You may recall that the timer method involves “hypnotic fractionation” in which you wake up and fall asleep repeatedly to enter a deeper and deeper trance. Each time you wake up and fall asleep you begin to hover close and closer to the awake/asleep threshold. The question is, what can we...

Here’s a question I get a lot about the swallow reflex: Hi, I have one burning question that I would appreciate an answer to. I realize that it is important to not move at all when inducing sleep paralysis. Is it ok to swallow though? I find the main problem I have is that mucus and...

In this video Stuart Wilde mentions it’s much better to process your “inner shadow”, or psychological ghouls now rather than later. And, there are probably some pretty big global problems on the way which will make it even more difficult to work out your shadow self. Here’s where...

A question I got which touches on two common mistakes: You know when you say I am supposed to stay awake and convince my body to go to sleep. First of all once I roll the whole lead blanket feeling vanishes. And then I will try to keep my mind awake and resist the movement urges but my body just won’t...

Here’s a great question I got on how relaxed your mind needs to be to have OBEs: I’m a big fan of your methods, because I have been trying to have an OBE for about two months and in all the books, the only thing that comes up seems to be, “just relax and wait for the vibrations…”...

The idea behind a lucid dream mask is the flashing lights will act as lucidity triggers. You set it up to blink a couple times at the end of each hour to sync with your REM cycle and sleep with the mask on. Here’s a video on how to make a cheap lucid dream mask: The question is, are they needed?...

Here’s how to cure insomnia without drugs or effort. The videos for Lucidology 101 parts 3 to 6 show you the step for curing insomnia. This post is in answer to a question I got: Please help me, I have had insomnia since Sept 2008. I have tried everything, it seems to work for a few days then...

Get free lucid dream tricks in your RSS reader! Tired of having to click back to blogs you read to see if anything has changed? Here’s a great solution, it’s called “RSS” or “Really Simple Syndication”. The way it works is you use an RSS reader program which goes out...

Fractionation hypnosis allows you to enter a very deep subconscious focus even you’re usually only able to daydream a tiny bit into a very light level of trance. The trick works like this: 1.) Relax into a light level of trance, for instance by daydreaming for a minute or two 2.) Come out of your...

Lucid dream vibrations are useful for telling how close you are to success. As you relax closer and closer to a nonphysical focus and away from a physical focus it’s very likely you’ll encounter what are called “lucid dream vibrations” and lucid dream rushing noises. What Do Lucid...