Quote Originally Posted by adraw View Post
Your mind shuts your body down only if it believes you are no longer interested in sensations coming from your body. But if you are waiting for transition, if you would like to experience it. It simply cannot happen. Your mind is not and idiot
Aha!

Nice, insightful post, and well written too. I'll be sure to try this tonight. I managed it once when I was imagining a lift I regularly use. Obviously I almost always press the same button and then just stand there waiting so the image was not too hard to picture. I tried to increase the detail by willpower I guess and it became almost lifelike. Then I thought, woah, and snapped out of it...