From: janice@mailinator.com   
      
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   david@edenroad.demon.co.uk says...   
      
   >It sounds fun.  How did you manage to sustain hypnogogic imagery with open   
   >eyes?  Mine vanishes when I even examine it too closely, let alone   
   >approach waking consciousness.   
      
   I wish I knew.  I was even able to do it during the daytime naps that my   
   mother forced me to take.  Perhaps not really being all that tired was a   
   factor in being able to keep my eyes open.   
      
   When I accomplished it again sometime in the '90s, I kept one eye open   
   and one eye closed and let myself start to doze off.  The closed eye soon   
   seemed to see a motorcycle, whereas the open eye continued to see my   
   room, which created the illusion of a motorcycle going through my room.   
      
   >I read a Colin Wilson novel, in which the protagonist learns to do   
   >something similar courtesy of a fragment of "Neumann Alloy" in his   
   >forebrain.   
   >   
   >I spent quite a while trying it after that, to no avail :-(   
      
   Dale Graff, the Project Stargate guy, talked about having it happen to   
   him sponaneously.  He mentioned it during a lecture at one of the ASD   
   conferences.   
      
   >When I was about 6 y/o, I disassembled the family gramophone to find the   
   >little singers inside.   
   >   
   >I was not popular.   
      
   But did you find them? ;-D   
      
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   "I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."   
   --George W. Bush   
      
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