Intermediate Skills Lesson #1
I have been working on that visualization training and found that it becomes easier to visualize the more tired you are (or high you are)
First the high example, smoked a little bit of marijuana (less then .1g) then went on a bus ride where I focused on expanding the range of colors I was able to get, first I got pink, then green, then yellow, all of it was so easy, I just thought of what color I wanted and there it was with the brightness I expected it to be.
Then I was staying up later then usual, staying up till 3 when I usually sleep at midnight and I closed my eyes and thought it would be fun to try to visualize space ships, well what happened was some star wars TIE fighters came out of this random trap door the appeared in the floor then flew away. They weren't well colored, just mostly purple since it's the easiest color I could make as well as when I make most of the visualizations coming out of dreams I assume them to be purple and black spotted so that probably tied heavily into that event as well.
I don't really think that it is crucial to really do this while fully awake, but I am able to make lines very easily by overlaying a bunch of lines that go on forever on one spot, then cutting away the sides to make something that looks more like a white tear in my vision then anything else. And I can make triangles and squares kind of by just making that shape in my head then pasting it onto my vision almost, only problem is it is really tough for me to hold it in my head, so I have to keep making the shape over and over again, with varying sizes instead of just holding the first size in it's place.
Intermediate Skills Lesson #2
For creating motion I haven't really found a good use for it in regular sleeping situations, but in class or in other situations where I don't feel like paying attention I have been just creating the motion of moving my fingers on a keyboard and then I end up going into a dream that has me typing on a keyboard.
Only problem with this is that I cannot hold on to the dream too well, I think it is partly the fact that I'm not in SP (I'm not usually but when lying down at night you don't pay as much attention to slight movements) so I sometimes move my fingers in real life by accident, and also the fact that I am usually quite excited when I enter the state.
Guess I need to start doing cold showers and ice again for the excitement.
An easier way for me is to just play a song in my head and wait for when the song becomes nice, crisp, and clear, so that I know that I passed into a dream and since it doesn't involve movement it's easier to not get any jolts, but the excitement is still there to be annoying.
Advanced Skill #1: Suppressing Emerging Thoughts
Well I thought I might as well try the first part with the 15 seconds since it seemed like something doable on the first try, and it gave me a good question, what exactly qualifies as thought?
You mention thoughts as being actual words, but during the exercise I didn't have any wordy thoughts come into my mind, and I went on for another minute like that just to see if I could and I did, no words came into my head except for the seconds that I counted off.
But then I did switch my attention while counting to the sound of the TV downstairs, or my beating heart, so maybe that change in focus could count as a thought?
Be Here Now:
I've been doing this quite a bit and one thing I noticed is that I do a horrible job remembering anything unless I give in and think about how I shouldn't have thought about that thought.
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