Alongside remembering lucid dreaming immediately upon waking, another important requirement is awakening without moving, which is difficult since many people wake up and move. Upon awakening, scratching, stretching, opening the eyes, and listening to real sounds should be avoided. Any real movement or perception will very quickly disintegrate the intermediate state and introduce reality, the activation of the mind and its connection to the sensory organs.

At first, awakening without moving seems difficult or even impossible. However, it has been proven that this is remedied for through active attempts and the desire to achieve set goals. People often claim that they cannot awaken without moving, that it’s an impossible experience. However, after several attempts, it will happen, and it will occur more and more frequently with practice.

Thus, if there is difficulty in awakening without movement, do not despair, just keep trying. Sooner or later, the body will yield to the practice, and everything will happen smoothly.

Awakening without moving is very important because, for the majority of people, experiments with lucid dreaming are not possible except in the first waking moments where waking without moving sets the stage for successful indirect technique cycles. Often, a practitioner will make 10 unsuccessful attempts and move while awakening. Once the practitioner learns to consistently wake calmly and gradually, success quickly follows.

However, if an awakening is conscious, but with movement, that does not mean that the practitioner cannot immediately make an attempt to fall into lucid dreaming. Such attempts, although they will be about 2 times less effective than usual, should nevertheless be made. Any opportunity to practice while waking should not be wasted. It must only be kept in mind that one must first neutralize the effects of the movement in order to once again fall into an intermediate state. In the case of movement, it is extremely helpful to begin practice with forced falling asleep. Listening in also works well, as does observing images. After performing these, cycling may begin.

WARNING!!! IF YOU WAKE UP AFTER OR TO PHYSICAL MOVEMENT, IT WOULD BE A SERIOUS MISTAKE TO FORGO AN ATTEMPT! YOU HAVE TO TRY ANYWAY! NOVICES OFTEN GET THEIR FIRST EXPERIENCE TWO TO THREE TIMES LATER THAN THEY NORMALLY WOULD DUE TO THIS MISTAKE.

After physical movement, the success rate for attempts using indirect techniques is usually substantially lower merely due to the fact that practitioners lose confidence in both themselves and the success of the current attempt. As a result, the attempt itself simply becomes poor in quality and lackluster. However, if the attempt is nevertheless performed self-assuredly and as if no movement had occurred, then odds of success will remain practically undiminished.

Awakening without movement, despite all its importance, is not a goal in and of itself, and also not worth suffering over. When awakening, if there is great discomfort, something itches, a need to swallow arises, or any manner of natural reflex, it is better to deal with it and then act according to practices recommended when movement upon awakening happens.

Not all movements upon awakening are real and, if only for this reason alone, when movement occurs, indirect techniques should follow.

Interesting Fact!

Up to 20% of sensations and actions that happen upon awakening are not real as they seem, but are phantom.

False sensations occur in widely diverse ways. People often do not understand what is going on with them without having experienced lucid dreaming. For example, a person may think they are scratching their ear with their physical hand when they are really using a phantom hand. A person may hear pseudo-sounds in the room, on the street, or at the neighbor’s without noting anything unusual. Or, a person may look around the room without knowing that his eyes are actually closed. If a practitioner recognizes such moments for what they are, they may immediately try to separate from the body.

Questions

Are there skills in lucid dreaming that must first be mastered before lucid dreaming may be used to its full extent?

Is it possible to understand whether a lucid dream is intact by attempting to fly?

Has a practitioner most likely gotten up in lucid dreaming or in reality if there are doubts about this?

Is it sufficient to think about the body in order to return to it, and is it only required to return into the body in order to control it?

Which arm should be actively and aggressively moved to overcome sleep paralysis?

Is it possible to tell jokes to oneself to overcome sleep paralysis?

Is it possible to move the physical eyes while in lucid dreaming?

What should be done if sleep paralysis cannot be overcome?

Can sleep paralysis occur without practicing lucid dreaming?

What if fear is not addressed and conquered?

Is it possible to gradually master lucid dreaming in order to overcome fear?

Is there cause for fear of anything in lucid dreaming?

At what point can vision be created in lucid dreaming by opening the eyelids and not through the use of special techniques?

What would happen with an attempt to open the eyes after sitting up in bed, i.e., before becoming completely separated from the body?

Why may contact with living objects in lucid dreaming cause a return to the body?

What problems might occur if a practitioner studies the mouth of a talking object?

In lucid dreaming, how quickly can small text be read?

