I know, myself, when trying to focus in on the different hemi-sync levels, I do get "different" signals and feelings.  When in forus 15, I remember when walking home from school that I could actually feel myself staying still and as my feet moved, I had the sensation that the world below my feet moved from the walking motion, but I was stationary.  That is how Bob Monroe explains "time not moving" in focus 15.  When I am approaching the 20 levels, I sometimes do see the door to focus 21 thru 24 and sometimes I do hear peoples' voices calling out---some audiable, some not.  When I travel to 24 or higher (???)  I always go to the welcome center and see quaint colonial homes with no chimneys --two storys high .  Then at the end of the street, there is a large hall with two white pillars and a gigantic wooden door.  Sometimes this is a movie house inside; sometimes a conference hall.  There is a fountain outside these buildings and a park with park benchs.  Usually there are no other people than myself until I go into the Great Hall.  I did visit with my deceased father and deceased uncle once in the park on a wooden "A" frame swing.  I was in the middle and my father and uncle on either side of me.  My dad said, "We sure had some good times" and Uncle Billy answered, "Yep, we sure did".  Then the vision was gone as quickly as it came. 

I enjoy the Monroe CDs to guide me to the different focus levels.  They keep me centered.
Love and Light--- Carol Ann

Hello forum members,

As I am the Peter on this message I thought it only fitting to contribute to keeping this thread going. I found clive's experience incredibly interesting....and to think he said he had no breakthroughs!. I am in much the same position as clive with the hemi sync audio exercises. Sometimes it feels like hit and miss. I have really paced myself, trying to use each one a number of times before advancing. I currently on wave 2 problem solving. Using wave 2 intro I experienced visuals for the first time, mostly to do with doors and different types of architecture. With the tapes I have found that I really have to let the signals in. This may sound strange so I will elaborate. Early on I had a great partial seperation experience using intro to focus 10. I felt the audio went straight through my body and felt very intense vibrations and sensations in my head. Since that experience I think my body (maybe mind?) has been quietly ensuring that I not allow myself to be open in such a way again. I find now that if I make a real concentrated effort to really 'hear' the sounds of the tapes that interesting experiences quickly follow. My apologies for the convoluted explanation but it may help a few of us beginners.

Had an interesting dream the other night that I could use a take on or two. I dreamt that I was at a high school reunion of sorts. I saw all of my collegues but they had aged considerably. We chated, had dinner etc. Somehow I ended up scaling a fence. I was on the top of this fence walking across it. I then found myself in a room (possibly my old bedroom). I was looking at my stomach and saw a horizontal tornado/whirlwind like beam (transparent or water like colour) going across my abdomen (possible originating from the navel). It extended out in both directions, I did not notice a start or end to it. It looked beautiful and I placed both hands around it making sure I did not touch it. I could feel the twisting power of this beam. It was extroadinary.

My father passed away early this year. Unexpected. Making matters worse I was out of the country. My sister and I have spent this year picking up the pieces in a lot of ways. We had a christmas party last week. I was talking to my fiance that night as we all enjoyed drinks by and in the pool. I told her I could imagine dad there, on one of the chairs by the pool, having a drink and a smoke as he often did. The next day I was in the pool alone. I wondered if my father was there the night before as I spent some time underwater. As I surfaced and looked to where the chairs by the pool were laid, one of them rocked forward (it was balancing on its rear two legs and came back forward onto 4 with a thud). I waited the next 5 minutes there for the wind or something else to repeat that performance. Finally I smiled and resumed swimming.

Peter

Hello Matthew,

I found your explanation of Peters dream very interesting.
Is there a web site you could recommend so that I could read more about unblocking them ?

Thanks,
Clive.

Thank you for the information on Chakras Matthew. I will track down a book or two on them and learn a little more. Interestingly I had not thought that it represented a Chakra, thank you for pointing out an obvious and highly plausible explanation. I will look into the matter a little more deeply. Thanks for your comments.

Hi Alysia,

Thank you for the chakra information and your informative and beautiful interpretation of my dream and experiences.  My sister and I have been deperately looking for signs since his passing. She had a session of hypnosis in which she saw him and he reamained silent as questions and emotions poured forth from her. Interestingly I have found it hard to have any sort of dream contact with him. Just the other night though I saw him at an airport. I ran over to him and put my arms around him. He was dressed nicely and looked healthy and young. Still not talking though (or perhaps I am not listening....been accused of that once or twice before ). Once again thank you for your beautiful interpretation and kind comments alysia.

good to see you posting Clive  

Peter

Hi Peter.  I'm a beginner and I do find that descriptions of other people's experiences when they engage in these exercises are very helpful.  So, thanks for your wave two narrative.  If you have more experiences as you progress, I hope you'll share them.

Alysia, I find it interesting that we tend to assume that thirty-something appearance.  That's been my experience and I've read about it in a number of places.

Rob

Apologues if this seems a bit disjointed, I was piecing some PM’s together, incase people find them useful.

A few have asked more information about my experience with the two spirit girls in the motel, so I’ll try and give you more.  
As for my experience in the motel…..with the young spirit girls. As I calmed myself down, I lay on the bed and tried a focus 10 exercise, my astral/energy body was all over the place,  as I was really tired. It was like the feeling you get when you are in a deep focus 10 an almost all over body numbness.
It was astral/energy body that started to move up and down in tandem to what I believe were the two (astral) girls jumping up and down on the bed. From the hug around the neck from one of the girls (after I told them Daddy needs to sleep) I noticed a physical increase in temp around the area and it felt like electricity just around the neck which is rare for me.

