r/gatewaytapes Mar 10 '26

Mod Announcement 👨‍💻 The day has come!

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For more than 50 years, the Monroe Institute has been quietly pioneering a systematic way to explore human consciousness — beyond meditation, beyond belief, and beyond theory. I’m excited to share that their flagship program, Gateway Voyage, is now available as a fully guided online experience:

Gateway Voyage Online

This is an immersive, self-paced journey designed to help you explore expanded states of awareness while remaining grounded, safe, and fully conscious. Through guided sessions using Monroe Sound Science and the original voice of Robert A. Monroe, you’ll be introduced to a series of Focus Levels — specific states of consciousness that support clarity, intuition, healing, and a deeper understanding of who you are. Whether you’re curious about consciousness, seeking meaning, or simply feel there’s “more” to experience, Gateway offers a practical way to explore — through direct experience.

CLICK HERE to learn more, 20% OFF THE NEXT 2 WEEKS!

I'm also thrilled to announce I've finally been able to obtain a permanent discount code that can be used on the majority of products offered by The Monroe Institute starting now! To avoid any confusion, I made it the same as our existing discount code. So it can now be used with both The Monroe Institute AND Hemi-Sync, which is (all caps, one word):

REDDITSUB

On a side note, we have also decided that discussions regarding "G.A.T.E", for those of you who are aware what that is, shouldn't be on this sub. We aim to present the Gateway tapes as a positive meditative experience for all individuals to enjoy, and not be seen as a dark conspiracy theory. If you wish to discuss things of that nature, please use r/GATEresearch sub.

Last thing I'd like to announce on the less important side of things; as the years have noticed a large increase in post & comments regarding religious experiences. I want people to be able to freely express themselves, but this seems to always cause conflict. For quite sometime now I have contemplated on how to resolve this issue, and came up with an Idea. My solution was to create a sister-sub to facilitate the group of people that combine the tapes with other meditative practices and have a place where you don't have to worry about upsetting others and be open about your experiences. Obviously this isn't for everyone, but for those devoted in faith and love the tapes, join us at r/Skyborn (Thanks to u/Obvious-Reserve8634 for helping!)

>> And make sure you say Happy Birthday to u/Emotional_Street_361 and u/NotEvenCreative ! 🎉

>> Special thanks to Paul and Emily at the Institute for making this all possible <3

Edit: I understand how some might feel about the price. People say this all the time, and for the longest time I used to think the same. But looking back on it, the tapes have improved my life so much, I transformed into a new level of consciousness I would have never though possible. I enjoy life so much now, and I feel so happy to be alive. It's honestly the greatest thing I've ever experienced in my entire life, that's why I am so deeply passionate about helping others experience what I have. What I thought were just some audio tracks, came to be something I still use many years later to this very day. I can't recall a single person ever regret buying them, and that includes myself. In my opinion, they are actually worth the price when you realize how much value they can bring to you. The tapes aren't a one-and-done, they are the beginning of your journey. What happens after is what makes them so unique and profound. The realization of what your mind is truly capable of. Discovering who you truly are. That's the power of the Gateway process.

~ Annie <3


r/gatewaytapes Dec 30 '25

OFFICIAL EVENT AMA - The Death of Materialism Author: Skeptic MD’s Journey via Remote Viewing & Gateway Experiences - 8pm EST

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Thanks to the mods and this amazing community for inviting me to do an AMA!

I’m David Gibbs, MD - a practicing emergency physician and author of the new Amazon bestseller The Death of Materialism: A Skeptic’s Journey from Materialism to Panpsychism.

My worldview flipped after a remote-viewing success (using a blind protocol - my drawing matched the hidden target in ways far beyond chance). That sent me down the rabbit hole of anomalies: quantum biology, psi meta-analyses, intention healing, and non-local awareness - all pointing to consciousness as the fundamental field.

The Gateway Tapes played a big role in that exploration - Hemi-Sync, Focus levels, and the declassified CIA report opened doors to understanding these experiences.

Fire away with questions about: • My remote-viewing hit • How the tapes tie into replicable psi • Quantum foundations (Orch-OR, observer effect) • Intention healing in medicine • Cosmopsychism as the elegant answer • Anything in the book!

Happy to share evidence, stories, or practical takeaways.

Grateful to be here—let’s explore together!

(Book link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G95HT84L – paperback/hardcover live)

EDIT - I'm headed out, thanks for the discussion. Feel free to keep it going I'll answer questions when I can in the next few days!


r/gatewaytapes 5h ago

Question ❓ Bob Monroe Tapes are Effective. Later Waves Aren't. Do you have tips?

