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	<itunes:summary>You&#039;re About To Find Out How To Trick Your Body Into Falling Asleep To Quickly Start Having Lots Of Lucid Dreams And Out Of Body Experiences! 

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1. Complete 8 Step Diagram To Trick Your Body Into Falling Asleep To Have Your First OBEs And Lucid Dreams 

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great question I got on how relaxed your mind needs to be to have OBEs: I&#8217;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, &#8220;just relax and wait [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a great question I got on how relaxed your mind needs to be to have OBEs:</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;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, &#8220;just relax and wait for the vibrations&#8230;&#8221; and if they don&#8217;t come? Nothing. However your sleep paralysis method is something new although I haven&#8217;t achieved it yet. What do you think is the best way to bring on the vibrations? Sleep paralysis? If so, out of the methods that you describe, what is the most effective in your opinion? Also, Robert Monroe states that during the first OBE&#8217;s you should keep your thoughts in order and stick to being near your body. Do you agree?<br />
Thank you so much in advance, I really did enjoy lucidology 101 :)</p></blockquote>
<p>First of all, vibrations are not needed at all for OBEs. The <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/101/obe-vibrations>lucid dream vibrations video</a> explains why.</p>
<p>Now on to relaxing the mind for lucid dreams&#8230;</p>
<p>The common wisdom in OBE and lucid dreaming books is that you need to discipline your mind to have OBEs. Nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
<p>Why is that?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s because your body actually has no idea what your mind is doing. None! If you get good at <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/79/sleep-commands>sleep commands</a> you can put your body into <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/57/waking-sleep-paralysis>waking sleep paralysis</a> even when your mind is running full bore and not even in the slightest bit of trance or even the lightest daydream.</p>
<p>It comes down to mind/body communication and the language they use to talk to each other. As long as you correctly use the sleep commands at the right time the body will interpret them as a signal to fall asleep.</p>
<p>In particular, the <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/79/sleep-commands>sleep breathing</a> technique I explain in Lucidology 101 is extremely effective. It&#8217;s probably the single most powerful lucid dream body trick I know of. <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/79/sleep-commands>Pause breaths</a> are a very close second and <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/79/sleep-commands>muscle twitching</a> is a respectable third.</p>
<p>When you have success with these tricks you&#8217;ll see what I mean. When you consciously and DELIBERATELY put your body into sleep paralysis you&#8217;ll see that your mind can be totally awake and not even a little bit asleep. It all comes down to giving your body the right sequence of events.</p>
<h2>Moving Beyond Mind-Body Communication</h2>
<p>Having said that, even though you don&#8217;t <i>need</i> to relax your mind to enter waking sleep paralysis and you don&#8217;t <i>need</i> to use visualizations, they are incredibly powerful&#8230; but if you do the <i>right</i> kind of mental relaxation and visualizations.</p>
<p>This is where <a href=/102>Lucidology 102</a> picks up where Lucidology 101 leaves off. In <a href=/102>Lucidology 102</a> you&#8217;ll find out how to magnify your OBE skills 100 fold and literally have 100 OBEs in 100 days using a very specific set of visualizations I developed over the last 3 years.</p>
<h3>Supercharging Your OBEs With The <i>Right</i> Visualizations</h3>
<p>To find out how to amplify your OBE skills far beyond what you may have thought possible and start having 2, 3 or even a dozen OBEs per OBE session <a href=/102>check out Lucidology 102: The 100 OBE System</a></p>
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		<title>Secrets How To Relax Fast And Fall Asleep Quickly And Induce Lucid Dreams And O.B.Es &#8211; Lucidology 101 Part 5</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here in Lucidology 101 part 5 we&#8217;ll cover the exact relaxation routine you can use to fall asleep quickly to cure insomnia and enter waking sleep paralysis for frequent lucid dreams and O.B.E.s.</p>
