Video #7 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKquV...5599E3&index=5) caught my attention. It's about using sleep timers to trick your body into going into increasingly deeper trances while keeping you just this side of deep sleep until you LD automatically -- no visualization, mantras, or dreamsigns needed.
Sleep from 9 PM - 4 AM. Get up for 45 minutes, avoiding light. Then go back to bed and sleep, using the timers (below). Newport considers this method the magic bullet, as if you use it you'll hit the different stages of trance and find it easy to LD/OBE... maybe even on the first night.
You'll need the free beginner's kit from the lucidology.com website to try this yourself, or another way to get the timers. There are different kinds of timers, including ones that will work on your cell phone, MP3 player or on your PC.
I used the MP3 versions of silence (1, 2, and 4 minutes) and beeps (1, 3, and 9 sets of 3 beeps) timers. Create a playlist of the files played in this order, or else copy/paste/rename these basic files so that they'll all play in sequence.
- 8 minutes (the 4 minute silence mp3 twice in a row, and so on)
- beep (one set of 3 beeps works for me)
- 4 minutes
- beep
- 8 minutes
- beep
- 12 minutes
- beep
- 16 minutes < no beep after this one!
- 20 minutes < no beep after this one!
- 20 minutes
- beep
- 6 minutes
- beep
- 6 minutes
- beep
- 6 minutes
- beep
- 6 minutes
- beep
- 6 minutes
- beep
- 6 minutes
- beep
The theory: You've got a good night's sleep before you wake up at 4 AM. 45 minutes of staying up is common before trying WBTB. Also, there is some theory of melatonin/serotonin levels hitting a good spot for dreaming in the early morning that applies too.
The first interval of 8 minutes is to get you to relax as fully as you can. Then, you're woken up after a 4 minute interval, and then 8 minutes, and 12, and 16. Your subconscious is tricked into anticipating the beep that is coming, keeping your mind close to awake even as your body drops deeper into sleep. There's no beep after the 16 minute and the first 20 minute interval, because your mind will act as if there is one, and you're very likely to be in full LD at this time. What happens is you get about an hour of LD. The 6 minute intervals afterwards are supposedly more likely to create OBEs.
That's all there is to this method. It works. It is the difference between wanting/hoping to LD and being in LD state for me.
I use a cellphone on vibrate to wake me up quietly. I'm up for 10 or 20 minutes, get water (what follows makes me very aware that I get thirsty), and then to bed again.
I have no problems falling asleep. A mask keeps it dark, and I just let myself drift along with no expectation and no direction as to what is going to happen next. When I notice a memory impression, I'll try to be curiously aware of it, and then let it go. After the third interval or so, I can hold on to memory impressions a little longer if I want to, and they also get clearer and brighter.
I find myself drifting off to sleep and then back to alertness just before the beeps. I'll notice that I'm thirsty, or am in the wrong position at this point. If I don't move, sleep paralysis comes right back on. I've tried moving too, and swallowing, and though this does interrupt the cycle it doesn't seem to do much harm, either.
I am in LD by the 20 minute intervals. For me this is like a lot of short dreams at this point, as am more interested in (and distracted by) trying new things than in a longer dream.
The 6 minute intervals at the end are strange. I am convinced that they are mostly just extended trance, but I can also reality check by looking at my hands (which I can't see when sleeping... I wear a mask), and see that at least sometimes I am completely fooled. Someone more interested in OBE would probably like this state more. For now, I leave it in my sequence as I explore.
-- AMFW
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