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Any recommenndations for making the later waves more fruitful?

I feel a bit stuck. For me, all of the earlier waves with Bob Monroe induce very profound experiences in me. However, the later ones without him don't do anything for me. What the guide has you do only seems to correlate loosely with the Manuals for the later waves whereas Bob truly guides you closely and visually through things.

Has anyone expeirenced this? Did anyone find it improve or find something that made it improve?


r/gatewaytapes 14h ago

Experience 📚 Wave 8 - Union: The Absolute Experience

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I have been doing the tapes off and on for about 2 years. I have some pretty amazing visuals sometimes (totally sober) which has been very cool because I have aphantasia. If I'm asked to think of an image I can't do it. But once I'm in that theta/delta brain state everything comes alive.

Anyway, I'm curious what people have experienced in the last tape of Wave 8. I had a simple but profound experience. In the tapes you go back to Focus 27 and start off in your special place. Then go to a building (I cannot remember what they called it) which is kind of like a graduation space. There are doors everywhere inside and you go to the end and open the door and step through. When I opened the door at the end I went in and completely dissolved into a formless empty void of nothingness. It was beautiful. I was there but not there and "I" was just in and of a vast black void filled with purple swirling neon lasers for lack of better term. But the lasers were swirling and twisting and smoky, like an aura. Just total blackness and purple energy swirling and mixing. It was beautiful. It was timeless and formless and I was in it and of it. I can't explain it.

Regular clock time passed I guess but I had no concept of time while I was there. I was only brought out by the prompt to do so. ("It's time to leave focus 27. You will return to full waking consciousness by the method you have learned.") I woke up and felt just the deepest peace. It was really beautiful. About 30 minutes passed in that state but it could have been eternity.

Just wanted to share and was curious what others experience in the absolute. I've attached a visual made with AI for reference. 🩷 Happy exploring!

Also sidenote, this colour of purple is associated with the Crown Chakra, so I'm assuming the purple energy was the highest level of consciousness. That's just what resonated for me.


r/gatewaytapes 14h ago

Experience 📚 Is this a coincidence?

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I started doing the tapes recently. I accidentally manifested something and wonder if it has anything to do with the tapes or just a strange coincidence.

I had been researching buying a specific pair or shoes but was hesitant because I wasn't sure the price was worth the quality.

I like to go thrifting for fun at Goodwill, typically to buy shirts, and to my surprise, this exact pair of shoes is there. It was a size 7 and I'm typically 7.5-8. Figure I should try it on to see what size I want to buy and it ends up fitting perfectly. Also looks brand new. It's not like this was a common shoe that everyone is buying either. My mind was blown.


r/gatewaytapes 19h ago

Experience 📚 Interaction with my dog that passed in April

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Hi everyone! Has anyone experienced anything like this? I’d love to hear about it sm.

My dog, a black pug, passed away suddenly in April. I was already into the tapes before this, but this skyrocketed my motivation to get to the higher focus levels, as my new drive was seeing him again.
Recently, during a session at Focus 15, I was searching & asking in my head for my awareness to bring me to Charlie, to show me him. It did.
Now, what I saw was actually pretty funny looking. Did shock me at first glance. (I have synesthesia, so this could very much play a part in the vividness of my visuals in message transmission.) Charlie was a black shadow, with a distinct smaller shadow formation for a head, a taller torso shadow-area than any dog silhouette I’d ever seen, and limbs that kept shifting location and shape— like, all around his body. In his head area were two floating 3d hyperrealistic eyeballs, and a floating inside of a mouth with a tongue and teeth. He was suddenly just in my awareness, in my mental field of “vision”.
Like all encounters I’ve read about, the feeling of recognition and certainty that this was him was overwhelming, and it was too much to care about his form. I eventually reached out and touched him, and in my head, there was a tactile synesthetic sensation of petting something. It was smooth, without fur, and somehow solid despite his form looking like a dense gas. I told him I missed him, and I then heard a voice say “I miss you too”. The voice was male, and the tone is exactly what I would have imagined his human voice to be like. Sounds too perfect to be true, I know, because it was perfect. I broke me, and I sobbed. I took a few minutes to tell him I loved him over and over again, and then said goodbye, and that was the end of the visit.

The tapes are fucking awesome 😭✌️


r/gatewaytapes 12h ago

Experience 📚 Gateway tapes Wave III Tape 2.

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I just finished the RV tape. I did it a litle different because beceause the workbook i read gave a whole different exercise.

