Alternative ways for imposition and the Ganzfeld effect

[Tyrane]

Okay so so far, I've tried blindfolding myself and listening to consistent white noise for about an hour at a time at least once or twice a day the last two or three days (I'm also trying to stay awake an extra four or so hours a day at least, so I can't really count in 'days') and so far, some results.

 

The first time was sort of strange, like being in a living dream. I was aware my eyes were open and I was laying down, but at the same time I didn't feel the need to move my body at all and so I felt strangely detached. Eventually I would notice patterns in the white noise and strange landscapes would start forming faintly over the void but if I gave any reaction they would fade away pretty quickly.

 

The second time I was pretty wide awake and felt pretty good, when I started it felt nice, about ten minutes in some strange music began to play, it was like a faint beat began and the longer I let it build up and tried to 'let it come' the more intense and complex it became. I'm not really sure how to describe it, it was like intensely auto-tuned sounds from machines out of a factory meshed together into a sequence that came across as music. I would also get more intense scenes like aliens standing around me as though I were a test subject, I forgot this was even a thing to be honest.

 

The third time I don't remember whatsoever, I was pretty tired but other than that I was perfectly fine. However I woke up this morning a couple times and I'm finding my visualization has suddenly drastically improved, there was a period where I blinked a couple times to try and adjust my eyes and I could vividly imagine textures and objects without effort as though I could reach out and touch them.

 

Success?

I'm still waiting on getting the ping pong balls, hopefully they're even better.

[shalkek]

Okay so so far, I've tried blindfolding myself and listening to consistent white noise for about an hour at a time at least once or twice a day the last two or three days (I'm also trying to stay awake an extra four or so hours a day at least, so I can't really count in 'days') and so far, some results.

 

The first time was sort of strange, like being in a living dream. I was aware my eyes were open and I was laying down, but at the same time I didn't feel the need to move my body at all and so I felt strangely detached. Eventually I would notice patterns in the white noise and strange landscapes would start forming faintly over the void but if I gave any reaction they would fade away pretty quickly.

 

The second time I was pretty wide awake and felt pretty good, when I started it felt nice, about ten minutes in some strange music began to play, it was like a faint beat began and the longer I let it build up and tried to 'let it come' the more intense and complex it became. I'm not really sure how to describe it, it was like intensely auto-tuned sounds from machines out of a factory meshed together into a sequence that came across as music. I would also get more intense scenes like aliens standing around me as though I were a test subject, I forgot this was even a thing to be honest.

 

The third time I don't remember whatsoever, I was pretty tired but other than that I was perfectly fine. However I woke up this morning a couple times and I'm finding my visualization has suddenly drastically improved, there was a period where I blinked a couple times to try and adjust my eyes and I could vividly imagine textures and objects without effort as though I could reach out and touch them.

 

Success?

I'm still waiting on getting the ping pong balls, hopefully they're even better.

 

Those are some pretty awesome results. I'd like to have the willpower to try stuff like this more often too, but sadly I'm too lazy.

I'm not sure if sleep depravation would be any help if you only do it for four hours a day. Skipping an entire night would be more use.

[Tyrane]

Yeah, I was going to go three nights without sleep and try it two hours every twelve but I have issues staying up through the night since I'm too afraid of some hallucinations and empty doorways to go out and get any food or drink, so I end up running out of energy anyway, I think I'll try a two night later this week with the ping pong balls which should be better than nothing.

 

Also, I'm not totally sure what happened because I'm in a phase where my memory skips out but I had a huge backwards skip where I went from Tuesday morning to Sunday morning, gave me time to realize my mistakes over those days and fix them but I'm not sure if this was some sort of time dilation business or what, but when I skip I get these memory blanks. Anyway as I was saying I'm pretty sure pushing the boundaries with sleep and hallucinations triggered it, Kiara says I'm about 50% accurate but as always I have to figure it out for myself ~___~

[ThatOneStupidIdiot]

Finally got some ping pong balls, so hopefully I'll get around to this soon.

 

From what I read in Tyrane's experience, I'm guessing this is more of a "see what your brain throws at you" thing rather than a lucid, controllable thing. The visualization improvement you described is definitely interesting, but other than that I'm not sure how useful this would be for imposition.

 

On the other hand, it seems like this is a really good way to disconnect yourself from reality, so... full body possession and switching seem like the kind of things I'd like to try in conjunction with this. I'll report my experience here once I've actually experienced it.

[shalkek]

Finally got some ping pong balls, so hopefully I'll get around to this soon.

 

From what I read in Tyrane's experience, I'm guessing this is more of a "see what your brain throws at you" thing rather than a lucid, controllable thing. The visualization improvement you described is definitely interesting, but other than that I'm not sure how useful this would be for imposition.

 

On the other hand, it seems like this is a really good way to disconnect yourself from reality, so... full body possession and switching seem like the kind of things I'd like to try in conjunction with this. I'll report my experience here once I've actually experienced it.

 

It's been about three months. Do you have anything to report?

[Progressive Rock Otaku]

I've tried a similar procedure to the Ganzfeld effect on two occasions now. What I did was I listened to radio static in complete darkness with my eyes open. I kept my body as still as I could and waited as long as I could. Both times I held out for a full hour with no results, other than feeling like I was going to go to sleep. I would have thought that complete darkness would have created the same effect as the ping pong balls, unless I'm mistaken. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Or is it just that I'm resistant to hallucinations?

[Shui]

I used ping pong balls with no light shining on them once. It didn't really do anything for me. The typical procedure is to have a red light shining at the ping pong balls, so maybe that's important.