<p><b>How To Save A Boatload Of Time On The Relaxation Stage</b></p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to spend hours relaxing every part of your body to have O.B.E.s. About 90% of your body&#8217;s tension is in about 10% of your muscles. If you target just those key areas you can quickly relax enough that your body will interpret it as a signal to sleep. </p>
<p><b>The Best Place To Start Relaxing</b></p>
<p>Most books on relaxation say to lay down and start relaxing at your feet and work your way up to your head. That&#8217;s not the most effective way to do it because the vast majority of your body&#8217;s tension is in your jaws, not your feet. </p>
<p>The jaw is the strongest muscle area in terms of extorted force. The world record for bite strength is 975 foot-pounds for 2 seconds. No other muscle in your body can exert more total force than your jaw muscles and no other muscle holds more tension. </p>
<p><b>The Top 5 Health Problems From Excess Jaw Tension</b></p>
<p>Many people go their whole lives and never consciously think to relax their jaws. This causes bruxism, or &#8220;teeth grinding&#8221; which wears down your teeth and cause other problems such as:</p>
<p>1 &#8211; Tooth aches<br />
2 -	Headaches<br />
3 &#8211; Ear aches<br />
4 &#8211; Tinnitus (which is ringing in the ears)<br />
5 &#8211; Dizziness</p>
<p>So the very first thing I do before an O.B.E induction or falling asleep is to relax my jaws. This step is absolutely required. It only takes a few seconds so it gives you the most bang for your buck of all the relaxations you can do.</p>
<p><b>Step 1: Jaw Relaxation</b></p>
<p>Start with a very firm massage of the meaty part of your upper jaws in front of and below your ears. This is called your &#8220;masseter muscle&#8221; and is the single biggest culprit for locked up muscle knots in the entire body. Press strongly with your fingers on both sides of your head and get a &#8216;good hurt&#8217; feeling.</p>
<p><b>Step 2: Palm Squeeze</b></p>
<p>The second step is to squeeze on both sides of your jaws with your palms instead of just your fingers. You can use quite a bit of force when you do this because your jaws are quite strong. Let your jaw go as slack as you can while pressing.</p>
<p><b>Step 3: The Jaw Stretch</b></p>
<p>It&#8217;s common to stretch before and after exercise such as stretching your legs by touching your toes. But have you ever stretched your jaws muscles? You may look silly doing this, but it really goes a long way to relaxing your jaws. So the third step is to relax your jaws as much as you can then use your fingers to pull your jaws open. You may be surprised how much your jaws resist your fingers but by stretching them you can get the tension out.</p>
<p>My grandfather was a professor of a science called relaxology. One of his colleagues could relax his jaws so much that you could wiggle it with your hands and it felt like there was almost nothing holding his jaws on his head. You don&#8217;t have to relax your jaws that much but I mention it to give you an idea just how much tension is in your jaws even if you think they&#8217;re relaxed.</p>
<p><b>Step 4: Horizontal Wall Chest Stretch</b></p>
<p>Step 4 is to stretch your arms and chest against the wall. Place a palm flat on the wall and turn the trunk of your body so that you get a good stretch from the very tips of your fingers, down your forearm, you bicep, shoulder and all across your chest. Exhale all the tension out. Repeat this twice with both arms.</p>
<p><b>Step 5: Vertical Chest Stretch</b></p>
<p>Step 5 is to stretch against the wall by placing both palms above your head against the wall and then bending forward. This really targets your shoulder and chest tension. Inhale and exhale fully and slowly 3 times to work all the tension out. Stand up normally, then repeat the vertical chest stretch.</p>
<p><b>Step 6: Stretch Your Feet</b></p>
<p>Step 6 is to stretch the bottom of your feet by propping your foot against the wall and leaning forward. This will also give you a good calf stretch. Repeat this on each foot two more times then sit down and massage the individual muscles in the soles of your feet with your hands.</p>
<p><b>Step 7: Stretch Your Hands</b></p>
<p>Step 7 is to stretch the palm of each hand by pushing your fingers back with the other hand. This also gives your forearms a nice stretch.</p>
<p><b>Step 8: Relax Your Shoulders</b></p>
<p>Step 8 is the last stretching step. Do some slow windmills to relax your shoulders. It&#8217;s tempting to skip this step but your shoulders carry almost as much tension as your jaw so it&#8217;s important to stretch and relax your shoulder as much as possible.</p>
