Hey everyone,

I wanted to share my logs, a bit of my background with altered states, and get some feedback from the community on how to optimize my transition to Advanced Focus 10.

I’m 27, a software engineering student dealing with massive daily workloads (thesis development + intensive daily cardio), which means I usually crash hard at night. This physical exhaustion has been a major variable in my practice.

Here is my breakdown. I'd love to hear your thoughts on my progress and what to look out for next.

My Background: Pre-Gateway Altered States

Long before discovering the Gateway Experience, I had a highly active, involuntary "native" system. I experienced intense sleep paralysis frequently—sometimes multiple times a night. Back then, it felt like some external force was forcing me into that state against my will.

My historical pattern has always been tied to a specific type of insomnia: whenever I struggled to fall asleep despite being physically exhausted, it was an infallible sign that sleep paralysis was coming. During those native episodes, I often felt my "energetic hands" moving independently, but I also experienced scary hypnagogic auditory hallucinations (unintelligible voices) and weird shadow figures emerging from the ceiling. Because I didn’t have administrative control or tools, my brain interpreted the physical lockdown through fear.

The Gateway Logs: Post-Gateway Experiences

Wave I: Orientation & Focus 3

• The Orientation Breakthrough: Entering Focus 10 through the Orientation track felt incredibly natural and fast. Because my body already knew the physiological mechanics of sleep paralysis, Orientation bypassed a lot of the usual beginner resistance.
• The Focus 3 Projection: The very first time I hit Focus 3, things escalated quickly. I felt myself floating completely out of sync with my body and vividly projected right into the next room. It caught me off guard, the sudden shift freaked me out, and I snapped back.

Wave I: Intro to Focus 10 (The Sandbox Phase)

• The Posture & Chemical Dilemma: At first, practicing Intro to Focus 10 while trying to force myself to consciously stay flat on my back was tough. I almost thought about taking a mild sleeping aid to lower my alertness, but realized that would just dull my conscious mind and ruin the Mind Awake/Body Asleep matrix. I fixed this by putting a pillow under my knees to release lower back tension.
• The Transition from Voluntary to Native: Initially, I struggled because I was trying to force a state voluntarily that my body already knew how to do natively. I kept hitting an "insomnia wall" right after the audios due to hemispheric synchronization. But I learned to use a hybrid method: using the audio to trigger the deep vibrations, taking off the headphones, and letting the native sleep paralysis take over smoothly in absolute silence.
• Overcoming Physical Hurdles: I've dealt with intense environmental heat, a too-low volume bug that forced my analytical mind to overwork, and sudden phantom sensations like an uncomfortable rubbing/massages on my feet or severe full-body itching (the nervous system's connectivity test).
• The Sharigan Deflector & New Memories: During a recent 1:00 AM deep session, I hit Focus 10 so fast I beat Monroe's verbal cue. Inside the state, I heard an unintelligible voice. Remembering my pre-Gateway fears, I immediately visualized the Sharingan spinning in front of me as a focal anchor to ignore the voice and the foot sensations. It worked perfectly. I even unlocked a memory of consciously bringing my energetic hands together and clapping/rubbing them against each other, confirming a highly stable secondary energy body.
• Time Distortion & Click-Outs: My last few sessions have run the full 37 minutes, but due to deep time dilation, it feels like only 15. I frequently experience "click-outs" (temporary loss of linear awareness) and wake up right as the track loops.

Community Feedback & Next Steps

I’m currently practicing right before bed with a blackout mask and calibrated volume. I can now enter and exit Focus 10 multiple times in a single session, though my reasoning inside the state is definitely less logical and much more driven by raw emotion/intuition.

Given that my biological baseline lets me separate my energetic hands, manipulate visual anchors to kill fear, and hit the paralysis threshold rapidly, am I ready to move on to Advanced Focus 10?

Monroe's Intro text can get a bit blurry at low volumes, so I plan to read the scripts beforehand to familiarize my subconscious with the verbal audio cues without needing to analyze them syllable-by-syllable.

