Ufostrahlen - nice one, well played, am glad to hear it! That time of the morn when returning to sleep does seem to be peak time for OBE's and hyper vivid lucid dreams.
woogyboogy - I wouldn't get too hung up on the finer details of the method...Ed Kellogg described this has his own personal method he adapted for himself as he hadn't had much success with any others. So I would suggest doing whatever you feel works best for you. It seems that relaxing the body (and mind) via psycho-physiological relaxation and/or deep breathing is an important first step emphasised by a lot of experience projectors...some people employ the energy work as a later step, and even if one doesn't actually believe in this energy, it is an exercise that occupies the mind while the physical body is deeply relaxed, so it helps you draw out that event horizon of body asleep/mind awake which is the state most conducive to projection, otherwise the mind may follow the body's desire to sleep.
It's interesting how often this kind of exercise crops up though, focused on energy movement from head to toe. I know some people have reported this prior to an OBE, and Robert Monroe is one such person, and he suggested also directing the energy from head to toe. One of the core techniques of the IAC is the VELO which is also about directing energy from the top of the head to the soles of the feet and up and down the body in an oscillatory fashion (gradually speeding up the motion). They emphasise one should not synchronise this movement with breathing, and to avoid using visualisation or imagination and instead employ one's will. I've only just come across Ed Kellogg's technique so I'm yet to experiment with it myself.
woogyboogy - I wouldn't get too hung up on the finer details of the method...Ed Kellogg described this has his own personal method he adapted for himself as he hadn't had much success with any others. So I would suggest doing whatever you feel works best for you. It seems that relaxing the body (and mind) via psycho-physiological relaxation and/or deep breathing is an important first step emphasised by a lot of experience projectors...some people employ the energy work as a later step, and even if one doesn't actually believe in this energy, it is an exercise that occupies the mind while the physical body is deeply relaxed, so it helps you draw out that event horizon of body asleep/mind awake which is the state most conducive to projection, otherwise the mind may follow the body's desire to sleep.
It's interesting how often this kind of exercise crops up though, focused on energy movement from head to toe. I know some people have reported this prior to an OBE, and Robert Monroe is one such person, and he suggested also directing the energy from head to toe. One of the core techniques of the IAC is the VELO which is also about directing energy from the top of the head to the soles of the feet and up and down the body in an oscillatory fashion (gradually speeding up the motion). They emphasise one should not synchronise this movement with breathing, and to avoid using visualisation or imagination and instead employ one's will. I've only just come across Ed Kellogg's technique so I'm yet to experiment with it myself.
The cannabis was much more psychoactive/trippy than usual (perhaps because one of my recent DMT experiences used the "sandwich" method with cannabis as the herb?) and I was incredibly relaxed, sitting back into a comfortable chair. I had been looking at a modern painting for a while, when all of the sudden I could kind of feel my consciousness pulling forward out of my body. I could feel my friend's aura, and his wife's who was upstairs asleep. I didn't travel out of the vicinity or even move much, but definitely felt as if I was standing a couple of feet outside of my own body.