<p><b>Step 9: &#8220;Pre-roll&#8221; To Dissipate Overall Body Tension</b></p>
<p>For step 9, remember that one purpose of the roll over signal is to get you to roll over which causes you to gradually gather and release tension. Here&#8217;s a trick to speed that up or even skip over it.</p>
<p>Lay down in bed and relax a much as you can for 15 seconds or so. Then roll over and relax for a couple more seconds. Roll again and relax&#8230; Repeat this several times and you&#8217;ll relax the rest of your muscles quite quickly.</p>
<p>This works because normally when you stretch one body part to relax it, you have to tense up another part.<br />
For instance, to stretch one hand you had to tense up your other hand. By laying down and rolling around for a minute you stretch and relax everything a little bit at a time and get your &#8220;roll over&#8221; phase done all at once. </p>
<p><b>Step 10: Stop Drop And Roll</b></p>
<p>Once you&#8217;re done rolling around, step 10 is to start Stop Drop And Roll. Lay flat on your back with your arms above your head and start daydreaming. See Lucidology 101 part 3 for how to do Stop Drop &#038; Roll to fall asleep if you haven&#8217;t yet.</p>
<p><b>Step  : Start Sleep Breathing</b></p>
<p>Step   is to begin sleep breathing. See Lucidology 101 part 4 for details if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet.</p>
<p><b>Step 12: Roll Eyes To Relax Them</b></p>
<p>Step 12 is to relax your eyes and the stop micromovements. Roll your eyes around both directions a few times and then let them rest. The idea is to completely forget that your eyes even exist. To do that count 150 heart beats.</p>
<p><b>Step 13: 150 Heart Beat Count To Forget About Eyes</b></p>
<p>Focusing on your heart for a long time will make it feel like it&#8217;s going to beat its way out of your chest. However if you get up and actually check your pulse you&#8217;ll find that it&#8217;s beating like normal. The heart pounding sensation is just a trick of the mind which will help to distract you from your eyes. </p>
<p><b>Step 12: Bring Arms Down To Enter &#8216;Drop&#8217; Mode</b></p>
<p>After 150 heart beats you&#8217;ve come to step 14 which is to switch on the roll over signal. Drop your arms down to your side and move to step 15 which is to tense and release each muscle group.</p>
<p><b>Step 15: Tense And Relax Muscles</b></p>
<p>By now you should be pretty deeply relaxed. Continue to sleep breathe and sense where you still have some tension left. Slightly tense that area for a moment then release it. This will cause you to relax that muscle further than before you tensed it. Start at your jaws and end at your feet.</p>
<p>To do this, count 150 heart beats starting at 300 which tires your brain out a little faster. After every 10 heart beats pause the count and tense and release another muscle group. For instance, when you get to 160 tense and relax your jaws. At 170 tense and release your face, at 180 your neck and so forth. If you lose track of where what number you&#8217;re on that&#8217;s a good sign that it&#8217;s working and you&#8217;re falling asleep.</p>
<p><b>Step 16: &#8216;Roll&#8217; Phase</b></p>
<p>When you get to 450 you&#8217;ll either be asleep or feeling the roll over signal. If you don&#8217;t have a very strong roll signal then just daydream and continue sleep breathing for a while until it&#8217;s strong enough. When you really feel the need to roll over you&#8217;ve reached step 16 which is to simply roll over and release any remaining tension. Continue sleep breathing and you&#8217;ll black out within a few moments.</p>
<p><b>Warm Socks</b></p>
<p>Two things that really speed things up are socks and earplugs. You may not realize how much your body temperature drops when you fall asleep but when you&#8217;re feet are just a little bit cold it&#8217;s really hard to relax. So wear socks even if you don&#8217;t think you need them.</p>
<p><b>Silicone Earplugs</b></p>
<p>Earplugs are also incredibly valuable for falling asleep fast. You can get them on amazon or Target. The silicone putty earplugs work the best and you can make them last several uses by washing them with soap after each use.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the complete system, step by step. </p>
<p>1	Jaw Massage<br />
2	Jaw Palm Squeeze<br />
3	Jaw Stretch<br />
4	Horizontal Wall Chest Stretch<br />
5	Vertical Chest Stretch<br />
6	Stretch Your Feet<br />
7	Stretch Your Hands<br />
8	Relax Your Shoulders<br />
9	&#8220;Pre-Roll&#8221; To Dissipate Overall Body Tension<br />
10	Start &#8220;Stop, Drop &#038; Roll&#8221;: Hands Above Your Head<br />
 	Start Sleep Breathing<br />
12	Roll Eyes To Relax Them<br />
