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This sounds a lot like something I saw on Stuart Wilde's site:
http://stuartwilde.com/Articles/SW_articles_supernatural_powers.htm

A lady I know in her mid-thirties has recently developed an acute telescopic sense of smell. She was telling me that she discovered to her surprise that she could smell a leather briefcase at a distance of two city blocks. An American friend––a family man in his fifties, told me he could smell people and identify them from across the street. Some, he said, have a very beautiful, very distinct smell, while others are quite vile, even from twenty or thirty yards away.

When you say "tastes" do you mean that in a literal sensory sense?

Feelings are layered inside of the human body, and you can actually dive through these layers...

Do you mean that in a literal sense, such as being able to project into your emotions and see them as a 'physical' environment?

Hi Warren, welcome to the forum!

Hi! Welcome to the forum!

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The way it worked for me, I practiced holding my mind silent for a count of 2, then after a week or two to about 5, then eventually to 10 then 30.

After that the chatter was gone and it would be somewhat difficult to bring it back.

It only takes about two months to develop a perpetually silent mind, it's not nearly as hard as people say. It's far harder to learn a second language than it is to silent your mind.

The first step is to learn what it feels like to to watch the body fall asleep. Once you know that other methods because far easier.

Here's one way to do it, this takes two days to do. The first day write down:

• What time you get out of bed
  
  
• What time in the afternoon your melatonin levels go up temporarily and make you tired
  
  
• What time the melatonin spike wears off
  
  
• What time you go to bed[/list:u]
  
  On day two get up three hours earlier than you usually do, this will cut off two REM cycles of sleep.
  
  In the afternoon, a half hour before your melatonin spike comes put yourself into dark surroundings to prepare for a short nap. When the time for the spike arrives, set your alarm clock for a half hour. Lay down in a position where you won't cut off any circulation and in which you can fall asleep.
  
  Close your eyes, put your mental focus on your chest and lightly focus your eyes about 18 inches in to the blackness behind your eyelids.
  
  Wait for a half hour and do not move at all, including not moving your eyes. You will almost certainly fall asleep during that time. When the heaviness wave comes as your body falls asleep you will feel it in your chest first because it makes your breathing somewhat more difficult, if your focus is already on your chest there's less of a chance that you will be startled and wake up.
  
  When your body falls asleep, lay there and memorize what it feels like. You can also try projecting from this state using the following:
  
  http://www.saltcube.com/out-of-body/chat-forum/viewTopic.jsp?t=after-fall-asleep
  
  Get up after a half hour when your alarm clock goes off. Under no circumstances should you sleep in the afternoon longer than a half hour because there's a strong risk of throwing off the sleep cycle.
  
  You may be tired but stay up until the same time you did the night before so your sleep cycle will be back on track.

Ahhh, nevermind. Here's the page if anyone else is looking for it:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/search.php?search_id=newposts

It's a pain to have to go through all the subforums to see what's new, is there a page that shows what has changed since the last visit?

One of the most difficult things to do is to know how close you are to exiting and unless you've done it a few times you don't know what's going on until after you've done it.

You can use these charts to sort of tell about how far you've gone depending on what phenomenon you're sensing at the time:

I also posted these at my forum at http://www.saltcube.com/how-close

In one of this morning's OBESs I found a trick for gaining sight. All I did was use my hands to pry my eyes open and suddenly I could see perfectly!

I think this works well because you're being very clear about what you want to have happen. It's like using a pair of scissors to open a dream paper package rather than trying to imagine it opening by itself. Just imagining it opening on its own is not very effective because you don't have much real-life experience with packages opening by themselves and so it's hard to be clear about what you're intending to happen.

However if you imagine an invisible pair of scissors cutting the paper, then you're using well-defined life experience to be very clear about the result you desire.

So, if you use your hands to open your eyes up it should work pretty well to gain sight. To be clear about it, you might want to practice, while awake, reaching up and opening your closed eyes with your hands so you are sure to be clear about what you're doing when in the dre

You may want to do NEW on your hands while awake so that you have lots of awareness of their shape as well.

