Light Travelling - ease into the psychedelic state and gain benefits

Light Travelling – ease into the psychedelic state and gain benefits

By infiniteone NeuroCognitive hypnagogic meditation, lightbathing, lighttraveller, natural psychedelics, spiritual mastery 0 Comments

Once you understand the powerful change this practice can bring to your life, you’ll see the Light Machines as more than just a means for relaxation and entertainment. They’re versatile tools for actively transforming your life through self-exploration, problem-solving, and personal growth.

Flickering lights have long been used to induce trance states, possibly starting with early humans mesmerized by campfires—a fascination that continues today. Stroboscopic light, in particular, leads to “photic driving,” a type of brain activity that promotes relaxation¹ and openness to change⁶ (learning ability called neuroplasticity – read our article here).

Stress is a state of mind, and can cause emotional instability and contribute to various health problems².

Our state of mind is characterized by our brainwaves frequency. Experiencing a Light and Sound therapy session can be highly effective in reducing stress, promoting relaxation and achieving deep meditative and spiritual states.

Let’s discuss how specific light settings can impact your session’s results.

Color and intensity of the light

Researchers have been exploring how different colors of light can affect the brain, particularly for individuals who have never experienced them before. Interestingly, a recent study has found that blue and green lights seem to be the safest options. To reach these conclusions, they used advanced imaging and monitoring techniques to observe the brain’s response to various light stimuli, ensuring they considered how these stimuli could affect both brain function and comfort. This attention to detail in selecting the right color stimuli is part of a broader effort to develop safer and more effective neurotherapeutic approaches³.

Another alternative approach to the standard Light Machines is the usage of cold and warm lights of the LiBa magnify. It uses two types of LEDs to elevate your light journey or how we call it – LightBath – an unforgettable experience. Most enjoy the Schumann⁴ and candle mode setting that harnesses this contrast between the light colors the LiBa magnify excels to bring new to the table. These settings refer to the frequency of the session, which brings us the the next chapter:

Light frequencies for improving mind states

Researchers found that flickering light stimulation, particularly at the frequency of 10 Hz, is characterized by vivid visual hallucinations⁵. Their findings illustrate that flickering light stimulation, on closed eye-lids, induces complex visual effects – comparable in intensity to those induced by psychedelic substances. Light Machines are capable of much more than that and their complex sessions and frequencies are hard to describe.

Here are the 2 stages of LightBathing hallucinations and their visual mind representations:

stage 1: the Entopic – is characterized by visual effects whose source is within the human eye itself. For example floaters or phosphene are most commonly experienced by most people at some point, even without intent. There’s evidence that entopic patterns have influenced human culture since 10,000 BCE⁶.

In the realm of LightBaths, this stage is the beginning, the onset of your closed eyes psychedelic journey. People usually see flashes and colors at this point, maybe forms include web, checkerboard, clover-leaf, honeycomb, spiral, funnel, or more shapes like that. Most likely LightTravellers will quickly progress to the next stage of their journey.

stage 2: the Eidetic – hallucinations characterized by photographic images originating from the cortex or midbrain⁶. These are vivid images/full sequences, and it’s theorised to be constructed from memory or imagination. Most frequently, these visuals are robust and identical to reality. This stage possess many characteristics identical to lucid dreaming⁶.

Over the course of a LightBath session, your visuals will start with flickering shapes, evolve to a sensation of falling through a tunnel, and then increase in complexity from entopic to eidetic content, often containing a seamless blend between the two⁶.

Achieving this eidetic stage may bring to surface dear memories, which may be therapeutic for those suffering from depression, anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, and other stress-related sleep problems⁶.

These complex perceptual states, also known as expanded states of consciousness, are the origin of visions and it’s what influenced human mythology, religion, art, science, and culture⁶.

You can rest assured that from the beginning of light entrainment times to today – this alternative meditation approach has reached maturity and their closed-eyes sessions are most likely going to help your state of mind in just 15 minutes.

LightBath session duration

Give it a shot for a few minutes every day⁷ to level up your meditation practice and gain an achiever mindset.

Most folks start feeling the benefits after about 10 to 15 minutes of meditation, which is why Kasina’s and Limina’s sessions usually last around 20 minutes⁸. Hang in there, even if you’re not feeling immediate results. Persistence pays off—it’s worth the effort in the long run.

Conclusion

Light Machines such as the LiBa magnify are tools for us to use and break out of the everyday repetitive thought cycle. Use them to experience a great sense of contentment and emotional fulfillment, to improve cognition and expand your creativity.

Explore diverse set and settings, frequencies and light intensities, and if you ever find yourself in need of a LightBathing guide, we feature a The Quick Beginners’ Guide, or even a Full Light Session Walkthrough for all you LightTravellers!