Diving Headfirst Experiment

[Summerlander]

DIVING DOWN HEADFIRST Having induced a lucid dream (be that a DEILD/DILD/WILD/MILD or whatever method you use) dive down headfirst in order to test how well this technique works in intensifying the dream world. Only test it once at the very start of the lucid dream and simply observe and report the outcome. You are not allowed to use other intensification techniques until after observing the result from diving down headfirst. Ignore whatever you see at the start of the lucid dream by immediately closing your eyes and plunging downwards for 15 seconds, during which you may report on observed effects (e.g. motion, dark void atmosphere, sensations etc) and even desire to arrive at a particular destination. It doesn't matter if what's desired is achieved or not—just report what happens. And answer the following questions: How realistic was the lucid dream BEFORE diving down compared to reality? How realistic was the lucid dream AFTER diving down compared to reality? (Example: If the real world is 100% realism, was the lucid dream environment 30% that of reality before the test, and then 120% that of reality, i.e. hyperreal?) Here's my example which was recorded by Project Elijah ... Date: 04/02/2021 Method of entry: indirect Bedtime: 1.15am Awakening: 2.30am Return to bed: 2.35am Awakening: 5.30am Return to bed: 6am Awakening: 7.40am Attempt: successful Phase experience: diving down headfirst Duration: 1 min WAKING STATE After a couple of awakenings during the night, I return to bed around 6am with a strong intention to enter the phase. I relax on my back whilst rehearsing my plan of action in my head, and after a brief period of mild hypnagogic hallucinations, I fall asleep. PHASE STATE I come to feeling like I'm lying in bed but space is weirdly pitch black and ostensibly empty. The pale outline of two overlapping circles, similar to 'The Phase' logo, begins to emerge before my eyes. I think that I must be in the phase state so I decide to separate from the perceived bed by abruptly getting up. The room is dark and I can barely make out the bed in which an apparently disturbed and half asleep wife sits, gazing at me incredulously. The phase is clearly shallow (roughly 20% realism) and I remember my instructions from Project Elijah. I close my eyes and plunge into the floor headfirst. Despite the dark void, I make out faint ripples as I go through where a floor should be. As I count seconds, I notice that I'm falling downwards at the speed of a snowflake. I think that I might foul if I remain passive so I end up swimming in dark space in a bid to increase the speed of my fall. Just before I roughly reach 15 seconds of falling, I imagine that I'm about to land on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, but the new ground proves to be that of another replica of my bedroom, and the phase is deeper than before to that of 80% of the real world. I'm standing by my bed's footboard and grab its metal rail which is much higher than in reality. The rail feels pretty solid and the bed becomes visually sharper; as I hold on to it, my feet lose contact with the floor and I playfully levitate in a horizontal position. Curiously, I involuntarily gravitate to my right, gradually sliding along the bed footboard until I lose contact with the object and continue to glide in mid-air, in the same position, towards the balcony—passing through the curtain barrier and leaving a quasi-accurate bedroom environment to inevitably meet the outside. As soon as I come into contact with the external world, I feel a distinct drop in temperature and the pale sky is so bright it dominates the visual field. I unexpectedly foul. WAKING STATE I'm lying in bed feeling slightly cold and uncovered, suspecting that my wife might have inadvertently exposed me as she turned in her sleep. I notice that the room is slightly brighter than the replica in the phase. I proceed to record my result. It is possible that as my wife uncovered me in her sleep, I was made to gravitate towards the outside world in the phase and hence the drop in bodily temperature and subsequent foul. BEFORE: 20% AFTER: 80% It worked somewhat: about a 60% increase in realism.