dafuq

[18:01] <@Sserg> babies were born only half of their body and they should be connected later with their legs and genitals
[18:02] <@Sserg> and someone and I were in everyone's minds and we all had to take papers from their lungs or brain (cant really remember, due to lack of sense, lol)
[18:02] <@Sserg> and that paper was obviously turning into shit
[18:02] <@Sserg> and every baby now wanted to shit
[18:02] <@Sserg> and they couldnt as they were not connected yet, so their mothers had to keep them in a way they could throw up
[18:02] <@Sserg> LOL
[18:03] <@Sserg> and then I thought this was from a bible passage in the past
[18:03] <@Sserg> and I was all "wow, nobody explained this to me"
[18:03] <@Sserg> it all happened in a supermarket
[18:04] <@Sserg> anyway
[18:04] <@Sserg> lateeer
[18:04] <@Sserg> I was in this weird bar, "I used to go to"
[18:04] <@Sserg> I was all drunk and couldn't really say anything properly
[18:04] <@Sserg> I had with me an orange juice made by Coca cola (sense - none)
[18:04] <@Sserg> which I bought in the supermarket earlier lol
[18:05] <@Sserg> and then
[18:05] <@Sserg> we all had to go and get ready because a priest was coming the following day
[18:05] <@Sserg> to bless the place
[18:05] <@Sserg> and I was pokerfacing at them
[18:05] <@Sserg> like... why lol
[18:06] <@Sserg> and in my way home or something I always came across random people, some of em dead already

dafuq I just dreamed? LOL

- the idea of taking out papers from "something" came from me looking at someone in school cursing out the xerox while trying to remove paper jam.
- forgot to mention that before waking up there was this baby we were trying to connect started crying and to open its eyes and we were all trying to shut it down. :| weird image.

SP + hallucination

[07:25] <@Ssergiu> SP + fucked up vibrations and strong hallucinations
[07:25] <@Ssergiu> It just happened, as I thought it would, cause of the nap I'd had.
[07:26] <@Ssergiu> vibrations getting stronger and stronger. I could not even move
[07:26] yay
[07:26] vibes for serg
[07:26] <@Ssergiu> THEN I thought
[07:26] <@Ssergiu> my foot was falling off the bed
[07:26] <@Ssergiu> and I could touch my wall
[07:26] <@Ssergiu> it made perfect sense to me
[07:26] <@Ssergiu> as I felt I was in my other bed :p
[07:26] <@Ssergiu> and THEN
[07:27] <@Ssergiu> some weird thing entered my door
[07:27] <@Ssergiu> and touched my neck lol
[07:27] <@Ssergiu> it felt like my grandmother, but she's dead
[07:27] <@Ssergiu> and I was "this is not physical."
[07:27] * kendrini is now known as kEndRINz
[07:27] <@Ssergiu> and THEN an awesome demonic voice
[07:27] <@Ssergiu> can't ermember what it said, cause it freaked me out a bit, so I muted it
[07:27] you have more than one bed
[07:27] ?
[07:28] <@Ssergiu> no
[07:28] hmm
[07:28] <@Ssergiu> I had another bed
[07:28] strange
[07:28] <@Ssergiu> beore this one
[07:28] oh
[07:28] <@Ssergiu> yeah,
[07:28] <@Ssergiu> why the fuck did I not do something cool
[07:28] <@Ssergiu> lol
[07:28] lol
[07:29] <@Ssergiu> when I woke up I thought about cool things
[07:29] gotta love the demonic voices..
[07:29] <@Ssergiu> but SP didnt come back
[07:29] aw, yeah
[07:29] <@Ssergiu> but lol
[07:29] <@Ssergiu> I was touching my wall with my hands
[07:29] <@Ssergiu> "omg, I might be moving! Hope I won't ruin it"
[07:29] <@Ssergiu> but with my new bed, I can't xD
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> damn OVERNAPPING, it works
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> ONILD
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> ah
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> and
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> I am stupid.
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> I was in a dream
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> hadda save the world
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> was in a priests house
[07:30] <@Ssergiu> then I remembered that that priest
[07:31] <@Ssergiu> had burnt everyone down over night in my dream
[07:31] <@Ssergiu> so I had to be careful
[07:31] <@Ssergiu> lol
[07:31] <@Ssergiu> I am not sure though if I ever dreamed that
[07:31] lol
[07:31] <@Ssergiu> anyway when we all ran away like "HA YOU DIDNT GET US BASTARD"
[07:32] <@Ssergiu> he was all "wtf u talking about"
[07:32] in dream memories
[07:33] <@Ssergiu> "guys I dreamed this, we need to be careful"
[07:33] <@Ssergiu> ... I said the word dream and didn't realized I was dreaming xD
[07:33] lol

