First Lucid Dream!

After five attempts, last night I tried a second attempt with a certain induction technique and it seemed to have paid off. I tried to use some sort of subliminal messaging to tell my sub-concious to lucid dream.

I am getting into the habit of doing WBTB (Wake Back to Bed) at around 3:30-4:30am which is great because it gives me instant dream recall of prior dreams. Last night I dreamed about playing basketball in a laboratory and it was very vivid. All of a sudden I realized some odd dream signs, so I did a reality check and sure enough I realized I was dreaming. Just because I was aware did not seem to give me full control however.. I didn't get to "do whatever I wanted" at this point yet. I think it may be because I wasn't lucid enough or because it was the tail end of the dream. I'd say about 2 min of dream time after I became lucid it was over. I messed with 3 dream characters and forced someone to get away from me. It was very unreal because my senses were there, but not at the same time. I hope I can get another lucid dream tonight, I think they key is simply perseverence.

Once I am done with my vacation on the 12th I am going to begin training again for Astral Projection.

Mastering Astral Projection - CD Companion Start

I just acquired the CD Companion version of "Mastering Astral Projection" by Robert Bruce and I am very excited to start. I'm going to be solely using the CD and referring back to the book if I need to. I'll also be doing some with the Gateway Experience learning more and more.

The small breakthrough I had was when I was feeling a huge amount of stress on my inner body (non-physical) while meditating and getting into a deep trance.

Once my headphones come on Friday I'll start trying to induce lucid dreams at night, especially Friday night :)

Continuing on the slow self-improving journey...

Still in Discovery

I've been working on the Discovery exercises in Wave I from the Gateway Experience and have been getting deeper and deeper into trance states. However, I can't really do the Exercise 5 well with my large headphones. I have ordered headphones called "SleepPhones". These headphones can be used during sleeping so it should help me with lucid dreaming and exercises in the Waves that require sleep or natural sleep.

Will keep this updated once I get the new headphones, I'll then be restarting the 90 day journey as I should have the CD companion by then.

Mastering Astral Projection - Postponed

I am postponing my 90 day journey because if two reasons:

1) Doing both the 90 day journey and the Gateway Experience/Journeys Out of the Body exercises is too strenous
2) There is a "Mastering Astral Projection CD Companion" now available that I would like to use during the 90 day journey.

With that being said, I'll report daily on how my Gateway Experience is going. Then I'll report on my Journeys Out of the Body exercises. Once those are complete, I'll probably get the CD Companion and work on the 90 day journey again.

Regardless, I'm hoping to be able to create an OBE experience before 2011 (high hopes). Or at the very least, lucid dream induction as a side effect.

Lastly, I am now working on Wave 1 - Discovery, Exercise 3 which is Advanced Focus 10. I actually really like Focus 10 because I lose track of where I am physically and can visualize and remember a lot of childhood experiences that I've thought that I have since forgotten. Also, my senses seemed strengthened right after achieving Focus 10 which makes me feel great :)

Days 4 + 5 of 90

Nothing really new in these days, I feel like I am getting more out of the Gateway Experience CD's but I will not give up.

Learning the energy body stimulation is pretty good though. I'm able to make my toes and feet tingle by using my body awareness. I need more practice in this though. I get to learn body bouncing pretty soon, so I'll update more with that.

I recorded a lake-type dream last night which was probably my best feedback so far.

Day 3 of 90

Tonight I did my Day 3 tasks. They include:

1) Optional, listen to BrainWave (20 minutes, I did 5 minutes and became relaxed)
2) Relaxation - Legs, Stomach, Chest, Back (5 minutes)
3) Breath work - Breath awareness (5 minutes)
4) Energy Body Stimulation (5 minutes)

2 - This exercise is very easy, basically just stressing out each portion of my body for 5 seconds, then relaxing for say 10 seconds. This helps you key on the relaxation aspect and can help you relax specific parts of your body quicker. I found that the chest/back portion was tougher to stress comfortably, but it felt more relaxed than the legs and stomach.

3 - This task had me concentrate on my breathing for 5 minutes and also clearing out my mind as thoughts come in. Simply completely focus on breathing in and out. I added some resonant breathing as I find it more spiritual and relaxing if I hum at the end of my breath.

4 - This is where the true workout was today. This exercise taught me split body awareness in stimulating energy chakras in my big toes and thumbs. Basically you picture a sponging or brushing sensation on both your big toes, or big thumbs simultaneously. I find it interesting, because my left body parts are more sensitive or stimulate a lot easier than my right body parts. I was able to stimulate my left big toe, and left thumb with complete ease. I found this exercise very easy and rewarding... and it's easy to do in your down time when you can close your eyes.

Tonight I am going to again listen to the Wave I - Orientation portion before I go to bed and enter Focus 3. I tried the Wave I - Focus 10 portion, but I had many distractions and didn't get as much out of it as I wanted. I'm going to do the orientation section until I know I can be undisturbed and have complete silence, which is probably not going to happen until Saturday/Sunday night (Day 7 and Day 8).

No dreams were successfully recalled last night due to me being over tired and actually consciously not wanting to write down my dream key words. I remember that I remembered dreams last night, I just chose not to write them down. Hopefully I can stop being stubborn :(

Day 2 of 90

Today I was tasked with the following:

1) Optional listening again to the BrainWave (20 minutes, I did 10 minutes)
I only listened for 10 minutes due to time, and I was already pretty relaxed going in. I feel I can start relaxing pretty much naturally now. I see a transformation from high-stress to medium-stress in my daily life.

2) Relaxation - Legs/Stomache/Chest/Back (5 minutes)
This exercise was powerful, I was tasked with stretching/relaxing my entire lower body. I can now relax my lower body at will, almost numb sensations.

3) Breathwork - Breath Awareness (5 minutes)
I again followed my breathing for 5 minutes, I think this has to do with preparing myself for Task #4 which is powerful.

4) Energy Body Stimulation (5 minutes)
This is where it got pretty intense today. I was tasked with doing an energy body stimulation on the joint that connects my thumb to my hand. There is said to be a 'inner energy' or 'chakra' here. After doing task #4, I completely believe a chakra exists as I could feel it becoming stimulated, and heavy after the exercise. The exercise had me massage my thumb joint with my body awareness, and I was able to get some pretty good tingling even down to the bone.

Tonight I plan on listening to Wave I and possibly Wave II of the Discovery section of "Gateway Experience". I don't want to excel too fast as I want to take advantage of all spiritual experiences without haste.

I feel especially more confident in understanding inner energies and how I can create them and stimulate them.