13	150 Heart Beat Count To Forget About Eyes<br />
14	Bring Arms Down To Enter To &#8220;Drop&#8221; Mode<br />
15	Tense &#038; Relax Muscles That Are Still Tense<br />
16	Roll</p>
<p>Coming up in Part 6 you&#8217;ll find out how to use the sun to avoid the #1 mistake everyone makes in O.B.E.s &#038; how to optimize your brain chemistry for lucidity.</p>
<p>Plus we&#8217;ll cover the ONE O.B.E. induction I would use if I was not allowed to use any others. </p>
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		<title>5 New Sleep Commands To Trick Your Body Into Falling Asleep While You Keep Your Mind Awake &#8211; Lucidology 101 Part 4</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here in Lucidology 101 part 4 we&#8217;ll cover 5 new sleep commands that you can use to quickly trick the body into falling asleep so you can end insomnia and have frequent lucid dreams and O.B.E.s.</p>
<p><b>The Discovery Of The Roll Over Signal And Sleep Paralysis Connection</b></p>
<p>A while back I had been up all night working on something. Around noon I was very tired and decided to lay down for a few moments. As I lay there I began to feel a very uncomfortable urge to roll over. For no real reason I decided to ignore it and just lay there. To my extreme surprise I felt the paralysis wave roll over me and put me in full sleep paralysis. </p>
<p>The paralysis was completely unexpected. I had always thought it was something you had to be very deeply relaxed to achieve. Instead I was actually fairly tense and my mind was not at all in any kind of meditative state.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d accidentally found something that I had never seen in any books on lucid dreaming. The roll over signal itself was all you need to enter paralysis. I spent the next several months experimenting with different variations of what I&#8217;d done. I began looking for other ways to command the body into sleep and here&#8217;s what I found.</p>
<p><b>The Two Types Of Sleep Commands</b></p>
<p>It turns out sleep commands come in two types: sleep starters and sleep triggers.</p>
<p><b>1.) Sleep Starters</b></p>
<p>Sleep starters are what you use to get the body to start thinking that maybe it&#8217;s time to fall asleep. For instance, using stop drop and roll is a sleep starter because it makes your body ask for permission to fall asleep by artificially creating the roll signal.</p>
<p><b>2.) Sleep Triggers</b></p>
<p>Sleep triggers are how you then tell it &#8220;Yes: fall asleep right now&#8221;. SDR has an implicit sleep trigger: when you simply ignore the roll over signal the body interprets it a trigger to enter sleep paralysis.</p>
<p><b>5 New Sleep Commands</b></p>
<p>In this section we&#8217;ll cover sleep breathing and stopped eye micromovements, which are sleep starters. Then we&#8217;ll cover three sleep triggers. The first is pause breaths, the second is muscle twitching and third is eye movements.</p>
<p><b>3 Ways To Learn The Sleep Breathing Sleep Starter</b></p>
<p>Sleep breathing is simply mimicking your body&#8217;s breathing pattern when it&#8217;s asleep. If you act closely enough like you&#8217;re already asleep then your body thinks that it really is asleep, even if your mind is completely awake and not even slightly relaxed.</p>
<p>There are 3 basic ways to find out what your personal sleep breathing is like.</p>
<p><b>1.) Sleep Paralysis Perspective</b></p>
<p>First, when you enter waking sleep paralysis a lot of times your perspective shifts slightly away from the center of your head and in to your sinuses. It sounds like you&#8217;re breathing in a cavern and you&#8217;ll find your body automatically breathes with quite a lot more force than you do when you&#8217;re awake. The breathing is much deeper and longer. Pay attention to how this sounds in order to learn your sleep breathing pattern.</p>
<p><b>2.) Watch Waking Breathing</b></p>
<p>The second way to learn your sleep breathing pattern is to practice staying perfectly still when you wake up in the morning. You can continue to breathe the same way you did when asleep if you wake up gradually.</p>
<p><b>3.) Record Sleep Breathing</b></p>
<p>The third way, which is the best, is to record yourself sleeping. For $30 you can get a digital voice recorder that can record the entire night. You can then use free software like Audacity to find the parts of the recording that have your sleep breathing.</p>
<p>Here is a recording I made of myself. It sounds a little creepy, but that&#8217;s just how it sounds in a cheap recorder. </p>
