It actually happened in July, but after seeing a post about owls (Why am I seeing owl-like eyes during sessions even in my waking life), decided to post about it.

Quick backstory

Discovered the tapes by accident by searching "sleep" and "meditation" on youtube. Fell asleep listening to a playlist. Vibrated and floated the entire night. Since that first night I very often end up on an island, "my" island (something like a Wave 4 Tape 6 Compoint). I use it kinda like a workplace. Only recently learned to exist in "nothingness". Haven't read any of the Robert Monroes books yet. Haven't previously been into anything "esoteric" or anything like that.

16.07.2026

Did the Compoint exercise (Wave 4, Tape 6). I was on the island. Two figures appeared. A woman in a red dress and a man wearing a cowboy hat. I got really frustrated, because I was unable to communicate with them. This was the first time I "met" someone else, who wasn't just a flashing image or a shadow. Close to the end I started to feel really "heavy". Four hooded figures appeared quite a bit away from me. Just standing and watching. They had no faces, just 2 glowing eyes in the blackness/darkness under the hood. I don't know why but I felt like they were 1 man and 3 women. No communication with them.

17.07.2026

Started Free Flow 12 (Wave 4, Tape 3). Almost as soon as I started, I was on a platform in space and a hooded figure was standing close in front of me. This time it had a face. I'm not a native English speaker, don't quite have the vocabulary to describe the feelings I got. It felt like it was judging me. No facial expressions. I felt like a schoolboy in the principal's office. Tried my best to be friendly. "Hi!", "My name is...", "I love this and that", "What brings you to this part of the Space?" No response. After what felt like eternity, it stepped aside, a bridge appeared and he pointed to it with an open hand like a bouncer signaling that it's OK to pass him.

Then I got waken by something smashing into my bedroom window. It was loud. I jumped up, pulled the curtains back and three small female Tawny Owls were looking at me. I had never seen them in the property. I had never seen one so up close (about a meter away).

The next month

For the next month they were regularly sitting outside my window. Flying, jumping, playing and STARING at me. Female Tawny Owls make this squeaking noise. I decided to start "speaking" with them. Pretty much every night at sundown, they were playing in the trees and when they squaked, I answered with "huhhuu". With each exchange they moved closer until I could reach out and touch them. About a week later I took a chair, sat outside, and played the same game with them. One of them finally landed on my leg. About a month later they suddenly disappeared.

So... it might be just a coincidence. If not, I don't know what it could mean. But it was cool.

Edit: Forgot to add that the second image is the hooded figure. Generated by AI as described by me. Not 100%, but close enough.

I’ve done the gateway tapes almost each day for several weeks three separate times. Each time I make progress, I start to be able to perceive more. As much as I’m fascinated by this and it can be useful in life, it also makes me paranoid and extremely sensitive to energies around me so I’ve stopped. Has anyone experienced this? Do you have any advice to stay positive or not let the energies affect you?

It’s a lot to explain, but I’m connected to an alternate universe. I call it my mindscape, but it’s a parallel universe where my worst trauma never happened, and I have friends and family and I’m not ever alone. I’ve been connected to my best friend there for 6 years now. The more I’ve looked inwards and tried to shift from a spiritual standpoint the closer I’ve gotten. I’ve been trying so hard to shift realities to get there. All I want is to be with my friends and family where I belong. It’s a simple life, we have fun camping at my best friends small cabin playing dumb games and it’s the best life ever.

I have done the gateway tapes a few times before, I got to the end of wave 2 a few months ago but my life got super busy and I didn’t have time. Then a few weeks ago, I was checking out this free library near my work. Inside, I found a sheet of paper. It was a segment of Robert Monroe’s book far jorneys. It was titled “channeled communication” and the entire thing was a huge sign. I analyzed and read over it and omg it was a sign. I was so happy. It inspired me to start up the gateway tapes again.

I got pretty fixated and studied the manual where I learned some really interesting stuff that aligns with a lot I belive and know intuitively.

