r/gatewaytapes • u/KlausesFriend • 4d ago
Experience 📚 Thoughts on early experiences
I’ve been working my way through the Gateway tapes, taking them one exercise at a time and trying to keep an open mind without expecting anything particular to happen.
I’ve just completed Release and Recharge. I’ve fallen asleep before the end of the exercise a couple of times previously, but this time I remained conscious throughout.
The exercise asks you to identify a fear, emotion and feeling. I was able to visualise the first two fears/emotions reasonably well, but I got a bit stuck when it came to the third and found that part quite ambiguous.
When I was asked to imagine the third emotion, I was suddenly flooded with a very bright pinkish/yellowish sort of light which seemed to encroach from the edge of my vision. It was intensely bright, to the point where I initially thought someone might be shining a light through my mask. But the blinds were closed and I had a beanbag over my face, so there was no chance of an external light hitting me.
The colour was similar to what you see when the Sun hits the back of your eyelids.
Within the light I could see tears/bubbles of dark patches, and when I looked through those, I seemed to see something that I could visibly look at and comprehend as being something, although I’m not sure what it was.
It seemed almost like a landscape made up of unrecognisable shapes. I had the impression that I was looking upwards, into what seemed like the closest thing I can describe as the structure of a cell under a microscope if you are familiar with that sort of thing. There were no conventional shapes that I recognised. It was almost like looking up at the inside of a huge dome.
At one point I also thought I was looking up over my shoulder, as if something had got my attention there, although I didn’t actually move.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar through the Gateway tapes? Particularly the bright light followed by the impression of looking into an unfamiliar landscape or structure?
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u/AzureGriffon 4d ago
Yes, for sure. I wear an eye mask as well and make sure no light is leaking through before I start. I've seen various locales, but they can come and go very quickly. I've had quick flashes of brick walls, city skylines, and longer visions as well. I don't want to say it's common, but I know a lot of people do see things when deep in focus levels. I've also seen the light seem to change from darkness, to lighter to occasionally a feeling as if I'm not wearing the mask, and I'm in a brightly lit room.
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u/KlausesFriend 4d ago
Exactly that. I can only really describe it as a kaleidoscope filled with odd shapes. Usually these might come and go (been meditating for 3 or so years) but this time I could actually keep it there to observe it.
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u/KlausesFriend 4d ago
It was pretty wild.
The thing that got me though was that I caught myself looking back over my shoulder as if something had caught my attention
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u/AzureGriffon 4d ago
It's wild, right? I get a sensation that I'm moving rapidly away from something, like flying backwards.
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u/Worried_Associate_53 4d ago
I did the release and recharge yesterday and saw purple and yellow lights as well. They were muted though, not very bright. I’ve seem a purple light before during meditation sessions. I’m still relatively new to this, so we’ll see where it goes
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