
Originally Posted by
debrajane
It is past midnight now here so I'm off to bed.
I've been watching my old 101 download and pulled out some exerts. Here they are:
37 minute 101 download, long before it was chopped-up and put on YouTube.
(00:25) Welcome to volume one of "The How to have Lucid Dreams and have Out of Body Experiences presentation series". In this presentation you'll learn how to trick your body into falling asleep to enter a Lucid Dream. (...)
...To keep your mind awake while you fall asleep.
...So you can fall asleep quickly but without falling so far asleep that you can't become Lucid.
(1:16) Are you aware that you are in a dream and do you remember that your body is asleep in bed?.
(1:33) It is by consciously remembering that your body is really asleep in bed that you go the full circle to become Lucid.
(2:42) Sleep paralysis is the protection mechanism that the body uses when you sleep.
(3:13) But we're going to learn about entering a state called "mind-awake, body-asleep" in which we will remain aware and feel what it's like to watch the body shut-down and put itself to sleep.
(3:45) When you enter full-sleep-paralysis (...) you will still be able to move your eyes and look around and control your breathing.
(4:05) The basic strategy is to trick the body into thinking its already asleep.
(4:30) Normally, if you're awake and you feel that you should fill-over, you just do it without thinking
(4:35) If the mind is asleep then the message is not acted on and the body knows it's safe to shut down (into sleep paralysis).
(5:25) The "roll-over-signal" is just one of the words in the body's language.
(5:27) Another word in this language is "to keep the eye's extremely still".
The body expects to be still for a long period before it (initiates sleep paralysis). But, inactivity in the eyes makes the bigest in fooling the body (into initiating sleep paralysis).
(5:55) If you close your eyes and try to keep them still you'll find that after about 30 seconds they're still twitching very slightly. It is not easy to totally relax the eyes. However, if you can keep them at complete ease for several minutes the body will interpret that as a signal that the mind may have fallen asleep.
So,
In order to practice falling asleep quickly, when you go to sleep at night, put special attention on the eyes and let them relax deeply until there is no tension in them at all.
It may take several nights of practice but once you get the feeling for having "very relaxed eyes" it becomes much easier to relax them again.
(6:33) You should practice getting a feeling for what the eyes feel like when you first wake-up in the morning before you even open your eyes.
In fact practicing not moving at all when you first wake-up is a good Lucid Dreaming skill. Often times if you have not moved at all when you wake-up you can relax directly back into your most recent dream and slip into paralysis again.
(that's from the first 7 minutes of my 37 minute 101 down-load.)
Past midnight here, so, night-night.
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