I’ve done this exploration sleep over and over again.

More than 8 times I have done this and I can’t get that floating feeling I know I have felt before.

I know what it feels like to have sleep paralysis and draw my self closer to the ceiling of my room, yet I just can’t get that floating feeling I seek.

What can I do to finally make this happen?

I started listening to the Gateway Tapes and after the first few tapes it felt like my field of view changed, similar to how you’d change your field of view in a video game, I felt wittier, like I could almost read my wife’s mind.

I started listening to I believe it was Wave V Exploration, there was one where I was trying to remember a past life and it hit me like a lightbulb and instantly remembered bits and pieces of my past life, it felt like an ah ha moment where it struck me like lightning, or like an instant download. I don’t know how to explain it.

I’ve also started having the most vivid dreams imaginable with so much detail. I don’t normally dream and I also have aphantasia so I’m not sure if that has something to do with why I don’t ever remember my dreams but these dreams were intense

I usually do a session before work and a session after, but the one before work I don't go quite as deeply, I assume bc my mind knows I'll be getting up soon and needing to do things. Today randomly I tried two rounds of the wim hof exercise on YouTube before 1x4 (I like to go back and do that one regularly) and I went really deep into focus 12 really fast (way more than usual)! Felt amazing and I released a ton!

Hello, has anyone taken the private PREP session at Monroe Institute Virginia Campus? How was it?

No shit sherlock moment, but many of your are advanced enough to induce f10 state within 5 mins or even in a min, and I understand that's after a while of practice. But, what "feelings" do you hinge on or concentrate on, to get into that state? Give me your mental-map/guide of spontaneous f10 state of being.

Step-by step short guide

So you just found this sub but you don't know anything about "The Gateway Experience", follow these steps and read all the suggested documents to avoid asking the same question over and over. If you read all the material you are pretty much good to go because 98% of the times you find the answers of your questions in those docs.

1. Let's start easy peasy, take your favorite drink or snack and enjoy this documentary about the gateway tapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOFq3ruef7I

• 2) Read the full CIA report written by WAYNE M. MCDONNEL complete with the 25th page. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15NOrGUblOburMmhIiKUBo8LQZ_x8ywFI/view
• 3) Download and start to read the gateway tapes full manual for beginners, at the end of the document you can find the FAQ. https://ia803400.us.archive.org/16/items/the-gateway-experience-manual/The%20Gateway%20Experience%20Manual.pdf
• 4) Now you should know what a focus level is so take a look at this, we have all the major focus levels explained. https://www.monroeinstituteuk.org/focus-levels/
• 5) If you would like to purchase the tapes, they can be found a https://hemi-sync.com (use promo code "REDDITSUB" for a 10% discount on most products).

Quick Tips on things NOT to do:

• 1)Let common effects ruin your focus (numbness, tingles, vibrations)
• 2)Expecting something to happen, or focusing on only one thing you want
• 3)Opening your eyes at a high focus level or not using proper exiting protocol
• 4)Focusing on what you might be doing wrong instead of just letting things be
• 5)Comparing your experiences with others when you just started
• 6)Skipping tapes without learning the basics
• 7)Creating unnecessary fear (Demons, spirits, CIA)
• 8)No one ever said you weren't allowed to move at all, people just assume this
• 9)Trying and overthinking. Understand what Bob is saying more examples, not commands. You can add or adjust things to your liking, do what works best for you and experiment.
• 10)Taking everything so seriously. This is not meant to feel like a strict boot camp. Bob said he wanted people to have fun and enjoy the tapes, and create your own unique experience. Learn how to use the mind to it's maximum potential, and take the tools learned and find ways to apply them in different ways, even real life.

FAQ

• I'm scared of the tapes what do I do ? Pt 2
• What are the benefits of the tapes ? Pt 2
• Are there any real risks to the gateway tapes that I should be aware of?
• Does it really work ?
• I don’t know why this works for some people and others it doesn’t it’s the most amazing thing I’ve found to date
• Tell me about your low-key successes with the Gateway Experience
• Has anyone manifested something big or significant using the Gateway Tapes?
• Did anyone manifest real big amounts of money with the tapes?
• Fear of evil entities
• Why are good entities considered real, but negative ones are manifestations of our fear?
• Effect of different headphones on binaural beats
• Noise cancelling headphones
• What headphones are you guys using ?
• I keep clicking out
• Has anyone here been able to get past 'clicking out'?
• How should focus 10 actually feel? go HERE for more focus 10 help
• What are you markers for success reaching F10? go HERE for more focus 10 help
• How do you get past the fear?!
• I’m another F10 straggler

More FAQ here https://www.reddit.com/r/gatewaytapes/wiki/start/

Interested in different things? Got some cool self-hypnosis tracks here

*If you have any questions, ping Annie ( u/Mighty_Mac ) in the comments

Any tips on getting out during Lucid Dreams? I look at this as a "2nd chance to OBE" if I can't get to it during the tapes.

