This weekend I woke up early and tried using the timer method (where you set an alarm to go off at various intervals) and woke up frustrated that I didn't have results. Then I remembered one attempt where I was getting vibrations and was concentrating on staying very still but nothing was working so I went out and laid on the couch and tried and was getting various vibrations out there. But then I realized that this was a dream... or was I actually out of body but just not lucid enough? Either way, my effort carried over into my dream state so I think that's progress.
Last night I got way too drunk to even attempt much of anything this morning. It was a bruiser. I'm hoping to have some luck tomorrow morning given that I have the day off.
Booyakasha.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Saltcube
Yes, the saltcube. What a strange name.
I saw a product called "saltcube" this week while browsing some forums. It's a video set geared toward lucid dreaming and Astral Projection so I thought I'd check it out based on the reviews around the net. I watched the first video (of two) last night and I must say I'm impressed at the information. Very to-the-point. It gives you techniques you can try that same day.
I decided I would try the timer method suggested in the video. In this, you wake up for a little while and then go back to bed with an alarm set to go off at various intervals. I created my own silence/alarm track using Cubase and loaded the mp3 onto my iPod. I went with the suggested minutes interval: 8,4,8,12,16,20,20,6. I plugged the iPod into my iPod alarm clock and off to bed I went.
So I wake up at 4:30am (ugh) and hang out on the interweb for 20 minutes and then get back to bed. Next thing you know the alarm just starts going off. No iPod track like I had hoped. So I kick off the track and lay there very still and hopeful...
Laying there there I eventually feel myself going off into a trance state. My body becomes very heavy and tingly and a rushing sound starts in my ears that keeps getting louder. Then I start to feel sort of excited and it's like I'm sort of out of breath. I keep having to consciously focus on my breathing.
After struggling with this for a few minutes the trance sensations subsided and I realized that a lot more than 8 minutes had gone by and I never heard the beeping programmed into the iPod track.
So I look over at the iPod alarm clock and it is paused at three minutes. I think it auto-sensed the silence and paused itself. I tried to start the track again but it did the same thing. Frustrated, I decided to just kick off to sleep and try again another day.
It looks like I may need a computer in the room to manage the timer because the iPod doesn't seem to like the extended periods of silence. Despite the frustration, I'm happy that I consciously got as far as I did into the trance state. Keeping my body and my eyes very still seemed to really help a great deal.
I'll be trying this method again this weekend so look for an update then. In the meantime, I'm going to work on a post regarding relaxation or energy work.
I saw a product called "saltcube" this week while browsing some forums. It's a video set geared toward lucid dreaming and Astral Projection so I thought I'd check it out based on the reviews around the net. I watched the first video (of two) last night and I must say I'm impressed at the information. Very to-the-point. It gives you techniques you can try that same day.
I decided I would try the timer method suggested in the video. In this, you wake up for a little while and then go back to bed with an alarm set to go off at various intervals. I created my own silence/alarm track using Cubase and loaded the mp3 onto my iPod. I went with the suggested minutes interval: 8,4,8,12,16,20,20,6. I plugged the iPod into my iPod alarm clock and off to bed I went.
So I wake up at 4:30am (ugh) and hang out on the interweb for 20 minutes and then get back to bed. Next thing you know the alarm just starts going off. No iPod track like I had hoped. So I kick off the track and lay there very still and hopeful...
Laying there there I eventually feel myself going off into a trance state. My body becomes very heavy and tingly and a rushing sound starts in my ears that keeps getting louder. Then I start to feel sort of excited and it's like I'm sort of out of breath. I keep having to consciously focus on my breathing.
After struggling with this for a few minutes the trance sensations subsided and I realized that a lot more than 8 minutes had gone by and I never heard the beeping programmed into the iPod track.
So I look over at the iPod alarm clock and it is paused at three minutes. I think it auto-sensed the silence and paused itself. I tried to start the track again but it did the same thing. Frustrated, I decided to just kick off to sleep and try again another day.