Sleep paralysis - Romanian / Română

Note: All the posts here are in English, except for this one. This article will be moved once I have created a Romanian Blog.

Pentru a afla ce este sleep paralysis trebuie să ştim cât de cât ceva despre somn. În timpul somnului trecem prin câteva cicluri ale somnului ce conţin anumite stagii. Sunt 5 stagii, dar voi pune stagiul 3 şi 4 împreună deoarece sunt foarte similare şi nu sunt multe diferenţe între ele. Aşadar, cele 4 stagii sunt: Stagiul 1, 2, 3 şi REM.

În stagiul 1 şi 2 corpul se relaxează încetul cu încetul iar creierul emite unde alpha şi theta. Nu intrăm în multe detalii pentru că nu ne interesează. Totuşi, în aceste stagii încă putem fi foarte uşor treziţi. Poate vi s-a întâmplat să vină cineva să vă trezească după 20+ minute după ce v-aţi pus în pat şi le-aţi spus "nicio problemă, oricum nu dormeam". Defapt, dormeaţi, doar că eraţi într-un somn uşor.

În somnul adânc (deep sleep / Stagiile 3 şi 4) creierul emite unde delta în care suntem aproape inconştienţi. În această stare, sistemul imunitar porneşte şi vindecă corpul. Acesta este şi motivul pentru care dormim mai mult când suntem bolnavi. Ar putea fi şi motivul pentru care cineva e în comă?

În ultimul stagiu, REM (rapid eye movement / mişcarea globilor oculari) activitatea creierul creşte emitând unde similare stării de trezire. Tocmai de aceea această stare se numeşte "stare de somn paradoxal", deoarece noi dormim, dar defapt suntem la fel de trezi ca atunci când nu dormim. Respiraţia şi bătăile inimii încep să crească de asemenea, dar muşchii legaţi de oase paralizează pentru a nu ne mişca în timpul viselor. Evident, în această stare visăm. Procesul de paralizare a corpului se mai numeşte REM antonia. Procesul în care eşti conştient de REM antonia se numeşte Sleep paralysis.

Un ciclu poate conţine aceste stagii, nu neaparat toate. Când dormim trecem prin aceste cicluri de mai multe ori. Se crede că un ciclu durează între 60-90 minute. Totuşi, depinde de la persoană la persoană, nu este constant. În prima parte a somnului, să spunem primele 2-3 cicluri, deep sleep durează mai mult decât REM. Dacă ne culcăm doar vreo 2-3 ore s-ar putea să nu ne amintim niciun vis. Cu cât timpul trece şi dormim mai mult cu atât durata deep sleep-ului se micşorează şi cea a stării REM creşte. De exemplu, după 6 ore de somn sunt şanse mai mari să ne amintim visele decât peste 1/2 ore. Deobicei în ultimul ciclu se trece mai mult prin REM.

Stagiile nu merg de fiecare dată în ordine. De exemplu poţi începe aşa: S1, S2, S3, REM, S3, S2, S2, S3, REM ... S2, REM REM S2 REM. În stagiul 2 petrecem 50% din somn şi de aceea un somn de 30 de minute poate fi suficient pentru a îţi reîncărca bateriile.

