There is a trick technique for making most lucid dreaming entrances successful: forced falling asleep. It can be used with the following situations and variations: as an independent technique; when no other technique works; upon extremely alert awakening; when awakening to physical movement; in case of intense physical stimuli from one’s physical surroundings; when getting a poorly working technique to yield results, and so on. In essence, this is a lifesaver technique for all those situations when something isn’t working as one would like it to, or not as one had planned.

Interesting Fact!

Correctly using forced falling asleep in conjunction with indirect techniques can realistically bring odds of success to near 100 percent. That this, practically all attempts to exit the body upon awakening can become successful.

Odds of entering lucid dreaming diminish with every second when using cycles of indirect techniques upon awakening. Forced falling asleep, to put it simply, is a way to reel that receding lifeline to lucid dreaming back towards you. It tricks the brain, which will react automatically to all your actions and quickly thrust you into an intermediate state that is easy to use to enter lucid dreaming.

What the practitioner does is try to fall asleep as decidedly and as quickly as possible, but while maintaining the intention of not losing consciousness. The most important thing is to not get caught up in how to do it. Everyone intuitively knows how to do it, because everyone has had to force themselves to fall asleep at one point or another. You need only to get pulled in to a wave of sleepiness and catch it at the last second. It’s quite similar to real life situations when there is very little time to sleep, and one nevertheless has to catch some rest. This technique is to be performed with that very determination to fall asleep quickly – but of course, here you do not fall completely asleep.

Despite all the merits of forced falling asleep and opportunities it offers, it quite rarely works at School of Out-of-Body Travel seminars for beginners. It is often put forward as an element for advanced practitioners who have reached the next level of sophistication. The problem consists in the fact that forced falling asleep is nearly always difficult for novices to conceptualize. In addition, information overload leads to an inability to digest additional information, and risks crowding out more elementary tasks at the start of one’s practice.

This is primarily why forced falling asleep must be approached carefully. Ideally, lucid dreamingr himself should start to feel it approach on its own. This often occurs after one has already had a first experience. There’s no sense in including it in the first things to be learned. Rather, it should only be used to fine-tune the effectiveness of attempts using indirect techniques. The exception would be situations where forced falling asleep is the last tool that hasn’t yet been tried, and nothing else can be made to work upon awakening.

The most important thing is to never try this technique if you don’t understand it. A practitioner may lose out on real experience in search of a silver bullet. He would waste time and energy on things obscure to him, and therefore, that which is bound to be ineffective. Conversely, if a practitioner immediately understands forced falling asleep and is familiar with it, then he may dive right into trying it in his practice.

What follows is a very characteristic example of how this technique can be incorrectly understood: Let us assume that a lucid dreamr tries to perform forced falling asleep in some way, but that it doesn’t work. At the end of the attempt, the disappointed practitioner decides to fall fast asleep in order to catch the next awakening. And it’s just at that moment that he begins to feel an imminent approach of lucid dreaming (vibrations, imagery, noise). On this the second try, he has done everything the right way – naturally and unaffectedly. Whereas before he had over-thought and over-complicated his actions when trying to do the technique, now he has been doing everything correctly – he simply begins falling asleep, as forced falling asleep should be done.

It’s worth paying close attention to the fact that novices often get results from indirect techniques not while cycling them, but only when they want to fall asleep quickly after a failed attempt in order to catch one more awakening.

The main problem when performing forced falling asleep is the risk of easily falling asleep for real, no matter how awake one’s mind seems before using this technique. This should always be remembered, and the length of time that this method is carried out should be carefully varied. In most cases, only several seconds are necessary in order to get results. Sometimes it needs to be done for longer, and sometimes lucid dreamingr falls asleep after two seconds of performing the technique, although it may seem to him that he had awoken too alertly and that nothing at all would work for him.

Internal certainty that nothing will happen instead of believing in positive results.

Stopping the performance of techniques after an unsuccessful cycle when a minimum of four cycles should be practiced.

Constantly awakening to movement instead of remaining still.

Performing direct techniques in the evening. Performing indirect techniques in the evening, instead of upon waking up in the morning.

Performing indirect techniques for an extremely long period of time (2 minutes or more). This is a complete waste of time in most cases.

Switching from techniques that have begun to work instead of following them through to the end.

Passively performing techniques instead of being determined and aggressive.

Performing each technique separately for too long a period of time, even if the technique does not work, instead of switching to another technique within several seconds.

Excessive thinking and analysis while performing indirect techniques, which require mental tranquility and inner stillness.

