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How do I connect with a guide? Is my only current obstacle the inability to relax enough into trance?

I recommend Beyond the veil :the complete guide to conscious sleep - - by Daniel Allen Kelly on kindle.

What's my true name?

Well you only need one funeral that represents 6 billion people ? and renting your clothes and hair would technically be free besides the cost of the clothes (you know I meant ripping your clothes and hair right, old mourning practice)

Hold a funeral, or you can try it old style and rent your clothes and hair.

@kag101 thanks!

I never said dream characters are real, or am trying to force anything on you, I promise! I just said that to inspire me reflection. But it's absolutely true that you made blandana up. (the persona) Also, go to bed!!

Why would something be separate for interaction? All it takes is a bit of imagination. Are dream characters separate? Do you interact with them?

Blandana is not real, period. No more real than Santa. When you are saying you are real and are God and are alone, who is the 'me' you are referring to?

Blandana is not real, period. No more real than Santa. When you are saying you are real and are God and are alone, who is the 'you' you are referring to?

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@Eph75 @Eph75 that's a cool experience! If you don't want to enter the dream consciously, you need to trigger yourself to question if you are dreaming. Reality checks are useless if you don't know to use them while dreaming. The reality check practice when awake is mostly just to trigger - -" am I dreaming?" while asleep - - and then you perform a reality check.

Ok good you know some great reality checks, but what about your reminders? What did/do you do for reminders to even perform the reality checks? Every time you looked at clock? Or at numbers? What else? Months ago I had a semi lucid dream, actually I'd say I went more meta than lucid, and it started drizzling. I could see the drizzle so clearly! So you see the first dream of the night forming? But when you transition you lose all memory and create new ones? Or do you black out for even just a second and then come back as the dream self? This is an important detail because you must be able to remain conscious through out the entire transition. Even the shortest blackout is enough to kill you. If you aren't sure, check tonight. I feel that!! Yeah I kind of naturally stopped attracting lucid Dreaming for a while because I was missing the story lines so much!! I absolutely love my non lucid dreams!!! Haha cool. Though trust me it's a bit different experience when lucid and you can go anywhere you wish. Funny enough I still haven't really taken advantage of this. I have some YouTube videos that can help with that. I made them myself, and I had to use a customised synthetic voice to narrate them, but if you can get past that I think you'd enjoy. Here's one you can use for programming at any time of day. I recommend headphones because some have said the voice is too quiet. Technically you don't have to hear exactly what it's saying for it to work.

I have consciously induced vibrational stage before, but have never astral projected from it, unless we are considering WBTB technique. I have also awoken in heavy vibrations or sleep paralysis. (sleep paralysis is typically post-vibrations I think) like you, mostof my astral projections have been unintentional. But with WBTB I have occasionally slipped straight into body exit after a small bout of vibrations. I remember one time my legs just started floating all the way up over my head, and I suddenly realised that was strange and then rolled out of bed in Astral. My biggest obstacle has been relaxing body and mind enough. Hopefully the breathing will help with that.

They are very close to the vibrational stage like when I'm about to Astral project. I'm thinking this breathing activates that. I think it happens real quickly for me because I'm doing this a bit too fast and aggressive. And I didn't get cramps yet but my stomach started gurgling all night the other day and I was almost sure some stuff got activated down there ? Oh and thanks I totally love myself too!!

I've been practicing... Gonna work my way up to 5 mins. I think I'm doing it too forcefully so one of my obstacles has been slowing down to a sustainable pace. I like your visualisation idea so I'll try that! Another issue is that the tingling gets a bit overwhelming after about a minute. I wonder if that's also an ego trap

Ok that's cool. I don't always remember dreams every night. Have you tried taking 5-htp before bed? Awesome. So you had a spontaneous realization based on circumstances instead of recognising a dream sign and performing a reality check. There's many ways to skin a tiger. However, do you have experience with reality check practice, and would you like help with a customised plan? Also sounds like you attempted a WBTB but it teetered out. We can work on improving this skill. That absolutely fine. I still do that. If you'd like we could come up with a cool dream goal like teleportation.

That's a good one ?. I'll get to your reply soon, I'm at work.

@abrakamowse I recommend one of these pens : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K9FP2HH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_iaBKFbK89R0FT?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 So that you can write at any time of night. If you always wait till morning the threads of recall may be too frayed. Those are good reality checks, another one is to pinch your nose and see if you can still breathe. But actually performing the check is only half the practice. What do you use for reminders? That was what I was offering to tailor to your preference. You can do anything that might be repetitive during a normal day. So one idea is just to set alarms on your phone or watch. There are also apps that will do this for you. You can also perform a reality check every time you pass through a door, or every time you look up at the sky. You should pick something that holds a bit of meaning to you, for stronger effect. An alternative to dream journaling, or at least a great supplement, is to have someone to tell your dreams too. IMO verbalising your dreams is more powerful than writing them down. Do you have someone you could tell your dreams to on a regular basis?

Manifest as a higher vibrational being if you want to explore the higher realms. Likewise, perhaps there's an experience of the fridge that's completely hellish.

Matthew 7:12 - "So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." (Commentary below) Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27 - "...Love your neighbor as yourself..."

Ah the answer to the question. (Am I dreaming?) I AM ?

What would be your reality check?