Quote Originally Posted by Bobblehat View Post
Not quite 100 percent on what you mean there. Can you expand on that a little please?
That I can do, even if it does not make any sense. What I wanted to get at is that there's a procedure quite similar to SSILD that you can use to zoom out of your current awareness. So you basically switch the self we're all familiar with to a bigger self of which the thinking-planning-worrying self is just a small part. The resulting state of consciousness is drastically different from what we've been used to yet you'll find it surprisingly familiar. I believe it to be the superposition of the waking, sleeping and dreaming self and is in command when it comes to lucid dreaming. Here you wouldn't want to throw no dragonballs anymore but you can set up dreaming for good or leave your body, if that's what you want.

The process involves relating to your environment in a loving, caring way as if it were an extension of your self. It shouldn't be a long stretch to most lucid dreamers as many of you guys look at your dream environment as a projection of your self. Which I think is correct. Also this is the mindset you want to have when getting started with this exercise.

You basically rotate your awareness through items that belong to different levels or aspects of your self (external sensory, body sensations, emotions, thoughts, awareness of time passing, and self-reflexive awareness in the present moment) until you pick up enough awareness to hold entire levels of these parts of your being in your present awareness. By this point you're ready to zoom out and add the next level to your awareness or you find yourself in the interdream space or a false awakening type scenario.

The process involves, in a great part, getting aware of your body as a heavy, buzzing, waving field of single field with the naturally emerging awareness of its center and a loving-kind sort of awareness that seems to come with it. The body appears to be both a conduit and a barrier of some sort separating "inside" from "outside," yet it seems to extend beyond our normal perceiving capabilities. To simply put, the concept of inside and outside loses its meaning during this process. At one point for example, the body image seems to turn inside out pivoting around the chest area and becomes a projection of the brain upside down. Have you ever find yourself lying in bed in the opposite direction while coming out of sleep?