[Update]

This goes in conjunction with the Rapid Fire Phasing method at
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13576


It turns out the synchronization between mind and body isn't as close as we might expect. The body doesn't know exactly when your mind has fallen asleep, and for survival reasons would be dangerous for the body to go to sleep before the mind has.

So the what happens is the body tests the mind to see if it's asleep. If you lay with a silent mind very very still for about 25 minutes and are nicely relaxed, your body will eventually send a very strong signal to your mind saying "I'm uncomfortable, please shift your position in bed."

But this is just a ruse! The body is not really uncomfortable, it's just testing to see if it can get a response from the mind. If you ignore this signal, your body waits a few seconds and says "Hmm, the mind must have gone to sleep. Time for me to do the same."

At that point you will literally feel a wave of heaviness come over the body. This wave takes about 5 seconds to complete, and when it's done your body has fallen asleep. This wave is very odd feeling and distinct, it's something you can't miss.

There will be no doubt that your body has gone to sleep. If you have silicone putty earplugs in it will be easy to listen to your hearing shift from physical hearing into realtime hearing.

So the trick is to lie still until out of nowhere you get a sudden and strong urge to shift your position. It will not be easy to resist it, the body will be somewhat adamant. But if you persist in your deception and fool the body into thinking your mind is asleep then it will follow, and then there you are in Focus 10!!

Of course, the first time you do this successfully you'll probably get excited and flub it like I always do the first time. But if you do it a couple times it will become old-hat and you can just sail through it.

Update
One thing you should know is that it's very easy for the mind the fall asleep doing this, which is why I recommend using a self-repeating timer to keep your mind awake. It's like a safety net.

Here's the timer URL:
http://www.saltcube.com/timer.html

I was able to get this to work this morning without using a timer, but I just tried it in the afternoon and I had a false awakening instead. I was laying here and after a while I realised I was seeing hypnagogic imagery of a person walking I think in my left eye. I opened my eyes and the imagery overlayed on the physical scene, it made it look like I was projecting a movie film of the person walking on my arm.

When I started to try to understand what was happening I woke up for real. So pretty much if your mind does fall asleep before you get the 'reposition' signal from the body, then you've missed the opportinuty to test it.

Using that timer HTML page I posted to beep at you every 10 minutes will keep you coherent. As long as the sound doesn't shock you the beep won't wake up your body, only your mind.


2nd Update
The first time I got this to work I had only gotten about 3-4 hours of sleep the night before, maybe half my usual sleep time. That probably affected my ability to fall asleep pretty easily.

I've been watching to see for more effects and I've also noticed that before you get the uncomfortable sensation you feel a little dizzy and it's as if there's a balloon in your upper body and head that's expanding against the inside of your skull and skin. It's not very much pressure but it is there.


3rd Update
People have reported that:

1.) It works better if you skip atleast one meal before doing it. (cube: For me I don't like to be too hungry, but if I am trying to digest things then it does become harder to do.)

2.) It helps if you're slightly tired. (cube: Definitely this does help.)

3.) cube: For the time you're laying still, that means absolutely everything, including your eyes. Don't move your eyes even to look at hypnagogics.


If you have more observations about improving the method please post them.

[The Method]

I found that loud noises wake the mind but not the body. I used this fact to have four OBEs this morning in the space of about an hour and a half.

Most of the time when we are asleep and are woken by a loud noise we automatically move or shift in bed in order to wake the body.

If you suppress your instinct to move, then your body doesn't wake up and you are in mind awake/body asleep. At that point you can begin your favorite conceptualization/visualization and slip directly into a lucid dream, or phase into an OBE.

Here is a method I'm calling Rapid Fire Phasing which is similar to Body Fake Out. With this method you won't experience leaving the body like you do when you do Body Fake Out. Instead you'll phase into a lucid dream and then you can have an OBE if you want.

The Method
The prep works is the same as Body Fake Out: get enough sunlight and exercise the day before so that you'll be able to wake in the morning and then be able to go back to sleep no problem.