For those who had natural sleep paralysis before Gateway, did moving to Advanced Focus 10 (the quick-counting and active REBAL manipulation) help eliminate the dead time where itching and phantom tactile sensations pop up? Any advice on stabilizing the emotional impulses once you're locked into the state?

I would like to evolve my focus level , any advice?

Thanks for reading!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share my logs, a bit of my background with altered states, and get some feedback from the community on how to optimize my transition to Advanced Focus 10.

I’m 27, a software engineering student dealing with massive daily workloads (thesis development + intensive daily cardio), which means I usually crash hard at night. This physical exhaustion has been a major variable in my practice.

Here is my breakdown. I'd love to hear your thoughts on my progress and what to look out for next.

My Background: Pre-Gateway Altered States

Long before discovering the Gateway Experience, I had a highly active, involuntary "native" system. I experienced intense sleep paralysis frequently—sometimes multiple times a night. Back then, it felt like some external force was forcing me into that state against my will.

My historical pattern has always been tied to a specific type of insomnia: whenever I struggled to fall asleep despite being physically exhausted, it was an infallible sign that sleep paralysis was coming. During those native episodes, I often felt my "energetic hands" moving independently, but I also experienced scary hypnagogic auditory hallucinations (unintelligible voices) and weird shadow figures emerging from the ceiling. Because I didn’t have administrative control or tools, my brain interpreted the physical lockdown through fear.

The Gateway Logs: Post-Gateway Experiences

Wave I: Orientation & Focus 3

• The Orientation Breakthrough: Entering Focus 10 through the Orientation track felt incredibly natural and fast. Because my body already knew the physiological mechanics of sleep paralysis, Orientation bypassed a lot of the usual beginner resistance.
• The Focus 3 Projection: The very first time I hit Focus 3, things escalated quickly. I felt myself floating completely out of sync with my body and vividly projected right into the next room. It caught me off guard, the sudden shift freaked me out, and I snapped back.

Wave I: Intro to Focus 10 (The Sandbox Phase)

• The Posture & Chemical Dilemma: At first, practicing Intro to Focus 10 while trying to force myself to consciously stay flat on my back was tough. I almost thought about taking a mild sleeping aid to lower my alertness, but realized that would just dull my conscious mind and ruin the Mind Awake/Body Asleep matrix. I fixed this by putting a pillow under my knees to release lower back tension.
• The Transition from Voluntary to Native: Initially, I struggled because I was trying to force a state voluntarily that my body already knew how to do natively. I kept hitting an "insomnia wall" right after the audios due to hemispheric synchronization. But I learned to use a hybrid method: using the audio to trigger the deep vibrations, taking off the headphones, and letting the native sleep paralysis take over smoothly in absolute silence.
• Overcoming Physical Hurdles: I've dealt with intense environmental heat, a too-low volume bug that forced my analytical mind to overwork, and sudden phantom sensations like an uncomfortable rubbing/massages on my feet or severe full-body itching (the nervous system's connectivity test).
• The Sharigan Deflector & New Memories: During a recent 1:00 AM deep session, I hit Focus 10 so fast I beat Monroe's verbal cue. Inside the state, I heard an unintelligible voice. Remembering my pre-Gateway fears, I immediately visualized the Sharingan spinning in front of me as a focal anchor to ignore the voice and the foot sensations. It worked perfectly. I even unlocked a memory of consciously bringing my energetic hands together and clapping/rubbing them against each other, confirming a highly stable secondary energy body.
• Time Distortion & Click-Outs: My last few sessions have run the full 37 minutes, but due to deep time dilation, it feels like only 15. I frequently experience "click-outs" (temporary loss of linear awareness) and wake up right as the track loops.

Community Feedback & Next Steps

I’m currently practicing right before bed with a blackout mask and calibrated volume. I can now enter and exit Focus 10 multiple times in a single session, though my reasoning inside the state is definitely less logical and much more driven by raw emotion/intuition.