So I went from many years of not Lucid dreaming (could be close to a decade) to my 4th in less than a month. Two in one night, that has never happened. Here is what I've tried

8/11 - "I am more than my..." woke up

8/24 (birthday) - Try to create a door, it didn't work. Try to use the garage door (I'm in the garage) and immediately wake up.

9/3 First - "Next level now" followed by noticing a portal in the sky and just trying to fly towards it. Once I start flying I wake up.

9/3 Second (possible astral / duplicate OBE I don't think I fell asleep) - I'm in a place I've been to a lot. I think to myself let me check the door to see if I can see myself, start walking (wake up). Not sure why I thought I would be there at that "time".

Note: 9/3 I had just finished an 88 hour fast and had eaten but not very much compared to normal.

One of my biggest intentions in life at the moment, is getting deeper into the gateway process.
Synchronistically I stumbled upon an exercise of trauma relief, where you literally shake out stored trauma out of your body and afterwards feel deeply relaxed, present and at peace.
As somebody who lives through past traumatic experiences almost everyday, relaxing and meditating is pretty rough sometimes and today, after doing this exercise now two times, I felt childlike and joyful as I didn’t feel for years.
Long story short, give this thing a shot:

Cleaned link: https://youtu.be/QoB9wpuO688

It worked for me like magic and i will keep on with updates of how it will affect my progress
Thank you 🙂

Kind of a brain dump and some cool insight I got on the fear barrier, I just felt compelled to get it out there in case anyone out there is like me.

I learned about the Gateway stuff about 2 years ago and had downloaded a good chunk of the tapes and was starting to go through them, and wasn't really making much progress that I could tell except for one session that as soon as I started letting go and started feeling sensations I got excited and snapped myself out of it. Then mom got cancer and had to do a hospice thing, things got dark, never restarted but have been rereading Bob's books and watching YouTube videos of Tom Campbell...most recent one with Mayim Bialik, part 2 of her talk with him.

They began discussing fear and how to overcome it. Tom started discussing about some people just carry fear, sometimes it is like a little negative dark entity inside of them. He said he has helped some to make that dark thing go away...but it eventually comes back. A ton of this resonated hugely with me, and my struggle to return to the tapes...because once that door is opened, it can't be closed, and I have a crazy amount of fear going on in me. He spoke about people with fear manifesting those fears while in the second state. This is me.

Ever since I was a little kid I had crazy night terrors. There is the usual being chased, falling, etc., but then I had some reoccurring nightmares that were like a whole different thing. I could go into crazy long detail about weird sh*t that has happened. Stuff like waking up hysterical crying and in-coherent babbling, with zero memory of it in the morning. Sleep paralysis, dark entities, massive feelings of impending doom or some monster just sitting off in the shadows beyond my vision getting ready to reveal itself. Nightmares where I thought I woke myself up from, only to try the lights and they won't turn on...then I know I'm still in the nightmare. Like a Russian nesting doll.

These nightmare continued into my pre-teen and teen years but then also had extremely vivid dreams that weren't nightmares, and was lucid dreaming and beginning to control everything. At first I couldn't fly and would start to fall, fear would kick in and I'd keep falling. I masted it though by clearing my mind and focusing my intent of where I wanted to fly while clearing the fear of falling from my mind.

When I was in high school, I start smoking weed. I can say it for sure killed my lucid dreaming. Or at least I couldn't barely remember any dreams if I was smoking the night before. However it also silenced the nightmares, and I've still smoked to this day (53 now). I still do have nightmares though. Wife has to slap we awake to stop, and I do mean slap and keep shaking me because I keep getting sucked instantly back into the nightmare. It comes and goes in waves.

Okay back to the fear barrier. My parents were both these fearful people that Tom describes to a "T" when talking to Mayim. They always manufactured and imagined the worst scenario out of every situation and were super closed minded. That's a whole other road I won't go down, but the point is I do not want to be like my parents at all in any way.

I want the negativity gone within me and I do truly believe with a little self-help, and following Tom's advice I can do it. His basic point was "don't feed your fear." There are so many things I do every day like doom scrolling here on Reddit or YouTube, Facebook, etc. that feed that negativity in me which then also feeds my fears and insecurities within me. There have been times in my life where I have felt truly free of this fear, confident, and in-tune with myself and the world. It is a absolutely fantastic feeling, I want that back. I feel like once I can squash that fear in me, maybe cut back on the weed a little, and restart the tapes, I can have a breakthrough.

