Thread: The Phase Blew Me Away

@Kaan, I think you are correct in that he wants to market to a broad audience and seems to deliberately avoid denoting what he believes the phenomenon to be. For most people, I believe the idea of leaving your body or engaging in some new "unknown" phenomenon is more exciting than the prospect of lucid dreaming. I know for me growing up I wasted a lot of time with OBE techniques when i was already having multiple lucid dreams per week. The idea of roaming the physical world was just too alluring and was partly ill guidance from Robert Monroe's book, which he himself later could not prove he was in the physical realm via laboratory experiments.

That aside, this technique worked yet again for me today so I continue to be a huge fan. I typically halfheartedly attempt WILDs in the middle of the night and luckily "The Phase" approach serves as a plan B for my later morning awakenings.

In regards to your reference about lucidology... I spent several months studying all 3 lucidology courses (over the course of a few years) and eventually realized these techniques are not for me. The OBE timer is legit, although, I found it hard to fall back asleep fast enough most of the time even with longer ramps and eventually it started to give me insomnia so I had to step away from it. It does work however. The thing that never worked was his frozen still approach to WILDs. I have to move around a lot to remain comfortable so I realized this was a terrible approach for my physiology. However if I wake up in the middle of the night half awake, the frozen approach method works great and is pretty much what Michael Raduga recommends as well, but I find this easy since I am very relaxed already. In the FAQ of the lucidology videos, Nicholas/Matt says the same thing even though you would never know it from the videos. He says his techniques are all about falling asleep and the key is to wake up and go back to sleep over and over (without moving) so you are really relaxed. Notice the distinction there... he says wake up and fall asleep without moving not go to sleep the very first time without moving (which is far more difficult). I was blown away by this as he seems to make a 360 from his original 101 videos. If you have the lucidology 102, check out the audio FAQ.

You noted that you think that entering the phase doesn't depend on cycling, but I would have to disagree. I think this is why it works so well. I for instance am terrible at visualizing things. I have had many DEILDs by getting a sense of the previous dream (so yes sometimes it does), but when I use the phase technique it is the tactile cycles that do it for me. The rolling one has been one to work for me every time, whereas none of the others have worked. One might argue that one you find that one you should stick with it and maybe that is true, but I guess from Micheal Raduga's experiments he finds that different ones can work at different times for the same person. For now I will continue to loop through the visual and tactile based techniques to see how things continue. It may also be that directing your mind to different tasks quickly helps to keep it from getting too stressed and causing you to become more mentally alert.

Galantamine seems legit. I wish I could take that stuff. I seem to be sensitive to everything. I had a bad reaction to alpha-gpc and have been afraid to touch it since. I've heard you can have some pretty epic lucids with it. I also wish I could find a good vibrating wrist watch. I think it's easier to remain still when you are awoken by an alarm because the sound of it reminds you. However I find an audio alarm to be too jarring. I tend to wake up a lot throughout the night, so it gives me a lot of chances for attempts. Probably the only good things about sub-par sleep