Which is easier to read in lucid dreaming: text in a newspaper or text on a large billboard?

Is it possible to see hieroglyphs instead of text while reading in lucid dreaming?

Is it possible to burst through a wall after running up to it with the eyes shut?

Which muscles of the body must be tensed to start flying in lucid dreaming?

Are there any extrasensory abilities that are inaccessible in lucid dreaming?

Can a practitioner transform into a ball while in lucid dreaming?

How does pain in lucid dreaming differ from pain in the physical world?

Should a practitioner give up a seat to an elderly person while in lucid dreaming?

Due to moral considerations, what is prohibited in lucid dreaming?

Tasks

During your next lucid dreaming session, walk around your home investigating the rooms, kitchen, and bathroom in detail.

Learn to pass through walls. Completely dedicate one long lucid dreaming experience to perfecting this skill.

Learn to fly in lucid dreaming.

While in a deep lucid dreaming, learn to control pain by hitting a wall with your fist.

While in lucid dreaming, learn telekinesis (the ability to move objects by thought) and pyrokinesis (setting objects on fire, also performed by thought).

Dedicate a lengthy lucid dreaming experience to an experiment with vision: create it if it is not already available, and then shut your eyes and recreate vision. Do this at least ten times over the course of a single lucid dreaming

Dedicate a long lucid dreaming to searching for different kinds of texts in order to experiment with reading various size fonts.

The Essence of Translocation and Finding Objects

Like everyday reality, lucid dreaming space cannot be used for certain purposes if it is not known how to move around and find necessary things. In a wakeful state, it is more or less known where something is located and how to reach it. In lucid dreaming, the same assumptions cannot apply since lucid dreaming mechanisms work by different principles.

The reason for addressing translocation and finding objects in the same chapter is because both techniques rely on the same mechanics. In other words, the same methods – with minor exceptions – can be applied to both translocation and finding.

After studying the techniques described in this chapter, a practitioner in lucid dreaming will be able to go to any location and find any object. The only limitations that exist are those of the imagination and desire; if these are unlimited, so are the possibilities.

Regarding translocation, attention should not be focused on methods for traveling through nearby spaces. For example, a practitioner may simply walk into an adjacent room, or out to the street via the corridor or through the window. These are natural, easy actions. A practitioner should instead concentrate attention on how to move to remote destinations that cannot be quickly reached by physical means.

It is important to mention the necessary safety procedures for translocation. Sometimes, due to a lack of experience, a practitioner may mistake lucid dreaming for reality, and reality may be mistaken for lucid dreaming. Mistaking lucid dreaming for reality implies no danger since a practitioner simply believes that an entry attempt was unsuccessful. However, if reality is mistaken for lucid dreaming, a practitioner may perform dangerous or even life-threatening actions. For example, after getting out of bed in a wakeful state, thinking that everything is happening in lucid dreaming, a beginner may approach a window and jump out of it, expecting to fly, as is customary in lucid dreaming. For this reason alone, shortcuts to flight should only be taken after gaining a level of experience that makes it possible to unambiguously distinguish lucid dreaming from a wakeful state.

If a glitch occurs when practicing translocation techniques (for example, landing in the wrong place), a practitioner should simply repeat the technique until the desired result is obtained. Either way, initial training is a must in order to make everything easier for you later on.

As far as object-finding techniques are concerned, these are used for both inanimate and animate objects. In other words, these techniques are equally effective for finding, for example, a person or a utensil. However, there are several techniques that are only suitable for finding living objects.

Basic Property of lucid dreaming Space

All methods for controlling lucid dreaming space stem from a primary law: the degree of changeability of lucid dreaming space is inversely proportionate to the depth of lucid dreaming and the stability of its objects. That is, the deeper and more stable lucid dreaming, the more difficult it is to perform something unusual in it because in a deep, stable lucid dreaming, the laws of it begin to closely resemble those of the physical world.

All translocation and finding objects techniques are based on knowledge of methods that exploit this primary law. The secret lies in the fact that not only lucid dreaming depth affects the controllability of lucid dreaming, but so does lucid dreaming stability, which in turn depends to a large extent on the number of sensations experienced in lucid dreaming. The techniques for translocation and finding objects are used when these experienced sensations are weakened through certain actions.

