TCT - Transpose Conciousness Technique [Successfull DILD Every Night!] [Minimal Effort] [(X) ADA]

Introduction:

I've been exploring my own techniques recently. Alongside supplement experimentation. I've always had problems with WILDing, poor Visualizing and due to Dyspraxia I have trouble with Proprioception (relative position of body parts). This coupled with problems sleeping, in-part due to demoralizing WILDs, insomnia after WBTB. I decided to try DEILD (Dream-Exit Initiated Lucid Dream). A DEILD only requires becoming lucid and remaining lucid. A seemingly easy task with the current techniques, MILD, RC's and ADA. These techniques have too many "dry spells".. I tried supplementing Valerien Root, Kava, Lemon Balm and Hops for WBTB but these had little effect, or made me too tired. I needed something better.

What's so bad about MILD/RC's/ADA:

MILD (Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dream) favors repetition, the concept is to leave a mental residue similar to Palinopsia which is a visual residue. MILD has a poor success rate, it's dependent on the dreamers background e.g ADA/ Mental Reinforcement ( "actors method" (acting as an expert Lucid Dreamer)). The approach to me is incorrect, it doesn't emphasize awareness. It's just a mental note. LD's are likely to not be very vivid or stable.

Reality Checks the favored technique for a DILD (Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream) are rather curious. Testing Reality means you possess "conscious awareness" already. I imagine its the same for most but in a DILD, the RC was performed after awareness, not the cause of it. RC's therefore are not Reality Check's rather Reality Confirmations. Once they work we know absolutely that we're dreaming and dream is stable. It doesn't matter if you use Reality-Checks. I know how an RC will evaluate when I perform it. A "nose plug" RC will always work. Yet I still utilize this RC phenomenon because it's now LD scripture, it's rather bizarre.

Reality Checks also act as "awareness reminders". Regularly RC will unequivocally result in a longer lucid interval. As does shouting "I want clarity" or rubbing ones hands, these methods work because we imbue mental power in them. Any form of mental intention does the same thing, saying "I will have a long lucid dream" for instance.

The issue is Reality Checks are performed habitually and we inject in them the lucidity that we should inspire in ourselves. Coupled with ADA (All Day Awareness) where you perform an RC on cue to a dream sign. There isn't an questioning of reality , there's no awareness testing. I have devised my own method NAT (Narrated Awareness Testing) I may post if curious. There are other options, Prospective Memory or Sageous's "Reverse RC's". Tibetan Dream Yoga specifically puts emphasis on this with the "Four Foundational Practices" of the Chod practice. I suggest you read Tenzin Wangye Rinpoche's "The Yogas of Dream and Sleep" if you're interested in that. I've integrated a lot of those ideas into NAT and TCT.

What is TCT:

Transpose Consciousness Technique (TCT) was inspired by OBE's (Out of Body Experiences) or Astral Projections. In all cases, OBE's are just a different transition technique, OBE'ers typically make use of feelings of leaving ones body. Awareness itself is being shifted. OBE's are likely due to stimulating the areas of the brain responsible for consciousness, prior to sleep results in a decoupling experience as the visual/auditory aspects of the dream haven't formed. The end result thusly is painting reality rather then a dream landscape.

It would therefore remain true thata that stimulated awareness could maintain it while dreaming. A technique that didn't require sleep and WBTB. The Tibetan Dream Yogas often talk about multiple awakenings in the night typically 2 hours apart. The first period of sleep they would vision a 4-petal red lotus flower on the neck chakra, with the words "RA" "LA "SHA" "SA" painted on each leaf. The Tibetan "A" was hung in the center. It was a method of maintaining consciousness, but Chakras were symbolism for areas of consciousness. The lotus flower technique at the star to the night representing emotions of tranquility, was followed in the next awakening with a white bauble in the brow Chakra for emotions of luminosity. Stimulating consciousness was the goal, something that later western techniques didn't incorporate.

Anyway without further mumbling and ranting I'll get to the part you guys probably care about the technique itself:

These steps can be performed w or w/o WBTB, they can also be performed throughout the day minus relaxation steps.

• 1) Lie on your back. Begin with a basic relaxation exercise, I prefer the "tense exercise". Start at your feet and tense for 4-5 seconds while inhaling. Exhale and release tension. Repeat this for the thighs, upper thighs, stomach etc. Finish on the head.
  
  
  
• 2) Roll into your preferred sleeping position, scratch, twitch whatever just sleep!
  
  
  
• 3) Add in another larger relaxation technique at this point. For instance the 61-point relaxation technique (Image) to get yourself extremely relaxed.
  
  
  
• 4) Listen to an Isochronic Tone (optional). Heres a free tone website . It really works. Once I'm in deep Sleep Paralysis. SP isn't required WILDing but it prove something. I use a speaker pillow which you can get here.
  