<p>Once you have your recording you can listen to it right before you go to sleep in order to make sure you&#8217;re on the right breathing rhythm. If you don&#8217;t want to record yourself, you can download a free mp3 of my breathing pattern in the O.B.E Quickstart at <a href="http://www.Lucidology.com" target="_blank">www.Lucidology.com</a>.</p>
<p><b>3 Sleep Breathing Gotchas</b></p>
<p>When you use sleep breathing there are a 3 gotchas to be aware of: These are the learning curve, blackout breathing, and the narcotic breathing effect.</p>
<p><b>1.) Sleep Breathing Learning Curve</b></p>
<p>The learning curve means that it takes practice and if you don&#8217;t have the rhythm right it can prolong the time it takes to fall asleep. It&#8217;s best to practice using sleep breathing for a couple nights before using it during an early morning O.B.E induction. However once you have the rhythm right, sleep breathing is probably the single most powerful of all the sleep commands. </p>
<p>A while back I laid down in the afternoon and just starting doing sleep breathing. I didn&#8217;t use any other methods at all and within 15 minutes I entered waking sleep paralysis. I could roll over and completely wreck the paralysis and then bring it back again with just 3 or 4 sleep breaths. </p>
<p>I usually don&#8217;t have that amount of control with sleep breathing, however it does show the potential power it has when you get the rhythm right.</p>
<p><b>2.) Blackout Breathing</b></p>
<p>The second gotcha is blackout breathing. A lot of times when you use sleep breathing for the first few minutes it seems like it&#8217;s not working and you feel like you should give up. But then all of a sudden you black out and you&#8217;re in a dream or you&#8217;re waking up the next morning. The blackout breathing effect is very real so if you use sleep breathing for WILDs make sure you have a timer because otherwise there&#8217;s a very good chance you&#8217;ll send yourself so far into sleep so quickly that you&#8217;ll never become lucid without a beep.</p>
<p><b>3.) Narcotic Breathing</b></p>
<p>The third gotcha is narcotic breathing. Sometimes instead of blacking out all at once you get a relaxing feeling. It feels like when you first wake up in the morning and the last thing you want to do is get up out of bed. You just want to go back to sleep. This is very useful in destroying insomnia. When you get the narcotic breathing effect it feels really good to lay there and breathe and you&#8217;ll have no desire to get up. Narcotic breathing is a signal that it&#8217;s working and you&#8217;ll be asleep very soon.</p>
<p><b>Second Sleep Starter: Stop Eye Micromovements</b></p>
<p>That wraps it up for sleep breathing. The second sleep starter is to stop eye micromovements.</p>
<p>During the day the eyes are searching for changes in motion. Because of this they make tiny micro movements all the time and at the end of they day they are still making these micro movements even though you may want to go to sleep. </p>
<p>If you close your eyes and try to keep them still you&#8217;ll find that after about 30 seconds they are still twitching very slightly. It&#8217;s not easy to totally relax the eyes. However if you can keep them at complete ease for several minutes the body will interpret that as a signal that the mind may have fallen asleep. In fact if you keep your eyes still your body will often fall asleep even if the rest of your muscles are fairly tense.</p>
<p><b>Roll Eyes To Relax Them</b></p>
<p>Before sleep, relax your eye muscles by rolling them around in wide circles in both directions several times and then letting them rest. After 3 or 4 nights of practicing this you&#8217;ll be able to keep your eyes totally still and you&#8217;ll fall asleep much faster. </p>
<p>This brings us to sleep triggers which are used to convert partial paralysis into full paralysis. </p>
<p><b>First Sleep Trigger: Pause Breaths</b></p>
<p>The first trigger is pause breaths. When you reach 90% paralysis, the reason the body doesn&#8217;t go to full paralysis is it has a bit of doubt about just how asleep the mind really is. This is because of muscle tension. The best solution is to relax more deeply but sometimes that&#8217;s not possible. </p>
<p>What you can do is exhale and pause for 2 or 3 seconds. Relax as much as you can and then begin breathing again like normal. By relaxing your breathing you reduce your overall tension just barely enough to send a signal to complete the paralysis. During those 2 or 3 seconds you&#8217;ll feel the paralysis deepening. Sometimes you may have to use 2 or 3 pause breaths about 15 seconds apart. When you do this, you&#8217;re not trying to alter your blood oxygen levels or anything like that. The purpose is to simply lower your overall muscle tension just long enough to paralyze completely.</p>
