Hi

Long before Mat-Nick put his Lucidology 101 on YouTube Nick Newport (then known as Mat Jones) sent me the the whole of 101 in 2 down-loads (a 17 minute and a 37 minute down-load). These are some exerts from my original 17 minute down-load.

“Sleep Paralysis”

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In this section we’re going to learn what is the easiest (…) way to enter into a subconscious focus without using any visualization’s. It is called “Sleep Paralysis”.

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If you have read Robert Monroe’s book’s he calls this state “focus 10”.

So what does “Sleep Paralysis” have to do with Lucid Dreaming?

The whole trick to Lucid Dreaming is to enter a subconscious focus without losing awareness.

When you enter into “Sleep Paralysis” your body automatically sends your mind into a subconscious focus. You don’t have to use any visualization’s when you use this method because your body does it biologically.

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Here is the most effective trick to break “Sleep Paralysis”.

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Your breathing however is semi voluntary, so you still have control over it even in deep paralysis.

(…) Simply change your breathing pattern to some thing other than the sleep breathing pattern your body is already in. The most effective way I have found to do this is to begin to breathe deeply and slowly. (…) The main trick is to not panic …

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Some people find when they enter waking “Sleep Paralysis” they find that when they were asleep, they weren’t breathing. The problem here is not because of the sleep paralysis itself but because they have an existing condition called Sleep Apnoea. Sleep Apnoea basically means you stop breathing when you are asleep.

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This is actually our main secret trick for doing visualization free OBE’s and Lucid Dream’s. This transition is the most important skill to learn for this part of the course. When you can put your body to sleep without losing consciousness at any point you have 100% perfectly clear dream recall.

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There are 2 occasions when “sleep paralysis” is likely, they are :

“When the body is very tired and wants to go to sleep as fast as it possibly can.

and

When the body was very recently asleep but is currently very deeply relaxed.”

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Using this simple bit of information we can eradicate the single biggest cause of insomnia, “The Toss and Turn” syndrome. When you toss and turn in bed what you are doing is resetting the bodies internal sleep timer each time you roll-over. The body is trying to go to sleep by sending you a “roll-over test signal” but you keep telling it not to sleep when you move.

So you end up stuck in a “toss and turn loop” and never get to sleep.

This results in insomnia.

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The other reason for rolling over is that tossing and turning is a way for the body is to gradually dissipate tension in your muscles.

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Eventually the “Toss and Turn” syndrome will cause you to relax enough so you will fall asleep, but there is a much easier way to go about it.

The easier way is called:

Stop, Drop and Roll.

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Consistency is key. The more you do stop drop and roll the same way each time you fall asleep the more you’ll train your body to associate it with sleep.

In fact, after a while you’ll find your body has associated the very first stop position with sleep and you won’t need the other steps.

Some times you’ll have to roll over additional times in order to fully dissipate your body tension so you can fall asleep. If you find that you do have to roll over additional times then when you get up in the morning think back and remember what it was that caused you to move. Then the next night, relax those areas more deeply so you don’t have to move again.

Hi all

The last sentence, above, refers to those exercises in the first YouTube I fully transcribed, which is 14 posts up from this one and the date and time was: 08-20-2010 (07:05 AM)

That post started at 07:05 AM (20th August 2010) is where I began my defence of Mat-Nick’s work (Lucidology 101, 102 and 103).