Thread: The Key Turning points on your path to lucidity

Originally Posted by LeaningKarst

The second was changing the way I looked at the world around me. I had been reading a book that gave a brief outline of a couple phenomenological thinkers, and there was a passage about the difference between really looking at the world and seeing straight through it to the concept you’ve built up of it. I was fascinated by the idea, so I decided to try an experiment. I thought of a beautiful place I had been a few months before – of what it had been like standing there looking out to the sea for the first time. I remembered how that had felt, and then I tried to look at the room I was in the same way, as if I were seeing it for the first time.

Lol this is the same idea I came with 15 years ago, I called it "Depersonalization", but I take it one step further, making OBE on demand possible. It's a fearsome technique, so I'm using it rarely now. It's target is not only to forget about your environment, but to forget your entire existence and because of that it can have some side effects. It is an open eyes meditation.

Now days they call it a *mental disorder*, seriously!

Depersonalization can consist of a detachment within the self, regarding one's mind or body, or being a detached observer of oneself.[1] Subjects feel they have changed and that the world has become vague, dreamlike, less real, lacking in significance or being outside reality while looking in