TerKorian666 said:
Lydia [JG said:
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Endsieg_Enjoyer said:
As somewhat of a side question could you use deep trance to sublimate or completely eliminate the need for sleep? I have heard 1 hr in deep trance gives more benefits than 4 hrs of sleep, this was from a post by Lydia a long time ago I'm not sure if it is true. If it is could you theoretically say with 4 hrs of deep trance per day reduce the amount of time needed for sleep seeing as you could perhaps enter theta if you go deep enough. Thanks.
I don't think I said that, not to that extent anyway. At most, I would have said that trance can help offset sleep deprivation, or give the same benefits as a nap.
https://ancient-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=367714
Excerpt from topic.
“It is claimed that one hour of trance provides the same benefits of 4 hours of sleep.”
You can even have 30 minutes of meditation with the same energy of 8 hours of sleep. But it can not replace it. Sleep is for the body, meditation is for the spiritual bodies. The energy aspect gets incubated into the other bodies.
It is a simple misunderstanding of what was said, that is true. Compare it with coffee, you can stay 3 days awake with coffee and energy, but you'll crash and destroy your health, as the material body has laws and functions in specific ways.
One can substitute little sleep time that is already lost ( hours not slept add up in time and affect greatly the body) with meditation, which is a pursuit of gaining stability and health.
The other misunderstanding that arises from this is the experiential one. It is very hard to achieve the low levels of trance (that of deep sleep) on prolonged times without actually sleeping and having your conscious awareness lost, so therefore that is not a meditation but actually sleeping.
You can experiment this daily. When feeling asleep during the day, meditate for 20 minutes. Will feel like a 4 hour nap. Truly remarkable, but it isn't sleeping and it isn't a replacement for sleep as stated by my first reply.
The brain needs a shower and "circuit maintenance". The level of sleep is that deep that if you want to meditate to replace it, you won't call it meditation but sleeping, as you will be actually sleeping.
Another aspect of learning what Lydia said there, in experience, the first times of trance induction and meditation just for the present experience of relaxation, you'll actually use more energy than it will gather. Simply as the brain will burn calories to understand and adapt.
The best approach would be to edge the state between wakefulness and falling asleep until you feel your astral body. With awareness.