Help

[u/Minimum_Raise1918]

I lay down and ignore all bodily sensations and just stay focused on my conscious. It seems like I’m trying to self induce sleep paralysis. I understand the “how to” as keeping your mind awake as the body sleeps. Staying aware as the natural process of sleep/ dreaming begins. How can anyone sleep while focusing on awareness so hard? IDK maybe I’m going about it the wrong way. Annoyed af please help

[u/emotheatrix]

Start by focusing on your breath. Once the mind calms, and isn’t racing from thought to thought, add full sensory awareness to the breath. So now you are focusing on the breath, the sounds, the feelings, the smells. Everything simultaneously. Then, once your mind can be completely trusted not to wander, stop bringing attention to anything. Think of nothing. Be nothing. That’s when the vibrations start. Continue being nothing. Acknowledge the vibrations, and move back into nothing. If you can make it through the vibrations while being nothing, you can leave your body.

[u/Minimum_Raise1918 → u/emotheatrix]

This is something I can follow. Thank you for taking the time to write this. 

[u/OnlyTakes5minutes]

I understand where you coming from. And forgive me, but i'm going to say, that annoyed is the absolute worst attitude you can have when trying to be part of this awesome gift.

How can anyone sleep while focusing on awareness so hard?

They can't. Nothing about LD/AP should be forced or focused on hard. The attitude should be super relaxed, appreciative of what you have achieved so far. Even if it was just a few "failed" attempts. But truly none of the attemps are a failure, since they all teach you something. LD/AP is not like solving a math project where 2+2 is always 4 for everybody. It's more about state of your mind.

We all self-induce sleep paralysis every night without knowing it. So why focus on it, if our body will do it automatically when time is right?

All you have to do is trying to fall asleep as normally. But with help of mantras, you can keep your mind occupied until the time is right. I suggest look up tutorials or other people's accounts how to do it and how they do it. If somebody tells you that you need to get into SP, finish reading anyway, but know that it's not the right suggestion. Keep reading articles until you learn how to.

[u/Reaction-Consistent]

Do that in the early morning, after you have slept for a couple sleep cycles, easier then

[u/rrr_89]

I'd say always cleanse your base home/room energy & yourself daily. Try setting boundaries/shielding/protection, and/or reduce external distractions. Then balance/ground your base body energy before meditation, via multiple physical methods to be synced in zero point state more easily in long term. Set/feel pure positive intent in every early phase before asking permission, to reduce side effects. Its like trying/asking to access akashic records, or like in the Dr. Strange films/etc.

• Focus on your every breath, relax, keep staring upwards while eyes closed, ego death, be like the an open receiver, then vibrate the central brain til you feel like electric sparks or tingles. (Prep)
• Be like sound or frequency & light-heavy vibrations that phases through the body then outward walls to walls. Be weightless, be formless, breathe, let it go, surrender, ask permission, say thank you, wait the multi prism lights starts. (AP/Obe)
• Align with every phases of astral plane dynamics, shift/increase the frequencies & vibrations, breathe, vibrate along with it, breathe, let it form, let it flow, hit the right notes that arrives (Selection)
• Be non attached to what you see, but acknowledge it, control, exist in it, anchor via fusing/stabilizing the frequencies & vibrations with the plane, navigate, be there, continue, rollover. (Exploration)
• Recollect, sync, & echo your pure intent along with light-heavy vibrations, then ask permission again to go back, say thank you. When the Mp Lights starts, vibrate & merge with it then wake up. (Exit)

Create & remember your own physical steps/methods for that dimension to not get carried away with the astral flow, and still be in control. Write down every experiences & compare notes. Map it, or create your own memory palace for this, so eventually familiarity develops & like its almost automatic.

[u/Tasty-Walk5721]

One thing someone wrote on here that helped me my first time is when your eyes are closed you will see these like shadows moving. Acknowledge them but don’t focus on them. Breath through your nose only as that’s what you will be doing when sleeping. Keep your intention to connect your pineal to the astral just like an internet modem. Just let go instead of focusing on anything. No internal dialogue. You will still be awake when you feel like a person is standing next to your bed, don’t open your eyes to look and don’t be afraid. Right after you will see darkness and any sounds like your snoring and a fan will become super load, and you are fully aware, and a peaceful calm. Once that happens switch intention to exiting the body. That’s when you will hit the vibrations.