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.