Given that my biological baseline lets me separate my energetic hands, manipulate visual anchors to kill fear, and hit the paralysis threshold rapidly, am I ready to move on to Advanced Focus 10?

Monroe's Intro text can get a bit blurry at low volumes, so I plan to read the scripts beforehand to familiarize my subconscious with the verbal audio cues without needing to analyze them syllable-by-syllable.

For those who had natural sleep paralysis before Gateway, did moving to Advanced Focus 10 (the quick-counting and active REBAL manipulation) help eliminate the dead time where itching and phantom tactile sensations pop up? Any advice on stabilizing the emotional impulses once you're locked into the state?

I would like to evolve my focus level , any advice? if anyone are in a more advanced focus, I would like some advices too and read you experiences!!

Thanks for reading!

This is what was revealed by higher self to one subject in deep trance, how she needs to be more aware what is happening with her energy and people taking it.

Does anyone know anything about hypnosis? I believe it’s real but definitely not all the time. My aunt somehow had a hypnosis make her quit smoking cigarettes for decades. (Weirdly enough picked up a vape habit last year but I think alot of people cycled back once vapes hit). Either way. I have a horrible habit myself of skin picking that I’ve had since I was a child and I’m thinking of getting a hypnosis to help me. May seem dramatic but I don’t want to take meds. Nothing else about me is abnormal noone even knows I have this issue bc my foundation has always looked natural since high school. Please don’t be mean. Wanting to know if anyone has heard of anything about this or anyone. Or any other suggestions!

EDIT: I made this post before realizing there was some of these subreddits. I joined. And I have been scrolling and will continue to. However i haven’t found an answer quite yet for my particular issue. I’m actually desperate and would like real help. So knowing that there is a community that exists now does anyone have suggestions that can help me with hypnosis as it relates to my skin picking addiction. I believe and know it’s real already. PLEASE HELP OR ENLIGHTEN IF YOU CAN. Only writing this edit bc the comments are already frustrated with me and I truly just want help. Wasn’t trying to be obnoxious by linking my post to this subreddit. I’m grateful for it and would like help I don’t know where else to go. YouTube hypnotist and psychics can lead you down the road wrong.

I've been pairing Focus 10 meditation with an EEG for neurofeedback training. The results have been lovely, long lasting deep meditative states. I have been seeing this strong visual of a deep blue like Prussian or Marrakech Blue. Sometimes it's very central and has sparkles and bursts of light that seem to be punching through from behind it. It's unique, and I've only been seeing it for the first time in the last few days after years of meditation.

I'm wondering if anyone else spends time with this color, and if you've learned anything during those encounters. It's just barely beneath a distracting level so I'm unattached (mostly) and can remain in meditation (mostly) when it shows up. Previous experiences with colors have been limited to murky purples and pinks that move across my visual spectrum like clouds across my mind. This feels different.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Ok so I want to preface this with that this happened about 3 years ago.

So I had a lot of curiosity about psychedelics at this period of my life. I had tried shrooms, boosted my dose and had a super intense trip one time at the beach off 4g of PE plus smoking a 38% THC joint at the peak. The peak of that trip was so intense and had me curious if to that is what DMT is like.

So naturally I had to dive further.

Now, I can neither confirm nor deny that I extracted my own (while I was tripping on psilocybin hahaha) and put it in PG juice in a refillable vape cartridge. This is how I planned on consuming this mysterious substance.

Now that I have my deems vape, I decided I was going to smoke it in a bowling alley bathroom when I was bowling with my friends. (PSA: Now that I’m older and more experienced with psychedelics, this was a DUMB idea. Please PLEASE take set and setting seriously!)