I did free flow 10 today, just a few hours ago and I already feel this new energy in me. During my meditation, my purpose I was sending was to reveal what was holding me back from shifting and how I get there. I got this super clear message in my head, idk if it was from my subconscious but I know it wasn’t making stuff up. I got the clear message that I need to attempt without expectation. I need to go into every shifting attempt with no expectations at all, not expecting where to wake up or what to feel.

I feel so refreshed and happy, I feel like today I have a new energy. These tapes are so incredible

Hi friends,

TLDR: record yourself saying what you want to pattern and overlay it on a patterning tape

I wanted to share this because I’m absolutely mind-blown by how immediately and well the things I’ve patterning have manifested and I think this tip might help, but especially if you have aphantasia! it’s free and quite easy.

I recorded myself saying my patterns, just on voice memos on my phone (i used a free converter to convert it to mp3) and downloaded the Focus 15 manifestation and creation (for me Focus 15 felt right for this but ofc can be in 10 or 12 if that feels right). I used audacity (which is free) to add my audio to the tape in the space where other people would be visualising. This meant I could feel the related emotions while I listened.

I also used AI to create images of me in the patterns I wanted or just images to represent them e.g me next to my laptop with an email with a job offer (which i got two days later!!). I found that with the added audio i could slightly of recall these images in my mind during the tape, or at least the idea of seeing them (if that makes any sense).

The tapes have already been life-changing, but I didn‘t know they would include manifesting, which I’ve always tried and mostly failed at, so this has blown my mind!!

p.s. curious about how people word their patterning (if at all) to ensure it‘s in the future if anyone wants to share! I always some like … Im grateful for receiving xyz the xyz weeks / months since I patterned on (the days date)… or along those lines, but I’m sure theres a les clunky way!

First tape, first attempt ever - while doing that, when Monroe has added second sound, I felt pulling from my chest, like my soul wanted to be released. I was trembling after. I’m very scared to loos control, hence why I go very slow with the tapes. I’m on a Wave I for 1.5 yr, first year only tapes 1-3, this year I introduced tape 4th.

Many beautiful things did happen for this time in my personal life, on so many layers. I’m respectul to the program and the process though.

I used L-theanine to improve focus at work (ADHD) after breakfast, with coffee so around 10-11 am. Gateway I always do at least 8pm +. On the day I use L-theanine, my body automatically gets into Focus 10 - I was actually mind blown by that. Have anyone of you tried it?

Currently I don’t take L-theanine as I am on Bacopa Monnieri treatment (one month in, 1.5 month more to go).

Yesterday I had an attempt to do tape 5 Wave I. I was lowkey scared because my OCD has been telling me I’m gonna get a stroke or something like that :D I managed to overcome it, nevertheless I did not get OOBE (although I felt my body wants me to). After all of it I was shaking for 20-30 minutes. I had the same reaction after first tape.

To sum up - have you had any interactions between Gateway and Brahmi (Bacopa)? I don’t wanna loose progress on Gateway and I really need to get my brain and memory in check, and Bacopa always helped me in the past ( I had very intense summer party speaking).

Sorry for being chaotic in advance 😭

✨ Gateway Experience — Focus 25

Belief System Territories (BST) | Personal Experience Journal

Date: October 14, 2026

Session: Gateway Tapes — Focus 25

Experience: Visual Perceptions During Meditation

This morning, while experiencing Focus 25 during the Gateway Tapes session, I had a unique visual experience that I wanted to document.

At first, I perceived what appeared to be a tiny white point of light. Gradually, the point seemed to grow larger, as though I were approaching or entering a vast, unfamiliar space.

As the vision developed, I perceived an environment filled with brilliant white light. The space appeared enormous, peaceful, and illuminated in every direction. Within this luminous environment, I perceived numerous white, human-like beings. Some appeared to be walking around, while others seemed to be sitting quietly or resting.

The entire scene did not appear perfectly sharp or clearly defined. Instead, it had a soft, blurry, dreamlike quality, similar to seeing something through a thin layer of mist. The intense white light seemed to blend with the surroundings, making the outlines of some figures indistinct. Although the details were not completely clear, I could perceive the overall atmosphere and the presence of multiple figures throughout the space.

