I’ve had a good amount of free time on my hands lately, and while I haven’t been using it efficiently all the time, I have been using it. During this time, I’ve come to a few conclusions:

I. The technique for time manipulation I so rashly decided to test a while back doesn’t work. I have tested it several times, and at least in my case, this technique is ineffective. I did several self tests, with different variables. None of these tests had positive results. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, it might be for the better, but here is the original post about time control. This isn’t conclusive by any means, so if you wish to try that technique, go ahead, but keep in mind I had no success. Fair warning.

I am still testing the idea of inducing OBE’s with sound frequencies. So far, results are inconclusive, due to lack of data. AKA I haven’t done enough tests yet.

II. I haven’t been really practicing until now. Sure I’ve practiced, but there is a large difference between practice and dedicated practice. If you really want to make progress quickly, there are a few things I’ve found really help. (note: This is for practice sessions, not all the time daily life. Using psi all the time is a great way to become skilled quickly.)

1. Dedicate a particular time for practice. This will help your concentration, as you don’t have to worry about something else you should be doing, namely because this IS what you should be doing because this is what you’ve planned for this block of time.

2. Push yourself. When you reach that point where you think “ok, I’ve done well, I can stop” keep going. Just because you got a little success doesn’t mean you can’t have more. It may take some willpower, but if you keep pushing it, you’ll get more results. This isn’t to say work through the pain. In psionics, pain usually means loss of ground, not gain. If you start getting pains while doing an exercise that may cause them from overexertion, (TK is a favorite for this one) stop.

3. Destroy All Distractions. Well, destroy might be a little harsh, but “remove” all distractions. The more you can concentrate on your practice, the more likely you’ll succeed and get a better experience out of it. I feel like this has been hammered a lot, but it really is crucial, so it stands one more re-iteration.

4. Reading forums is not a way to practice. Sure it may be entertaining, but it does not give you personal experience. Neither does reading articles. There is a balance point between research and practice. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t read information, but doing research should never take away practice time, or vice versa. The idea behind research should be to learn enough to help your practice, to make it more efficient. If you take up practice time with research, you don’t get any better. Conversely, if you practice away, and then read about something you took three hours to discover, it defeats the purpose. Balance.

Those are just some things I’ve discovered through trial and error. Take them as what they are, my personal opinion based on my personal experience.

Now, with that little tidbit out of the way, onto the state of PsiPog.

While the site may literally be the exact same since the announcement of the end of interactivity, it feels different. The forum isn’t really as inspired as it used to be, it seems like everybody is waiting for a bomb to drop. It seems like a lot of people are waiting for somebody to step in and say “This is the next big site, go here, everybody else is!” Many people have already tried this, many with shameless spamming, but I don’t think anybody has really gotten the majority of the community to go with them. The psionic community, in my opinion, was united by PsiPog. When it drops out of the community picture, I wonder who the leader will be to unite the smaller communities. Will it be an already established, well respected community? Will it be one of the up and comers that was recently founded, or one of the many sites that are rising out of PsiPog’s ashes? Or perhaps it will be Peebrain’s newer site, which still remains only an idea at this point. His new site would be the logical successor to PsiPog, but it might lose a lot of traffic because it now focuses on the spiritual side of things. PsiPog was a success partly because it lacked religion.

The psionic community is going through big changes right now, and it looks like very interesting changes might be coming.

I, for one, look forward to them.

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Things are happening. The gears are in motion. PsiPog is changing.

Peebrain recently posted some very interesting things on his blog, and something a little shorter and to the point on the PsiPog forums. It seems that when people said that OBE’s are life-changing, they weren’t kidding. Peebrain has decided to change PsiPog in a very big way. This may happen anytime in the time frame of 6-12 months. He mentioned perhaps archiving it, or maybe changing it into a forum dedicated to OBE’s and dreaming. While this may upset most of the community, I am not. My main interest has always fell in the realm of dreaming, and I still consider it the most powerful of the psionic skills. I hope that Peebrain will keep some sort of site online, and that he will continue to inspire people to think differently.

The best of luck to the new PsiPog.