[b]Lucruri ciudate în Sleep paralysis şi explicaţia lor:[/b]
[i] Hallucinaţii vizuale sau auditive[/i]
În această stare putem experimenta anumite halucinaţii care probabil sunt create de subconştient, mai ales dacă avem Sleep paralysis spontan. Deobicei dacă devii conştient în vis şi reuşeşti să ieşi din realitatea visului, te vei trezi, dar corpul va rămâne paralizat. Cu cât eşti mai speriat cu atât starea se adânceşte şi devine tot mai rea. Cu cât eşti mai entuziasmat de această stare cu atât poţi ieşi mai uşor din ea. Desigur, nu pot garanta că acele halucinaţii sunt doar halucinaţii sau nu, dar aşa este crezut. Pot fi foarte aleatorii, eu de exemplu am fost tras din pat de... nimeni?!

[i]Probleme cu respiraţia[/i]
Multă lume are probleme cu respiraţia în Sleep paralysis. Când dormim, respiraţia şi bătăile inimii sunt într-un mod "automat", am putea spune. În momentul în care devii conştient de această paralizie o să încerci să respiri cum faci deobicei când eşti treaz, dar muşchii cu care respirăm sunt paralizaţi şi inabilitatea de ai putea folosi creează această iluzie. Noi defapt mereu respirăm.


De ce ai induce Sleep paralysis?
Motivul pentru care ai face acest lucru este pentru că eşti sigur de faptul că trupul tău este imobil şi te poţi mişca "astral" fără a-ţi face griji că te mişti fizic, cum se poate întâmpla în meditaţie. Cu toate acestea, totul pare aşa de real încât se pot creea confuzii între fizic şi Sleep paralysis. Am renunţat la câteva încercări de OOBE pentru că am crezut că m-am mişcat fizic. Dacă intri optimist în această stare, experienţa ta va fi plăcută.

Metode:
Având în vedere că această stare este strâns legată de somn, pentru a induce Sleep paralysis trebuie să ne jucăm cu somnul. De asemenea, pentru că această stare apare în REM, trebuie să intrăm în REM conştienţi. Aici sunt câteva metode:
A) Treziţi-vă cu 2 ore înainte decât normal. Normal înseamnă ora la care vă treziţi deobicei, fără nicio alarmă. Staţi treaz 30-60 de minute şi reîntoarceţi-vă la somn
B) Dormiţi între orele 6-9 şi mergeţi în la culcare / o proiecţie astrală după 2-4 ore de la somn. (După ce v-aţi trezit, nu mai staţi în pat, vă ridicaţi)
C) Dormiţi 5-6 ore, treziţi-vă, staţi treaz 30-60 de minute şi reîntoarceţi-vă la somn / meditaţie
D) Eu obişnuiam să mă culc la 1 noaptea, să mă trezesc la 6 dimineaţa şi să induc la 7/7:30.

În fiecare dintre metode veţi putea experimenta:
a) Sentiment de oboseală din cauza trezirii.
b) după 1-2 ore de aşteptare vă puteţi simţi foarte treaz încât nu aţi mai merge înapoi să încercaţi pentru că veţi crede că veţi sta în pat aiurea. Deobicei în metoda A se întâmplă asta), dar se poate şi în celelalte B şi C.

Ce să faceţi:
- Când vă reîntoarceţi la somn, puteţi încerca să meditaţi. Eu deobicei mă las adormit până când intru în Sleep paralysis.
- Dacă aveţi vibraţii aşteptaţi să se liniştească înainte să vă separaţi. Dacă după 1-2 minute nu se întâmplă nimic, încercaţi să vă separaţi oricum.
- Aş spune să experimentaţi SP de mai multe ori înainte să încercaţi să vă separaţi pentru a fi obişnuit cu starea. După aceea când aveţi SP, singurul lucru la care trebuie să vă gândiţi este separarea.
- De asemenea, a avea un plan pentru proiecţie este recomandat. Dacă staţi nemişcaţi şi nu ştiţi ce să faceţi se va pierde starea şi vă veţi trezi sau veţi adormi şi veţi avea vise foarte "vii".

