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In 1st grade I did well on a Stanford designed test and was placed in the Mentally Gifted Minors program where I was trained on the original 4-waves of Gateway tapes.

I was transported from my elementary school to another for the program a couple days a week . One room was full of childhood development STEM activities and conjoined 2nd room was unlit with mats on the floor .
The dark room was for listening to the Gateway tapes.
I was very socially paralyzed at the time so they put me in the dark room more often than the other kids. I appreciated that and I grew to find comfort in Bobs voice and the wobble-wobble of the bilateral tones.
But the breaking ocean waves were the best in my mind at the time.

Then they began waking me abruptly to debrief me on my dreams. One abrupt waking put me into a fearful state of sleep paralysis with concerned adults staring down at me thru a perceived tunnel. That was my only negative experience while listening to the Gateway tapes.

Now I must give some sort of credit to an ability I feel I learned from the tapes. As a child I learned to prolong the hypnagogic state using Bobs intermittent suggestions as micro-arousals that lift me up a little bit when the hypnagogia gets to the verge of sleep.
I ignore all visual hallucinations and allow myself to experience intense euphoria. This euphoria is always felt as if in a waking state and is stored in my memory just like any other emotional memory.

If anyone is interested on extending their hypnagogic state here is how it never fails for me.

Lay down in full sun on an unpopulated beach.
Flip your switch to "mind awake body asleep ".
Allow the bright sunshine and random anticipated sounds(seagulls) to serve as micro-arousals that prevent you from falling asleep.
When you hallucinate do not think about it at all. Ignore it.
Do not try to achieve anything but be prepared to feel euphoric energy without any anticipation or apprehensions.
This euphoria is felt with a buoyancy as if floating on the top of sleep within a very sweet-spot at the bottom of the deepest meditation level .

As 4yr old aspie child I learned hypervigilance after suffering 3rd degree burns over 25% of my body .
Spending a month in the burn center without my parents visiting much made me disassociate with pain and emotion. Which made me unable to cry. Which made my mother try harder and harder to make me cry. Hence the hypervigilance.
So I experienced what was considered outta body due to trauma.
I also taught myself to flip the hypervigilance from a prey mindset into one of a hypervigilant predator. Not that i am a predator.
Because you never lose it but you can use it for staying alert to micro-arousals.

Anyone interested in the early tapes should know the work done by Bobs friend Stanley Krippner . Stanley was forefront in Monroes institute and production of the tapes as he wrote the self-guiding script of the earliest Gateway waves.
And he did his own studies of children with telepathy . Focusing on childhood trauma and autistic children.

Reposting it below:

In 1st grade I did well on a Stanford designed test and was placed in the Mentally Gifted Minors program where I was trained on the original 4-waves of Gateway tapes.

I was transported from my elementary school to another for the program a couple days a week . One room was full of childhood development STEM activities and conjoined 2nd room was unlit with mats on the floor .
The dark room was for listening to the Gateway tapes.
I was very socially paralyzed at the time so they put me in the dark room more often than the other kids. I appreciated that and I grew to find comfort in Bobs voice and the wobble-wobble of the bilateral tones.
But the breaking ocean waves were the best in my mind at the time.

Then they began waking me abruptly to debrief me on my dreams. One abrupt waking put me into a fearful state of sleep paralysis with concerned adults staring down at me thru a perceived tunnel. That was my only negative experience while listening to the Gateway tapes.

Now I must give some sort of credit to an ability I feel I learned from the tapes. As a child I learned to prolong the hypnagogic state using Bobs intermittent suggestions as micro-arousals that lift me up a little bit when the hypnagogia gets to the verge of sleep.
I ignore all visual hallucinations and allow myself to experience intense euphoria. This euphoria is always felt as if in a waking state and is stored in my memory just like any other emotional memory.

If anyone is interested on extending their hypnagogic state here is how it never fails for me.

Lay down in full sun on an unpopulated beach.
Flip your switch to "mind awake body asleep ".
Allow the bright sunshine and random anticipated sounds(seagulls) to serve as micro-arousals that prevent you from falling asleep.
When you hallucinate do not think about it at all. Ignore it.
Do not try to achieve anything but be prepared to feel euphoric energy without any anticipation or apprehensions.
This euphoria is felt with a buoyancy as if floating on the top of sleep within a very sweet-spot at the bottom of the deepest meditation level .

As 4yr old aspie child I learned hypervigilance after suffering 3rd degree burns over 25% of my body .
Spending a month in the burn center without my parents visiting much made me disassociate with pain and emotion. Which made me unable to cry. Which made my mother try harder and harder to make me cry. Hence the hypervigilance.
So I experienced what was considered outta body due to trauma.
I also taught myself to flip the hypervigilance from a prey mindset into one of a hypervigilant predator. Not that i am a predator.
Because you never lose it but you can use it for staying alert to micro-arousals.

Anyone interested in the early tapes should know the work done by Bobs friend Stanley Krippner . Stanley was forefront in Monroes institute and production of the tapes as he wrote the self-guiding script of the earliest Gateway waves.
And he did his own studies of children with telepathy . Focusing on childhood trauma and autistic children.