In other words, if a practitioner located in lucid dreaming holds a red pencil and examines it, tactile and visual perceptions are engaged, which under sharp agitation cause the object to exist in its complete form. However, as soon as the eyes are shut, the stability of pencil image weakens. In this situation, it will be enough for the practitioner (after sufficient training) to concentrate on believing that the pencil is dark-blue in order for it to appear dark blue after opening the eyes. This phenomenon occurs because the color of the pencil is no longer determined by perceptual areas of the brain and, therefore, it is possible to change it.

If a red pencil is placed on a table and the practitioner’s eyes are shut, and there is concentration on a thought that the pencil is no longer on the table, then after opening the eyes, the practitioner will find that the pencil has disappeared. In essence, when the pencil is lying on the table and the practitioner’s eyes are closed, no perception is being invested in the pencil – the practitioner’s eyes do not see it and his skin does not touch it. The pencil only remains as a memory, which the practitioner modifies using autosuggestion.

Using certain technique-related methods, a practitioner may cause the stability of lucid dreaming state to remain in flux using techniques that best suit the practitioner’s individual personality.

Charles Tart was born in the United States in 1937. He received his Ph. D. in psychology in 1963 at the University of North Carolina. Tart also received training at Stanford University. He was one of the founders of transpersonal psychology.

He became one of the most preeminent researchers of unusual states of awareness after the publication of Altered States of Consciousness (1969), the first book that he worked on. It was one of the first books to examine entering lucid dreaming through dream consciousness. The book received popularity when the use LSD and Marijuana were often viewed as vehicles to elevated consciousness, and the book even describes the use of chemical substances in the context of lucid dreaming states.

New York, USA

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Meeting with OBE friends in California and sharing their excitement motivated me to want to try something new and see if I could get OOB while traveling on the plane to home, since I knew it would be a long trip and I could sleep. I was concerned it might not happen, as I have never attempted this in a noisy, bumpy, moving environment, but still wanted to try.

I used my usual affirmations and visualization before sleep, and remember being surprised to feel my left knee floating up as I sat in the plane seat. (I was in a window seat, next to the wing of the plane.) It didn’t bring me to awareness of possibly being OOB, as my mind registered it as something interesting but not that unusual.

It was at that point that we had to have hit some turbulence, or maybe my seatmate moved slightly to bump me, but I felt my astral leg quickly and heavily sink back into my physical body, enough to startle me to more awareness.

I realized, “hey wow! I WAS starting to get OOB!” Without waking completely, I settled back in and soon found both knees now floating up, to the point where I felt totally squished in the seat! I wondered how do I get out fully while sitting in this plane seat?!?

I thought a change in position might help, so I leaned back, falling through the back of the seat, and then used a “floating” visualization to try to lift. My next memory is of seeing the ceiling of the plane only inches from my face!

I now realized I was out!! I was so thrilled, yet I told myself not to get too excited. I remember thinking I should verify it by moving my hand through the roof of the plane (M.R.: no deepening). As I placed my hand partially through the ceiling successfully, I fearfully remembered I was in a moving airplane and maybe shouldn’t disturb some important “wiring” or such and so pulled my hand back in quickly! (This shows me how strong my beliefs were that you just don’t go outside or mess with a moving airplane!)

Next, I was doing handstands on the back of the seats, flopping myself into unsuspecting passengers’ laps, and then moved to the front of the plane. I found two open seats next to a young male and thought I’d just stop here to check out first class. While there, the stewardess made some announcement, and I realized that no one was too happy about her disturbing their quiet. I could feel the passengers’ ‘irritation’ and even sensed some ‘discontent’ from the stewardess as she performed her job.

At that point we did hit turbulence, and I awoke fully from my experience. I was so happy to have succeeded! I knew I had felt ‘confined’ to the inside of the plane by my fear of causing problems should I have exited it. 

Alien abduction technique

The practitioner imagines that aliens have invaded his bedroom and are grabbing his ankles and pulling him out of his body. Alternatively, he imagines that he is being pulled out by a beam emanating from a spaceship.

Sex technique

The practitioner tries to feel the intimate sensations of the copulative act in as much detail as possible. This works better for women in the passive form.

Toothbrush technique

The practitioner tries to feel that he is brushing his teeth. He tries to feel the movement of his hand, the sensation of the brush in his mouth, and the taste of toothpaste. He can also try to add in sensation by imagining himself standing in front of a mirror in a bathroom.

Whispering pillow technique

Lying with his ear to his pillow, the practitioner tries to hear sounds, melodies, and voices coming from it. He can try to hear specific sounds, or simply passively listen in to what’s there.