Last night, I experimented with the Sleep Exploration track on the Discovery WAVE 1 CD.
Toward the end of the session after long moment of frustration of not being in Focus 10, something happened all a sudden, I had the impression that my body melted in my mattress. I was very detached from my body I can say that my body was 80 % asleep and my mind was fully awake.
Before my eyes the flat blackness became a blackness with some depth, to give you an analogy imagine that your in forest at night but without light from the stars or the moon, there is depth and things around even if you don't see them.
I was also feeling a kind of wind on my right eye , I perceived three dimensional shapes of gray swirling.
But from there I have no idea of what to do.
Hi mindxplorer,
You'll find much talk about '3D blackness' when you read up on peoples OBE experiences. Usually before the vibrations kick in I get the 3D blackness, and it's like my mind becomes super focused (there's a feeling to this, but its hard to explain).
As you become more experienced with the F10 state you'll notice interesting phenomenon regarding body perception - things such as melting into chairs, your hands melting together, or body parts seeming to be bent in weird positions. This is simply due to reduced sensory input causing tactile hallucinations and is a good sign.
Regarding what to do now, I find that I can 'push' the feeling of focusing I get – it almost feels like an (upwards) excitation.
I guess for now, experiment with this state. Recall what it felt like when your are next in F10, and if you reproduce it, simply observe the darkness (look out into it) and focus on your breathing. Exclude anything else but those things.
Every time people start speaking about all these focuses I feel confused. I don't get their idea and have doubts whether or not it is the reason I have occasional troubles with projectiong. :confused:
Quote from: VilkateEvery time people start speaking about all these focuses I feel confused. I don't get their idea and have doubts whether or not it is the reason I have occasional troubles with projectiong. :confused:
Focuses were coined by Robert Monroe to describe different states of consciousness. They were simply a way of allowing certain states to be discussed independently of personal belief or experience. Such as C1 is baseline consciousness (awake, normal day-to-day). F10 is a 'mind awake/body asleep' state. F12 seems to be a state of expanded awareness (not dissimilar to the 3D darkness) and increased hypnogogic imagery. Higher focus levels describe specific places, such as F27 ("The Park") is a place were people newly crossed over into death meet up with guides and loved ones etc. We might experience such places differently due to outlook and belief, but the purpose of such places are the same, and the focus terminology gives common ground to discuss these places/states.
If you find focus levels confusing, don't use them. They are simply a belief system as with anything else :smile:. I perhaps like them as they are more specific than a lot of spiritual terminology, so they suit my mindset.
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F levels might also be more appropriate for people using or who have used the gateway CDs from the Monroe institute. These CDs use a variety of techniques to entrain brainwave states which allow access to these F levels i.e. so F10 means something specific to someone whose entrained this state through the CDs, whereas others it's a more general term of 'mind awake/body asleep'.
Quotesimply observe the darkness (look out into it) and focus on your breathing. Exclude anything else but those things.
This is what I did but so then what ?
My breath felt exceptionally loud and for the blackness nothing happens except the elusive thin gray forms swirling.
When the track ended I stopped my CD player I wasn't in F10 but still I closed my eyes and was able to have the 3D blackness but it faded away a couple of minutes later.
Quote from: mindxplorerQuotesimply observe the darkness (look out into it) and focus on your breathing. Exclude anything else but those things.
This is what I did but so then what ?
My breath felt exceptionally loud and for the blackness nothing happens except the elusive thin gray forms swirling.
When the track ended I stopped my CD player I wasn't in F10 but still I closed my eyes and was able to have the 3D blackness but it faded away a couple of minutes later.
How long have you been using the CD for? Specifically the introduction to F10 / Advanced F10 tracks?
Thanks for your explanation, Jingo - it's actually the clearest of all the texts on focus levels I have read! :smile:
(Yay, Vilkate is confused no more!)
More or less 20 days.
I have done 40 sessions , 2 sessions per day.
I did 11 sessions of Intro to F10 then moved to the next tracks.
I did 11 sessions of Advanced F10 , now I m back working with Intro to F10 in the morning and Exploration, sleep at night.
I had the 3D blackness , body asleep , 2 times last night with Exploration sleep and last week with Advanced F10, however most of the time, I will feel very relaxed and I have hypnagogic imagery (deep trance in Robert Bruce Parlance)
ADDED: I have also to mention that during one of the session I had the illusion that I was carrying a bottle, it felt real on my hand, but I realized that it was an illusion.
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More or less 20 days.
I have done 40 sessions , 2 sessions per day.
I did 11 sessions of Intro to F10 then moved to the next tracks.
I did 11 sessions of Advanced F10 , now I m back working with Intro to F10 in the morning and Exploration, sleep at night.
I had the 3D blackness , body asleep , 2 times last night with Exploration sleep and last week with Advanced F10, however most of the time, I will feel very relaxed and I have hypnagogic imagery (deep trance in Robert Bruce Parlance)
ADDED: I have also to mention that during one of the session I had the illusion that I was carrying a bottle, it felt real on my hand, but I realized that it was an illusion.
