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achieving an out-of-body experience. What you read prior to falling asleep affects the theme and content of your dreams. For example, read a horror novel and you may have bad dreams; read about romance and you may have romantic dreams; read about OBEs and you may have OBE flying dreams. All dreams aside, presleep reading can generate out-of-body experiences because you have OBE on your mind, consciously or subconsciously, while you are falling asleep. Everyone has some type of out-of-body experience whenever they sleep, even if the projected double just slips out and hovers, mimicking the sleeping physical body. If the dream mind is infused with thoughts and tales of OBEs, waking consciousness will sometimes return to the projected double. You may find yourself waking up already outside your physical body or having a false awakening. (A false awakening is where you believe you are awake in the real world but are actually having an OBE.) For these reasons, it is advisable to read about OBEs during this program, especially before sleeping. A word about skipping ahead and prematurely trying some of the later exercises in this program: don’t! If you have read other books on OBE, particularly Robert Bruce’s Astral Dynamics, you will already have been exposed to some of the exercises and techniques contained herein. But there is definitely an effective order in which this program should be followed. Early attempts at advanced exercises before mastering the basics may create mental blocks that can grossly interfere with the ultimate purpose of this program. Brian discovered this firsthand in the following experience. I had for some time been trying to have an OBE, using a mishmash of techniques, when I first stumbled across Robert’s book, Astral Dynamics. I skipped ahead and read some of the more advanced exercises on my lunch hour and couldn’t wait to experiment. As soon as I returned home, I lay down and tried an OBE exit technique without even relaxing properly. I immediately felt my body turn to liquid as huge waves of my energy ran up and down from my head to my feet and past the borders of my physical body. I suddenly found myself instinctively holding on, trying with all my power not to project. I had tried the exercises too soon; I simply wasn’t ready. In all the collective years that I’d been experimenting with different processes, I’d never experienced anything so powerful so fast. The effect of this failed experiment and its resulting trauma was that I developed a gut-level response to abort the projection process once it started. It took me years to undo that simple, five-minute