Get up two hours early, before you get up recall your most recent dream in the best detail you can. When you wake observe what position your body is in. Stand up and practice getting into that exact position.


Set your an alarm clock for your normal waking time so that you're assured not to oversleep.

If you are hungry, eat something liquid like a protein shake so that that's not going to make your stomach wake you up digesting it. Avoid anything sugary.

If you feel you can go to sleep immediately then do it. Otherwise stay awake until you start to yawn, maybe an hour or so.

Set your timer to do 10 minute intervals over and over.

Lay down in the position you woke up in. Use the first 5-10 minutes finding exactly the right position so that you can be perfectly still and not uncomfortable in any way.

Fall asleep while recalling the dream you were having. If you had a bad dream or can't remember the dream, begin conceptualizing yourself walking around your house looking at things.

Staying perfectly still is key to this. Don't breathe deeply (unless you happend to be in paralysis) because that's enough to wake the body.

When the timer wakes you up, don't move, just begin the conceptualization once more. It will turn into vivid imagery which you will naturally phase into.

When the phasing/lucid dream is over or you lose the connection to the dream and feel that your consciousness is focused more on your physical body than the dream, you are in a good position to try for an OBE.

You may not be able to see anything but black, but try to just get up. You will probably get up out of your body. Just walk until you see something, then focus on it to gain clarity.

Don't stare at one spot because that will result in your vision zooming down to microscopic vision. Instead move your vision in a spiral around the scene.

Every time the timer goes off, your body will be a little but more asleep; so as long as you don't move so you can keep doing this for an hour or two if you like.

Gotchas
I found that if I'm a little bit cold I can't phase at all. In Journeys Out Of The Body, Monroe writes that 96.2% of his OBEs were while he was warm and only 3.8% when cold. So, before you start make sure you've got maybe an extra blanket or something.


Timers
Because using a digital timer requires you to move your body (your fingers), it's not ideal although I have gotten this to work by being careful to only move my thumb.

A better solution is to use a CD player on repeat that plays a loud beep every 10 minutes. Or you can use this HTML web page I made that lets you program in an arbitrary timer sequence:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/uploaded/cube/timer.zip

Just unzip the file to a directory and open timer.html in IE Explorer. You can use it to beep at you every 10 minutes and wake you up without having to move.

Whenever someone replies to a topic I'm subscribed to it sends me two emails. It just started doing this recently, in the last few days I think.

This morning I was playing around with different intervals for the surprised body thing. I was looking for a good position to lay in where I would stay there without ever moving a muscle to change the timer.

After about 25 minutes of doing one-minute intervals I started going from conceptualizing imagery directly into what seemed like 5 and 10 minute lucid dreams, even though the timer was set for one minute.

What would happen is, imagery would form in a static fashion. It wasn't really back-of-the-eyelid imagery, but more like it was straight from my brain. It looked grey like through a mist. It would turn itself on and begin animating, like I could watch plants blowing on a field.

Then it would drop into full color, and I would drift into the scene and have a lucid dream. I wasn't fully coherent even though it had a high degree of realism because I didn't really know who I was.

Anyway, it seems that using one minute intervals is a good way to explore hovering on that boundary without totally falling asleep.  Of course my goal is to spend enough time on that boundary that I learn it and don't need the timer.

I got some notifications that people replied to my flying poodle thread but when I click the links it takes me to the forum homepage. Why does that happen?

The thread was at http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13434

[The technique]

Note: I have an updated version of this method at http://saltcube.com/?t=rhythm-napping

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This is a very easy and effective technique that doesn't involve any mental skills or discipline. It's been 80% effective to send me into a projection over the last two weeks.

I call this the Rhythm Method method, it's basically the 'wake-back-to-bed' or 'interrupted sleep' methods on steroids.

All you have to do is confuse your body into the "mind awake/body asleep" state by alternating falling asleep and waking up in the morning. The morning is the best time to do this because your melatonin/DHEA ratio is optimal.