  
  
• 5) Begin recounting the objects in your room mentally e.g Your Alarm Clock, Lamp, Computer, Desk, Books etc. Try to shift your consciousness, not by physical visualization, but immediately stick yourself inside the object. Transpose the black space, it's now inside an 'alarm clock space'. Use mild visualization to help (such as floating into the alarm clock). Delimit your awareness to be that object, don't try too hard just whatever comes naturally.
  
  
  
• 6) Affirm "I am the Alarm Clock". Delimit your consciousness, your only function is as an Alarm, remove other mental obstructions. Feel this one intention. Think "when I open my eyes it'll be as an alarm clock", visualize it if need be. Visualize the room from the front of the object. My goal in life is singular and simple, ordinary life is impossible to comprehend. Diminish your mental faculties.
  
  
  
• 7) Take a feature of that object and replicate it tactically/visually. My alarm clock has a red LED screen, So the black space becomes red. Redness is inviting, beautiful and typical. I also try to stimulate the pressing of the buttons as though they're presses on my face, I like this sensation it is common, normal for me. These buttons are part of my perception of reality. Try to really feel that sensation and the mental perception.
  
  
  
• 8) Compartmentalize the black space behind your eyes. Try to feel compressed as though you're in a small box blindfolded. Or make the black space feel vast and open for larger objects.
  
  
  
• 9) Do the above 3 steps in any order. Don't worry too much about the steps, just do whatever comes naturally. Remain on an object for roughly 3-5 minutes. Don't count it just do it! You may experience visual hallucinations try not to pay them attention and switch to another objec
  
  
  
• 10) Preferably your aim to fall asleep doing this technique. The steps were designed after all by someone who suffers from sleep onset Insomnia so you shouldn't have problems. If you do just do the technique for 5-6 objects and sleep. You don't require further intention you'll just lucid! ;)

Last Word

Thats all there is to it, don't follow it too ritualistically, the intention is the most important thing. Every night I've performed this technique I've had a lucid dream. I've yet to attempt this as a valid WILD technique so I imagine that's where you guys can assist me :D. Regardless it works very effectively I've used it to literally guarantee a DEILD every day.

This sounds very interesting, i am going to give this a try tonight! :D

I will try this without the relaxations...I can't stand them because they leave me more tense than I was before. Will post results.

With or without relaxations is fine. But I recommend you find what works for you, Isochronic tones are great for me. I don't know if that is due to Brainwave Entrainment being effective (there is scientific evidence for that) or simply because it gives me something to listen to. Anyway thanks a lot guys for the responses. Can't wait to see how it works for you. :D

So, essentially. We just try to fall asleep while imagining being a random object? I'm confused

That's exactly it. Just pretend your consciousness is now inside the object.

Do we need to get into SP? You said that it works every night, so does that mean you enter SP every night? Does it have to be something in the room?

Nice tutorial, I might try this for a couple weeks.

You don't need SP at all. SP was just a side-effect of my relaxation techniques, but mainly it was the Isochronic Tones. I'm terrible at getting to SP because I'm often just too alert but Isochronic tones give me something to preoccupy my mind. Once they switch off I instantly realize I've been in Deep Sleep Paralysis for ages the tones just distracted me from that recognition. I do recommend you get incredibly relaxed though, I tried last night without any relaxation and lucidity was hazy at best, this was also coupled with no awakening though and me being very lazy in general with sleep recall/oversleeping. I think therefore this technique requires strong intention and perseverance , you have to realize the transient nature of consciousness, and be willing to try wake up, multiple times if need be. WBTB is a minimal requirement for an LDer anyway.

It doesn't have to be something in your room specifically, I personally haven't tried with random objects around my house. I have a feeling that it wouldn't work quite as effectively though, it's knowing where the object is and creating this sensation of becoming it, this shifting of consciousness and the true willpower to believe it has occurred that makes the technique potent.

I combined this with my personal ADA technique (NAT). But I'm going Cold Turkey on that to see if this is effective on it's own, and arguably I was doing NAT very poorly on those days, so this is 99% the reason for my success. I've had a "dry spell" for as long as a month now. I'm usually very unreceptive to conventional LD techniques such as MILD. I just tried this for a week and every single night was a DILD, and usually I'm just entirely non-lucid even if the dream is incredibly bizarre, plus like I said RC's are useless for me because they become to habitual and overtime they sort of decline in effectiveness. As I stated as well ADA itself has habitability built into it.

The Lucidity itself is notable, it's like a sudden instantaneous knowledge of the dream state. You're walking around and boom you just know you're lucid, a random spike in awareness is the way to best phrase it. I don't require RC's at that point although I like to count my fingers just for stability sake or rub my hands together. But from then on out I focus on sense recognition, mainly tactile and auditory first as I've noted in my DJ these tend to be weakest. My auditory sensation seemed to be limited to Dream Characters talking, theres no ambient sound, and tactile is pretty much absent. I like to train the weaker senses to like Equilibrioception (sense of balance) which makes the dream extremely vivid.

