Sleep. We all need it, and we spend about a third of our lives doing it. Scientists aren’t totally sure why we need to sleep, though they do have a few good guesses. It’s obviously an important biological function, because practically every single animal needs to sleep in some form or another. But since it isn’t always practical for some species to just conk out for 8 hours, a lot of animals have evolved some clever workarounds. Read more
The lower realms are pretty shady dark realms that you can find yourself in. It is very easy to get into the lower realms because of our level of civilization development and we still have our survival instinct. That’s what the lower realms is all about – just animalistic behavior. You can drop into that state from dreams if you can phase into them. It’s not something that necessarily needs to be done by physical body dissociation. But, when it comes to higher realms you usually have to put effort into that, because we have to bypass all of our distortion layers like physical distortion and social, political distortions. We have to get by all those layers to get to those higher realms. We have to dissociate from our ego as well. But not for the lower realms. It’s already in a lot of us. We can already get there and nobody has a lot of trouble with it. Read more
Have you ever played a video game for so long, but when you finally put on the controller and are maybe falling asleep, you see images of the game flash before your eyes? These hallucinations can be a lot of things too: jumping from an airplane, chase or apple-picking and they happen in the weird limbo between wakefulness and sleep called hypnagogia. In fact, lots of strange things can happen in this state like twitching or something called exploding head syndrome. Don’t worry, no brain bits are involved in that one, but it can still get pretty trippy. Read more
This is a technique that you can use to have out of body experience. Most people are not going to be able to do it, but enough people will gain more knowledge on how to specifically inject awareness from their physical body. This technique assumes that your subtle body is somewhat healthy and that you can cope with dizziness. If dizziness makes you feel nauseous, then this might not work for you. Also, if you have an unhealthy subtle body, there can be too much resistance for you to surpass, with this kind of astral technique. But, you can surpass great deal of resistance in your subtle body with the Rope technique. Read more
Think about it. You spend about one third of your life sleeping. And chances are, you are doing that in your warm cozy bed. But what if you spent ALL of your time in bed? What if you never left? That soft mattress can’t hurt you right…right?! Sadly, it can… And believe it or not, NASA paid a guy 18 thousand dollars to lie in bed for 70 days. They wanted to study the effects of micro gravity on the human body and lying down for so long simulates the effects of long-haul flights on astronauts’ bodies. Read more
When people talk about having “too much of a good thing”, they usually mean overindulging in something like ice cream or fast food – things you probably enjoy, even if they aren’t that good for you. But what about something that’s objectively important to your health and well-being, like sleep? Well, it turns out that you can get too much of that, too. It’s a little hard to believe that there’s such a thing as sleeping too much, since so many of us feel like it’s a struggle to get barely enough, but it’s true – you can sleep too much. Read more
The astral plane – what is it, where is it and why does it exist? The astral plane is essentially a name for the place that you go when you are astral projecting. The reason that it’s referred to as the astral plane is because essentially it’s believed by many to be a separate plane in existence, rather than perhaps just being a sphere inside your mind like you go to in when you are dreaming. A lot of people believe that when your astral projecting you actually are in some alternate plane in existence, perhaps an alternate dimension. Now, the astral plane is something that’s been discussed for a long long time, because astral projection isn’t something new. The spiritual Mystics of old and thousands of years ago from various different traditions around the world have been taking these journeys for a long time. There are all these talks of spiritual vehicle ‘the macabre’ or some kind of soul chariot, where the mystic is able to use it to leave their body and visit the heavens. Read more
For most of us adults, going to work, forces us to wake up much earlier than we would like. This is how you can manage to regularly wake up at an ungodly hour and actually grew very fond of it.Whether you’re a morning person or a night owl, you’ll likely have to wake up earlier than you’re used to when you were a child. So how do you make this as painless as possible? What it ultimately all comes down to is – sleep hygiene. What is sleep hygiene? Read more
1. Machines reading dreams Japanese scientists are in the first stages of developing ‘dream-reading machines’. They developed a computer-learning algorithm that was able to match visualisations with the corresponding brain activity. By showing volunteers images and recording their responding brain activity, the scientists were able to predict with a 60% accuracy the broad category of what their participants were dreaming about – for example, whether it was a person or building. Future benefits of these kinds of machines could include the ability to read the minds of people unable to communicate, such as coma victims. Although for now these machines are limited in the brain activity they can detect, future studies may implant electrodes deep into the brains of subjects to enable a closer reading of individual neutrons. Read more
Some people are so full of life and and energy, but for some reason even when you seem to get more than enough sleep, you’re still fighting off yawns and fatigue through the day. So, why are you always tired? If the number of the hours of sleep isn’t the problem, the second most common cause of fatigue comes from lack of physical activity and a poor diet. Study after study finds that adults who began light exercise a few times a week reported more energy after six weeks. People who exercise more regularly also report sleeping better! Even though studies show that they aren’t sleeping any longer. Read more