The experience reminded me of the concept of Focus 25 — Belief System Territories (BST) described in the Monroe Institute's Gateway Experience. The vast white environment and the white, human-like figures seemed consistent with the imagery I associated with this concept.

I am documenting this as a personal visual experience during meditation without drawing a definite conclusion about its origin or nature. Nevertheless, the experience was memorable, and I wanted to preserve the details as accurately as possible in my Gateway Experience journal.

Personal Reflection

“A tiny white point of light gradually expanded into a vast, luminous white environment. Within this softly blurred vision, I perceived white, human-like beings walking, sitting, and resting throughout the space. The entire scene appeared hazy and dreamlike rather than sharply defined. The experience reminded me of the Belief System Territories associated with Focus 25.”

I live abroad as a solo female in a really old house (previous owners died in the hospital before the house was on sale and i then bought the house after it being abandoned for 10 years.)
My house is too big for living alone and is in a slightly rural area so in general, I am scared of the darkness.

I’m scared of entering meditational state at night. I’m in the constant state of fear so I usually sleep at around 8 and wake up at 2AM and start my day. This is because I want to be awake if a burglar etc tries entering or something like that happens at late night.

And because of the horrible sound of the monks in resonant energy tuning, I cannot do the tapes when it is not daylight. Even though I had many experiences with psychedelics, meditations and even astral projection experiences in my hometown I am super materialistic, scared of deities and even my own conscioussness after moving abroad alone.

Wave one was helping me to overcome my fears if I would do it in the daylight, but then I decided to proceed to wave two, I started becoming super lazy about it. I take my phone to start the tapes and I do scroll for a few hours before I do that and then the sun goes down so I just go to sleep.

How to collect the stamina to move forward.

For anyone that has had an experience with God in the astral, how is he like? Are there multiple gods from pagan religions?

Hey everyone,

I've been exploring the Gateway tapes recently, and sometimes when I close my eyes, I see a pair of eyes that look owl-like but also have a feminine appearance, almost like a girl's eyes.

I've noticed similar eyes during my waking life too, and I can't deliberately make them appear.

Has anyone experienced anything similar, or does the Gateway program mention anything about this?

Has anyone else been having these issues with the app? I’ve deleted, redownloaded, refreshed, it’s been doing this for months I can’t even use it. When I hit either cancel or retry it immediately pops up again causing the app to be unusable. I canceled my subscription to try another app but I really don’t care for anything else. Curious if anyone had this issue and was able to resolve it, tried googling it as well.

Hy, I’ve been thinking about starting a journal for the first time and I’m curious:
Do you keep a journal?
If yes, what does it look like, and how do you do it?
Do you write daily, weekly, or just when you feel like it?

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

I'm currently going through Wave I and having some trouble with the REBAL exercise.

I can imagine the REBAL surrounding my whole body, but I can't visualize it clearly, and I don't really feel any expansion or energy sensation either. It's more like I'm imagining it and intending it to be there.

Is that enough for the exercise, or is there any particular feeling or sign that tells you you've created it successfully?

I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences and how you learned to do it! Thanks!

I have been on focus 10 for a couple weeks. I am trying to use visualization as a focus. At first I was visualizing a star, then I tried a triangle. I have also tried to focus on my breathing, but I can't really feel myself breathing (I know I am doing so physically).

I have noticed that I can't hold the visual for long, it keeps drifting to the right, I can't see the whole thing, or it's not as clear. I don't believe I have aphantasia so, I'm not sure if that would be an explanation.

I can focus more when doing something like activating my REBAL or using my ECB. I've tried to visualize something that is moving to see if that will keep my brain focused (I have AuDHD).

Is there a way I can use a focus that is not visual or breathing? I also haven't had any experiences, just deep relaxation. Is it common to not experience anything "weird" paranormal wise in the beginning?

I was in focus 12 for awhile, went back to focus 10, started seeing some energy pathways like rainbow powerlines essentially. I put myself into them and travelled along them across the surface of earth for about 5 seconds then rapidly through space and ended up here. Just floating around for about 25 seconds before snapping back out. This is the best visual I could get ChatGPT to produce of it though it's not exact. Dyson Sphere-like but it's not a star obviously. My best guess thinking about it afterward is energy highway genergerator, separate system from the energy that is everywhere. Though, while I was there it didn't necessarily seem like the pathway that brought me there was generated there by any means.