It looks like I may need a computer in the room to manage the timer because the iPod doesn't seem to like the extended periods of silence. Despite the frustration, I'm happy that I consciously got as far as I did into the trance state. Keeping my body and my eyes very still seemed to really help a great deal.
I'll be trying this method again this weekend so look for an update then. In the meantime, I'm going to work on a post regarding relaxation or energy work.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Projectionist in training...
Over the last month or so I've progressively gotten more and more interested in spirituality and some of the more esoteric and new age material. In early July I bought the audio version of Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" before leaving for vacation and loaded it onto the iPod. As I whizzed down I-95 I found myself glued to every word. It explained, it seemed to me, the very cause of the problems I had been facing for my entire adult life: ego.
I was an ego-maniac. Blaming everything around me for my internal state. Not taking responsibility for my own feelings, thoughts. Projecting my feelings onto external people, things, and events to assess blame for my own unhappiness. One quote from The Power of Now that stood out to me so brightly on my 3rd or 4th listen: The mind harbors resentment and unhappiness in the unconscious belief that those feelings will change the situation.
My name is Dave and I am a recovering ego-maniac.
So with a new bag of reality, all of spirituality is interesting again. Tai Chi, Qigong, meditation, Buddhism, Jesus Christ, Astral Projection, Kundalini... you name it. After reading part of Robert Bruce's book Energy Work, I decided to get back into Astral Projection. I purchased Mastering Astral Projection (MAP) and off I go...
I had attempted it years ago but got frustrated and quit before I could have much success. Looking back, I don't think I laid a healthy groundwork for acheiving OBE success. Things such as keeping a dream journal, doing energy work, deep breathing, progressive relaxation, and a positive attitude weren't part of my vocabulary.
So I'm one week into MAP and I've successfully recovered dreams into my journal almost every day. The energy work I've done has created some interesting and sometimes powerful sensations. I think I'm off to a good start.
My hopes for this blog are primarily selfish. I hope to spur myself on higher and faster through journaling. Something about seeing your thoughts on paper ingrains concepts and ideas at a deeper level. But I would also hope that this can serve as a motivator and a support vehicle for those just getting into Astral Projection.
Look for me as MinstruelZ on the Astral Pulse, Astral Dynamics, and SaltCube forums!
I was an ego-maniac. Blaming everything around me for my internal state. Not taking responsibility for my own feelings, thoughts. Projecting my feelings onto external people, things, and events to assess blame for my own unhappiness. One quote from The Power of Now that stood out to me so brightly on my 3rd or 4th listen: The mind harbors resentment and unhappiness in the unconscious belief that those feelings will change the situation.
My name is Dave and I am a recovering ego-maniac.
So with a new bag of reality, all of spirituality is interesting again. Tai Chi, Qigong, meditation, Buddhism, Jesus Christ, Astral Projection, Kundalini... you name it. After reading part of Robert Bruce's book Energy Work, I decided to get back into Astral Projection. I purchased Mastering Astral Projection (MAP) and off I go...
I had attempted it years ago but got frustrated and quit before I could have much success. Looking back, I don't think I laid a healthy groundwork for acheiving OBE success. Things such as keeping a dream journal, doing energy work, deep breathing, progressive relaxation, and a positive attitude weren't part of my vocabulary.
So I'm one week into MAP and I've successfully recovered dreams into my journal almost every day. The energy work I've done has created some interesting and sometimes powerful sensations. I think I'm off to a good start.
My hopes for this blog are primarily selfish. I hope to spur myself on higher and faster through journaling. Something about seeing your thoughts on paper ingrains concepts and ideas at a deeper level. But I would also hope that this can serve as a motivator and a support vehicle for those just getting into Astral Projection.
Look for me as MinstruelZ on the Astral Pulse, Astral Dynamics, and SaltCube forums!
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