Ce să nu faceţi:
- Nu faceţi sport.
- Nu faceţi duş.
- Nu faceţi nimic ce v-ar putea schimba starea fizică pe care o aveţi. Corpul de-abia a fost trezit din somn şi aşa trebuie să rămână.
- Când vă treziţi, nu vă reîntoarceţi la somn. Vă veţi termina ciclul şi veţi fi odihniţi.

Pentru mine OOBEs nu au nicio treabă cu sufletul ci doar cu conştiinţa. Trebuie să pierzi legătura cu această realitate şi să mergi în altele. Nu cred că defapt ne separăm de fizic când ne proiectăm. Cred că OOBe-urile, visele şi visele lucide sunt toate în conştiinţă. Totuşi, asta nu înseamnă că această conştiinţă este fizică. Conştiinţa e translatorul şi maşina cu care călătorim, motiv pentru care nu am nevoie de corp în OOBes şi nici de acel cordon argintiu. Noi deja suntem şi în astral şi în fizic, doar că suntem mai mult concentraţi pe fizic. Odată ce am pierdut legătura cu el rămânem doar în astral. Defapt termenul de "proiecţie" nu mi se pare corect. Nu te proiectezi în astral, ci te "muţi" în astral, te concentrezi pe astral, te afli. Aceasta este opinia mea.

S-ar putea să mai vin cu anumite detalii, dacă voi considera că este nevoie, mai ales la metode.

Sursa: Internet. Tot ce am scris este din experienţă, ce am învăţat de la alte persoane şi internetul. Am postat acest topic aici deoarece a fost scris mai mult pentru proiecţia astrală.

Dacă voi avea timp să mă ocup mai mult de acest fenoment voi creea un un forum sau cel puţin un blog în română.

Sleep Paralysis

First of all, I do not believe that this type of experience is caused by any demonic being, or at least, not as a major cause. I can provide a few answers to the usual questions.

The entire phenomena occurs during REM sleep, which is the last stage of sleep. During REM sleep, one's awareness increases and the sleeper starts dreaming. However, due to the fact he would not know he was dreaming, he would act out of his dream, similar to somnambulism. I'll discuss about that too. Therefore, in order to prevent this from happening, REM antonia comes in. This means that all the muscles connected to the bone get paralyzed so that we cannot move while dreaming. Now, since awareness is increasing, there's a way of someone getting aware of REM antonia. This process is called Sleep paralysis. In this state many auditory, visual and other types of hallucinations can occur.

Visual hallucinations
There are many types of visual hallucinations. However, I have not experienced many, but I shall talk about the usual ones. Mostly, people get in this state the feeling of fear, as they are incapable of moving and maybe speaking. Some of them may even perceive a presence in their room. This fear, apparently, is the first thing that can come into your mind when this process occurs. It has happened to me also. The presence of a being is said to occur only because the sleeper perceives his paralyzed body. However, the solution I have gotten for this is to not expect any presence and call it only a hallucination when it occurs. The fact that this makes them go away proves that they are harmless.

Auditory hallucinations
These types of hallucinations, according to my own personal experience, occur more often than the visual ones. You can experience loud vibrations, whispers, even your name being called. Unfortunately, I am not capable of explaining the vibrations that occur, however, once you separate form the body, they wear off. You do not even remember you've had them; they just vanish. These vibrations can be perceived also as your name or as whispers. It has recently happened to me, however, when I wished them away, all I had to do was to say it. In other words, do not worry much about these either, since they are only hallucinations that can be wipped off.

Other types of hallucinations / issues
One issue, that apparently, everyone is experiencing is breathing problems. I have had this issue too at the very beginning of my journey, however, with time and research I’ve realized that it isn't me not breathing enough, it is me who is the problem. While we are awake, breathing, we are using our intercostal muscles, however during sleep, we get into an "automatic breathing pattern". Therefore, once we get in REM sleep, muscles get paralyzed, yet, we are still breathing. Once we get aware of this process we try to breathe as we are used to, but since we cannot move any muscles at all, we get the feeling of not breathing enough or suffocation. If you go consciously in the state, with the intent of separation, you will forget to worry about your breath and just continue what you have planned. This breathing issue also explains the pressure some people have on their chest. It is not a being, it is only you inducing it.