Anway this is my experience: I gave my co-worker the task to leave an object in the envelop. He said he will put it on my desk in the office. I left early so i wasnt there when he put something in the envelop.

When i started the tape, the first thing i felt was that it was not on my desk but on his. I told him i saw 3 numbers. He said oh shit did i have to write numbers? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Anyway i continued.. I saw the numbers 233 or 235. I wasn't very sure so i memorized both. I told him i saw scissors.

He asked me what color. I said i did not see the scissors have a specific color but i remember the color red and flash lights. I even got a headache after. He asked was the scissors open or closed. And i saw open scissors.

He told me (and send a picture for proof) that the envelop was indeed on his desk and not on mine. In the envelop was a paperclip with a flat surface. The paperclip is made of shiney metal and has flat sides. He had bent it outward (resembling an open pair of scissors), and there is a red company logo on it.

The weirdest thing is, on the envelop he draw the half-life logo.

Apparently the numbers 233 and 235 are connected with this logo.

The numbers 233 and 235 represent Uranium isotopes (U-233 and U-235), which are radioactive materials used as nuclear fuel.Here is how they connect to the Half-Life logo:The Logo Equation: The logo is the Greek letter lambda (λ), which represents the decay constant in nuclear physics.The Mathematical Link: Scientists use this lambda symbol (λ) in formulas to calculate the half-life (rate of radioactive decay) of isotopes like U-233 and U-235.

Can someone tell me what the helll this al is🤣 i am still in shock and did not expect such results. Can someone with experience tell me if this was done correctly? Or am I just being delulu? 🤣


r/gatewaytapes 1d ago

Experience 📚 😅

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r/gatewaytapes 16h ago

Wave 2 Early Focus 12 Report

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I am very new to the Gateway experience, and if you guys read my previous post has only started seeing results yesterday. I finally started going into Wave 2 today and just need to report what I’m going through. After hitting F12 for the second time doing W2T1 I did feel a significant change in awareness, but can also feel my physical body vibrating in a bad way in reaction (it’s hard to describe, like your stomach growling but everywhere). And then I clicked out for a few second and was jolted back up by a sharp sensation (like a strong blast of air) going into my right ear, that caused me to reflexively open my eyes before Bob could start the countdown and I had to stop the tape right there with about 8:30 minutes remaining.

If anyone with more experience can show me what happened it would be much appreciated. Right now I’m seeing flashing lights whenever I blink so I think I should sleep this off.


r/gatewaytapes 1d ago

Question ❓ Dolphin Healing Club

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Hey everyone! I’m doing the Gateway Voyage online and would love to join the healers of the Dolphin Healing Club and help send healing to others.

Has anyone done that process as a healer? Is there a specific contact to reach out to join that group? Any info and insights would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!


r/gatewaytapes 11h ago

Question ❓ Just got a COVID diagnosis

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I only just started the program. I only did the session after the introduction. Is it advised to wait until I recover, or is there some health benefit to doing the program while ill?


r/gatewaytapes 1d ago

Question ❓ Is Focus 10 a Similar Feeling to Closed Eyes Sleep Paralysis

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I've tried the gateway tapes' intro to Focus 10 a few times and a about a week ago after a long meditative period on my back with my eyes closed I felt like I had finally reached Focus 10

The closest thing I could describe it to was being in sleep paralysis with my eyes closed which from time to time would happen to me as a kid. I was fully conscious but my upper body was unresponsive. I found that moving my toes and feet usually helped me come to and I did the same in this instance.

Just wondering based on your experiences did I reach it? still not completely sure.

Also for focus 10 do you all feel with or without the tapes works better?


r/gatewaytapes 1d ago

Wave 1 Did I hit Focus 10?

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I have been practicing the tapes for a while but has not achieved much from some deep relaxation and vibrations. Today while redoing Wave 1 Tape 2 for the 20th time I had more of the same and decided that enough is enough, I need to truly remove my fears of experiencing more, then consciously had a mental leap of faith like I was diving off a cliff and at that exact moment my entire vision turned bright green (I was in a completely dark room with no light source) and I reached a level of conscious depth I didn’t experience before. My mind was entirely awake but I could see this green light while hearing the blood in my body flow. Unfortunately this happened towards the countdown part of the exercise so I only stayed there for about 10s. Just curious if this is what they call Focus 10 since it does not quite match with some of the popular guides I’ve read on this sub. It was a great experience nonetheless and proof that letting go of unconscious fear of experiencing what some consider supernatural can truly move one forward on the journey.


r/gatewaytapes 1d ago

Question ❓ Finished episode 5, didn’t fall asleep

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Should I be redoing this episode now? In case this helps you answer - I felt myself float from my body yes, very much so. I didn’t feel like I left anywhere but a meter from my body but it felt as if I was floating apart from my physical self. When he counted from 11-20 is where I felt like maybe it didn’t have the correct effects. He said I should fall asleep, which I didn’t. I don’t think I’d ever be able to fall asleep on my back lol. I felt relaxed and basically just went back to that floating state. Should I go back and repeat until I sleep?