It is important to follow this technique to the letter! The times when I didn't project were when I was trying to tweak something. The 5/10/15 minute, etc intervals below are crucial.


The technique
Get a digital cooking timer, some silicone earplugs and an alarm clock. Make sure the timer is loud enough to wake you up through the earplugs. If you're using a custom timer make sure you use a high-pitched sound that will definitely wake you up each time. Low-pitched sounds probably won't wake you up even if they're loud.

Go to sleep at your normal bed time.

Use the alarm clock to get up two hours early.


If you are able to go back to sleep immediately when you wake, and you're not so hungry that it keeps you awake, then just go straight into the routine. However if you find that you can't get to sleep, then you should stay up for an hour or so while until you begin yawning and are tired enough to sleep again.

If you are hungry, eat something very light, not sugary and which won't give you cramps or make your stomach digest too exuberantly. A banana is good, a low sugar protein drink is ideal because it's easy to digest and takes a while to get through your system.


Set the alarm clock for your normal waking time. This is important because there's a good chance you'll oversleep using this technique without the alarm clock.

Put in the earplugs.

Make the following intentions to yourself:
1.) I will fall asleep easily and wake up ready to project.
2.) If I dream, I will become lucid and move into an OBE automatically

Set the timer for 5 minutes.

Try to fall asleep, it's OK if you don't actually make it in 5 minutes but at least relax as much as possible. When the timer beeps do a reality check because you may have projected without knowing it. My favorite reality check is to see if I can will my finger to stretch out and touch the wall.

The less you move your body the more effective this technique is, when you reset the timer practive so you can do it using only your thumb and without looking at it if possible.

When the timer wakes you up, do a reality check and set it for 10 minutes and fall asleep again.

When the timer wakes you up, do a reality check and set it for 15 minutes and fall asleep again.

When the timer wakes you up, do a reality check and set it for 20 minutes and fall asleep again.

When the timer wakes you up, do a reality check and set it for 25 minutes and fall asleep again.

Continue doing 25 minute naps until you project. Usually I will project inside the first 10 minutes of the first or second 25 minute nap. Every time the timer goes off do a reality check.


You will probably project doing this. After your projection, get up and write down what happened, then start over doing 5 minute naps, etc if you wish to project again. You must start over at the beginning, going back into 25 minute naps won't work.


What to expect
Whenever you go to sleep then wake up and don't move, and then fall asleep again, sleep paralysis is likely. Paralysis is the ideal condition from which to project because there's no mistaking the fact that you're in paralysis and if you know what to do you can't possibly screw it up. Simply begin breathing deeply until you project, you'll pop out every time.


Lucid dreams are also very likely, you can ask for a dream trainer (like an astral guide) to help you out of your body if you have the awareness to do so in the dream. Alternately you can enjoy the dream as is, or you can teleport back to your body and get up out of it to make it into an official OBE.


If you wake up and find you have the heavy feeling and vibrations, the safest ways to project are those which do not involve you moving your body. If you try rope or rolling out, there's a good chance you'll move your physical body and botch it. A better solution is to concentrate on the force of gravity to push you out of body.

If you are in a projection state, then you'll sink into your bed. Because astral sight allows you to see through things by controlling the depth at which you are focusing, focus on the ceiling or the wall as you sink into the bed. As long as you focus on the depth of the ceiling, your sight won't be blocked by your matress and you won't lose your sight to blackness.

Just sink about three feet into your bed so you know for sure that you've projected, at that point it's safe to actually move.


Your equipment
You want a digital timer that's easy to set and doesn't tick. Wal-Mart has one made by West Bend that I like for about $8.

This is kind of like the Wal-Mart one but you don't need to spend $25 on a timer:
http://www.comforthouse.com/comfort/kittimtripti.html


You don't absolutely have to have earplugs but if you use them then you might as well get the good ones. The best earplugs are silicone putty like these:
http://www.drugstore.com/qxp75090_333181_sespider/macks/pillow_soft_silicone_earplugs_value_pack.htm

Of all the earplugs I've tried those are really the only ones worth buying in my opinion. My ear canals don't seem to be the right shape for the others and I can always hear things through them. You can get them at Target.