Causes
Since this process occurs in REM sleep, this is where we need to go.

- Needs to be continued -

However, if you check out the methods I have on my blog, you may figure out what the causes actually are.

What I think OOBEs actually are

I have been thinking of writing about this in a long time and I have finally decided to do it. This article that I am writing will contain my views on dreams as well as out of body experiences. All that I am writing here is based on my own experience and research.


First of all, I would like to point out again the differences between Out Of Body Experiences and Lucid Dreams. There are many beliefs which say that OOBEs take place in higher astral realms and that LD's only in the mind or in lower astral realms. However, I find this information a bit flawed as one can transit between Lucid Dreams and OOBEs as much as they want, without having to change anything, but awareness or lucidity. The terms astral, higher or lower realms are only metaphors used by people to better explain the difference between the different states they were in while in the experience. Although, they are the same phenomena, therefore occur in the same place, the mind, it does not mean that they need to feel the same way. Everyone can feel the difference between LDs and OOBEs.

After an LD you can only remember how you got lucid and what your dream was about. When remembering the experience, lucid dreams may come like images and not like REAL "PHYSICAL" ACTIONS. You don't feel like you did something, but you just see how you imagined yourself having done what you did. I usually call this a 2D experience.

As for OOBEs, however, they feel as real as this world. You can remember everything since you became aware, how you became aware, why, how you separated, when you separated, what you DID, when you returned to bed, almost everything. It is not "imagination" anymore, it is REAL EXPERIENCE. You will remember it as you remember what you did 5 minutes ago. I am not talking about vividness, but how you, as a being with a body feel. I also call this a 3D experience since there's no difference between real life and OOBEs. They are the same, even when you wake up, you won't notice the difference.

Another way I used to put it was:
normal dreams - in the box, unaware of it
lucid dreams - in the box, however, aware of it
OOBEs - outside of the box.

You will find more details here, if you are interested: OOBES=LDS=DREAMS

Now that I have already explained why OOBEs, Dreams and LD's are the same phenomena, I would like to share my opinion on OOBES, the "realest state" of the experience. Both in dreams and OOBEs your body senses are cut off and it is only your mind that is awake. This usually happens in REM, but you do not always need REM to get to this. I will post a link to methods on how to OOBE at the end of the article. Anyway, since the body senses are cut off and it is only you and your mind without any environment to live in, with practice you will realize that we are in fact just a point of consciousness. The magic occurs once we interact with information from the external world and get the illusion of being one with the information, when in fact we are not. Now, since in an OOBE, at first, there is no environment as you receive no data from the body, you could say that the mind uses a back-up plan in which it creates you a FALSE environment based on all the things you've experienced throughout your life. A fish would have an OOBE in the water, or what it "thinks" it is like on land.

In other words, everything in the OOBEs is caused by your mind. It is now the creator of the universe you are in. It creates the rules, what/if you feel, hear, touch, taste or smell. One may ask however, why we always know where to separate from when we become aware. One reason, though, why we usually separate from our bed and NOT from somewhere else is because of sleep paralysis or EXPECTATION. We know we are in bed, since we are "very" aware, therefore we will separate from there. If the OOBE is involuntary, you may OOBE from the place you are the most used to. I once moved my bed on another side of the room and when I got in SP I still thought/felt that my bed was in the old place. I didn't realize I had moved it until I woke up. Since we are all so used to SPACE, our mind will automatically look for a place to give you, whether it is your closet (I have been there).

This having been said, I will conclude with the methods I have used since I got into OOBEs so that you may get to experience OOBEs too and let me know what your opinions on them are:

How I have induced and currently induce OOBEs
My method for lucid dreaming
Old article on how to OOBE. Similar to the one above.
Sleep paralysis.

I am back, hopefully

Haven't posted in such a long time. I also haven't practice as often as I used to, but I will try to update my blog as much as I can. You can also find me here: Astralviewers, Obe-one, Astralvoid and also Astralviewers chat.

