Sleep disruption techniques for astral projection

Posted by Nathaniel Oldman on Mar 17, 2011 in Articles and tutorials, What NOT to do | 2 comments

This is another don’t do, and in my opinion, quite a dangerous one.

There is a range of techniques that are based on disturbing or altering one’s sleep patterns in order to achieve a projection out of the body; the idea is “borrowed” from lucid dreaming approaches. Depending on the variation, you can be asked to wake up in the middle of the night, or stay awake as long as you can before you go to bed, or any other alteration/combination of usual sleep patterns.

The idea is to create the conditions for an “accident”  to occur in which, either by exhaustion or either by remaining on a border line stage, glimpses of the non-physical become available to the conscious mind.

This is extremely dangerous for two, actually three, reasons. The first one is a recurring statement I make over and over on this website: if you are not under control of your experience, it teaches you nothing, and has the potential of harming you irreversibly.

The second reason is that when you sleep, dream or are in that border state between the two, you mental body is hovering in the region of your subconscious. The subconscious mind is made, primarily, of our fears, blockages and negations, and is a land where we do not find ourselves comfortable, as it is a recollection of everything we are, and that we don’t want to accept – or wish we weren’t. It’s an open door to nightmares from where one cannot awake, and if not chosen – remember the absence of control evoked-, you can imagine the consequences on the psyche for someone dragged into that region without warning or consent.

Lastly, sleep patterns have a reason of being, and disrupting them will harm the physical body. This damage taxes the nervous and cardiovascular systems, and if you have any understanding of basic physiology you can understand how deep and irreversible this damage can be.