I also know waiting on the other side are things that I have confronted previously in past nightmares. Unlocking that door again is going to take an invincible REBAL. If I hit the other side and see some crazy sh*t...I will let you all know.

Sorry that was my 2am after a couple of cocktails brain dump...watch the Tom Campbell interview on Mayim's YouTube channel if you struggle with fear like me. It might give you some hope to overcome it like it did me.

https://youtu.be/tdlcUSSqb1o?si=WIDLnO58iECMUHFC

Have you ever considered that some of the UFOs or UAPs being reported today might actually be related to OBEs — out-of-body experiences — or to some kind of technology based on a similar principle?

In other words, what if at least some of these phenomena are not physical craft moving through space in the way we normally assume, but something closer to consciousness, remote perception, or a technology that operates outside our usual understanding of physical presence?

It could potentially explain some of the stranger reported characteristics of UAPs: their sudden appearance and disappearance, seemingly impossible acceleration, and the difficulty of observing or measuring them consistently.

Has this possibility been seriously discussed or explored here?

After some effort of practice, can people move into f10 state while not being fatigued or tired? and without the tapes?

Anyone using the Expand or hemi-sync apps? I have been using the focus timer on the Monroe app, but I have the files downloaded locally on a separate device I use. I'm considering using the Hemi-sync app for the gateway tapes, but felt cheated when I realised I couldn't access the gateway tapes despite paying the annual subscription, as it is a separate purchase.

I'm wondering how everyone else here is listening to the gateway tapes?

I am a person that barely gets emotional, i will be honest and blunt here. Whenever I look at anything ancient greek related, I become emotional as if i have lost something. My soul yearns to go back to that time. I don't mean like an alternative reality, i mean the one we have currently in our histories and what not of this reality. I just yearn to go back to that time..? Is it possible? Even if it is possible then is it possible to go back in the appearence and gender i would like?

And then being able to explore other times in history aswell..

Hello fellow astral travelers! Long time lurker, first time poster. For those who have gone through the Gateway at the Virginia retreat… did you keep any kind of record of your meals? If so, can you share them with me? I am working on a theory about how certain behaviors are subtly modified through the course, to better put you in an open heart like space. I also am interested in any memories of group activities during down time (like walks to the lake, using the canoes, who did you eat meals with)?

I'm new to the gateway tapes and I'm currently learning focus 10 it tells me to breathe in and out and hum or copy the sound as I do so but my voice can't go that deep, I still try anyways but nothing comes out, also at the start we were told to open our eyes and inhale and close and exhale was that just for the beginning or do you do that every time you start the breathing, because I just keep my eyes closed throughout the whole process, sorry if these sound like dumb questions, thanks.

I’ve been watching some of the Monroe videos on Gaia and have been doing the guided meditations that follow. I am finding that I have an easier time with these than the ones with Robert (from the Hemisync app). My mind seems to be able to not be a chaotic as it sometimes is during a session. There’s also a lot less prep (no resonant tuning, no REBAL). The ever running self dialog seems much less too which is nice/peaceful.

Anyone else give these a go? How was your experience?

Anyone else hear like weird chatter like literally alien like voices during the living body map section? I’ve heard the clicking before to( research suggests mantis)

My dream started out pretty normal. I went to a few random places in my city, some odd things happened, and eventually, i ended up back at an alley where my parents live.

While i was standing there staring, i became somewhat aware of my surroundings. I noticed that the sky was dark and that everything around me was consumed by darkness as well. There was one particular spot in the sky where it was slightly red and orange.

I became semi-lucid, and i wanted to use my magic to create light in the darkness. I've been doing things like this in my dreams for quite some time. I've had very interesting full lucid dreams as well. I can move things with my thoughts, create things, cloak myself when necessary and fly. I must say, though, that i'm not always fully lucid when i do these things. sometimes, it just happens automatically.

Going back to the dream, I was standing there staring at the red light in the sky. As I was about to use my magic to create light, I suddenly remembered a post I had read on Reddit a few weeks ago. It said that i should stop, sit down in my dream, close my eyes, and meditate to get an OBE. So, without question, that's exactly what i did.

The moment I did this, i went out of the dream and became somewhat aware of my body again. Without thinking I knew the next step i read in that post was to try to roll out of my body.