Anyway, here are my latest experiences that I have written down.

As you maybe remember, I used to have a try outs thread. This is going to be the new version of it. I will probably make a new one every new year. I'll try, though, to bring myself to writing again more about my experiences as lately I could not be bothered writing them.

Experience #1 - Worms implanted. Matrix? September 29th

I do not remember now how I got in SP as I have not written many details about it, but I had 2 SP's. In the first SP I lost focus, but in the second one my vibrations turned into baby whispers that I could not understand. The vibrations were strong, loud, though. After a while, I felt like I was implanted something in my brain. I could feel something moving in my brain, in my head and then somewhere around my cheek. It felt like a worm, I could say. Although that was a bit weird and it kind of "nonphysically" hurt, I did not find it scary at all. In fact, never in oobes do I find anything scary, but interesting. I believe I got in this SP after I became lucid in a dream where there was one classmate in two places in the same time.

Experience #2 - Pure and subtle SP. Octomber 15th, I believe.

As usual, I am laying with my laptop in bed, talking in the astralviewers chat. I was a bit bored so I just put the laptop next to me and closed my eyes. I was thinking about recent things, nothing really important. Suddently, I found myself not moving and I just wanted to swim out of this un-movement. I imagined me swimming until I really felt like swimming. I was like out of an ocean then I fell back and went deeper. The water wasn't actually water, it was shiny "nothingness", an ocean is my best metaphor describing the place. I was seeing a few pentagrams and satanic things since I watched a docummentary about Illuminati. (boredom, don't ask me)

For some reason I felt like saying "go away, you demon". The deeper I was going in this "water", the more I tried to open my mouth. I could barely hear myself, but it felt like I was speaking physically. The more I was opening my mouth, the realer everything started to feel. Then, when I swam up, out of this "ocean" I found myself in another position, with my feet on the next wall. I was slowly rotating and feeling the wall while rotating.

I was all "OMG, not even a small detail is missing", but I should have normally hit my laptop, but I didnt feel it. Apparently, a big detail was missing, hehe. Then I said "so, this is MY world, the one I am used to, since my laptop is not there." My feet went through the wall and then I just jumped. I got through my neighbours wall, and I was hugging someone. Then, I asked for real clarity, not just shiny "nothingness".

I opened the window (even hear it opening), again small details were there, and I wanted to jump the window. Someone was looking at me like "wtf is he doing?". However, I don't remember what happened next. I just saw myself waking up, not moving. I tried to reenter but nothing happened so I just opened my eyes and wrote it.

I forgot to add that it was night and full moon after I'd gotten out of that "white void".

Experience #3 - Dual awareness. A very long time ago

I somehow got again in Sleep Paralysis and because I was having mental blocks I thought I'd try to fly as high as I could and perhaps get a better focus in the air. I remember I went though the wall behind me but then I got back in my body. However, I finally jumped, I could feel myself in the air, although I could not see anything. Then, because I could not see I decided to try opening my eyes. I forced them and I opened my right or left eye. I can't remember for sure, but it was the physical eye. The nice part here is that I could still feel myself in the air, getting higher while I was feeling myself still in bed, looking at the rest of the room. I can't explain it but by saying it was dual awareness. That's exactly what it felt like. I know it may have been an illusion, but it wasn't as I opened the other eye too and got back my physical senses and went to write the experience.

Experience #4 - Free your mind Sserg! October 29th

I was again the astralviewers chat, talking to people when Omkar randomly told me "You need to free your mind, Sserg!". I always knew that I was going through illusions in OOBEs, but this statement really helped me. Thanks Omkar for that.
I was somewhere, near where one friend lives, I have no idea why I got there, but I wanted to fly. I was lucid. I had been too skeptical and insecure in OOBEs and that's why I had so many movement problems. However, I started to fly, I went through a tree, I felt the branches and leaves while flying until at some point I became insecure again. I decided I'd raise my hand, hoping I would fly faster when I remembered what Omkar had told me. I said "No, I am not that limited, I can do it only with my mind." I just willed to fly faster and it happened. At some point I just looked down and I could see the city in a 2D view as I was soo high in the air. There even was a fog laying above the city. I guess what I wanted to do in Experience #3 has finally happened.