Stopping and concentrating on unusual sensations when they arise versus continuing the technique that brought them about in the first place.

Extremely long anticipation upon awakening instead of immediately performing techniques.

Premature attempts at separating, instead of performing lucid dreaming creation techniques through to the end of progress.

Holding the breath when unusual sensations appear. Be calm instead.

Opening the eyes when the only recommended movement is breathing or moving the eyes behind closed lids.

Being agitated instead of relaxed.

Ceasing attempts to separate even when partial success is met.

Straining the physical muscles while performing the techniques versus remaining physically motionless.

Not practicing after an alert awakening, when techniques are best applied – especially in the event of waking without movement.

Merely imagining the techniques instead of really understanding them and performing them, if, of course, one is not performing rotation or other imagined techniques.

Simply wiggling phantom limbs instead of employing a fixed determination to increase the range of movement

Falling right asleep during forced falling asleep, instead of having the firm intention of continuing efforts within only 5 to 10 seconds.

Scrutinizing the details of images when using the technique of observing images; the whole image should be observed panoramically lest it disappear.

Intentionally trying to force pictures when observing images, instead of looking for what is naturally presented.

Simply hearing noise when employing the technique of listening in, instead of attentively trying to pay attention, catch something, and listen in.

In addition to self-healing, lucid dreaming state of the mind also provides some possibilities for having an influence on the health of others.

It’s not news that most people are firstly interested not in self-healing, but in helping others. This is understandable, as perhaps they have loved ones who are for whatever reason unable to use lucid dreaming, or are extremely negatively prejudiced against such things. Perhaps the reader of this book is a professional who treats diseases in non-traditional ways, or is a novice healer himself.

It is well to first emphasize that only one of the wide variety of theoretical ways to have an influence on another person in lucid dreaming is proven and absolutely practicable, and it is techniques for obtaining information. While the effects of all the other techniques on the practitioner himself are beyond doubt and have been proven experimentally, their influence on other people remains theoretical – as of yet, no one has been able to prove remote influence on another person in a controlled experiment. For example, if you find a friend in lucid dreaming and give him some medicine, the effect of that medicine on him will remain theoretical.

It is important to realize that trying to employ anything but the technique for obtaining information risks time and energy being spent in vain. Some certainly will claim to have proven that it is possible to have a direct affect on another person through lucid dreaming. However, only what each and every person can accomplish – literally from the first time – will be discussed here. Whatever the case may be, it can be definitively stated here that either influencing another person remotely is impossible, as few have reported results, or it simply remains unclear how to do it. Either way, in embarking upon such hitherto unproven experiments, one does so at one’s own risk and peril. If remote influence through lucid dreaming nevertheless shows itself to be working, then it is already the practitioner himself who will have to know what needs to be added so that the impact on the other person brings stable results.

One’s theoretical view on the nature of lucid dreaming phenomenon will play an enormous role in one’s choice of a course of action. The materialist will not have any way of helping another person besides obtaining information. The occultist is hardly likely to encounter barriers to his practice. This is a choice for each person to make. It should be understood that even if other techniques allow some influence on others, the results are clearly far from stable – as many will doubt the results due to a lack of empirical evidence, and not out of their own views or theories. That very lack of empirical evidence forbears a definitive statement here. Scientific experiments have delivered no confirmation to date.

Of course, if one wishes to help another person, there is another proven way to do so besides obtaining information: convincing him to practice lucid dreaming and employ the appropriate techniques for self-healing himself. From a pragmatic point of view on the phenomenon, this is a much surer way than trying to influence another person from lucid dreaming.

The technique of obtaining information will be of help for the practitioner who has decided to heal another person. This technique is described in detail in this book, along with how to use it. The only difference is that information must be sought on a particular person, and not on oneself. The practitioner may learn not only how to provide treatment in real-life, but also how to obtain a comprehensive diagnosis.

It works like this: using the technique for obtaining information, one finds a specialist who will help deal with the problem that one’s acquaintance is experiencing. One then speaks with this doctor about how to help him, about what can be done in reality, and so on… lucid dreaming doctor’s prescriptions and/or advice are then relayed to the person for whom they were obtained. Alternatively, the entire lucid dreaming experience is related to the person in need.

From a materialist point of view, it is necessary to note the fact that far from everyone can be helped using lucid dreaming. Without going into detailed explanations, it will simply be stated that the more one knows about a person, the more one will be able to find out about him in lucid dreaming. Even if one has only seen the person’s picture, it is possible that one will nonetheless find out something about him, and be able to help him in some way. But if one knows this person personally, then the amount of information obtained about him through lucid dreaming will increase drastically. A practitioner should at least talk for a short while with a person before attempting to obtain information in lucid dreaming about his health, or treatment methods best suited to his condition.

