When I finished playing Richard at 11.00 pm I had been playing for over 15 hours and was getting in to a steady rhythm. During this entire period I had not used any of my allotted rest time. I planned to have my first 'sleep' during the nine hours that I would be playing the brothers, Kanak and Karan Gupta.

     Karan is training to be a doctor and, a few days before I started this record event, he gave me a quick physical check-up. I spoke to him about my ability to leave and enter my body under control and he witnessed one such event and recorded his findings. So I was keen to find out if I would be refreshed by this method and not, therefore, need hours of sleep to carry on.

   


     At 3/14/11 am when I had just finished my second game against Karan I decided to have my first official sleep period. As I had now been playing for just over 19 hours, I was entitled to over one hour of rest (5 minutes for every 60 minutes of play), but I did not plan to use very much of this allotted period. Time for me to test my new found skill! For anyone interested in hypnosis and astral travel this part of my record event might prove interesting. 

     I lay down on the carpeted floor just behind where I had been sitting for all these long hours and almost immediately left my body. Karan had been instructed to wake me up after 15 minutes and this is what he did! 

     'Paul, time to wake up!'  

     Within 2 minutes, I was back sitting on my chair and starting my third game against Karan. How did I feel?  I felt well rested

     What happens during the time I leave my body? Sorry to disappoint those of you who would like to know the answer to this question, but now is not the time to speculate about this.  At some time in the future, Karan and I will reveal everything we know about hypnosis, astral travel, lucid dreams and other spiritual matters, but for now I want to concentrate on how I physically and mentally managed to break this world, marathon chess record.

   









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