<p><b>Second Sleep Trigger: Muscle Twitching</b></p>
<p>The second sleep trigger is muscle twitching which was actually the first sleep trigger I ever found. I reached partial paralysis and on a whim decided to try twitching my right forearm to see what happened. To my surprise my entire arm paralyzed. I then twitched my right calf and my right leg paralyzed. I gradually paralyzed my entire body that way and completed the separation. </p>
<p>In other words muscle twitching only paralyses the surrounding muscles. I&#8217;ve actually found that I could paralyze just a single finger by twitching it when in partial paralysis.</p>
<p><b>How To Do Muscle Twitching</b></p>
<p>To do this twitch once every second or two when you&#8217;re in about 95% paralysis. The twitch is very gentle and only lasts the smallest fraction of a second. If you twitch your forearm the rest of your arm should not move at all. If you twitch too hard you&#8217;ll wreck the paralysis so keep it very light. </p>
<p>Probably the reason this works is when you dream you try to move your muscles but sleep paralysis prevents you from moving. However you do move your muscles just a bit when dreaming which causes muscle twitching. This means the body associates muscle twitching with deep sleep so one way to mimic deep sleep is to use muscle twitching.</p>
<p><b>Third Sleep Trigger: Up And Down Eye Micromovements</b></p>
<p>The third sleep trigger is up and down eye movements. With your eyes closed you simply move your eyes up and down as fast as you can for about 10 seconds. I&#8217;ve never been able to get it to work using left and right movements. However there is actually a type of hypnotic psychotherapy called &#8220;eye movement desensitization and reprocessing&#8221; or EMDR which uses side to side eye movements. You may try experimenting with side to side movement to complete partial paralysis but I find up and down is a safer bet.</p>
<p><b>The Order To Use Triggers</b></p>
<p>So which trigger do you use? The most reliable strategy is to start with a few pause breaths which is usually all it takes to get to 100% paralysis. If that doesn&#8217;t work use arm twitching. If that doesn&#8217;t work use up and down eye movements. If that doesn&#8217;t work just relax for a few more minutes before using the triggers again.</p>
<p><b>When To Use Sleep Triggers</b></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve experimented using sleep triggers to go directly from awake to asleep but that doesn&#8217;t seem to work. I find that for up and down eye movements to work you need to be in about 99% paralysis, muscle twitching works at about 95% paralysis and pause breaths work at about 90% paralysis. So it&#8217;s best to start out using sleep starters and then switch to triggers for the last step.</p>
<p>Up next in part 5 we&#8217;ll cover the exact relaxation routine you can use to fall asleep quickly to cure insomnia and enter waking sleep paralysis for frequent lucid dreams and O.B.E.s.</p>
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In the last section we found that <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/waking-sleep-paralysis/57>sleep paralysis</a> is most likely when you wake up and fall asleep again without moving at all. So to do that you need a way to fall asleep quickly and reliably. The question is, how do you do that?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here in Lucidology 101 part 3 you&#8217;re about to find out use the &#8220;stop, drop &#038; roll&#8221; sleep command to fall asleep quickly by making your body ask to fall asleep &#038; then giving it the &#8220;yes&#8221; command to tell it to fall asleep.</p>
<p>In the last section we found that <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/waking-sleep-paralysis/57>sleep paralysis</a> is most likely when you wake up and fall asleep again without moving at all. So to do that you need a way to fall asleep quickly and reliably. The question is, how do you do that?</p>
<p>
<b>Mind Body Independence</b></p>
<p>The key is in the principle of &#8220;mind-body independence&#8221;. Mind-body independence means that your mind and body never know precisely what the other is doing. For instance, your body is growing hair, transcribing DNA, digesting food, making blood cells and regenerating tissue. Your mind is mostly unaware of all these. If you had to think about each one you&#8217;d never get anything else done. This is mind-body independence.</p>
<p>Mind-body independence also works the other way. When you mind falls asleep your body never really knows completely for sure what happened and if your mind is really asleep or not. So how does your body know when to enter sleep paralysis?</p>