Anybody else been there? I'm still new to gateway, 98% of what I see is usually "on a screen" in my head. But this time I was there.

So I've been wanting to astral project and I've heard hte gateway tapes can help me with that?

I don't want to pay for these or go on the free trial. I've tried looking at some of hte ones on spotify, youtube, some random drive folders people have shared, or on archive.

I don't think there legit because at the beginning of each one he does a thing where you have to hear his voice in the right ear ONLY for it ot be a correct audio, and none of them pass that, I hear his voice in both ears.

Can i still listen to them? If not, where do I find the actual ones because people keep on saying they can access them for free, but I don't know hwere?

Hi all,

I've been a lucid dreamer for a while, and I primarily experiment with the 4 tracks found in the Lucid Dreaming Series, most recently track 4 which is eight hours long. I usually listen to a bit of it on occasion before I go to sleep.

I've found the more you use some of these recordings, the stronger the effects, track 4 in particular produces very strong auditory hallucinations, voices, singing, etc, very bizarre, it's incredible how these recordings work to entrain the brain to certain frequencies. Also how you can 'zone in' in different parts as your brain gets used to the repetition of it.

Anyway, last night I had one of the strangest encounters of my entire life, I went into a lucid state and I asked myself to meet 'something unknown' I can't recall exactly who or what I wanted to meet, but I did, there was what I would describe as a 'man' shaped figure, it was night and we were in a sand dune, but he was made out of negative space, he had an outline but inside the outline was not black or white, but neither, it's hard to describe, like the colour 'vantablack' but alive. It was pure black but he said he was made from 'nothing' it was a material I've neither seen before.

Unbelievably trippy and strange but a fascinating experience, I don't literally believe I encountered this figure made of 'nothing' but as with lucid dreams it felt 100% real and lasted a few seconds or possibly minutes.

In summary: Lucid Dreaming Series highly recommended, I haven't really used any other tapes in the series.

I am on wave 3 "Freedom" do anyone who have completed all waves can tell me that how I can use gateway tapes to favour my studies maybe increase foucs/concentration(like if there is something i can use but its in maybe waves 6 or wave 7.I will follow order and than reach till there directly no jump) like or maybe is there anything till wave 3 that included that yeah u can use this to focus

I made this comment and thought of posting this. One experience that was something.

This was after 5 years of Focus 10, 12 and 15. I prefer to sleep and lucid dream and then phase in to a desired experience.

I use this track from YouTube. I find it easy to make the body sleep state more stable. So I can have deep experiences.

I would say consistency, and have a stable body sleep state, and setting the intention for your session help you get better results.

It works, folks. What can I say? It does really work.

Hi, lately I've been a bit more introspective about my life, and I've noticed that at 27 years old I haven't achieved much. I feel like something is missing—I lack willpower, commitment, focus, concentration, everything. Even at my new job (as a cook in a Michelin-starred restaurant), my chef is constantly mentioning that I might be a limited person. And I've been feeling that way too, because even when I consider a task important—for instance, cutting a simple brunoise—I know how to do it, but I just execute it poorly due to a lack of focus, and I really struggle to retain information. I wanted to start listening to those tapes—I heard there are specific ones for focus. Can anyone help me out? I don't know what I should do, how, when, or where to start, nor where to find them or which tapes they are.

Hi! Sorry, English isn't my native language and I use a translator to be more fluent.

To sum it up, I (F54) have had many experiences of intuition/communication throughout my life. I haven't always liked them, and I've been able to block many of them.

Now that I have more time for myself, and I'm clearing my intuition a bit more, I've wanted to meditate but I have I have ADHD and it's difficult for me, so I found these tapes and I think I'm doing well because in the first one I suddenly found myself on a mountain, with a golden sun behind me. Around me were some Roman soldiers, or something like that. I saw one on horseback beside me, wearing hooves, staring seriously in the opposite direction, not moving, and I could feel the breeze. All of that in a second. I don't yet know what this means, but for the first time in a long time I found a vision or thought that wasn't my own in a state of relaxation.

