[swoluelvede]

I've been paying attention to exactly what breathing pattern I use when I'm going from partial paralysis to full paralysis. It works out to approximately this:

+ exhale count of three
+ pause relaxed count of two
+ inhale count of two or three

These are slow counts, I use my heart beat which is about 60 BPM to make the counts so the counts are about one second each.

The exhale is just a relaxation of the lungs to naturally allow the air to be pushed out. It's during the two second pause after the exhale that paralysis forms. When you pause and relax completely for those two seconds you should be able to feel your body paralyze more deeply. Sometimes you only do one paused exhale to completely paralyse yourself all at once.

Other times you have to do this breathing six or seven times before you're completely paralysed.

I only do this when I'm already in partial paralysis, I haven't tried using it to go from a completely waking state to paralysis. The idea here is not to cause oxygen deprivation or anything like that. It's the total relaxation during the exhale that your body is responding to.

If you decide to try this, I recommend practicing this breathing pattern so you can do it for a minute or so without ever feeling like you're running out of oxygen. You shouldn't need to do it that long to go to paralysis, but you should still use a breathing pattern that gives you the right level of oxygen even if you only use it for a few seconds.

Here's an mp3 of about what this breathing pattern sounds like:

http://www.saltcube.com/snd/paralysis-breathing.mp3

Here's an mp3 I made a couple months ago which was a recording of me breathing while asleep. You can hear that these two patterns are pretty similar:

http://www.saltcube.com/snd/asleep-breathing.mp3

This morning I also tried to see if I could physically record my voice when out of body. I had a recorder running by my bed and got into paralysis then used the breathing to deepen it to the point where I shifted out of body and let myself sink into the bed a few inches to start separating. I spoke to the recorder "I am now in full paralysis" but I could tell by my voice that it was all nonphysical and there wasn't anything that was going to get picked up by the recorder.

I had wanted also to see if I could lengthen the OBE by poking myself with a mechanical pencil but the OBE ended too soon and I didn't feel like doing it all over again. I'll do the poking experiment next time probably. However it was interesting how my voice sounded and felt in the OBE. I think that once you're separated and have all your focus in your nonphysical body you can't easily make any physical sounds with your mouth.

You have to keep some focus in your mouth at all times and so that means it would help to do a running commentary of what's going on, like 4thD did in this post:

http://www.saltcube.com/out-of-body/cha ... &p=2#16500

Bruce Moen also does his explorations that way.

[GenryDont]

Sounds interesting. My breathing pattern is significantly different to yours though. When i reach the state of light trance (after about 5-10 minutes) My breathe slows down(just about stops). When i reach deep trance my heartbeat increases(you're familiar with that from my previous posts) and therefore i need more oxygen, and i start breathing heavily and deeply.
*note - when i start deeply breathing during the deep trance state, my chest and especially stomach get stiff, because my body is numb while i'm expanding my lungs. The combination of all those things quite often interrupts the trance.

P.S. you *.mp3 links don't work, it says 404 error.

[VYholden]

Love your posts, Matt, as always...

What did your voice sound like in the astral? I haven't seen any other references to this, but experienced it myself... To me, my voice sounded kind of phasey and stretched out, like it was in slow motion, and I could even sort of "see" the individual waves that my voice was making. It was akin to being underwater.