How long does it take you to get into a trance

[Ihavewings]

I know this is different for everybody and we should all work at our own speeds but when you lay on your bed, how many minutes would it take for you to get into that state where you can use an exit technique.

[Stookie_]

When I started it was anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes, or not at all. I recommend not going too long if nothing is happening. You don't want to be laying there with nothing happening to become a habit.

[Ihavewings]

When I started it was anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes, or not at all. I recommend not going too long if nothing is happening. You don't want to be laying there with nothing happening to become a habit.

May I ask what in the world do you think about laying there for 30 minutes I'd fall asleep.

[Bedeekin]

Sometimes after a well timed nap I will slip into SP about 5 mins after my head hits the pillow.

[AstralCody]

The quickest I have ever had one was literally 5 seconds after I had awoken from a nap. I went to get a drink laid back down, and I popped right out of my body. Other times it takes around 20 mins or less. Sometimes I just can't do it. All depends!

[todd421757]

It used to take me up to an hour.

Now it only takes me a few seconds to 5 minutes depending on how tired I am. The more tired I am the better.

In the past, I would try in the late morning hours after a nights sleep which took a long time to enter the trance.

Now I practice after being very tired and upon immediately falling asleep. Now it takes very little time to enter the trance.

It's best to find the quickest way to enter the trance, so you do not waste time practicing for obe's.

Here is the method I use to initiate obe's or lucid dreams depending on my level of concentration.

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Practice this technique every time you fall asleep which includes at the beginning of the night and all times during the night if you are the type that wakes up multiple times. Keep practicing, and keep a log of what step you can make it to each time you practice. The goal is to make it to step 6 or 7.

1) Be very tired (able to fall asleep within a minute)
2) Mentally push your consciousness upward through the top of the head region 6 inches and hold your consciousness there.
3) Then focus on a physical anchor (portable fan sound)
4) The next goal is to not be able to hear your physical anchor anymore, but you still have awareness at the top of the head region.
5) Hold this state for as long as possible while your body quickly falls asleep
6) If you can't eliminate visualizations from happening in this state, then you will eventually find yourself in a lucid dream.
7) If you can eliminate visualizations from happening in this state, then you will eventually find yourself in the real time zone (in your bedroom).

[Astralsuzy]

Mostly it is very quickly, just a few minutes if I practice in bed late in the morning.  If I practice other times during the day, I mostly cannot ap.  Occasionally I have ap in the afternoon and it did not take long.  I did not have a sleep first. 

[Xanth]

May I ask what in the world do you think about laying there for 30 minutes I'd fall asleep.

Why do you feel you ever have to "think" about anything? 

[Astralsuzy]

I just remembered.  Provided I do not try to ap in bed I am able to ap quickly or it can take a long time.

[Szaxx]

Hi,
Once accustomed it can be achieved easily. It doesn't always work well but when it does, it's great.
Have a read, there's info that may help you.

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_projection_experiences/to_the_door_perfecly-t36502.0.html

[personalreality]

as long as it takes.

you're in a trance when you watch tv.  that takes minutes.  but i know that's not what you mean.

it depends on how well you can control your mind and relax it.  don't put a time limit on it.

just roll with it and you'll know when you're there.

my best advice is to "pretend to go to sleep".  just act like you're going to sleep but maintain the tiniest thread of the idea that you're on a mission.  you'll get there quick.  it's the best way to trick yourself into trance.  normally people try to hard to enter trance and it prevents them from achieving it.  so relax and just "go to sleep".

[NoY]

I have done that PR , you pretend to go to sleep like your fooling your body and you start to dream even though your wide awake 

:NoY:

[Stookie_]

May I ask what in the world do you think about laying there for 30 minutes I'd fall asleep.

If you fall asleep then you went past your goal. Once you enter trance, you want to do some sort of exercise to keep a thread of awareness going without completely falling asleep. It's a delicate balance that takes practice.

[Astralsuzy]

That is good advice, pretend that you are asleep and it is no good good if you try too hard.  It does not matter if we fall asleep.  I admit it can be a bit disappointing.  If you fall asleep, then you can try again when you wake up.  I think it is easier to ap when you have had a sleep because your mind and body has rested or more relaxed. 

[Xanth]

May I ask what in the world do you think about laying there for 30 minutes I'd fall asleep.

You experience, maybe for the first time, what it means to being consciousness.
Being one with yourself is absolute bliss.  If it wasn't for having to "live", I could meditate forever...