-Hatter

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Guitars Revisited
Perceived time: About 7 minutes
Lucid Dream

Some of my friends and I are in a mineshaft, and the only way out is through this broken elevator shaft down. down? The mine’s exit is down? There are broken wooden planks over the gap that spiral down. As we’re about to cross a huge worm think like dune type wurm, just now as big appears in the middle. One of my friends tells me that this wurm eats souls/energy/vitality. We run down the planks one by one, I’m still at the top. For some reason the person at the top grants the people at the bottom a health bonus. some video game stuff right there As I’m waiting at the top, I suddenly realize there is a werewolf around. Not only that, but it’s me! It’s like I have become two entities. The “normal” me, and the werewolf me We run down the planks away from were wolf and apparently the wurm doesn’t do anything. perhaps it fears werewolves as well

I have fragments of me running from the werewolf in the swamp, jump kicking it in the face to slow it down, etc.

We escape into a swamp at night, and I see somebody I know in a car on the highway. I get in, and we leave. screw my friends, I guess As we’re driving, I start wondering about the possibility of psionic vampires and vampires in general. I say if somebody could do it, I’d know about it. But wait, vampires hide themselves! There are vampires just in hiding! I think this quote fits the situation: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”

*blip*

I’m at my house. I am still weary of the werewolf, and I am in my basement. I grab my dad’s new guitar which is a nice red Les Paul, but is missing a neck, obviously not one of his in real life Suddenly the werewolf jumps out of the shadows, and I beat on him with the guitar a few times and then I run upstairs. It catches me on the way to the third floor and I smash it again, leaving the guitar on the second floor. I tell me dad that I think I may have done something bad. I’m referring to the guitar, I think He says he’s busy right now, and it appears that way, because he’s on the computer. I say that’s ok, I’d rather check it to make sure it’s not a dream anyways. yes, right mindset for once I walk downstairs and before I reach the guitar, it dawns on me that I’m dreaming. I bring the now perfectly new guitar it’s still missing a neck for some reason up to my dad and tell him that nope, I am dreaming, but here it is safe and sound anyways. I still care for some reason My dad seems less then interested, so I say ok dad, see you later, and put my fists above my head and jump, trying to fly out of our house. I slam into the ceiling, which is too high to hit that hard in real life, and fall back down. I say, oh, I must have stopped dreaming sometime earlier. What about the lack of pain in my hands?! My dad gives me a funny look. Then I wake into a…

…False awakening. I forget the details, aside from the fact that I had one before I actually woke up.

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UPDATE: I added a link to the atom feed for the blog on the upper right. I love .xml feeds, and I’m sure somebody will use it.

Hello everybody, I’ve been busy lately with various things, but I promise to finish the time distortion project soon. So far all results negative, but I’m not tossing it yet.

In other news, I just recently noticed I had comment moderation on. D’oh! I just turned it off, so your comments will show up after you post them now, instead of having me look over them first. Don’t be afraid to say something.

Also, you’re probably wondering about the title. I found out that blogger has a new beta for their next version. I, being a lover of betas, joined up. It’s still quite glitchy, and has a nasty tendency to tell me it couldn’t complete the operation about 50% of the time. It also doesn’t allow direct html editing for right now, so I’ll be going without google analytics for however long it takes them to get that feature up. What does all this mean to you? Well, not too much, because I didn’t really change my template. The only thing that’s different is the archive. It’s got a really slick interface now, just click the arrows to expand or collapse that section of the archive. I hope this will make people interested in some of the older stuff I’ve posted, I think some of it is useful. So make sure to look around, you may find something in the archive.

Ok, on to dreaming news:

I had a very short lucid dream last night. It was a DILD (Dream Induced Lucid Dream) that occurred at the end of the dream. The part before I was lucid is actually more interesting. (there were giant worms a la Dune as well as werewolves involved) I had it typed out in a rough draft, and posted it in my real Dream Journal, but that site is currently down, so I’ll post it here once I can retrieve it.

In energy manipulation:

My friend and I practiced some push and pull with energy, just testing out who was better with it. My friend beat me hands down, most likely because he uses it daily under noisy and distracting conditions. We actually made an impromptu game:

We took a slice of a geode, and put it between our palms. This crystal was slightly hard to push energy through, and provided a separation between us. We would then try and force energy through and onto the other person. I held out for about 3 minutes before my friend overpowered me. I could feel my energy, then suddenly nothing at all, then an odd sensation, then a headache. We stopped after that. I’m not sure what caused the headache, I’m going to guess overexertion.

That’s about it for news from me. Although you may want to watch PsiPog for a dreaming article. I have a feeling one may be up soon.

Keep an eye out!
-Hatter

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I’m posting this here becuase I think it’s interesting, and somewhat entertaining, as far as dreams go. Otherwise I’m currently working on time distortion, I’ll tell you how the final results go.

