Yesterday, I started a gazing session with my goggles on while lying down. Things quickly became very vivid and realistic, leading to my old IOB friend appearing first as a glowing, sparkly blob like I had seen during one of my last gazing sessions, then making a huge pitch-black shadow-like figure appear right in front of me, who felt and looked like a real person! Much more real than usual, to the point I felt slightly terrified (in an exciting, fun way, like being on a roller coaster)
The pink background/wall behind it had began to develop super creepy, real-looking arms, teeth, faces, and body parts to look horrifying. It seemed like the IOB was putting on a special scary "show" for me, since I like spooky things.
Finally, at a point, I found what looked like a translucent, floating wall at the right depth, gazing just behind the “show” against the pinkish backdrop, even though once I focused on it it appeared much closer to me.
Testing out switching views during gazing while I had been in daylight all day driving the day before yesterday, I practiced it again while watching the IOB horror show and then while gazing at the wall that was made of this white electrical-looking light, and found that at some point between practicing switching, I was fully immersed in the other “view” or POV, and realized I had fallen asleep, but my eyes were still open (I checked by blinking).
I had the wherewithal to sit with that and not let myself get excited, and instead keep gazing at what was forming in front of me. It seemed like the pinkish, shell-like scene in front of me had never completely changed, or I had been perceiving it, looked at the weird floating wall thing, and had come back to it, this time asleep with my eyes open and alert.
Scenes of various places and settings would form in front of me and around me, I would see myself (or some version of myself) in the scene and briefly inhabit it or just watch.
They were like dollhouses or sets of a play that grew and shrank, and advance and recede, that would quickly assemble to show a scene, then collapse and disappear as I would notice each one, observe it for a moment, then move my gaze and focus to another area where another one would form.
I could tell they were dreams because each time I would briefly be in one, everything looked and felt exactly as my dreams do, as I’ve experienced from vivid memories of my dreams that came up during practice, or from recapitulating those.
At least some of them had a different version of me in them, where something about my appearance or something else would be different.
After a while of doing that, some noise from my computer went off and I ended the session, checking again my eyes were open (at least half-opened).
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Do you have a clear picture during practice as shown above? I usually have clear outlines only in the center, and everything nearby is a bit blurry.
There are indeed more humanoid shadows than usual this week, especially in a bright room. There is not enough silence to make out their faces and other details of their appearance.
I definitely did for this session, everything was very vivid and detailed. The times similar to this before were certainly realistic and detailed, but I wasn’t ”keeping it together” as well to be able to experience it as immersed or as vividly. All of it was much more detailed and “real” than usual.
It’s fun seeing things like that that can make the hairs on the back of your neck stick up, isn’t it? 😁 The more silent we get, the more fun, weird, exciting stuff like that we can experience! (And potential “neighbors” we can meet)
It's true, who would have thought 😄
Those alternate versions of you can become available while doing tensegrity with your eyes open.
I don't know about in full lighting. Certainly that's possible, but it's hard to stop your internal dialogue well enough to receive "alternate timelines", when you're in a distracting well lit environment.
Perhaps that's why Carlos told us to focus on the muscle movements while doing long forms.
Maybe that was his version of "a dark room". To move your attention off the room, and onto the actual movements down to the fine levels.
Beginners: ANY word in your mind, no matter what triggered it, ONLY makes sense in this version of reality.
So it pulls you back here. You have to get rid of all of those words, or your assemblage point can't drift.
Of course, you get to see this nightly, even as a beginner.
You fall asleep, your internal dialogue stops, and you end up in alternate realities.
No other system is even aware of the assemblage point. At least, so far. Naturally they'll all pick up on the idea, now that we're around explaining it. And claim they always had it.
Here's what that assemblage point is and does:
I have a suspicion that if you materialize a scene on the wall of your practice room, and want to walk off into it, there's 3 possibilities within fairly easy reach.
And IOB can enable you to enter it (which requires walking through a solid wall, no longer visible once the scene forms an entryway), another person can walk off into it to open the passage for you, amd the most interesting of all is that despite the fact that YOU can't walk in, "NOT YOU" can.
You can switch to an alternate version of "you", picked up as a timeline stream.
In some ways, that's the same as shifting your assemblage point so far sideways that you're in a dream despite being in your own room, wide awake.
I'm going to put this here, so I don't forget about it.
It's not well enough developed (or understood) to be a post.
Last night I was doing Taisha's grab left and grab right, to compare the energy.
And I saw this:
Then I got into an argument with myself about it. I didn't hear any voices, but the thoughts were surprising enough to stand out as being an actual conversation.
The argument was:
"Why are you surprised to see me? You mentioned it in the subreddit just yesterday."
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did. Not in a post, just somewhere in comments or chat."
I remembered.
"Yea, but so what?"
"You intended me to show up... Why do you suppose Carlos had people shouting INTENT, if you don't believe it works? You don't expect to him to have shouted something specific, such as "floating head", to demonstrate it'll show up, do you? This is simply how intent works. It's how evil clowns work too."
You look like Jedi version of David Copperfield in that Ai image
I’ve saw that cloaked IOB when I first started. Was standing at foot of my bed. I went from 0-100 fast. Wasn’t cool.
I cried to Techno about it that night.
Yeah, that sounds pretty terrifying! 😱
Maybe it could eventually become a friend. My ally is still the scariest IOB I’ve encountered, except for maybe one that appeared in my bathroom once. But I‘m still not sure if that wasn’t actually a witch, like she said she was.
I stole it for instagram and facebook.
How do you return to the “default” timeline. Or is there not actually a default?
Do you mean from where I started in the session? That‘s the only kind of default I can think of 😄
If that is what you’re asking, the scenes and settings would change as I moved my focus and gaze away from them, onto the next oncoming one. I never totally forgot or blanked out on who I was and where I was “originally” when I started the session
yeah like once you leave and explore something else how do you return to us?
I'm not really sure, other than moving my focus and gaze away from the scene/setting I was in after a moment or so each time I entered one. I was only in them briefly enough to notice what was around me and who I was in that scene, not long enough to totally forget where I came from.