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By Eugene Raphael · Waking Gaze Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: chair silence with an eyes-open fixed gaze, after Zuleica's exercise in The Eagle's Gift. Mask: two blindfolds. Outcome: a brick tunnel opening onto the stars, and a week later a desert bound together out of particles. The setup I got into my chair, the one I use to practice silence, and put on two blindfolds, sufficiently blocking out the light. Following Zuleica's exercise from The Eagle's Gift, I kept my

By Eugene Raphael · Essay & Practice Report · Liminal Light Lab Practice: inner silence, not-doing, and particle clustering. Theme: how my perception changed over decades, what the biology of vision might say about it, and how it now shapes my dreaming. The lived path Very early on, I saw what many people see when gazing at snow, a bright sky, or a blank wall: eye floaters, whorls, and bubbles of light. That's a common and completely normal occurrence. Maybe 40 years ago, in

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: inner silence. Outcome: an encounter with four glowing figures, followed by deep peace. These figures glowed with the same amber energy described on the Amber Figures page, and I count them as the same energetic type. The tunnel I was moving down a tunnel made of purple and yellow light. Midway down the tunnel were four figures, glowing with amber energy. When I noticed them, I stopped moving forward to try to un

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report (Mini) · Liminal Light Lab Outcome: standing at the edge of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, in the energy body. At the center of the galaxy It was direct from waking. No transition. Just BAM, I was there. I have been on the edge of a black hole at the center of our galaxy, with no ill effect. What I saw was amazing: there were many stars in a very fast orbit around it. I figured this was just my mind making a theoretical guess, but

By Eugene Raphael · Featured Night Report · Liminal Light Lab This post bridges two sections of the site: Castaneda's Dreaming and OBE & Energy Body. Technique: none planned; a spontaneous waking during an audiobook. Outcome: separation from the body, a view of my sleeping body wrapped in luminous fibers, and an encounter with an inorganic being. Waking into the pass I woke up hours after falling asleep with my earphones still in. The audiobook of Taisha Abelar's The Sorcerer

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report · Liminal Light Lab · Jul 27, 2025 Technique: phase methods: wake back to bed, then intending to notice each awakening and not move. Mask: LucidMe. Outcome: a false awakening that turned lucid, and the stars. Lately I've been working through the dreaming section of the Magical Passes library, and my body seems to really like the passes. Sleep onset I began by observing the darkness of closed eyes, intending to peer through everything. Imagery

By Eugene Raphael · Encounter Report · Liminal Light Lab Era: my early years of serious dreaming, around the time The Art of Dreaming came out. Theme: paralysis terrors, a fight, and the night I told them to get lost. Paralysis and the fear barrier After I found my hands, I did a lot of what you'd call lucid dreaming: living in fantasy dream worlds and acting out desires, like learning to fly. Later my dreaming got more serious. I began recapitulating daily and gazing often.

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: Waking With Intent: noticing each awakening and not moving. Mask: LucidMe. Outcome: repeated boomerang flights, then a mountaintop house more real than waking life. Catching the fourth awakening I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to go into dreaming. I set my intention to notice my next awakening and use that time to enter the dream directly. I went back to sleep and then woke up a brief time later.

By Eugene Raphael · Energy Body Report · Liminal Light Lab Intent: to see my luminous cocoon. Outcome: a brief, spontaneous view of my luminous egg in the middle of the night. About four months after I set the intent to see my luminous cocoon, it happened spontaneously, driven by a pressing personal need. In the middle of the night I witnessed a luminous egg, with my thoughts completely still. My intent was on assessing my body. My tonal was bristling with short white fibers

By Eugene Raphael · Analysis · Liminal Light Lab Practice: The Series for Preparing Intent (long form) and Class 1: Dreaming 101, about twice a week. Theme: early observations of how Tensegrity changed my entry methods. These are simply early observations. The daily world has a hold on me right now, and I've only made time to practice about twice a week. My body remembered The first thing I noticed doing the Series for Preparing Intent in long form was that my body remembered

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: the direct method with hand rubbing (exteriorizing sensation) and peering, after waking around 3 am. Outcome: three consecutive entries into dreaming. I don't post every dream; I don't want the spirit of my dreaming to turn into "Hey, look at my dreams!" But when someone asks and there's potential benefit, I'm happy to add detail. This walkthrough is meant to show what "exteriorizing sensation" means in practice.

