That thread Ryan bumped with Frank talking about moving between focus levels inspired me to try the slats method again. I'd only tried it once before and it didnt work.
So when I remembered my objective I sat down on some grass next to a pond and started trying the slats thing. Try as I might nothing happeded. Then for some reason I decided to fall face down into the black water of the pond infront of me.
Suddenly I was in a 2D blackness. Pure all encompassing blackness but with no sense of depth. I've never experienced this before. I couldnt feel having a body and I usually have one in the 3D void. I sort of looked to see if I had one, although I cant describe how I looked about in a 2 dimensional place. It might not even have been two dimensional(what would 1D feel like?).
I felt like I was moving/flying about but it didnt feel like it does in a 3D environment. I cant really describe the sensation. Oddly, there was a pretty awesome hip-hop tune playing. It was based around two dissonant chords a semi-tone apart.
After a while a scene materialises and I'm sitting inside a bath, on the inside facing sideways, looking at a wall. Still feels like a dream environment. So I try the slats method again. I'm not getting anyhthing. So I try to just become aware of another reality overlain with the one I'm in. Nothing. I'm trying all sorts. I can feel my eyes moving as I try to change focus. Nothing.
So I close my eyes. Sit in darkness for a while. Start to see through the lids. Close them again(pretty neat considering I never opened them again first). Do this a couple of times and when I start to see again the wall infront of me now has a window in it looking onto an out door wall a coulpe of feet away. I watch a spider building a web for a bit then get bored.
It then started to get too dream like as a guy I knew from prison went past the door asking if anyone could lend him a dvd player. Woke up.
Anyone experience a 2D blackness before? And does anyone here actually have any success with Franks slats method? Any tips on getting it to work?
Next time.. go through the window. Frank also talks about "portals".. maybe the window was the portal you were looking for?