This has been posted before but was a great read for me regarding focus 10.
http://www.explorations-in-consciousness.com/forums/index.php?topic=83.0

Talking about the feeling of electricity, in Bruce’s books he says something about a spot at the back of his neck, he named it (I think it began with W). I have the same spot in the same place but (and this is hard to explain) whenever I get that electrical feeling, it normally comes from there. It’s similar to the result you can have with the “silly little finger bending exercise” (in Bruce’s book 5).
I have used it when I ask guides/higher self questions, I keep the questions to yes or no.
A yes being the electrical feeling going off. By going off I mean you get a chill or electrical/energy brush, which travels from the back of the neck down the spine (usually) but can envelope your whole body. The downside being you don’t get answers all the time  
The strange part is I have got this during the day and it’s not because I’m cold. Here is a for instance, I was reading about Spirit guides long before I came upon Bruce’s board (http://www.spiritrus.com/spiritguides/) , when I had finished reading the page I got up turned around and got a real big “energy brush” even the stubble on my face felt like it was charged with electricity.
Another example was on my birthday this year, I was sitting at the computer listening to some music. I felt the tingling sensation start to go off. It made me turn around. Then I got the full body charge, your hands can go numb like after you have been on a roller coaster, but the biggest tingling feeling for me was on the face.
I thanked whoever it was for coming, this time I was having a beer to so that made it all the more impressive for me. As I think alcohol is an inhibitor.

This year has been one of coincidence, as you know from http://www.spiritrus.com/spiritguides/, to finding this site, to ordering Bruce's books online to keep me going, to his CD and workbook. Then seemingly out of nowhere the Hemi-sync tapes became available to me.  
Next came 5 or 6 occasions where I had to say "that was funny", funny in the sense of coincidental.  
Like when I locked myself out of my van, a CAA guy pulled up to see someone in an apartment building and had the tools to let me in, for free. The coincidences just keep on coming, (there has been another in the past week), it does make me wonder. As I have not had the breakthrough with the tapes / Bruce’s method many have had on this board.

So you can see Alysia I don't yet KNOW for sure, but..............  
 
Here's what happened a long while ago, in my early twenties, while I was still in England living with my folks. I worked a horrible shift system at Heathrow Airport and after night shifts you feel horrible but during that day if you snooze, I was able to have really strange dreams. Let me tell you about one of them I'll never forget. I only made sense of it this year.  
Feeling horrible after another night shift, I swear you feel closer to death than most people experience without dying. I think it was around noon but early morning to my body. I was dreaming, I was on a rollercoaster up and down we went it was great. I liked flying dreams to, but this was different and very enjoyable. I don't think I could see anything, it was just the sensation more than anything else.  
Then that ended and was replaced by er....how do I explain this without sounding mad. A very bright light being, so bright it was hard to look at it. I felt warmth, my perceiver, no make that my interpreter was trying (like crazy) to come up with something that it could be, angel/Jesus it pumps out, so I could put a face to it.  
It lasted a couple of minutes and (after reading Bruces books) I realized what was going on all those years ago.  

I recently I watched an episode of “Rescue Mediums”, (http://www.rescuemediums.com if you have never heard or seen the show) where they were helping some homeowners in Ontario with a spirit in the house.
What struck me was when the homeowner was in contact with this spirit, was the lady’s eyes. They looked liked mine felt when I saw that light being on that morning. I had very rapid eye movement, but more than that, for me I could see the bedroom as my eyes lifted, I was well aware of my surroundings and still I saw the light being like a projection screen above my forehead. When I got up I had that “Yeah” feeling that many of you have experienced. I felt great, but hadn’t a clue what went on.
 
So I know what state I have to be in for that to happen, ie REAL tired or REALLY relaxed, but more than that my mind has to be elsewhere, I have to be completely disconnected to all my C1 surroundings. Which is why for many OoBE is such a great vehicle to use, because you are exactly that, but if differs from phasing because it’s like one “whooshing” action.

The hemi-sync tapes are great for people who can't readily go out of body and led/take our consciousness to the area required however, this is like taking a horse to water. Only the horse can do the drinking. In this case it means either imagining and becoming part of the dream or hoping that the hemi state alone can take you away from C1(relax and enjoy it). As it mentions in the literature with the CD's, effort and analysis are counter productive.
 
Having read a few peoples initial hemi-sync successes, I think this is because it’s new and different to the brain, after a period of time the brain gets used to the hemi-sync and progress on the surface level becomes less noticeable, after a couple of months of listening nothing appears to be happening, I think this is far from reality. I’ll keep you posted on my findings, I like to have some meat to my posts so I’m sorry if I don’t post that often.

I’ve read on this board about people over 40 having more success at hemi-sync and Bruce’s method. This I feel is due to a natural loosening of the astral body from the physical which happens over time. I have read in several Astral Projection books that as we age physically the bindings that tie us to our psychical weaken with age also. Ill health is another situation to aid Oobe’s.

I remain one stuck here in C1 for now, if the floodgates open I’ll let you know.
Here’s to hoping 2007 is great year for all and that Bruce has another book in him!

Merry Christmas,  
Clive.