Re: Phasemancer's blog

[phasemancer]

Today I managed for the first time to really get the indirect methods to work. It's quite a long time since the last time I had a complete phase experience. Previously I've pretty much just entered by luck, I didn't understand really how to do it, it just happened, either by becoming conscious in a dream, or by entering the phase by falling asleep consciously when being sleep deprived.

I have had several semi successful attempts with the indirect methods before. The first time, I was observing images, and then saw the phase through a circular spot as if looking through a telescope, then I tried listening in and heard something similar to when you change channels on an old radio, it went from noise to voices, for a few seconds I was able to see through the "telescope" and hear voices from the room I was seeing, but then I woke up. The second time I was also observing images and suddenly my entire field of view was filled with a 2 dimensional 8-bit world, similar to an old Nintendo game, I tried entering the world but then woke up. Then I had one time where it actually worked, I listened in, then got up of bed and went to the bathroom, looked in the mirror and noticed I had a bit of beard, but didn't really think more about it. I tried breathing when holding my nose, but just felt pain in my ears, so I thought it hadn't worked and went to bed again, when I later woke up I remembered that I had just shaved the day before so it had actually worked, I just didn't realize it.

Today with the last experience in mind, I tried listening in again. After listening in for maybe a minute or two, I got up from bed, just got up like getting up normally, I guess the separation part is the main reason why the indirect methods haven't worked for me earlier. I held my nose and tried breathing, it worked, so now I was sure I was in the phase. I looked around, and noticed everything looked more clear and detailed than in waking life, it's as if I was wearing glasses that gave me better than perfect vision. I rubbed my hand a bit for maintaining. I then went to the bathroom to look in the mirror. I found the sight that met me quite hilarious. I was a crippled retarded dwarf, with a big wound on my face, which was bleeding. I then went to the living room to fly out the window, my plan of action was to look in the mirror and then fly to the moon, as I walked across the living room I woke up and was unable to fall asleep again to give it another try.

[12padams]

Have you been reading my blog/books or watching my videos by any chance? Because that plan of action of looking in a mirror (I also used the bathroom mirror) then flying to the moon was my first ever plan of action

Anyway you mention seeing the phase almost like a telescope. During my meditation sessions I have managed to see the phase the same way which is determined by the stability of the imagery. If the images disappear as you focus on them then they are simply memory impressions. If they stay there however and even have motion/moving people in them then that's the phase.

It's practically like you are looking into the blackness seeings a small round portal leading to another world infrount of you. During my daytime meditation sessions (recently gave them up) I have managed to see the phase and attempt moving towards the portal but unfortunately it closed up on me.

I enter the phase mostly through failed attempts then I give up and have a phase experience through a false awakening. It helps when I wake up early at 3am to attempt because each following attempt has a higher success rate. Once I gave up after failing at 3am then entered the phase without even trying at 5am after escaping my body from waking in sleep paralysis.

I wish you the best of luck in your journey

[phasemancer]

Yeah, I read your book. Your plan of action to fly to the moon sounded fun so I wanted to try that too :p

What meditation did you do to see this? Just focusing on your breath?

Next step for me now is to get better at maintaining and deepening, my experience today lasted only for maybe like two minutes. At least now I'm starting to enter the phase by choice and not just by luck and it's so cool

[Summerlander]

Then I had one time where it actually worked, I listened in, then got up of bed and went to the bathroom, looked in the mirror and noticed I had a bit of beard, but didn't really think more about it. I tried breathing when holding my nose, but just felt pain in my ears, so I thought it hadn't worked and went to bed again, when I later woke up I remembered that I had just shaved the day before so it had actually worked, I just didn't realize it.

This sounds like an unrecognised phase entrance (popularly known as a false awakening).  Well done.  My wife had a similar experience once but the minute she recognised that the surroundings were only an imitation of the physical world she woke up for real.

I held my nose and tried breathing, it worked, so now I was sure I was in the phase. I looked around, and noticed everything looked more clear and detailed than in waking life, it's as if I was wearing glasses that gave me better than perfect vision. I rubbed my hand a bit for maintaining. I then went to the bathroom to look in the mirror. I found the sight that met me quite hilarious. I was a crippled retarded dwarf, with a big wound on my face, which was bleeding. I then went to the living room to fly out the window, my plan of action was to look in the mirror and then fly to the moon, as I walked across the living room I woke up and was unable to fall asleep again to give it another try.

The pinched nose method seems fairly reliable so well done for recognising the phase.  The hyperrealism is also quite common in a deep phase state and mirror reflections can certainly be amusing. Anyway, with practice on maintaining you'll be able to prolong your experiences.  When you feel that you are lying in bed, in the first moment, you can try a reentry by separating from the body.  The lying in bed sensation is often illusory upon a perceived foul.

Keep up the good work!

[phasemancer]

Got up after indirect technique and went to the living room where I did a reality check, tried to breath when holding my nose. I could breathe, but somehow my unconscious mind figures that since I'm not breathing through my nose, the air must blow through my eyes. My eyes became like foggy windshield. The foggy vision was quite distracting and I was focusing on removing the fog from my eyes, after a short while my vision returned. I was standing next to the window and looked outside, instead of my backyard, there was a park with lots of people having picnic, I then fell back asleep.

[phasemancer]

I found myself standing outside my parents home. It suddenly hit me, I was here a few days ago, but I wasn't visiting them anymore, so this must be a dream.

I pinched my nose and managed to breathe through it. Sure enough, it's a dream. I looked around and was disappointed that I didn't see the hyperrreal colors and details that I've seen some other times. I looked at the ground and tried to zoom in. Nothing happened. I got a bit annoyed and was starting to wonder for a second if maybe I wasn't dreaming after all, since I couldn't zoom in on stuff. I looked at my hands, tried to look for anything weird, nothing, my hands looked just like they normally do when I'm awake.

Any doubts I may have had about it being a dream ended when two flying dogs flew by, and said a few words to me, before landing on a nearby roof. This was most certainly a dream. I sat down on the ground and picked up some grass and flowers, studying them carefully. As I was looking at the flowers I started to feel a bit bored, as this feeling came, my lucidity level dropped and I don't remember anything after that.

[Summerlander]

Dream consciousness phase entrances have been happening to me on a regularly basis lately.  I'd say I have at least 6-7 DILDs per month (and this is without trying).  I can no longer rely on the look of my hands either.  Unlike when I first started, they look normal.  I find that the hyper-concentration method works well, though. 

Sometimes dream signs suffice.  If still in doubt, attempt to levitate or try to remember how you got to where you are.  If you can't do the latter, chances are that you are dreaming and hence can begin to carry out you plan of action for the phase if you can remember it.

[phasemancer]

Thanks. I'll try remember to use the hyper-concentration method next time.

I've had several almost-phase experiences the last week. Starting to feel vibrations, seeing some images floating by, etc. but I've either lost focus and fell asleep, or become more awake and woken up completely.

One interesting thing I've noticed lately is that when I'm observing images, I'm increasingly seeing something that looks somehow like a blue flame covering my entire field of view, or maybe a boiling blue ocean. At first I see something like random colors, swirls etc here and there, then after a while I see the blue flame thing, after that I see images of things or scenes, it's like they appear from the blue flame. It seem to in stages, first random swirly stuff, then calm blue "flames" and finally objects and scenes appearing from behind the blue flames.