The Most Obvious DreamSign Ever
Normal Dream
Perceived time: about 17 minutes

The order of this dream is completely scrambled because I only wrote down a little in my notes when I woke up I am watching somebody play an RTS game, and it’s somehow related to Napoleon taking over a circular stone down structure. I tried to recreate the map above. I watch him take it over successfully. I guess my subconscious really likes picking up on video games; I was playing an RTS with that kind of warfare before bed. Rise of Nations, if anybody cares which game.

*blip*

It’s suddenly at night, and in the desert. There is a large perimeter fence around the area. It is lighted like an industrial park, with those orange lights. For some reason I’m sliding/flying along the side of the fences. I’m talking to somebody about how the barbed wire really sucks, and he agrees. Most of the fence has barbs on the top, but I’m gliding on the side. Then, since I’m flying around the perimeter, I fly into the cave, where there is a horrible mess of crumpled barbed wire and steel in the middle of the small road/path. I say “well THAT sucks” and can’t stop. I am about to run into it when…

*blip*

It’s suddenly daytime, and the area is a desert, with sand blowing around. I’m talking to my boss on the main road, across from the entrance of the cave. He’s in some kind of a hotrod. We’re talking about something, then I make some reference to a toast as he’s leaving, and he asks which kind of alcohol. I say I don’t know, I can’t have alcohol. He says what? And then: ahhhh, you can have a drink. Just not too much is all. He asks what I want next time, then drives off before I can answer. o_0! That entire part makes no sense to me I am then waiting for somebody to pick me up, and I’m standing/leaning against this odd table, more of a cube really, and it’s kind of purple-ish orange. Purple in some places, orange in others. I have a knife, and I poke it. Haha, when in doubt, poke it. It is kind of soft, and gives way. That makes me curious, and I keep poking harder. The table starts to twitch and sink down wherever I poke it. Eventually I stab it, and it goes completely out of shape, and I notice a tentacle and a few suckers where I stabbed it. The tentacle is kind of deflated now though. Ok, what?! I just stabbed an octopus cube? That weirds me out. and I back away from it, then my ride arrives. He’s driving a boat. No, that’s not the best dreamsign, it gets better

We leave the desert and are on a curving road that’s on and incline. We are now driving on a water road. I look to my left, and see a boat taking off. It looks exactly like a normal motor boat. BAM! HUGE dreamsign! Now, will I catch it? I say to the guy that it still looks weird to me to see a boat flying. I even keep going on to say that, wait, the physics behind a boat would make that impossible almost… Then the guy says, no it works the same way an airplane does, it just needs enough speed. I suddenly realize that that’s right, and the physics make perfect sense. D’OH. I hate you boat guy, I hate you. It’s almost like my dream is conspiring to keep me from getting lucid We then come to some waves in the “road” It’s still water at this point I say how much I hate going through rough waves on the road, and I hunker down. As we hit the first, it breaks over the bow easily, and the boat barely jumps. I say, oh yeah! We’re in a boat! I like driving in boats much better. We hit a few more with the same result, then come up to a large wave that is probably about three feet above the tip of the boat. We get some air, and I lose recall from here on. I think that might be the end, actually.

Snakes…on a plane? Octopus cubes…on a boat?
It still makes more sense then snakes on a plane.

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First I’d like to start off by saying that:
Everybody’s favorite energy manipulation website is now back with articles and a forum! That’s right! PsiOnline is back!

As I was browsing through the site, I found an article about crystals. This is something I had wondered about for a while, and this chat log was an interesting read. Apparently you can not only store constructs in them like I previously knew, you can also amplify energy with them. Awesome.

Also, as I was looking through this rather fluff-ridden topic on PsiPog, I found an interesting link. I haven’t looked at the rest of the site, but it looked a little suspicious. Anyways, this article sounds plausible, and I am going to give it a few tries before I write it off completely. I know that altering your perception of time’s flow is possible, and I know altering time’s flow is also possible, it’s just that the latter usually requires large amounts of mass or high speeds. This technique uses neither. At any rate, I’ll let you know how it goes.

In dreaming news:

My recall has returned! And I wrote down a page and a half long typed dream! All right!
Just started with the HILD today, I really have to focus to turn this into a habit quickly.

I’ll get back to you on that time manipulation thing.

-Hatter
Trying crap out so that you don’t have to.

