From: dick_silk@antispam.gov   
      
   "Janice"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1c6c71c09acdc1f98a298@news.individual.net...   
   > In article ,   
   > 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.   
      
   it is the very act of *trying* / putting forth effort that dispels imagery   
   and OOBEs in general.  It's more an act of LETTING something occur that   
   yields the greatest results.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)