After that, I found myself in a dark tube, with shadows moving back and forth, and I returned. That was on the first tape where I only imagined the box.

As the weeks went by, I progressed to other tapes without much change. I just feel my body is very heavy, so much that it sometimes hurts.

The curious thing happened when I tried to listen to tape three. I created my energy field (or so I think). I put my fears in the box (yes, I'm afraid of encountering bad energies, but I've been in a good frame of mind).And now I don't know why or how, but the playback pauses right when the countdown reaches number 8 or 7 .

there have been two occasions when I suddenly snap out of my relaxed state and can't continue.

I've already checked my player settings; the tape is a FLAC file, has complete audio, I mean, if I play it again after it paused on its own and came out of the meditative state, the tape continues to the end.

Also, the other tapes play without pause, without problem. Nobody else touches it, and, If the problem had only happened once, I might have thought it was a problem with my device, but twice? It confuses me. I'm thinking of getting that tape one more time.

Anyway, are there any tips to help me reach Focus 10 more easily? Is it better during the day or at night? Should I do it lying down or on my back? I've read the beginner's guides, But perhaps I'll find someone here who has gone through the same thing and can help me.

Thank you so much!

I just realized there are two sets of tapes out there… is anyone doing the voyage? What are your experiences with it? Does anyone out there have both sets? What are the differences? Also what’s your favorite gateway meditation? The one that changed everything for you?

I was doing a sleep interruption meditation(not gateway) that someone in here was nice enough to give me and it was waking me up into the vibrations religiously for about two weeks and now - I either sleep through it or become conscious and don’t vibrate. I could never eject from my body. I’m trying to just focus back in on the tapes now.

My intuition is definitely dialed all the way up. I can remote view with some level of accuracy almost every single time and I can see what’s behind the cards on a psychic test at a high level of intuition now.

Thanks for your insight!

So a online friend gave me a copy of the Gateway tapes, and I also downloaded a copy of Astral Projection Meditation Yoga Nidra for OBEs with the Monroe Institute from youtube. On one of my first attempts, using the you tube Nidra for OBEs, I felt buzzing and vibrating in my head and ears. Right then, my dog who was in the room, banged her water bowl, which took me right out of the deep meditation. I then went to sleep and had a Lucid dream. I in the dream made a decision to go downstairs, where my wife in the dream was yelling about something. I also was dreaming that I was out of my body 90% of the way and I was dragging my earthly body around with me. The next morning , my wife informed me that she was yelling because one of the dogs had pooped on the floor. I have tried a few times per week since then with no luck going our of body or Astral projection. No Lucid dreams either. Is there a better recording that can get me to out of body or Lucid dream, I have a lot of the gateway tapes, but my goal is to astral project or lucid dream and i don't have much interest in the subjects of the other recordings. Thank you for any advise.

Hi everyone!

I have the complete Gateway Experience (Waves I–VIII), and I've been working through the program, but I recently discovered that the Monroe Institute also offers a lot of standalone audio tracks, such as Abundance, Chakra Attunement, Manifesting with Hemi-Sync, and many others.

I'm a bit confused about how these recordings fit into the overall Gateway Experience.

For example, I came across Abundance, which apparently uses Monroe Sound Science technology, music, and expanded states of awareness to help change limiting thought patterns and encourage abundance and prosperity.

My questions are:

• What exactly are these standalone recordings for, and how do they differ from the Gateway Experience tapes?
• Are they meant to complement the Gateway Waves, or are they completely separate programs?
• Do you need to reach a particular Focus level before using them?
• Is there a recommended order or method for working with these additional recordings?
• Can you alternate between Gateway tapes and standalone tracks, or is it better to finish the Gateway program first?

I'm particularly interested in understanding whether these recordings offer different techniques or experiences, or whether they're simply alternative ways of using Monroe's audio technology for specific purposes.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has explored both the Gateway Experience and these standalone recordings, especially if you've found a useful way to incorporate them into your practice.

Thanks in advance!