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Well, I’ve been having dreaming issues lately, no recall at all for the last three days, let alone any lucid dreams. Because of this, I’ve decided to focus mainly on the original stuff I was doing. I’ll still keep experimenting with the brainwave and WILD as a means of getting out of body, but for right now, that’s on the backburner. My main concern is getting recall back. To do that, it’s time to go back to basics!

I’m going to do the repetition of “I will dream tonight, I will remember my dreams” as I go to sleep. I’m also going back to the first method of lucid dreams induction I tried, which I recently learned is called HILD (Habit Induced Lucid Dream.) The idea is you do a reality check whenever you do a habit. I went back to this after I talked with a person in chat, and they mentioned this take on it. Originally I was just trying to make reality checks the habit. That didn’t really work for me, so I moved on to a different technique. Well I’m back on this one, and I’m staying here for at least two weeks.

With that out of the way, onto PsiPog news:

The site is running smoothly, I’ve yet to see any problems that resulted from the server upgrade. Sadly, that’s about all I have to say about PsiPog for now. There just isn’t that much going on. It seems the influx of new articles is the result of no articles for a few years. Which, if we follow that logic, means that there won’t be many new articles for a while. Although now that articles can be posted, there is probably more incentive to write one. Who knows. I aim to keep the articles flowing, as Jesserevis and I are currently working on a dreaming article. At this point, the article is fairly well along, we just need to look at it again, then proof it. Then of course, see if Peebrain likes it. At any rate, I hope that the articles don’t stop coming!

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Here is a wrap up to that earlier post about shared dreaming.

So I finally was able to contact BenDrummin as to the question of the deception on Ld4all. He said that to_the_moon is his brother and, ironically, they claimed not to know each other to prevent people from doubting shared dreaming. At this point its pretty much one person’s word against another’s. Well, I’m going to go with Ben on this one. Unfortunately, he’s decided against going through another party, which really is a shame.

Moving on to PsiPog news:

For those of you who haven’t already noticed, PsiPog is back. Its like it never left really. The forum didn’t miss a beat, and the old site looks the same. I guess we’ll have to wait longer for that template update. But if you want to see what it should look like… Peebs has a preview type page up right now.

There have been a slew of new articles over the past week or so, and I especially like the subconscious ripples one. In my opinion, the subconscious is the key to accelerated development of any skill, be it dreaming, TK, or martial arts. Subconscious programming is still my main focus, but I’ve also been experimenting with WILD mixed with Brain Wave Generator. My friend tried it, and he went through hypnagogic imagery, vibrations, and got to sliding feelings in about 30 minutes. He had no prior experience and simply laid down trying to go to sleep. I think that is encouraging. I hope to test this more, and possibly use it as a quick and dirty means of getting out of body.

That’s all the news around here.
-Hatter

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Before I launch into a new Forum I’ve found, I’ll talk about PsiPog’s progress a little.
In PsiPog news:
The server is still down. I talked to somebody on chat who said that Peebrain said he was deleting a bunch of stuff. About 500 megabytes of that stuff. Now I’m not sure exactly what Peebrain is deleting, as I thought PsiPog as a whole was probably about 500 megabytes, but whatever he’s deleting, he’s deleting a lot of it. I’m still holding out hope for a template change though, because like I said before, I thought PsiPog was about 500 megs, which says to me that Peebrain was deleting the old site and replacing it. But that’s speculation on my part, mixed with a little hopeful thinking.

EDIT: Peebrain has uploaded the PsiPog Forums again. Here is the index.

Now onto the main topic for this post, SeaLife.

I just thought I’d talk about a forum I joined recently, which I am really enjoying so far. The forum is called SeaLife, and it is a dreaming forum. Oh, you say, another one of those, I don’t need to join…

Well, before you make that early judgment, SeaLife has a lot of unique features about it. The main purpose of this forum is to join a Dream Team. Sounds funny doesn’t it? As funny as it may sound, it is really enjoyable and useful for your dream recall. Here, let me break it down for you:

1: You Submit a general application to join a team
2: You are accepted into one of the (currently) 12 teams of about ten people.
3: This team is a cohesive unit with its own sub-forum, only accessible to that team.
4: That team then works on specific dreaming goals, one a month, and posts about their experiences.
5: Each member keeps a dream journal, and posts about each others’ dreams.

Those are the basic things that each team will always have. Each team adds what it wants to its forum, so you can pretty much have anything you wish. Add to this a very fun, welcoming, and accepting atmosphere, and you have a great way to focus your dreaming goals.

