Monday July 14 2014 (4:46 pm)

Attempts for color/movement

Attempt 1

While I was not able to change the color, I was able to affect the movement to some degree. I began losing conscious and getting sleepy, so i ended the experiment and took off the blindfold.


Attempt 2
I got some pretty interesting results here.
This attempt lasted about an hour. For the I stayed at level 3 CEV for most of the whole attempt. during that time, I had no control of the colors I saw. While I was able to exert some movement, the colors stayed either black, white, or dark dark blue. I decided to put the color control on hold for that session and work with shapes. during that time, the tunnel hallucination came and seized, on and off several times. after while I decided to try and create an outline of a middle finger. during that time, I started to lose consciousness, but when I caught myself and regained focus, I saw the middle finger outline clear on my field of vision. it was covering up most of my field of vision. It started disappearing once I began focusing on it.
Nothing happened until the end of this attempt. I decided to end the attempt because of what happen:I started to see a shape. In other words, I reached level 4 CEV. What I saw, at first was like a light brown boulder that had lots of rough edges. Relatively speaking, it looked like it was the size of a head. I started imagining a face, and the face appeared on the boulder. the eyes and the smiling mouth was now on the boulder. The boulder was the only shape that was there, and everything else were just level 3 background visuals. I ended the attempt right after seeing this to record it here.

Final thoughts: While I was not able to control the colors at all, I succeed in moving the patterns and creating a level 4 hallucination! This was a good day. I do not consider the middle finger I saw a level 4 CEV because it was fleeting. it disintegrated right when I paid some attention to it.

Practicing with this experiment has increased my focus. I began to lose consciousness about 3 or 4 times, and I was able to catch myself before it happened. Usually, I wouldn't be able to know that I lost consciousness until after I woke up and realized that I fell asleep. Not only could I tell that I was beginning to fall asleep, I stopped it mid way, and regained full focus and consciousness.

Now on to the real success. The level 4 hallucination. It seemed so clear compared to the blurry waves and pattern in level 3. I stopped the hallucination and took off my blindfold after playing with the face for a while, but I could have gone further and experimented even further had I not ended it. Ironically, I found that it was much easier to control the hallucination in level 4 CEV compared to level 3 CEV. I simply thought of adding a face to the boulder, and it started manifesting.

Because of this, for my next attempt (which I will attempt tomorrow), I will not worry on changing colors until I reach level 4 CEV. I will also get myself to reach level 4 several times tomorrow. As of now, it takes me about an hour to get to level 4, which is too long for me. I will work on decreasing the time, as I did with the level 3 hallucination.