Keeping Your Eyes Closed

[Xanth]

http://unlimitedboundaries.ca/2010/09/26/phasing-method-dont-open-your-eyes-when-you-wake/

I read this once before on the Astral Pulse which is why when it happened to me I gave it a shot.
I made a post on my website about it, so I'll just go cut and paste the bulk of it here for others to read.

So, the one time I managed to do this I was already in a lucid dream (the LD was me in this room full of toilets and urinals... I know, strange LOL) and I began to feel that usual feeling of 'waking up'. My vision went to black and I felt the shift... I knew I was back in the physical, lying in my bed, and it happened so smoothly that I didn't bother to open my eyes. I figured I'd go back to sleep, and within what felt like one minute I slipped back into my lucid dream at the exact point I had left, in the toilet-filled room. A couple minutes into this lucid dream, I, again, felt myself waking up... I kept my eyes closed for that waking as well.

I kept doing this over and over... four times, each time I woke up faster and faster. The fifth time, I got into the lucid dream and I immediately began waking up. I initiated my spinning thing to ground and keep myself within the lucid dream... but it didn't work and had a secondary effect of causing me to have a classic OBE experience where I felt my arms float up and the rest of me follow.  I opened my eyes and I was floating down towards the foot of my bed.  This lasted about 10 seconds, when I came back to the physical.

So that's the only experience I can remember where I managed to not open my eyes upon waking up.

Many times I've read stories of people doing this exact thing to project... well, all I can say is that it does work IF you can remember to not open your eyes when you wake.  For me, it was a matter of already being lucid in the dream and sensing when I was waking so I could prepare myself to do it.

Hopefully this helps someone. 

Any thoughts?

Has anyone else been able to successfully NOT open their eyes upon waking up?
Were you already in a lucid dream like I was and "felt" that you were waking?
Did you just wake up and not open your eyes?

[personalreality]

no, i can never remember to do anything first thing in the morning when i wake up.

also, i always have to pee when i wake up.  i can't figure out how early i have to stop drinking liquid to not have to go to the bathroom in the morning.  lately, getting up to pee wakes me up too much.

[radman32]

Yes, but not smoothly transitioning from a lucid dream. I'd be able to sustain my heavily sedated state in bed, and head back to sleep. I'd be able to note the difference in consciousness', but I'm not great at sustaining the OOB consciousness.

[trishabella]

Heyyyyyy answer this question.

A few years ago i fell asleep in some pajamas, on my bed, with the covers over me. I then proceeded to have a dream where i opened my eyes, looked around my room which was in the same state it was in when i fell asleep, then felt something like my "spirit" float above my body and look down on myself. I saw myself wearing the same pajamas that i had fallen asleep in and that my spirit was currently wearing, and saw my body lying in an awkward sleep-like position, and watched my chest rise in fall as if i was deep in slumber. My spirt then floated back down, merged with my body, and a few seconds later i opened my eyes from my physical body and realized i was in the same position i was in when i "dreamt" i was floating above my body. No body believe this happened, big surprise there right?  But was this AP or am i just playing into a dream too much?

[personalreality]

either way, doesn't matter.  same thing.

[floriferous]

I woke from a lucid dream recently in which I opened my physical eyes for a few seconds then closed them again. Interestingly, I could still see vague image of the scene still on the backs of my eyelids and was able to phase immediately back into it.

Another incident comes to mind after a tried a bedtime session. I clicked out majorly (as normally is the case when I try at this time). I resurfaced some time later and noticed a hole in the blackness of my eyelids. It looked like there was an unfamiliar room through the hole. I thought perhaps my eyes were partially open and I was in fact seeing light reflecting through the gap in the curtains of my darkened bedroom. I opened my eyes fully and realised this wasn't the case. On closing my eyes again the hole was still there. I mentally pulled the hole closer to me. As it did I got far too excited at the implications of this (kind of) overlay experience. This had the inevitable effect of ruining it and I lost the image shortly after.

[blis]

Waking up from normal sleep I think I pretty much always open my eyes. Hard to be sure though as it takes a minute for my mind to start in the morning.

From a lucid dream I can keep them closed if I want.

If I wake up after having fallen asleep doing energy work or listening to a hemisync cd then I usually wake up in a really calm state with my eyes closed.

[BlueTone]

Reminds me of a very strange experience i had a few months ago....

       I was in a Lucid Dream. I would notice the environment fading away, and could myself waking up. I would consciously keep my eyes close and comfortable, and i actually remember the sensations of realigning in my body, then fading back out directly into the dream i left. Its a weird sensation feeling all your lil' physical nerves and such, then feeling yourself slip somewhere else. This happened about 3-4 times until the last time i woke up, I didn't feel the trance sensations. So i just rolled outa bed and wrote everything down..

       Valid point you made though, Being able to wake up from a LD and keeping your eyes closed, would allow you to either slip out, Or slip into a LD VERY Easily. Its like convincing your body you never woke up in the first place ^_^...

Thanks for Sharing bud!,
                                        Ryan D

[Stookie]

When I wake up, if I open my eyes, I just close them again and start looking for light. Once I start seeing light in the blackness (normally less than a minute), it's on. It's not a technique though, just something I do when I wake some mornings.