may have held me back. I know I made a few mistakes in my
techniques, namely not being absolutely 100% convinced that
my door would lead me to Mia, and not maintaining.
Svyatoslav Baranov
Perm, Russia
I woke up on my side. I didn’t feel like sleeping
anymore, but I closed my eyes anyway. When I lay down on
my back, I immediately felt the sensation that I was about to
fall from the couch (I was lying on the edge), and some kind
of lapse occurred, as if I was being pulled somewhere. I lay
down once again, and this buzzing started, and a green light
appeared before my eyes. I lay back even further, and my
eyelids started to flutter. I thought that I might fall from the
couch at that moment, but then my vision came to me, and I
observed that I was already lying on the floor next to the
couch! I got up on my feet and noticed that the room was
“spinning” as if I were drunk, but everything quite quickly
went back to normal. At that very moment, I understood that
this was it! The phase itself (M.R.: no deepening)!
In ecstasy, I forgot about all the techniques and went to
look about the room (M.R.: no plan of action). Everything was
just like in reality, but some things were out of place. I tried
to levitate and bent backwards, and was somehow thrust
outside. It was dusk out there, and there was a lot of snow on
the ground. I went around the house and tried to levitate. I
was able to soar upwards, and saw the horizon and sunset.
But then I began to lose altitude. After having flown to the
window on the other side of the house, I wanted to go up to
the roof, but then a foul occurred (M.R.: no maintaining). In a
fraction of a second, I had the sensation that I was
“nowhere”. But then, my real eyes opened (with difficulty)
and there was once again the feeling of some sort of lapse
(M.R.: no re-entering). Awareness was dim during the phase,
apparently due to not having gotten enough sleep.
EMPLOYING THE INDIRECT TECHNIQUES