Wave 2 - Patterning - Session 3
Gateway Experience - Wave 2 - Threshold, the office desk & Iota!
Date: 21-22 May 2026
Sessions: Session 3 and 3.5
Wave 2 - Patterning - Session 3 and 3.5
This particular session I classed as a split session because of the madness that was going on in my house.
A brief note on the dog. He’s lovely, I love him to bits, but he’s a needy spaniel. And truly my partners dog, I’m more of the cat mum. But my partner is now away for 5 days, which means it’s me and him for a while. The first night is usually the worst, as he doesn’t settle well without him. Last night was no exception. So for the next 5 days of sessions I will have the dog firmly attached to me. Not ideal, but worth noting upfront, as it makes things a bit harder.
No copper bracelet this time - seeing if it made a difference.
First Attempt
First try 7pm - not successful. Up in the loft, 15 minutes of using the Focus 10 free version on the app to get relaxed, then started the session. The dog insisted on being attached and then went mad because of the cats. So parked that for a bit and tried again later. A few light tingles in the forehead here, nothing major.
Second Attempt
Second try 9pm - dog now tired from a walk, but I had to use a different room to help him settle. So in our main bedroom. He’s on the bed with me, insisting that he’s firmly pressed against my leg. This time I only do 10 minutes of the free Focus 10 on the app to get relaxed, although he’s got the fidgets, so I’m aware this probably isn’t going to work.
This patterning exercise was using the thoughts of having clarity over the images I’ve been having. Especially the ones that came in that weird download, with the pebble and the blue print, as well as the ones that we associated with it.
I tried to do resonant tuning, but the dog wasn’t overly happy about the noise and had to lay across me.
Sensations
Started with the usual forehead tingles. They were more obvious than the ones I had from the Focus 10 relaxing session in the loft. But there wasn’t the usual kind of intenseness from them.
Then then tingles moved down my face as previous times.
This time I felt the tingles move into my arms and hands.
I had a similar energy build up as I did in a previous session, but this time it was through my right leg.
The middle finger on my right hand twitched to the left.
And I began to feel vibrations in my arms and shoulder.
The dog started to have a fidget again, so I was aware of him.
My mouth felt like it was open, even though it wasn’t. Then I became aware of a weird feeling in my cheek. It felt as though I was smiling with just the muscle under my right eye, I noticed it was tense and relaxed it. I actually can’t reproduce tensing that muscle - it was an automatic thing.
Then there was even more build up in my right leg, it became really uncomfortable. And my right foot went into spam. When this happened there was a strong wave that went up the right side of my body, and into my right ear. Which made the audio from the tape sound like it had radio interference, but this was only in the right ear. This passed.
I had no visual phosphene movements, it was just plain grey.
It was generally feeling irritated by the lack of focus, and I assumed it was because of the dog. But something was going on even though I couldn’t see anything this time.
Trying to get to sleep after that was a problem. I was having weird pulses in my right leg. It was as if there was a rope running down inside my leg and tapping on the sole of my foot. It was quite uncomfortable. I thought maybe blood moving around my body - but it was far too slow for that. This continued for ages, until I decided I couldn’t sleep.
Additional Focus 10 Session
So I paid for the upgrade for the Hemi-Sync on the App. Put Focus 10 on for a 30 minute timer, and hoped I’d be relaxed enough to go to sleep after.
During this time, I had phosphene movements in the vision, which were black and grey, and there was more build up in my leg.
Next was super weird. I get my one and only image of the evening.
At this point, I’m still thinking I’m too awake for anything to happen. And the next thing I know, I’m looking at an image. It’s really strange. It’s as if I’m looking at something that’s beyond frosted glass. It’s there but really blurry. However, in the centre of this is a circle. The edges of the circle have what I’d describe as white sketched edges. Like when you draw a circle with a pen and go over it a few times.
In the circle the image was clear. But not just clear. I’d class the hypnagogic images as clear but with details missing, like missing data, or watching a movie that was a bit older and the resolution was lower. This image was hyper clear, as if I was actually there looking at it with my own eyes.
This didn’t last long, because it actually shocked me, so I only got a few moments of what I saw.
I saw a computer desk. Point of view was as if there was a webcam placed on a desk behind it at the same level. So I was looking at the edge of the table part of the desk. Which had a computer and a black keyboard. I was kind of zoomed in on just the keyboard area, so I don’t know what was going on, but I saw the bottom of a monitor too.
But I was aware of the setting to some degree. It wasn’t my desk. Mine is a corner desk, made from 2 bits of kitchen worktop, surrounded by wooden panelling. With piles of post it notes and at least 2 empty coffee cups at all times! And I only know visually of two other people with a home office set up - this wasn’t that. This is what I would class as a traditional office or academic type of computer desk. Modern, clean. No general work debris around. And it was as if it was the middle of the working day, it was light, the room was definitely like via florescent lights, but the person was absent from the desk. As if they had just left the desk to do something, but were coming back.
At that point I called it a night. But the strange pain in my right leg hadn’t left. As was still causing me not to sleep. So I wondered if it was some sort of electrical build up. At this point, I’m past caring I just want to go to sleep. So grab the copper band, in the hope that it might be helpful. No idea at this point if wearing it helped or I was just finally tired enough to go to sleep. I sleep with ear plugs in to drown out background noise (and my partners snoring), I put my ear plugs in, and then noticed I could hear a really faint level of music. We live in a very quiet rural location, so there was no idling cars playing music of anything like that. But it sounded like a calm kind of music playing just out of my real distance of being able to hear. I’m putting this down to auditory hallucinations or some kind of left overs from the session. Then went to sleep.
Next try at the main session again
The next morning, I had taken the idea that the previous night wasn’t great. And I actually wasn’t going to put it in here. But for the sake of the whole experiment, I think it needed to be. Plus the strange office imagery, was very worth adding.
Still in my main bed, morning session. Dog still asleep, so best time to do it at this point.
Took the bracelet off - for the sake of doing the no copper part of the test here. Did 10 minutes with the paid Hemi-Sync version of the Focus 10 on the App to relax. A few light tingles, nothing major. Then went into Patterning session - same as before, wanting clarity on the images from the previous sessions.
Worth noting here, I didn’t do the resonant tuning. Didn’t want to wake the dog up. I went through the motions of doing it but without the audible humming sound.
I noted that there were very few sensations with this session, so perhaps the tuning being audible is important? Can’t conclude any thing at this point.
I no phosphene movements, just grey. There were a few minor vibrations but nothing else much.
My middle finger of my left hand twitched to the left.
Visuals
Then I had two hypnogogic images. The first was someone drawing what looked like a cursive letter i, but the dot on the top was a circle.
And the second image, was a man stood over a desk. And on the desk looked like some kind of map, but it wasn’t a normal one, it had lines radiating from the middle of the paper and going out.
I was still feeling it wasn’t a great session and just a continuation of feeling like I wasn’t getting anywhere, since the night before. I really had the feeling I was far too awake for this. And then I heard myself snore! I was actually completely zonked! And I was snorting in my sleep! Whilst being totally convinced that I was awake! Weird!
I sat with that for a moment, and then assigned that to the realm of the gasps that were happening previously, where I’d dropped into a low breathing state.
Honestly felt like I was completely awake throughout both sessions. So much so that I thought I wasn’t getting into the Focus zones because of the dog. I shouldn’t blame him, it turned out I actually did manage to get further than I thought.....