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THE TWIN BODIES TECHNIQUE
1. Relax completely
After awakening from a dream, lie on your back or right side with your eyes gently closed.
Tighten and then relax your face and head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all
muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and calmly. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation
and affirm your intention to consciously enter the dream state; let go of all other thoughts,
worries, and concerns.
2. Focus on your body
Now focus your attention on your physical body. Use the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 54)
to pass your attention from one part of your body to the next, recur-rently going through all
points. As you do, notice how your body feels at each point along the way. Watch for signs of
strange sensations, vibrations, and distortions of your body image. These are the harbingers of
REM sleep paralysis. Eventually you will experience sensations like those described above
which will rapidly develop into complete paralysis of your physical body. At this stage you are
ready to leave your paralyzed body behind and to enter the dream world in your dream body.
3. Leave your body and enter the dream
As soon as you feel that your physical body is in a profound state of sleep paralysis, you are
ready to go. Remember that your currently paralyzed physical body has a magical, move-able
twin, that is, your dream body, and that you can just as easily experience yourself as being in
one body as the other. Indeed, except for occasional lucid periods, you rarely even notice that
every night your dream body plays the role of its “twin, “ your physical body. Now imagine
yourself embodied in your airy dream body and imagine what it would feel like to float or roll
out of your earthbound twin. Let yourself peel free of the immobile physical body. Jump, fall,
or crawl out of bed. Sit up or sink through the floor. Fly through the ceiling, or just get up. Now
you’re in the world of lucid dreaming.
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As soon as you “step out of bed, “ you should recognize that you are truly a stranger in a
strange land. Remember that you are in a dream body and that everything around you is a
dream thing too. That includes the bed you just got out of: it’s a dream bed. And the “sleeping
body”
you also just got out of, although you were thinking of it a moment ago as a physical
body; now it’s a dream body too. Everything you see is your dream.
If you believe that you are floating around the physical world in your “astral” body, then I ask
you to make a critical observation or two and perform a few state tests. Here are three
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examples: (1) try reading the same pas-sage from a book twice; (2) look at a digital watch, look
away, then look back a few seconds later; (3) try finding and reading this paragraph, and draw
your own conclu-sions!
There's also One body and no body, but I think you get the picture.