I hit my vape. I remember the smoke felt super harsh and I thought I didn’t extract it right or diluted it too much because I wasn’t feeling it exactly instantly like I had heard on trip reports I had read on the internet. I took three hits and tried to hold it in for as long as I could. After exhaling the third hit, I gave up because I wasn’t noticing anything, so I walked out of the bathroom….

That’s when it hit me.

You know how bowling venues only have a limited array of bowling lanes on the backside of the room? Well once I walked out of the bathroom, there were infinite bowling lanes on BOTH sides.

I turned around and the bathroom door was gone. But the appearance of the venue had changed. It looked much more grandiose and almost like the inside of palace, while still keeping the lanes and people actively bowling.

But the people weren’t exactly… people. They seemed to be angels or residents of a higher dimension. All having faces on all sides of their heads and multiple arms with inexplicable clothing… like wearing impossible colors that aren’t part of our normal color spectrum in the universe.

At this point, I thought I must have passed onto the next life, or poisoned myself with my homemade extract.

I spent what i can best describe felt like days but at the same time no time at all walking down this infinite and heavenly/purgatory-ish bowling hall.

At this point, I knew I had no choice but to interact with my new reality.

I approached one of these “Tryptamites” (for the sake of this trip report, I will call the DMT-land people tryptamites) and asked this genderless figure one question: “am I dead?”

Now i don’t know how to describe the way this tryptamite looked at me, but somehow I could see its eyes on the side of its head facing away from me point towards me.

The tryptamite began to laugh hysterically at my question, which in my mind seemed like a completely valid question. After a few minutes of having the laugh of its life, it then replied with: “no this is the most alive you will ever be or feel”.

The most alive I’ll ever be??? What does this even mean?! I’m completely convinced that I ingested some toxic solvent and destroyed my brain or something, but somehow this is the most alive I will EVER BE or FEEL???

So naturally I wanted to know what this means. I began to ask the tryptamite to explain to me what it meant. Mister or miss (genders don’t really exist or matter in deemsville) replied by asking me “you aren’t from here, are you?” I replied with “well considering I’m convinced I’m dead, clearly not”. The tryptamite chuckled and offered to guide me through its world. I asked if I had a choice; mister tryptamite said “absolutely not”. So I followed mister tryptamite.

Now I can’t remember every detail of this conversation, but I do remember walking or floating (I’m not sure, could have been either or as far as I’m concerned) down this infinite hall of bowling bliss and having the deepest conversation imaginable with this tryptamite for what felt like 24 hours straight. It introduced me to its tryptamite friends, which happened to be everyone in this infinite bowling hall. Mister tryptamite told me “we are all friends here. You will never experience a place with this much love in one place. This is what this place is built of”.

Now this comforted me greatly. I was assured that I was not in a hostile place. That being said, I was became overwhelmed with sadness… I thought I was in heaven and would never see my brother or mom or dad again, and I thought about how sad they would be if I left this world just because I wanted to get high.

The tryptamite read my mind and told me “this is only a glimpse of the other side, but you can’t take much of this information home with me”.

This statement reminded me that I was apparently still a human, which then reminded me about my friends that I was supposed to be bowling with. So I asked the tryptamite if it knew where my friends were and how I can get back to them.

The tryptamite replied with one phrase: “you are exactly where you’re meant to be”.

In the blink of an eye, BOOM! Back to reality. Somehow I was walking back to the lane where all my friends were.

I looked back, the tryptamite was gone and the bowling hall looked normal.

I asked my friends if I was acting outlandish or pacing around. They told me I looked completely normal and just walked back from the bathroom to their lane…

WHAT! How can this be?! I felt like I had wandered these halls for weeks and had a day long conversation with the tryptamite, all within TWO MINUTES??

As the minutes went by, it was as if I was trying to remember a dream but kept forgetting parts of it. I suppose that’s what the tryptamite meant by “you can’t take much of this back with you.”

What messed with me is how my subconscious took the wheel and guided me back to my friends despite my mind being completely out of this reality…

Anyway, that’s my DMT trip report. Hope you enjoyed reading!