<p>The key is that even though the mind and body act independently, they still communicate using a language. By learning the words in this language you can talk to your body biologically and make it fall asleep when you want it to.</p>
<p>
<b>Your First Word In This Language</b></p>
<p>Your first word in this language is called the &#8220;roll over signal&#8221;. When your body has been very still and relaxed for a long period, your body starts to wonder if maybe your mind has fallen asleep. It would be a very serious mistake if the body went to sleep too early, so the body sends a test signal to the mind. This test signal feels like a strong urge to roll over.</p>
<p>
<b>The Roll Over Signal</b></p>
<p>If the mind is asleep, then mind does not respond and the body decides that the mind really is asleep and shuts down. If the mind does respond to the roll over signal and you move, then the body knows the mind is still awake and does not fall asleep. So this a major mistake that you need to avoid: Never respond to the body&#8217;s roll over signal because it sends a message to stay awake rather than fall asleep. This can be difficult because the signal can become so strong that it&#8217;s excruciatingly painful.</p>
<p>
You can visualize the way this works with the two dotted arrows on this chart: <br />
As you become more relaxed, the blue dotted line gets lower and lower. At the same time, the red dotted line represents the strength of the roll over signal that the body sends out which grows and grows. When these two lines meet the body decides to enter sleep paralysis and shuts down.</p>
<p>So the question is: what can you do improve this?</p>
<p>
<b>The 4 Types Of Roll Over Signals</b></p>
<p>There are four types of roll over signals you&#8217;ll encounter.</p>
<p>
<b>Fast Relax</b></p>
<p>1.) The first type is the &#8216;fast relax&#8217; case. This happens when you relax quickly and deeply and the body decides to just go ahead and paralyze without sending much of a roll over signal, if any. This is a good case to have because it happens quickly. </p>
<p>
<b>Slow Relax</b></p>
<p>2.) The second type is the opposite case. If you&#8217;re tense but stay still long enough and if the body is tired enough, the roll over signal builds and builds until it becomes very painful and extremely hard to ignore. However, if you&#8217;re too tense the body won&#8217;t paralyze no matter how long you&#8217;ve been still. This is called a &#8220;signal swell&#8221;. </p>
<p>
<b>Urge Surge</b></p>
<p>3.) The third type is called an &#8220;urge surge&#8221; which is a very useful case. In an urge surge, the body sends out a strong signal out of nowhere. If you&#8217;re able to resist the signal for three or four seconds the body ends the surge and paralyses all at once. If you&#8217;re not relaxed enough, this will probably result in only partial sleep paralysis which is not ideal. We&#8217;ll cover ways to transform partial sleep paralysis into a successful exit in Lucidology 102.</p>
<p>
<b>The Quick Switch Roll Signal</b></p>
<p>Finally forth type of roll signal is called a &#8220;Quick Switch&#8221;.</p>
<p>4.) If sleep paralysis is the holy grail for new OBEers, the quick switch signal is the holy grail of urge surges. It happens quickly and rewards you with nice and deep sleep paralysis almost instantly. It&#8217;s also a very unmistakable feeling which is extremely useful because it lets you know what&#8217;s going on. </p>
<p>
<b>The Two Cases That Cause A Quick Switch Signal</b></p>
<p>This usually happens in one of two cases:</p>
<p>First: when the body is really tired and wants to go to sleep right now</p>
<p>Second: when the body was very recently asleep and is deeply relaxed.  </p>
<p>
In order to make those cases more likely you need a way to bring on the roll signal as fast as possible.</p>
<p>So how do you do that? The trick is to use the right body position.</p>
<p>
<b>Body Position Is Key</b></p>
<p>The body position that brings it on the roll signal faster than any other position is to simply lay flat on your back with your arms at your side. When you lay with your arms at your side you will probably tempted to place your hands on your stomach or cross your ankles. This is a veiled form of the roll over signal. If you get that sensation it means you&#8217;re on the right track, just make sure not to give in. Keep your arms at your side and your ankles slightly separated.</p>
<p>Using this simple bit of information we can eradicate the single biggest cause of insomnia: the toss and turn syndrome.</p>
<p>
<b>The Tossing And Turning Syndrome: Big Time Cause Of Insomnia</b></p>