Actions. The essence of this technique is to obtain useful information in lucid dreaming that can be applied to self-healing. The information obtained may pertain not only to actions to be implemented in real life, but also to actions to be performed directly while in lucid dreaming. It’s possible to learn how to help another person, or learn what that other person needs to do to in order to overcome his illness. For example, if the practitioner has some illness or other health-problem, he can learn in lucid dreaming which medicines would have the best effect in the physical world, or which actions taken in lucid dreaming could help him to recover from his illness or affliction.

Therapeutic indications. The therapeutic indications are endless. As the technique concerns obtaining information and knowledge, it can be used for any self-healing case, no matter what its gravity or variety, and no matter whether the intent is to heal in reality or while in lucid dreaming.

Example. For example, a practitioner has hurt his leg while at work. There’s a bad painful bruise, and it’s taking a long time to heal. And so the question arises as to how to get the bruise to start healing faster and become less painful. The practitioner enters lucid dreaming and employs the technique for obtaining information through animate objects, and to that end summons a surgeon. He briefly describes the problem and asks for advice. The surgeon recommends that the practitioner first go for a short run in lucid dreaming in order to get rid of the pain or simply stop feeling it, and then, before returning to reality, smear some cooling-agent onto the bruise and inject a large dose of novocaine into it. lucid dreaming surgeon might also advise him to apply a compress using ingredients that he had never even thought of, or take a specific medicine. The result is that all of the above is implemented both in lucid dreaming and in reality, achieving a result commensurate with the quality of those actions.

Effectiveness. Effectiveness (in this context: the accuracy of knowledge obtained through lucid dreaming) is highly dependent on one’s level of mastery – that is, on the ability of the practitioner himself to obtain information from lucid dreaming. For a novice, no more than 20 to 40 percent of advice obtained may be accurate, but with experience that number may reach 70 or even 100 percent. Considering this, it is vital to use the techniques for verifying obtained information.

Difficulties. The main difficulty with this type of healing using lucid dreaming lies in the fact that the practitioner must posses an additional skill: the ability to obtain correct information from lucid dreaming and, by corollary, the ability to verify that information. It’s usually necessary to simply enter lucid dreaming, deepen it, and then perform the actions one planned to do, all the while maintaining lucid dreaming. But in this case, everything is much more difficult.

The very accuracy of knowledge obtained is highly dependent on how impartial the practitioner is to the information he is receiving, and how confident he is that he will be able to obtain accurate information. He should not make the source of information feel pressured to say what he wants to hear. By doing so, the practitioner would choke off the flow of accurate information. It’s hard for the average person to “turn-off” habits like this without serious training, as everyone is accustomed to contemplating something in the back of one’s mind, or having some desired outcome for a conversation.

Accessibility. Of course, obtaining information in lucid dreaming for the purpose of healing is one of the most difficult processes of all, and so the novice is better off shying away from it if he doesn’t have a pressing need to go through with the process. Unlike many other methods for healing through lucid dreaming, it is necessary here to master the separate and difficult technique of obtaining information.

lucid dreaming is often accompanied by an unforgettably unusual sensation that may be used successfully to enter, deepen or maintain it. It is difficult to describe it better than the sensation of a heavy current passing through the entire body without causing any pain. It may also feel like the whole body is contracting, or a tingling sensation similar to numbness. Most often, the sensations are similar to high-frequency vibrations of the body, which explains the origin of the term “vibration”.

If the practitioner is not sure whether or not he experienced vibrations, then there is a good method to solve his problem: realize that if he really did, he will not have any doubts about it. In all other cases, when there are doubts and uncertainty, the practitioner is definitely not dealing with vibrations, or is dealing with another form thereof.

If you have experienced vibrations at least once, the recollection of these sensations helps greatly during the simultaneous application of indirect techniques. Vibrations are created, supported and strengthened by straining the brain or tensing the body without using the muscles. For vibrations to appear, it often suffices merely to think about them. During the first experience, one should experiment with them for a while by rolling them around the body and its parts, as well as strengthening and weakening them.

However, one should not think that the presence of vibrations is a necessary condition for being in lucid dreaming. Many novices often strive not for lucid dreaming but for vibrations, after which the former must supposedly follow. That should not be the case. There are indeed specific techniques that make it possible to get into lucid dreaming by creating vibrations, but in all other cases they are not necessary and some practitioners may never have them at all.