I want to add that my intention here isn't for WILDing, but DEILDing as I mentioned in the introduction. I'd love to know how this technique works for that though.

more questions! (Thank you for the answers! I am very interested in this technique ;) )

You are saying DEILD, but are talking about it being a random awareness during dream, so do you mean DILD? It is really confusing me. :P

If I wake up in the middle of the night (not WBTB, I wake up a lot through the night for dream recall) should I repeat the three steps or should I just go back to sleep?

Fascinating technique. It's good to hear that you have so much success with it. Perceiving your own consciousness like you do definitely takes practice though. It's really only a concept I've begun to properly understand and feel in recent months, outside of lucid considerations.

I have time this week, so I'll try your technique out while doing WBTB.

If I remember correctly 8-9 Hz is the best iscochronic frequency for aiding in using the imagination as described in your technique.

This method is similar in some ways to one of Al Manning's Methods for inducing conscious OBE's and DILD's. Instead his method involves transferring the consciousness of parts of the body, through deep breathing, into and out of the Ajna chakra to a point of light outside the body. It will result in either an OBE or a DILD. With practice he says it will take no longer than about 15 breaths to leave the body at will at anytime of the day; even before bedtime. Instead of transferring one's consciousness to an outside object he prescribes dividing our bodies up into small component parts and imagining that each body part has it's own consciousness and transferring the individual consciousness' of the component parts outside of the body. The goal is to achieve an OBE but it often results in automatic DILD's without the need for confirmation checks. I haven't tried his method out but he says that students that have been members of ESP Labs have had success within 3 days practice and many on the first attempt.

Good method by the way :)

Thank you McWillis and thank you everyone else for the kind and thoughtful responses.

I assumed this technique might be found somewhere else because I was personally inspired by OBe's after all. I'm not a believer that OBE's are truly "out-of-body" as I stated. It's purely conjecture but I think that they're just stimulating areas of the brain responsible for consciousness prior to a dream landscape having formed. The only evidence I have for this right now is that Lucid Dreamers have been shown to have different Brain Activity (which would be obvious) and that these areas of activity are brain regions previously thought responsible for the perception of awareness.

BrandonBoss in regard to your comment. A DEILD is a Dream-Exit Initiated Lucid Dream. This is where you remain lucid throughout the dream and right as it ends and turns to black you stay still. Another Dream begins forming because your brain assumes you are still dreaming, thus a quick REM onset. It works better then WILD in this regard because you don't require any WBTB or tedious techniques, you just require a DILD. It's easier. Plus you can chain dreams together by DEILDing again at the end of another dream.

In regard to your awakenings. I only do it twice during the night, I often have multiple awakenings so I can recall dreams from the start, middle and end of the night. The more you do this technique the more likely it is to be effective, the results are cumulative.

I generally like the principle of multiple awakenings rather then a single WBTB though. Tibetan Dream Yoga teaches that you awaken 4 times a night 2 hours apart, each time you try to imbue a sense of awareness, you focus on a different Chakra and a different awareness technique. In principle this comes from Tibetans believing different sections of the night were responsible for different emotional states. In this regard you treat consciousness as though it is one continuous stream. I was trying to make a point that in this regard that Tibetan techniques have some higher ground on there Contemporary Western counterparts, because most techniques here treat sleep as a "special case of awareness", Tibetans use techniques each awakening to continue awareness into sleep. Believe whatever you want about Prana, Channels, Chod, Chakras and Karmic Traces the truth remains that there is some wisdom and logic present in some of these ideas that hasn't translated into most techniques LDers use currently.

I did have a DEILD last night trying this and I wasn't on as much sleep as I normally need. I was very aware through my dreams because I fully woke up every hour and a half to help my wife (she was throwing up because of morning sickness.)

I will let you know any progress I get. I wasn't able to DEILD because I had to get up every time I awoke.

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Originally Posted by Drax

[*]3) Add in another larger relaxation technique at this point. For instance the 61-point relaxation technique (Image) to get yourself extremely relaxed.

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What the..?
That was surprisingly relaxing. Like, wow. I did not expect that.

Sorry I haven't replied in a while. Wondering how this technique is working for everyone. Still having success for me atleast, just wondering where it can move from here or if there's some needed tweaks to refine it.

I've tried it last night! It works very well, i reached SP very easily. There hallucinations started, and when i saw a huge black shadow man came to my right, i was so scared and i woke up. Thank you Slender, thank you.

Hello all. First time poster. I am going to try this tonight/tomorrow morning.
I attempted my first WBTB WILD last night with no avail. I had a headache when i woke up which is probably why i couldn't concentrate that well. The Iso tones interest me and I think they will help me relax.