My own experience of this is keep up the routine. I've been using the F10 exercises from Wave 1 for around 5 years now. My use is sporadic, I'll not use them for months, and then I'll use them twice daily like you (into to F10 and advanced F10).
I've moved on to the other CDs, but I keep coming back to Wave 1 as I believe a solid foundation in F10 will pay dividends down the line.
Each year I noticed a marked difference in my perception of F10, and now I can reach that state near instantly by going through the count up procedure. Although I've added my own visualisations to this, such as after energy breathing, I maintain the perception of my body being pure white energy. Then, when I tell each body part to sleep, I move my astral hands to that area and flick a switch I visualise there, turning that part of the body off (it no longer being white) and taking all awareness away from it. This is just to reinforce the commands really.
Something you can try in this state is to visualise a swaying from side-to-side motion. I usually use something I got from Robert Petersons book. I use tactile visualisation to make it feel as if my arms are outstretched on each side of me and my hands are gripping bars. I then slightly pull with my right (or left) visualised hand, then immediately pull with the other. This produces a convincing swaying visualisation which I increase by pulling hard with each visualised hand. If this is maintained it almost always brings the vibrations. I do find it takes a lot of effort to maintain though, especially as one nears the vibrational stage.
This visualisation should be tactile i.e. you don't have to visualise your hands, just feel it as if they were doing this.
Time will also help. Such as if you keep the same routine up for 2 months, you should be noticing difference that 20 days wont bring to you. If possible, add 15 minute daily meditation to this routine too. I've found that 2 Hemi-Sync sessions a day and meditation can produce quite profound results.
Quote from: VilkateThanks for your explanation, Jingo - it's actually the clearest of all the texts on focus levels I have read! :smile:
(Yay, Vilkate is confused no more!)
It seems a lot of people either misunderstand the whole focus level thing, or over complicate it :smile:. With the phasing model, all there is is consciousness. Different states and locations simply relate to different points on consciousnesses long spectrum. Some of these have had focus levels attached to them :smile:.
Btw, I noticed that for the last 7 days or so, my dreams are far more vivid, I speculate that the Hem-Sync process make the brain work better and therefore improve on dreams vividness, I have also better dream recall.
That was a cool experience! Just be on stand-by, sit back and wait for your opportunity. You should familiarize yourself with this state waiting to be offered an opportunity to either roll out of your body or zoom forward into the darkness. These are in build mechanisms and your consciousness knows how to do it.
The melting effect as well as the impression of being in a larger space happen when the peak of EEG activity drops into the lower theta range. The energy body expands and you become more spacious in your mind. You look into your own energy body which opens up in the magnetosphere like an antenna. Probably the hemi-sync technology did work for you.
Try to recreate those exact conditions without expecting too much if anything. F10 indeed facilitates OBE conductive states by narrowing down brain activity around 4Hz (if i remember correctly "Exploration Sleep" uses carriers @ 100, 300 & 500Hz - all set to binaural frequency of 4.0Hz).
The success, however, depends on many other factors that you cannot really control. I'm not talking about inner duologue and disturbed emotions but the natural fluctuation of consciousness. During the day we pass through many opportunity to project. It is similar to REM cycles which continue during wakefulness.
You got a connection too and perceived it almost visually like a tunnel of energy (which it was, actually). You also perceived it as a pressure on your right eye. Things are more simple in this state then in waking reality and should be taken almost literally. In an expanded energy body state, perception of the body below the head projects into the the opposite side of space. It has to do something with how the Self penetrates into waking reality and how it plugs into the organism. Nerve cross-overs reflect this law so you may feel yourself lying in the opposite direction before and between separations.
Every sensation that is asymmetric indicates similar brain activity (I mean power not synchrony). This asymmetry seems to be inherent to the "etheric" OBE state. But human condition really progresses toward a state where bicamerality is transcended in an unified field of consciousness. The Self, for example, is said to be a multi-brained consciousness that has many parallel incarnations but possesses no body.
Quote from: MisterJingo on June 27, 2006, 09:17:51
Hi mindxplorer,
You'll find much talk about '3D blackness' when you read up on peoples OBE experiences. Usually before the vibrations kick in I get the 3D blackness, and it's like my mind becomes super focused (there's a feeling to this, but its hard to explain).
As you become more experienced with the F10 state you'll notice interesting phenomenon regarding body perception - things such as melting into chairs, your hands melting together, or body parts seeming to be bent in weird positions. This is simply due to reduced sensory input causing tactile hallucinations and is a good sign.
Regarding what to do now, I find that I can 'push' the feeling of focusing I get – it almost feels like an (upwards) excitation.
I guess for now, experiment with this state. Recall what it felt like when your are next in F10, and if you reproduce it, simply observe the darkness (look out into it) and focus on your breathing. Exclude anything else but those things.
When it happens to me I 'throw myself into' the blackness- and am always surprised when I actually feel like I'm 'going forward'- like 'falling into it' but forward.