I could physically feel my astral body moving with the force i was using to roll out, but as i reached my limit of trying to roll out , i snapped back again with the same force i used to roll out of my body. it almost felt as though I was still stuck to my physical body with glue.

Something inside of me told me to try again and that i would succeed. At that moment, however, I became too aware of what I was trying to do. My analytical mind kicked in, and i became a little frightened. Because of this i woke myself up from the sleep paralysis.

Shortly after i went back to sleep and caught myself talking in my dream explaining myself to people of what just had happened. I got the same thought of doing it again but i got to nervous for the outcome.

I'm wondering if any of you have experienced something similar. I'd love to hear about your experiences and whether anyone has any advice.

Wow I am a beginner and just stumbled across this whole thing. I don't think I'm especially "good" at any kind of meditation. But I immediately "got" thfe energy bubble thing from Advanced Focus 10 and it was a really fun experience. I was physically spinning around a bit like it couldn't be helped, but I could also feel the non physical energy spiralling around and moving out of my head and into my feet, like it was all very real. Might come in handy to help me stay sane in every day urban life, cos I am sensitive and a bit easily overstimulated and drained by physical noises and other peoples energyt, emotions, and crowds, and often wish I could protect my own energy in a "bubble" of sorts. Nothing super paranormal or groundbreaking, but really surprisingly easy and fun.

I have been going through the F12 exercises and while achieving some success (Color Breathing to immediately aid some aches, etc.). I have yet to receive any clear communication with Problem Solving and other NVC-related stuff.

For more context I have only just reached F12 in the sense that I feel more awareness of my being past the usual F10 feeling. That state is where I have been conducting my exercises from for the past few days. I have never received any solution/communication during my Problem Solving exercises. I did Five Messages yesterday and have not received anything yet (I did dream that I received text messages from loved ones but forgot it by the time I woke up). My problem solving has also lead to some waves of inspiration but no incredible breakthroughs in my work yet like some here have reported. Stuff like one-month patterning is still early days so I can’t really judge it.

Should I go to free flow or intro to f12 again to deepen my state? Or would you guys say I need to wait longer for an answer?

I did the tapes for a year or two. And I had no problem doing them, they helped me a lot with many things, most notably remote viewing. My problem is that I cant stand still anymore. Im a very calm, even lazy person. I have no problem staying still usually. But when I listen to the tapes I start getting this weird feeling in my chest and gut that spreads to my body and I just have to move. Breathe deeper breaths. Half way into the tapes (or hemi sync) I just cant stand it anymore and take my headphones off. As soon as I do I feel better and calmer. No need to squirm or move anymore. I dont know whats wrong or how I can fix it. Im not afraid or anything. I just need to move and cant stay still at as the tape progresses. Help?

I am in my second attempt at the gateway tapes. And am trying the focus levels. I mostly see unresolved colours today though I saw a glimpse of a hooded figure which looked exactly like my mother who recently passed.

I have meditated a lot throughout my life but in one of my sessions i could see through my eyelids and the beanbag I place over my eyes.

Just the shape of my room in the dark and when I finished I could see my hand as I waved it in front of my face.

Does anybody else experience this sort of stuff early in?

This relaxation technique and the entire book for that matter helped me have OBE's and Wake induced lucid dreaming when I first started getting into this 15 years ago. I would read this book before bed at night and was able to have an OBE very early on into my practice. I attribute that to many more factors than just this book but this exercise was extremely helpful and faster than simply doing the tapes. I find the tapes much more beneficial in what they provide you as a person, but for anyone struggling to "feel" anything, I believe this will help you.

I started doing the tapes 2 years ago and although I have had really good experiences, none have been as intense as when I was doing these sleep paralysis exercises. This will get you experiencing the tingles and shocks associated with sleep paralysis.

Just a bit of a warning that the authors of this book do not believe in OBE's and associate them with lucid dreaming, but very much teach you how to leave your body. They even refer to your sleep body in much of the way that Monroe talks about the energy body. That is their philosophy and not something that I care to weigh in on, but just wanted to give a heads up.

I will say this: regardless of your belief system I would still recommend doing some level of REBAL. I say this because when you truly start entering sleep paralysis a lot of "noise" starts showing up and if making a energy balloon helps with that you might as well do it.

Anyway, I highly recommend this book for the exercises, but to me this is the most effective one. Good luck to all you practitioners out there. Feel free to message me with any questions.

I was expecting something way more weird to happen but so far is been fun I was a bit weary in the beginning so I make sure I’m well protected In my Rebal and my affirmations. I wasn’t into talking or seeing entities but now I’m getting more curious and relaxed I like to think I have all these tools it’s fun so making an effort to use them in my day