I'm a novice who has lucid dreams, but I haven't had an OBE yet. I could use some advice on the rope climbing technique. I've got the following questions:
- When we climb, are we supposed to feel like we are rising up from the bed? Or more like we're pulling in the rope?
- When I feel myself rising, I tend to envision myself climbing up through the room, into the attic, through the roof and into the sky. Is this okay – or should we not visualize the climbing process? Should we instead just concentrate on the tactile sensations?
- The more realistic the climbing process feels, the harder it is to keep my physical shoulders relaxed. When I periodically return my attention back to my physical body to check it, I find my shoulders are tensed up from the effort of climbing. It helps somewhat to climb on the in-breath and relax the body on the out-breath. But is this method putting too much focus on the physical body?