When you put them in your ears don't roll them into a ball, just press them over your ears like the instructions say. If they go into your ear, your ear will get irritated and make slime to push them out and they won't stay in. You can put a little square of tissue paper over them so they don't stick to your pillow.


Gotchas
I found that if I'm a little bit cold I can't phase at all. In Journeys Out Of The Body, Monroe writes that 96.2% of his OBEs were while he was warm and only 3.8% when cold. So, before you start make sure you've got maybe an extra blanket or something.


Why I think this works
I've tried combining this with specific visualizations during each nap, and also staying up for various periods before starting the nap sequence. I've also tried getting up to sleep in a different spot than usual.

However, I've had my best success by just simply falling asleep in my bed as usual, thereby tricking my body into thinking everything is going as usual even though it isn't, I think by using the short 5 and 10 minute naps you program your body to expect them.

Your body does not like to be shocked into a waking state, so it gets you ready ahead of time. A lot of times if I set my alarm clock for 6:30 I will wake up at 6:25 because my body hates to be jolted like that.

So then when you go to sleep for the 25 minute naps, your body is thinking about those 5 and 10 minute naps you just had so it gets ready to wake you up. The fake out is that instead you stay asleep!

So there's your ideal condition to project, it's in the morning so you've got not much melatonin to make you sleepy but lots of DHEA to make you alert. Your body thinks it's time to wake you up so it readies your mind to awake, but when your body stays asleep it sends you into a projection!

The flip side to this is while your body is confused it will give up and not wake you up at your usual waking time, so if you don't use an alarm clock there's a good chance you'll sleep in an extra six hours.

As long as you get up and start moving around at your usual waking time, your body will not be confused the next day unless you want it to be and fake it out again.

I don't try to do this laying on my back because I can't sleep that way, so far it seems that keeping things simple and just falling asleep normally works the best.

Update:
Something I discovered this morning is that it's easy to confuse your mind with this one. It's possible that you will project but think you're in the physical, the timer goes off and you sit there fooling with the timer and the display doesn't make any sense and it's because you're in the astral!

Timer:
You can use this HTML web page I made that lets you program in an arbitrary timer sequence:

http://saltcube.com/timer.html

I had a dream last night looking over a desert battlefield. It was night-time, a starless black sky but the area was starkly illuminated by perpetual gunfire bursts and exploding bombs. Middle-eastern men stood scattered for miles lugging machineguns and firing forward. They were getting shot apart, their bodies laying in pieces here and there twitching and bleeding.

A group of people were surrounding a woman who was screaming and giving birth painfully, a man helped her deliver it. When she finally gave birth he took the baby and held it close to his chest, walking around behind her with his back to her. She panicked and turned to reach to take her baby but he wouldn't let her have it.

All I could see of the baby was that it had a long thick hairless pink slimy tail, like a rat's or a mammalian serpent.

My interpretation is that an abomination has been born in the Middle East. It's something that might not be a threat right now, but the die has been cast; a crucial decision has been made that can't be undone. The demon child represents a certain series of growing events are now so highly probable as to be almost inevitable.

There's no way to say what the events will be, but they probably won't be what anybody wanted, except for maybe a very few very powerful people.

It doesn't say that they won the X-Prize, does anyone know if this qualifies?

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5475673

[Please don't post replies to this thread because that would defeat its purpose.]

I'm going to be posting a just SD's mediation posts from the Mediating An Archangel thread in this thread.

Please don't post replies to this thread because that would defeat its purpose.

This info should be used for entertainment purposes only, always test everything.

If you would like to ask Micheal questions, please post them in:
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10843

Enjoy!

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[3rd eye]

I'd like to find out what people feel when they concentrate on each chakra. For me they're all different and some I can feel easily and others I can't detect at all.


3rd eye
This is the easiest for me to feel, I concentrate on it for a second or two and it feels like a little ball in my forehead. I experimented with twisting it around and looking in other directions with it but it doesn't seem to affect anything.