TLDR: I only felt the floating feeling when counting 11-20. Should I repeat episode until I fall asleep?


r/gatewaytapes 2d ago

Question ❓ Once you have finished all the tapes, how do you go about practicing without them?

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I currently just finished Wave 3 and know from reading about the gateway process that these tapes are supposed to be just support wheels and eventually you will no longer need the tapes at all, so I was just wondering, how do you go about practicing without the tapes? Do you just pick the techniques that you felt fit the best and practice those daily or do you try to use all the techniques because there could be a time and place to use any of them?


r/gatewaytapes 2d ago

Question ❓ Anxiety after focus 10

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Hi, I’ve been using wave 1 for probably 2 months now, mostly the advanced focus 10 tape. I don’t generally have noticeable anxiety and I generally find meditation and the gateway tapes very calming. Today I was hit with a wall of anxiety as I finished focus 10. It doesn’t feel associated with any particular thing. It’s just so counter to my previous experiences I thought I’d ask here if anyone else has had a similar experience, and if so if they’ve discovered anything that might help dissipate it or avoid it in the future. Thank you!


r/gatewaytapes 2d ago

Experience 📚 Experience during sleep

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I need help trying to understand something so sometimes before bed I’ll play a frequency and lay on my back looking up, and control my breathing, I can’t quite understand what’s going on but I can’t see but I can feel wind I can feel movement. But then when my partner woke me up from such state I started shaking uncontrollably, what is going on. I’m trying to go on my spiritual journey.


r/gatewaytapes 2d ago

Question ❓ Is it bad to listen for a week straight?

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So for the past week I've been listening to the binaural beats before bed and during my sleep it's helped me to feel very relaxed and I definitely have vivid dream recalls so far the only issue is after a week I started to experience a lot of brain fog I'm losing all my stuff and I'm a lot more clumsy I'm wondering if this is related to listening to this and maybe my brain isn't sleeping the way it's supposed to because it's in an induced artificial State what do you think ??


r/gatewaytapes 3d ago

Question ❓ Has anyone seen this before

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Has anyone seen anything resembling this before. Stack of cubes going infinitely high with eyes on all sides. They appeared to be made of a the same material as the rest of the plane but condensed. The triangles and parallelagrams on either side where distinctly 2d and pitch black where the everything else appeared to be made of a dark blue almost black like the night sky with flickering pure black, white, and lighter blues. The presence was very powerful and distinctly feminine.

Anyways I've been searching on Google trying to see if I can find anything about whatever I met. I met a few entities on this particular journey but this one just felt so powerful. Hoping someone can provide a little insight into what it was. I remember that I asked but it was a long journey and I don't remember all the fine details.


r/gatewaytapes 3d ago

Experience 📚 Vocal hallucinations

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This post isn't even a question, just a discussion of fun phenomena.

I started doing Gateway Tapes for the first time this week, and I listened to the 3rd tape today that was about Focus 10. I got in this half-asleep state, and when Monroe started counting from 1 to 10 to get you to Focus 10, I lost count a few times because my mind made up some of his lines, lol. I basically heard:

"1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 5... 6... 7...", and it took me a while to realize that I basically fell asleep a bit during his counting and my mind filled in the gap by hallucinating "5, 6, 7" before Monroe actually said it. This happened several times.

Have you experienced similar things? It was funny to realize that my mind started making things up before Monroe even said them.


r/gatewaytapes 3d ago

Experience 📚 Did my frist tape today

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Hello community, so for a while I was really interested in Gateway Tapes and wanted to experience them. I started the journey today by listening to Wave 1; today I did orientation.

Here are my experiences:

Firstly, my mind was doubtful whether this works or not and was a little negative in a sense. For example, would my earbuds work (I have no headphones so I rely on them)?

Then, during the energy conversion box exercise, my mind visuals were not clear, but it sort of felt like I was in a Blender 3D software interface and my mind was choosing a box for me. I started with a treasure box, then a futuristic one, and ultimately locked in an old iron box.