In addition to the team sub-forums, there is also a dream inspired art forum, and a few other interesting sub-forums. So I would recommend anybody interested in dreaming check it out!

Good Dreams Everybody
-Hatter

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PsiPog’s servers are temporarily down, and I hope it’s because Peebrain is upgrading the template. In all likelyhood, its probably just a normal server maintenance. Still, we’ll know in a few hours. That’s the up-to-the-minute news around here, which I’m sure will be out of date by the time anybody reads it.

On to more interesting things:

That is to say, its interesting for those interested in Shared Dreaming, if you’re not, you probably won’t want to read it.

Shared Dreaming or Shared Deception?
Check the thread here.

There is some controversy going on about whether the shared dreaming party over at LD4all was authentic, it appears the host faked the guest who got the password right. I’m going to assume you guys know nothing about this, so here’s the story:

A while back BenDrummin set up a topic on LD4all for a “Shared Dreaming Party” at his underwater dream-scape. There was much interest, because of the way it was set up. There were going to be hosts and guests. The guests were supposed to try and become lucid, but if they didn’t it wasn’t a big deal, because the hosts’ job was to locate the guests. Once everybody was accounted for, everybody was going to drink a lucidity enhancing beverage (a way of stabilizing dreams) at the crossroads, before boarding a submarine for Ben’s SeaHome. At least, that’s how it was supposed to work. Here’s what happened.

Out of the 40 odd guests that signed up, only 2 hosts signed up. Baaaad ratio, we were hoping more 5:1, not 20:1. And to make it worse, one of the hosts couldn’t attend the party. I was also unable to attend, with a few others who thought they would attend. The night of the party, Ben, the only host left, went to the crossroads. There he and another guest who had become lucid, to_the_moon, met. They each gave each other a password, for verification later on. They then left to find more guests. to_the_moon then proceeded to lose his lucidity later, the details aren’t important, and Ben forcibly was woken up by another person in the dream. They then exchanged passwords, and they were correct! Big progress for shared dreaming right?

Here’s where the controversy comes in: Earlier, Ben and to_the_moon had also met in a practice dream . They were surprised and somebody asked if they knew each other or lived close. They both said no.

Today one of the moderators, pasQuale, locked the thread with this explanation:

“I’m sorry but this topic has been locked due to a deception from the organizer, bendrummin58. to_the_moon and Bendrummin58, who claimed in the early posts of this thread that they didn’t know each other and later that they shared dreams during the Sea Party, were proven to be a member from the same household.

Whatever the reasons were for this deceit and whether to_the_moon and Bendrummin58 are the same person, deception has been going on. Hence Bendrummin58 has been temporarily banned for his actions and to_the_moon’s account and posts have been deleted. “

Ouch, so what does this prove? Nothing, but it sure puts that evidence towards shared dreaming into a lot of doubt. I PM’d Ben, who hasn’t been on for a while, surprisingly, asking what is going on. I haven’t gotten a reply yet. I hope this turns out for the better, but I don’t know if it’s going to.

Some more dreaming stuff: Last Night’s dream:

Trapped in the Time Wheel
ND
About 4 minutes in perceived length.

In this dream, my dad and some other people I no longer remember plus we were in a stone courtyard, with an iron fence. We were doing some kind of contest, and they gave us the keys to the gate, plus a clue. I think the clue was you now have everything you need to succeed. We immediately open the gate. Then we are in cars driving through this swampy coastal range, trying to get to this small rectangular building, about the size of a tool shed, which was next to…a windmill if I remember correctly. Our party reached the corral type of fence around the building, and then stopped. We looked at the 7 or so men that were around the building, almost touching it. My dad asks me if he thinks I can get through this time. (Apparently this was/is a recurring dream. Last time we got here we couldn’t get past the fence; there was an invisible force above it.) I say I think I can. I climb the short fence, then as I try and jump over it, run into something like a stiff wind. It’s like moving through molasses, but I start getting closer to getting over. The men around the building spread out. I yell to me dad “I can make it!” I think the rest of the party tried to come in through an opening on the other side of the fence. I could see them about to encounter the guards. I say under my breath: “so this is what you’re for” as I am about to touch the ground. Then I woke up, with an image in my head of a circular spiral with a smaller one in it. Along with the words “We are trapped in the time wheel” The words sounded like they were spoken by a wizard, kind of like if Saruman had said it.

Odd, as there is a rather large series of books called “The Wheel of Time”

Well, this post is long, so if anybody read this far, make sure to stretch.

Good dreams to everybody.
-Hatter

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