How to observe your physical body fall asleep

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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.