Quote from: Selski on September 29, 2007, 16:54:43
Hi Katrina
The way I see phasing (and phase) is after I've had a good few hours sleep. I sometimes wake up in the early hours and this is the best time as I've already had my rest and am less likely to simply fall back to sleep.
The key for me is relaxation. To relax not only the body (which should be fairly easy if you are already in that sleepy/drifty mode), but you also need to lower your mind to just before the point of falling asleep - which isn't quite as easy.
What should happen (and it can be the first time or it can take lots of practice) is that you start to see images, lots of them, perhaps 3 or 4 per second. They are normally too quick for me to latch onto any of them, but after a few seconds of this, one image will stay, become stable and you are then able to look at it, around it and it will become three-dimensional. Some instinct will tell you that you are now able to enter the scenery (if you have not already done automatically).
Sometimes I tentatively put my arm in (not my physical arm) and will see it waving around in front of the image. If I'm struggling to get in, I touch something in the image and this instantly puts me in the picture - with my mind awake and alert and ready to go.
I think the two major stumbling blocks are not being relaxed enough (physically) and not being relaxed enough (mentally).
Very simply put, you are training your mind to stay awake as you watch a dream open out before your eyes and are then able to step into that dream with your logical mind fully in tact, thereby starting the dream lucid. From here, you can do whatever you like, stay with the imagery or move onto somewhere else, perhaps meeting deceased friends/relatives or visiting The Park, or whatever. The (inner) world is your oyster!
Sarah
Thats a W.I.L.D (wake induced lucid dream)... thats a bit different to phasing although I guess you could say they're cousins. When you phase you simple direct 100% of your attention inward until you become "out of phase" with the physical... I get vibrations, astral noise, chakra sensations and then pop im free, floating in 3D blackness. There are a couple of things I find that help me... One: simply noticing the blackness infront of my eyes and keep noticing it again and again. Two: at a particular point I feel im able to "merge" with the blackness (then i start getting exit symptoms). Three: Alternatively just raising energy for about 5 - 10 minutes is enough to onset the vibrations... What I do is a open the minor charkas in the feet then raise energy up through the legs to the base chakra and then open the base chakra, then I raise energy up through the legs, to the base and up to the sacral chakra etc etc until im right up to the crown and by then I have vibrations.