at night and
going to sleep in the morning. If you want to flip this around so youre going to sleep at night
and getting up in the morning you can use something called the siesta effect.

The siesta effect is an afternoon slump everyone has in the afternoon. You get tired for an
hour or so and then return to normal.

All you have to do is treat the afternoon slump like its bed time, and bed time like its the
afternoon slump. Your afternoon slump is about 9 hours after you get up. So normally if you
wake up at 6 AM your afternoon slump is at 3 PM. If youre jet lagged all the way around the
world, and youre getting up at 9 PM and going to sleep at 6 AM, then your afternoon slump
is around 3 AM.

Go to sleep at 3 AM for 3 hours and get up at 6 AM.


Stay up for 15 hours until 9 PM and skip the 3 PM siesta.
Youll be plenty tired at 9 PM and will have no problem going to sleep and waking up at 6
AM again after 9 hours of sleep.
Remember: After doing this be sure to stick rigidly to your new 6 AM to 9 PM sleep cycle

because your body will try to revert to your old cycle.

If youre jetlagged something less than 12 hours, all you need to do is go to sleep 9 hours
after you wake up. Sleep for 3 hours. Then stay up until 9 PM.
Now, assuming your sleep cycle is synced up right, the next step is night time sleep training.

Night time is great for practicing new things because you dont have to worry about trying to
be asleep before the next timer beep like you do in the morning routines. So here are the top 5
things to practice each night so that youll be well prepared for the weekend blitz.
These are Jaw Relaxation, Inducing the Roll Signal, Stopping Eye Micromovements, Sleep
Breathing and Photographic Ownership.

Step 1: Each night use all of the relaxation method from earlier. However pay especially
close attention to your jaws. Practice getting in the habit of checking your jaw every few
minutes as you fall asleep to make sure its still relaxed and your teeth are not touching.

Step 2: After youve used the relaxation method practice using Stop, Drop and Roll to
induce the roll over signal. Be sure to watch for the roll over signal in your legs and resist
moving them until you absolutely cant stand it.

Step 3: Third, each night pay particularly close attention to relaxing your eyeballs to the
point where they have no more micromovements. The shifted eyeballs trick is a good way to
forget about your physical eyes so they relax faster.

Step 4: Fourth, practice sleep breathing each night until you are very familiar with the good
exhale feeling. Make sure to make a recording of yourself breathing when youre asleep so
you know exactly how to mimic your breathing. Sleep breathing is something that can cause
you to take longer to fall asleep if you dont have the exhale and inhale timing right.
Therefore its best not to use sleep breathing during your morning routines until after youve
had success using it at night to fall asleep quickly.

The 5th nightly goal is to practice getting to photographic ownership at progressively lighter
and lighter levels of trance. Keep a log and track how long it took for you to reach a
photographic trance each night. You may want to see part 3 again for a review on
photographic trance.
The next goal is to find out what sleeping type you have so that when you go to do the timer
method you can have a routine tailored for your specific physiology.

Your sleep type is defined by where you fit on this graph, it's a recording of your waking
resistance which is how hard it is to go from asleep to awake. Its also a recording of your
sleep resistance which is how hard it is to go from awake to asleep.

During the 1st 4 days of the 1st week youll find out where you fit on the graph by waking up
earlier than usual and practice falling right back to sleep without moving. The easiest way to
do this with Beep And Sleep.

Set the Flash timer to beep at 7:30 AM, go to sleep at 9PM, wake up when the timer beeps,
then go directly to sleep again without moving. The goal here is not to have an O.B.E but
simply wake up and fall asleep without moving. If you try to have an O.B.E when you first
start practicing beep and sleep, it will probably cause you to stay awake. After you fall asleep
you may experience sleep paralysis and vibrations, but thats more of a bonus than a goal.
Each day gradually add earlier beeps until youre able to respond to the beep and fall asleep
again without any trouble.

Step 1: The first thing to practice is the instant you wake up, train yourself to automatically
do a movement-free reality check as soon as you realize whats happening. Do this
reflexively without thinking every time you awake. A great check to use is the blindfold
check. Refer back to Lucidology 101 for other excellent checks to use.

Step 2: The second thing to practice is to observe the level of relaxation you have when you
wake up. As soon as you wake up, stop for a moment before you move and carefully observe
how relaxed each muscle group in your body is. Start by observing the feeling of relaxation
in your feet. Then shift your awareness up the rest of your body to your neck and head.
Program yourself to be able to quickly re-enter this level of deep relaxation by telling
yourself This feeling of sleeping relaxation. Recall that feeling of relaxation later by telling
yourself I'm now in sleeping relaxation and then bring back that same feeling of relaxation
very quickly.

Step 3: The third thing to watch for in your morning routines is to watch for the everimportant roll over signal, just like you do at night. Only this time dont use stop drop and
roll. Just stay still and wait for it to come as youre falling back to sleep. Eventually youll be
able to stay aware and observe the sleep paralysis wave.

Finally, the 4th thing to practice in your morning routines is to check for your nonphysical
eyes closing and learning the photographic trance feeling. Refer back to Lucidology 102 part
3 for the details on that. The basic routine is to fall asleep on your back and dream for a few
minutes. As youre waking up watch to see your nonphysical eyelids closing.

On Saturday youll be ready to do your first full wake back to bed timer induction.
The goals for this session are:
Test to see if the timer base is too long or short for you.
Experience something O.B.E. related that you havent had before, such as vibrations,
rushing noises or sleep paralysis. You may not have a full blown O.B.E but if you experience
a phenomenon youve never had your entire life then its a successful attempt.
Your goal is to shoot for waking sleep paralysis instead of going for an OBE right off the bat.
Once you can induce sleep paralysis youve made really solid progress and then its just a
matter of using the exit methods to convert it into an OBE.

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