Thread: Lucidology 101 & Nicholas Newport (Entire Video Course Here)

Originally Posted by Aquanina

I have to disagree with this. It is absolutely not impossible to see your room while you are dreaming, and I would know because I have done it many many times. In fact, I can switch between being in a lucid dream...to opening my eyes slightly to look around my room...and then shutting them again to reenter the same lucid dream quite seamlessly. So maybe I don't understand the "see through eyelids" technique, but I can definitely say that I have found it entirely possible to see my ceiling or bedroom while dreaming.

Hi Aquanina and Atkins513

I read the email of your post and cos I couldn't sleep (without my pain meds) I thought I would get up and watch my old 101 download again. This is the related bit:

11:40 to 12:40 of 37 minute 101 download.

(11:40) Another phenomenon that goes along with sleep paralysis is as unusual as it is useful. When you enter paralysis often time you find that you can look around the room even if your eyes are closed. In fact even if you are wearing an "eye-mask" you may find, all of a sudden, you can see the room.

(12:00) This is called the "transparent eye-lids effect" and it is useful because it gives you a "reality check" that you van use to test for sure if you've entered a subconscious focus.

More importantly, you don't have to move to do this check.

The "transparent eye-lids effect" works because when you're dreaming, you usually can see things and it doesn't matter if your physical eyes are closed since your not focussed on your physical eyes. Your focussed in your subconscious dream environment which allows you to draw-in whatever sensory information you want from it, including sight.

You might not always get the transparent eye-lids effect but if you do then you can be sure that you're in the subconscious.(12:40).

Also Nick's muscle twitching technique for coaxing muscle groups into sleep paralysis is a fantastic tip. I for one find it very hard to enter sleep paralysis just by falling asleep and keeping awareness as a traditional WILD dictates but I have been able to paralyse a few small muscle groups with this. It has certainly helped me along my journey but as I am concentrating most of my methods on Michael Raduga's techniques at the moment I will probably come back to further experimenting with this one day.