By Eugene Raphael · Encounter Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: a series of awakenings, with hand rubbing for cohesion. Outcome: two dream scenes, one I believe I made and one I believe I didn't. At the mirror In a series of awakenings, I found myself at a mirror, in a female body. A voice said, "Yes, it is possible, because you are dreaming." I rubbed my hands. I saw old, sun-bleached stairs in great detail, then an alley where both paths washed out into a flat white scr

By Eugene Raphael · Energy Body Report · Liminal Light Lab State: the in-between, neither awake nor fully asleep, with inner silence prevalent. Outcome: two energetic perceptions, about five minutes each. During dreaming attempts I sometimes land in a state where I'm neither awake nor fully asleep. I'm lying in bed, fully aware of my surroundings, yet perceiving anomalies or sensations of an energetic nature. Because of these altered perceptions, I count these as successful a

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report (Mini) · Liminal Light Lab Outcome: a screen of slightly altered realities, and a dreaming body that swayed inches away from my physical one. Two short entries that stuck with me because they felt less like dreams and more like glimpses of how perception is layered. From my journal. The swaying body Back of the head. Afternoon. Waiting for imagery, then focused on movement centered around my head. Immediately I began "swaying" back and forth;

By Eugene Raphael · Dream Report · Liminal Light Lab Outcome: a lucid dream that began when I noticed one eye was dreaming and the other wasn't, followed by a lion on a stairway. This is one of the odder ways I've become lucid. From my journal, February 2024. One eye dreaming LUCID: One eye open and one eye closed, realized one eye was dreaming. Realized I was dreaming, went down a hall. The lion Instead of looking at my hands went down a stairway looking for an inorganic bei

By Eugene Raphael · Dream Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: looking around and looking away from hypnagogic imagery instead of fixing on it. Outcome: pulled into a full dream during a nap, with a group of dreamers. In July 2024 I spent a couple of weeks experimenting with not looking directly at the imagery. Rotating my eyes, glancing away, observing around the edges. It kept pulling me into dreams. This is the run-up and the nap where it paid off, from my journal. Lookin

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: Waking With Intent, the fall-back-asleep breathing trick, and feeling my way in. Mask: LucidMe. Outcome: a dream built by touch alone, from a mossy roof to an orange and a lemon. This is the anchor story for why I say touch creates cohesion. Falling back asleep fast I found an interesting trick for falling back asleep very fast in the middle of the night: looking left to right after waking and making my exhales "

By Eugene Raphael · Dream Report · Liminal Light Lab Technique: sitting-up nap, following a changing face in the imagery. Outcome: carried out of a city into desert chaparral, then high above a pine forest I somehow knew, with a hidden house in the distance. Some of my best entries don't come from forcing anything. I just follow whatever the imagery offers and let it lead. This one came during a nap in July 2024, from my journal. Following the face Nap. Sitting up. Following

By Eugene Raphael · Essay & Practice Report · Liminal Light Lab Practice: dark room gazing, open-eye hypnagogia, and fixing the particles in silence. Theme: how a practice I picked up from the Castaneda community turned out to work best for me with my eyes open. Where this came from I first learned about the dark room practice from the Castaneda community. Credit where it's due: the people at r/castaneda have done a lot of work on it, and that's where I came across it. The ba

By Eugene Raphael · Night Report · Liminal Light Lab · Aug 3, 2025 Linked from the Phosphene Gaze origins section: the particle soup here is the same particle screen I've watched for years in my phosphene practice, showing up inside a dream. Technique: phase indirect method, after a middle-of-the-night waking. Mask: LucidMe. Outcome: a purple city at sleep onset, then two back-to-back entries into dreaming. Beginning of the night: the purple city At the beginning of the night