<p>When you toss and turn in bed, what you&#8217;re doing is resetting your body&#8217;s internal sleep timer each time you roll over. The body is trying to go to sleep by sending you a roll-over test signal but you keep telling it not to sleep when you move. So you end up stuck in a toss and turn loop and never get to sleep.  This results in insomnia. </p>
<p>So you may be thinking is that it?? You just lay there?<br />
Not quite… There are a few things you can do actively to speed things up and tell your body to fall asleep.</p>
<p>
<b>3 Body Positions</b></p>
<p>What we do is add body positions before and after the hands-at-your-side position. The first position is to lay with your hands above your head. The final position is where you roll over and then fall asleep in that position. </p>
<p>We choose these positions very carefully so that when you move from one step to the next you release the maximum amount of tension possible. </p>
<p>
<b>&#8220;Stop, Drop And Roll&#8221; Releases Tension In Chunks</b></p>
<p>This way instead of haphazardly releasing small amounts of tension by tossing and turning over and over, you release it in a exactly two calculated big chunks and get it over with all at once:</p>
<p>
<b>Make The Body Ask To Sleep Then Tell It &#8220;Yes&#8221;</b></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what is happening at each step.</p>
<p>1.) &#8220;Stop&#8221; &#8211; The Relax Step: In this step you have your arms above your head and relax as deeply as you can. Once you feel you&#8217;ve relaxed as far as you can, &#8220;drop&#8221; your arms down to your side which releases all the shoulder tension that you couldn&#8217;t get rid of from just laying there. This is the purpose of the first body position &#8211; to get rid of shoulder tension all at once.</p>
<p>2.) &#8220;Drop&#8221; &#8211; The Ask Step: When you drop your arms down to your side and relax the body will seriously start to consider that maybe the mind is asking it to go to sleep. This position will make you want to roll over which is what you want. The stronger the roll over signal, the more the body is asking for permission to sleep. If you get to a point where it feels like it&#8217;s plateaued, slowly roll over which puts you in step 3.</p>
<p>3.) &#8220;Roll&#8221; &#8211; The Yes Step: In this step you tell the body, &#8220;yes it&#8217;s time to sleep.&#8221; Simply roll over and then don&#8217;t move until you&#8217;re asleep. Your goal is to not move again the rest of the night. </p>
<p>
<b>Roll Over Signal Changes Depending On Your Position</b></p>
<p>The sneaky thing is that the roll over signal changes based on how you&#8217;re laying and that may trick you into moving. The roll over signal when you&#8217;re on your back tends to center in your chest. However the roll over signal when you&#8217;re on your side tends to make you want to move your legs. Don&#8217;t fall for that! Don&#8217;t bend them or straighten them or anything. Keep your legs perfectly still. The urge to move your legs is actually a disguised form of the roll over signal and you must resist it at all costs!</p>
<p>
<b>Best Body Position For Healthy Sleep</b></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the best final body position that&#8217;s the healthiest for your back according to researchers at the University of Cleveland. You want to lay on your side so your neck and spine are neutral and relaxed<br />
Bend your hips and knees a bit to lower pressure on your spine<br />
To relieve sciatic nerve strain, put a pillow between your kneeson <br />
Sleeping on your stomach is not recommended because it puts your back in an odd position</p>
<p>
<b>Bonus Secret To Build Up Roll Signal</b></p>
<p>We have one last very powerful trick in reserve that you can use when you have a really hard time falling asleep.</p>
<p>The key is to build up a super strong roll over signal before even getting into bed. Rather than trying to <a href=http://www.lucidology.com/blog/waking-sleep-paralysis/57>fall asleep</a> in your bed, lay down on the floor next to your bed on your back and relax. </p>
<p>This is unpleasant and after forcing yourself to lay there perfectly still for 10 or 15 minutes, when you finally allow yourself back into bed your body will be so grateful that it will  grab the chance to fall asleep as quickly as it can. </p>
<p>In extreme cases you can even lay on an uncarpeted floor such as in your kitchen which will build up the roll signal very quickly. </p>
<p>
In the next section we&#8217;ll cover 5 more powerful sleep commands you can use to trick your body to fall asleep while you keep your mind awake to have O.B.E.s.</p>
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