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**Clunlippibe** · 07-19-2011, 08:29 AM

Hi Eris. From your post I think you are probably gifted at clairvoyance and thus might gravitate more towards phasing. But I'm getting too far ahead of myself.

I'm unfamiliar with phasing. What is it, exactly? The descriptions I managed to find in other threads were a little confusing.

Can you describe the techniques you are using to get yourself in trance? I always recommend the techniques (or schedule) delineated in the MAP program- a copy of the techs are in the OBE R & D subforum, and many of the techs are stickied for further research.

I've been using the physical relaxation and falling visualization techniques in RB's books. I've also found that deep breathing techniques help at first (I'm used to using them for meditation) and are more effective than visualization, but it becomes physically harder to expand my chest/stomach the deeper I go, what with paralysis setting in.

I actually only own an old copy of the '99 version of "Astral Dynamics", so I don't really have a praciticing schedule. I'll take a look at the online guide as well.

The flash is known as 'third eye flash', and can be a precursor to the vision screen, but not always. We call the expanding blackness a few terms: 3D Black, the Void, and sometimes
just 'space', and is a precursor to either phasing or OBE, but in the beginning..

I only get the flash when it wakes me up, so I thought it was just a hypnagogic hallucination.

The black void seems only to occur as my brain waves are shifting into or out of sleep, and last all of two seconds.

This is also not unheard of, and it's why I recommend you change your practice time to early in the morning. I know it sounds terrible, but if you get up two hours before 'regular' wakeup time, stay in bed and then practice, you get to deep trance easier (you skip all the relaxation time necessary to get to the threshold of trance) and if you fail, you just fall asleep for the prescribed time, but more importantly, it doesn't mess with your sleep cycle, and avoids setting you up for all this waking up.

Unfortunately, OBE practice disrupts your cycles, because most people have delta sleep in the last part of the first cycle, and all of this gets messed up when you are trying to stay aware as you fall asleep- it can cause an alpha intrusion and train you to 'not sleep' when it's time to sleep.
I personally practice on a recliner (very comfy recliner) that I have set up in my bedroom and don't practice every day- I practice on and off throughout the week and try a projection on the weekend, to avoid the sleep cycle mess up. The good news is that when you get used to a routine the fatigue and sleep messup does resolve.

So do those brief episodes I described sound like mini-OBEs?

I'll have to change my practice schedule to weekends then, I suppose. Thank you for the advice.

07-19-2011, 08:29 AM	#3
Clunlippibe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 324 Senior Member	Hi Eris. From your post I think you are probably gifted at clairvoyance and thus might gravitate more towards phasing. But I'm getting too far ahead of myself. I'm unfamiliar with phasing. What is it, exactly? The descriptions I managed to find in other threads were a little confusing. Can you describe the techniques you are using to get yourself in trance? I always recommend the techniques (or schedule) delineated in the MAP program- a copy of the techs are in the OBE R & D subforum, and many of the techs are stickied for further research. I've been using the physical relaxation and falling visualization techniques in RB's books. I've also found that deep breathing techniques help at first (I'm used to using them for meditation) and are more effective than visualization, but it becomes physically harder to expand my chest/stomach the deeper I go, what with paralysis setting in. I actually only own an old copy of the '99 version of "Astral Dynamics", so I don't really have a praciticing schedule. I'll take a look at the online guide as well. The flash is known as 'third eye flash', and can be a precursor to the vision screen, but not always. We call the expanding blackness a few terms: 3D Black, the Void, and sometimes just 'space', and is a precursor to either phasing or OBE, but in the beginning.. I only get the flash when it wakes me up, so I thought it was just a hypnagogic hallucination. The black void seems only to occur as my brain waves are shifting into or out of sleep, and last all of two seconds. This is also not unheard of, and it's why I recommend you change your practice time to early in the morning. I know it sounds terrible, but if you get up two hours before 'regular' wakeup time, stay in bed and then practice, you get to deep trance easier (you skip all the relaxation time necessary to get to the threshold of trance) and if you fail, you just fall asleep for the prescribed time, but more importantly, it doesn't mess with your sleep cycle, and avoids setting you up for all this waking up. Unfortunately, OBE practice disrupts your cycles, because most people have delta sleep in the last part of the first cycle, and all of this gets messed up when you are trying to stay aware as you fall asleep- it can cause an alpha intrusion and train you to 'not sleep' when it's time to sleep. I personally practice on a recliner (very comfy recliner) that I have set up in my bedroom and don't practice every day- I practice on and off throughout the week and try a projection on the weekend, to avoid the sleep cycle mess up. The good news is that when you get used to a routine the fatigue and sleep messup does resolve. So do those brief episodes I described sound like mini-OBEs? I'll have to change my practice schedule to weekends then, I suppose. Thank you for the advice.
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