Gamma Mind Enhancement Experiment - Day 4

June 19th, 2007

My experience using the gamma technology yesterday was somewhat different. During the 30-minute session last night, I didn't experience the tingling in my head that I'd felt during each of the three previous sessions, and I didn't experience the body pulsing phenomenon either. Instead, my awareness of my physical body gradually diminished until it was only a very faint impression.

At first, I was fidgety and was having trouble sitting still, my thoughts were very scattered and my mind was racing non-stop. I decided to practice a meditation technique that involves visualizing a lake as a focusing tool and a metaphor for your mind. You begin by picturing a stormy lake with dark, turbulent water, and you focus your mind on calming the lake. You hold this thought in your mind until the water is still and clear and the surface of the lake is quiet and smooth as glass, and then you focus on keeping it that way.

As I practiced the meditation, my thoughts quickly calmed and my awareness of my physical body lessened, until eventually all physical sensations faded and my whole awareness was concentrated on the lake. This is not an easy meditation to maintain for twenty or thirty minutes because it requires such complete focus, but during last night's session it felt very natural. It was easy to pour my entire awareness and consciousness into not just thinking about the lake but being the lake. It is very possible this was related to the gamma technology, but there could have been many other factors contributing to the experience, so I intend to try the same meditation technique again tonight to see if the result is repeated.

Once again, I had very intense dreams last night. That amounts to four days of experimenting and four consecutive nights of unusually intense dreams. I also had a borderline lucid dream in the early hours of the morning shortly before waking up. I began to get a strong feeling that I was dreaming. I stopped and looked around, trying to decide which reality check to perform to verify whether or not I was dreaming, but unfortunately something in the dream caught my attention and distracted me, and before I knew it the brief period of lucidity had slipped away. That just goes to show how easy it is to get caught up in the events of a dream and lose your awareness of the dream state. Even someone with a lot of lucid dreaming practice is susceptible to it.