How I've induced and currently induce OOBEs

I have only been practicing OOBEs for 1-2 years and I've gone through many methods and try outs to figure out what methods are the most suitable to me. They've always changed, but here are a few.

Involuntary experiences for almost no reason

I used to have a lot of Sleep Paralysis experiences and I had no idea why. I also used to believe there were a few demons in my room or that someone was in my apartment willing to kill me or steal something. One of the reason I used to have these experiences is that I had just started school and I had to go to bed earlier. It did not matter how early I went I always had to have a nap in the afternoon as I was too tired. Then, after a few hours, as I had to go to bed earlier, I'd just go to sleep and wait. I felt in a way able to sleep, but not sleepy or tired at all. This is one of the best states you should be in when you want to induce an OOBE. This method may be also found as Bedeekin's method as he has introduced naps to Astralviewers, if I remember correctly. You basically need to go to bed later than usual, wake up earlier than usual so that you can get tired enough for a nap in the evening. Then, take a short nap (1-2 hours) in the evening, wake up and go back to bed in 2-4 hours and you should experience Sleep paralysis. It may not work from the very beginning, but keep trying. It happened to me without knowing what I was doing, so it must work to you too. However, if you are used to sleeping in the afternoon or you are not used to waking up WHEN you wake up, it may not work. Keep trying, though. Change sleep patterns.

I sometimes still use this method, but yeah, always napping in the afternoon can get pretty frustrating. One would rather just go outside with friends than sleeping. It's still a powerful method, though.

Voluntary SP's, but with a prior sleep

Whether it is a sleep in the evening, or you just wake up to use the toilet it is still a good opportunity to try and induce an OOBE. Try to get some 5-6 hours of sleep, stay up 30-60 minutes and then return back to bed with the intent of inducing. You may stay up shorter, but try not to fall asleep. I believe Jettins has already talked about this method in more detail. Check it out in the forum. This method is the fastest way to OOBE, in my opinion. Here are some old hours and situations when I used to induce:

1. Bedeekin method. Go to sleep later than usual, wake up 1-2 hours earlier than usual, have a 2 hours nap between 6-9 then induce after 2/4 hours. Usually at 11.
2. Wake up 2 hours earlier than usual and go to induce in 1 hour.
3. Wake up in the middle of the night, after 2/4/6 hours of sleep and try to induce.
4. Go to sleep at 1 am, wake up at 6 am and induce at 7 am. - This one worked 9 times out of 10 to me until I changed again my sleep pattern.

Before going to bed methods

Since there's no time for napping and waking up during nights is a bit annoying and stressful, I needed a new method. I had become used to inducing right before falling asleep. However, I had to be very sleepy so that I can go faster and deeper in my sleep. I used to stay still, without moving and just wait until images or sounds kicked in. Sometimes I'd just find myself talking, interpreting other dream characters. When I realized that, I'd just say my magical sentence that should increase my awareness. I used to say "This is false, this is all a dream.". I remember it has worked like 3-4 times, but I did not bother practicing this. However, lately, I've become better at this method and I can even stay still without moving until I enter SP or fall asleep. Sometimes, I need to move, but if I move I always remember that I am close to falling asleep so I just wait to use my magical sentence. It requires practice but it works, without any prior sleep.

Meditation induction

After having had Sleep paralysis and out of body experiences only after prior sleep for almost a year, I could not imagine how one could have OOBEs and real vibrations from meditation as for me, meditation was only a way to relax your mind and "turn off the useless programs running in the background". However, yes, it is possible to induce OOBEs from meditation. The best way is to learn to ignore any physical and external information, senses, everything and concentrate on a mantra or something else. Just stay aware and ignore everything else. Most importantly is to get rid of your physical senses. No mind meditation, by Campbell, phasing and noticing by Xanth are very good methods for that. I however still induce using that magical sentence I just talked about above since I induce more when going to sleep.

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If I remember something else I will let you guys know.

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