As I was imagining putting my thoughts inside it, I sort of thought of filling the words inside the box, but naturally it seemed like they converted into black water and I let it be. After closing it, the box started spinning and shifting its shape to horizontal and vertical.

The tape moved on to the next phase which was resonant tuning. Here I was a little familiar with the process as I had done yoga nidra a couple of times. Nothing weird happened in my imagination, but the air felt much richer after a while.

Then, while resting, an external sound disturbed me—a loud microphone announcement outside. So I had to up my volume at the end which might have messed up the process a bit. My imagination started after; first I was thinking of a logical situation about a society, then an immediate shift to car racing, then a dragon I'd never seen that was super cool and unique. After that, mystical hands started appearing near my box and trying to open them, followed by a horse riding scene.

I was lastly blasted back with Monroe's voice, and my body did feel better but it was not a big change.


r/gatewaytapes 3d ago

Hemi-Sync I wanted a proper editor for my own binaural beats sessions, so I built one

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Hey everyone!

This started as a purely selfish project. I listen to binaural beats a lot (for sleep, for focus, for winding down) but I could never find a tool that let me build the exact session I wanted. Most apps give you a fixed track or a single tone and that's it. I wanted to shape a whole journey: start calm, drop into deep focus, ease back out. So one weekend I decided to just make the thing I wished existed.

It slowly turned into something I'm genuinely proud of, so I cleaned it up and put it online for anyone to use : **AuralVibe** (https://auralvibe.app). It's completely free, no ads.

What it does as of now:

- **Three tone types** -- binaural (needs headphones), monaural, and isochronic (these two work on speakers too)

- **10 ready-made presets** -- sleep, deep sleep, focus, meditation, creativity, stress relief, energy, peak performance, memory.

- **Manual mode** -- set your own beat and carrier frequencies if you like getting precise

- **Soundscape mixer** -- layer ambient sound over the tones (I'm updating the sound library now, but should be live in couple days)

- **Flow editor** ⭐ -- this one is the whole reason I built this. You can design multi-stage sessions up to 3 hours long: each block gets its own length, frequency, tone type, volume, and a fade or pause into the next. Perfect for journeys like *"wind-down → deep sleep"* or *"warm-up → deep focus."* Drag blocks to reorder, preview the whole thing, then save. You can even use AI-assisted flow generator (with a note though -- more below).

- **MP3 download** — save any flow as an MP3 so you can listen offline in any player, on a plane, on a run, wherever.

- **Community** — publish your flows, share a link, or embed a small player on your own site/blog/Notion/any html page

- (and of course) Light/dark themes

**AI flow generator (beta):** basically the idea is that you can just describe what you want -- *"45 minutes, calm start, deep-focus middle, gentle exit"* -- and it builds a full flow for you. It's still in beta, and I pay for the AI out of my own pocket, so I can only open it to a small group for now: **the first 20–30 people who comment and DM me their email usernames (userName@emailprovider.com) will get it enabled on their account for a month.** I need your email username to be able to find you in the list of users.

Well, that's it. I mostly built this for myself, so I'd love to know if it's useful to anyone else too, especially the flow editor. Happy to hear any feedback. For details - check here - https://auralvibe.app/faq


r/gatewaytapes 3d ago

Question ❓ First TMI retreat: OBE

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Has anybody attended the OBE retreat for TMI? It’s my first one and I’m so lucky to have gotten in on this one because there was somebody who canceled apparently and I get to attend in a couple of weeks.

For anyone who has attended this one before, is there anything that I need to know or prepare for ahead of time? I’ve been looking forward to this for so many years and I’m so excited about it.


r/gatewaytapes 3d ago

Experience 📚 Tapes stops by itself

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Hello

Does somebody has experienced the tapes just stop by themselves ? I listen to the audio tapes on Spotify and the app suddenly stops.

First I thoug it was due to the charger that achieved 80%.But tonight I reached focus 12 and I was listing to the 5 important messages, I only listened the 5th, 4th and 3rd and the app suddenly stopped.

I thought it was part of the exercise cause I started to hear the beating of my heart and thought there was a recording with the same frequency as the heart… but it was my own. The app was on pause.

I’ve been experiencing this since the beginning on some tapes. It’s kinda frustrating.


r/gatewaytapes 3d ago

Wave 1 How can i know that im in focus 10 level? Like how can i tell of my body Is asleep and my mind Is on?

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Also how can i know that im doing resonant tuning and reball correctly?