Sentential said that your 3rd eye will bleed you dry of energy if you leave it open because it takes so much to keep it going, I think he's right, I've found that once I open it, it will give the ball feeling for a long time without thinking about it and I specifically have to think about turning it off usually.


crown
I have no control over when I feel this chakra but when I do it feels like a hat band around my head. Several times I went to take off my cap and there wasn't anything there. This chakra seems to have a mind of its own, even when I do energy work I can't get the hat feeling on command.


throat
I've never really felt this chakra directly but when I've had strong vibrations from breathwork or by accidentally walking up in them, I've felt a lot of vibrations in the throat area indicating a blockage there. It just felt like a band of resistance wrapped around my neck.


heart
The only feelings I get from the heart chakra are if I meditate and concentrate on it, then it will sometimes give me the racing heart feeling. I don't think that's really feeling the heart chakra though, but more of a side effect.


sacral
When I do breathing for vibrations it feels like a fuzzy ball of vibes in my stomach like that's where all the power is radiating from. I've tried to pinpoint where this chakra is but it seems too blobby and not very well defined like it fades in and out. I think for me it's the biggest of the chakras other than the root and crown which don't really count since they go beyond your body.


root
I have never felt this chakra, if there wasn't literature about it I wouldn't beleive it existed.


I'm especially interested in how people feel the chakras that I can't detect such as the root and heart chakras.

I woke up at 5:20, got up for one hour then went back to bed at 6:20. I've read in several places that the interrupted sleep technique is best when you stay awake for an hour rather than going beck to bed immediately, and from my experience this seems to be the case.

I had some semi-lucid dreams, they were more vivid than usual but I wasn't totally aware. I found that I was in bed and ready to project, I was laying on my stomach with the "it's time to project" feeling. I lay there a moment observing the way it felt so that I would be able to use that sensation later to produce a conscious projection.

I did deep breaths and started rapidly switching between astral and physical sight. My physical eyes were closed by my astral eyes were slightly open looking down into my covers. My astral covers were pinstriped rather than solid blue.

I separated and got up out of bed, I walked around my apartment a bit. The last time I projected here there were almost no differences between the astral and physical versions, but this time it was like it had been remodeled.

First of all the rooms were all a little wider and bigger feeling. There were many potted plants in the work area. My bedroom had a recessed ledge on the wall where there was a long line of about 50 candles in jars.

The walls looked like there was a shiny black covering on them, but it could have been mirroring and if I'd turned on a light they would not have looked black. Instead of the linen closet there was a seond bathroom that looked like it was made out of smooth brown granite, way more expensive than anything I can afford.

Instead of red baggy shorts and a white T shirt I was wearing black baggy shorts and no T shirt. My shorts were dirty looking so I decided to change them and go out exploring. I was in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror telling myself out loud that this is going to be a long projection and then it was over!

I have a feeling I accidentally broke my 'no imagination while in the RTZ' rule. By thinking about what's going to happen in the future and not what's being experienced right then I weakened the connection and lost it.

I woke up at 8:50 and got up to type this. I'm going to lay back down and try for another, I will try to recall the sensation and go for a more conscious projection without falling asleep first.

My theory about the RTZ/physical world differences are that the differences are mostly magnifications of what I've done since I moved here. I bought a couple candles that I keep burning in the hopes of attracting positive spirits, I've got a potted plant sitting in the middle of the room because I'm not sure where to put it. I've got some pillows propped up against the wall like a chair and I think that may be where the red leather/vinyl armchair came from that I saw in a previous OBE.

I think maybe my higher self has better taste than I do and has fixed up the astral version of this place better than I have. My overall feel of my astral apartment was that it was owned by someone with a lot more money than I have, I liked it but went I was back in the physical everything looked a little cheap and inadequate.

Anyway, this is in line with the new age idea that the things we do on the physical plane affect our higher selves all the way up the line as far as the line may go. So it's in our higher selves interests not to let us get lazy.

