You can do it and you will actually feel it if you become still enough and intense enough.

In your imagination bring him close enough to put your hand upon him and feel him to be solidly real.

But imagine that housed within your hand is a more subtle, more real hand, which can be extracted in your imagination.

Put your imaginary hand into his. Feel it to be solid and real

Give him all sensory vividness, and when it takes on the tones of reality, open your eyes!

and he feels him as I felt the rail on the ship, as I could smell the salt of the sea in the wind

all in my imagination, giving it all the sensory vividness, giving it all the tones of reality

If I can so clothe this imagined state with all the vivid sensitiveness of reality, then I will ultimately actually clothe it in flesh

until the whole thing seems natural and seems real, and it has the sensory vividness of reality

until this seeming imagined state begins to take on to me the tones of reality

Can you feel embracing arms around you?

“Can you feel the embrace of such a man?”

if you hold to it in your imagination, then you will make it real in your outer world

I felt it and it was solidly real, just as it would feel here, and my hand did not go through it, and I held on to it and made myself awake

do it over and over in your imagination until that takes on the tones of reality

but you bring it so close that you can feel it as though it were solidly real now

But to visualize it in this room as though it were here and to put my mental hand upon the piano and to feel it solidly real

Then visualize a friend standing before you. Put your imaginary hand into his. Feel it to be solid and real

Lose yourself in feeling this assumption is solidly real.

Note the stress that is placed upon feeling in this story.

You can FEEL this to be so real that upon opening your eyes you are amazed to find that you are not physically there.

I will be able to surround myself with the environment of London as though it were a solid concrete objective fact

Teach them how to say “thank you,” but I need not ever teach anyone how to feel it. So how do I feel it? Not the words, get below the words into the feeling.

Keep the action going until the ring has the distinctness and feeling of reality.

then mentally touch it and mentally appropriate it and feel that you have it

take your imaginary hand, which is Jacob’s hand, and put it into his imaginary hand. Leave it in that imagined state until it takes on the tones of reality.

imagine that he is fully conscious of the good that is already his and he accepts that congratulation and make the contact real

I do it over and over until it takes on the tone of reality

she took her imaginary hands and held these letters

I can take my hand now, place it on this book, and assume that I am fondling something that is not here to be seen by anyone.

I gave every step all the solidity that I could muster—all the sensory vividness that I could actually bring to play upon that action

she took all of her attention and hallucinated it—you can hallucinate sights, smell, touch

you touch it by becoming intensely aware of it; that’s the only way to touch a thing

When I become intensely aware that I am hearing what I want to hear and am actually touching what I want to touch

I know what I want – a collie puppy – and I can imagine I am hugging him every night on my bed.

we must focus our attention upon the desired state until it has all the sensory vividness and feeling of reality

It never failed me if I would give the mood, the imagined mood, sensory vividness.

Give your imaginary state all the tones and feeling of reality.

And while I am touching the furniture and feeling it to be solidly real

and imagined everything into hallucinatory clarity

I simply assumed it, and imagined the sensation that I would feel were it true, and I could feel a pillow.