I'm trying to project from a conscious state rather than from a sleeping state. I found that I can create the double by relaxing and then remembering what it feels like when I separate during an interrupted sleep projection.

When I do this I feel there's a wavy cloud of awareness that forms over my body, it's a very distinct sensation different from the floating sensation you get when you first start to relax. With the floating sensations I'm never aware of when the begin, but with the cloud of awareness sensation it's easy to say, "ok this is where it starts" and know when the cloud is done forming.

But once it's there what do I do with it? I have a feeling that I should somehow transfer awareness to it but I don't know how. Does anyone have suggestions on completing a conscious projection in this way?

I got up this morning, put in some ear plugs and went back to sleep to try for a projection. At the end I dreamed I was helping people build a house and a big heavy door fell on me. I laid there underneath it for a while not moving, I woke up some and found that I have mild paralysis. It wasn't enough for me to turn into a projection but it made me think.

I bet the sensation of pressure helps to give you paralysis, I also think that spending time in a dream staying very still helps to relax you and bring on paralysis if you wake up.

Of course the problem is that we don't usually have much awareness  in dreams, otherwise we couold just go lucid and OBE from there. But

Spectral Dragon has a good meditation that is centered around the sensation of pressure and it does help me to get hypnagoics pretty fast:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10449

As usual I had trouble going to sleep last night and got to bed around 2:30. I got up at 8:30, I read Spectral Dragon's post on feeling several forces at once for AP training:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10449

I went back to bed and felt the following forces:

chest gravity
back pressure up from bed
air pressure in
body pressure out
clothing pressure
bouyancy
heat pressure


This technique does seem to work very well, I got to hypnagogic images very quickly. I dozed off and woke with awareness that I had separated sort of but had very low energy and couldn't get up. I think the reason I was able to project at all had a lot to do with that I'd lifted weights the day before, doing exercise really seems to help be raise energy. However it was the first time I'd lifted in many months and despite my efforts to go easy I overworked myself and am very sore now. I think the dull pain from my muscles is an energy drain.

Because of my low energy it was hard to stay focused on things and keep my imagination from creating things and further disrupt my connection to the RTZ.

With low energy eyes I was able to look around my room, there were things there which should not have been such as a maroon vinyl armchair. I didn't have the energy to get up so I decided to teleport to my parent's house, I visualized the front of the garage but it was a mixture of that and some oether imagery so I wound up in a bastardized astral version and not the RTZ.

I tried to cement my connection by staring at the pavement on the ground and see things without imagining them. I zoomed into microscopic vision and saw these trinket things that I began naming. There's more detail to this part but I can't remember it. I lost it and went back to my body. I projected to somewhere else in the astral, basically out of control at this point.

I was drifing through sort of an office space somewhere not on Earth and I overheard two ladies talking, one of them said that she knew a women who had lots of spirits in her field I think from Earth. I think they saw me, she refered to me as a 'vaporizer'.

I became aware of instructions for breathing effectively for energy, the idea was to force the air strongly out through your nose and maybe a small bit through your mouth. This creates pressure in your lungs that forces oxygen into your bloodstream.

I was laying in bed on my back this morning, I found that with my eyes closed I could get my astral eyes to open about half way.

They wouldn't open farther than that, but I could still see the ceiling in better detail than I could with my physical eyes without glasses. I noticed that there were a couple flat white or possibly translucent things moving on the ceiling. They looked a little like flat starfish that had camoflage to allow them to blend in with the background almost perfectly.

I lost the astral sight after a while but when I opened my physical eyes I got a flash of astral sight, as if I had first opened my astral eyes and then my physical eyes opened and washed out the image.

One thing that was odd about it, I've been alternating laying to the north or to the south when I sleep or meditate. While my 3rd eye was open the view was as if I was laying with my head to the south, but in the physical my body was to the north.

So I think the RTZ representation of me in me bed is a little hazy and has me laying to the south, so when I am on the edge of separating my astral body gets created with the head to the south.

Next time I have 3rd eye activity I'm going to try a round of deep breaths and see if that sends me into an OBE.