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RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - josh84 - 12-18-2018

Hi Shannon with 3.3 you have self confidence and self esteem all included which is one thing im hoping will start working soon obviously after 1 cycle it wasnt going to change much but you have mentioned that 4.1 is a lot faster working then the 3.2 versions do you think it will take a lot less time even for strong resistors to start seeing changes in confidence?

I ask because having that extra confidence would of been really good this weekend, i had thoughts of approaching women but still held back, but dmsi the women are meant to show us interest first too when we start to execute.

Just curious by all your tests that you run for people that resist a lot will it still take 3 or more months to start seeing big changes and external results from women?

I see a lot are getting good results from looks and confidence boost and more already so thought to ask, i am using hybrid trickling stream volume is quite loud but comfortable with headphones each night while awake for the 5.5 hours no other music or videos playing during that time so i end up doing some reading. Only exception to this was for 2 days had to use ultrasonic on the cruise as the headphones kept falling off.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - ncbeareatingman - 12-19-2018

Post: #3460RE: Shannon's Journal, Volume 2
Had a really exciting breakthrough tonight. While I was going over how the FRM works looking for ways to improve it, I hit upon something so obvious that I hadn't been able to see it previously. I don't yet know how to implement it, or if it is even possible to, or will work, but if it does and I can implement it, that may be the final piece of the puzzle, or pretty darned close to it.

Very exciting!
Me: Dang Man....very encouraging progress. I can sooo clearly that FRM v3 is removing 'stuff' that seriously needs removing. I am confident,Shannon,that when USM comes out that it will REALLY help remove some deeply entrenched fears around money/success/power,in a deeper,faster,even more powerful way than the current version that I AM on,with USLM3( even still,the FRM v3 is phenominal Man,wow! 10 yrs ago we did NOT have any of this newer 5.5G technology,much less,whats planned in 6G! Geez,talk about 'groove is in da heart,and in da house!)


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - Shannon - 12-19-2018

(12-18-2018, 09:36 PM)Jake2015 Wrote:
(12-18-2018, 08:38 PM)Shannon Wrote: Jake, I'm not convinced you will take this seriously. "Only 10 days" is "only 8 days" more than you were supposed to take off, IF it was timed correctly for an ASRB break. Otherwise it was 10 days more. So that, best case scenario, is only what, 400% or 500% more time off than you were supposed to get? Yet here you are talking as if it's no big deal. How do we classify this, Jake? Self deception, or self delusion?

When you want something, you do what it takes to get it. Do what it takes, and I'll believe you're serious. Until I believe you are serious again, you will have to figure it out without my help.

After 3years if you don't see this as me taking it serious then I don't see what will. First time I've broken asrb.

I'll plod along and hope for the best.

Jake, what I see is someone who is being self deceptive. You aren't doing this to make the changes, you're doing it to have an excuse not to. You could have had all these issues dealt with a long time ago if you had done one simple thing, but you refuse to do that one simple thing. You do everything in your power to dance around it, but you never do the one thing that would end your issues in one fell swoop: take full personal responsibility for your choices and actions.

I have been around the block many times with people on this in many directions, from procrastination to drug use to being deceptive to others and self deception and alcoholism and many others. I know what I am looking at, I know why it is what it is, and I know that at your core you refuse to take personal responsibility.

So you are looking to subs for help, but it has become a convenient excuse to stagnate and do nothing. Wait for the sub to do it, while defeating the sub and then you don't have to move while saying you are trying to. Which, really, is a lie to yourself and everyone else. And that means your real goal is stagnation and procrastination, and the lengths to which you are going to maintain the status quo is amazing. When you use the subs, it takes effort equal to what it would take to achieve the goals of the program to resist achieving them. That is intentional effort to achieve the real goal.

At this point, I think you have three options.

1. Go find something else that works better for you than subliminals.
2. Start taking personal responsibility and outgrowing the desire to stagnate and fail.
3. Use something with FRM in it.

I don't see you doing #2 anytime soon. You obviously don't want to do #1, because it might either work or cost you your excuse for stagnating and maintaining your real goal. So that leaves #3, and you're even finding excuses not to do that.

So it's the end of the road. There's nothing left to try.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - Shannon - 12-19-2018

(12-18-2018, 10:53 PM)josh84 Wrote: Hi Shannon with 3.3 you have self confidence and self esteem all included which is one thing im hoping will start working soon obviously after 1 cycle it wasnt going to change much but you have mentioned that 4.1 is a lot faster working then the 3.2 versions do you think it will take a lot less time even for strong resistors to start seeing changes in confidence?

Since something like FRM has literally never been done before... I can't say yet. But I believe it will, yes.

Quote:I ask because having that extra confidence would of been really good this weekend, i had thoughts of approaching women but still held back, but dmsi the women are meant to show us interest first too when we start to execute.

Just curious by all your tests that you run for people that resist a lot will it still take 3 or more months to start seeing big changes and external results from women?

I don't believe there is just one "level of resistance". It's not "resistant or not". It's a spectrum. The more resistant someone is, the more fearful they will be (in some way, at some level), and the longer it will naturally take to remove their fears. I think FRM v3.x should take 3+ months. I think 4.x should take less time. I don't have enough actual evidence to know, and I haven't modeled it.

Quote:I see a lot are getting good results from looks and confidence boost and more already so thought to ask, i am using hybrid trickling stream volume is quite loud but comfortable with headphones each night while awake for the 5.5 hours no other music or videos playing during that time so i end up doing some reading. Only exception to this was for 2 days had to use ultrasonic on the cruise as the headphones kept falling off.

So you're going for the "more is better" approach, which is likely why you aren't seeing results. Too much is just as bad as too little, just for different reasons.

Calibrate the volume such that you can only faintly hear the lowest levels of ocean surf, and the highest points are comfortably loud. That is your maximum volume. Try that for a week and see what happens. If you don't start seeing more results, then take it down one notch each cycle until you do.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - Shannon - 12-19-2018

(12-19-2018, 06:34 AM)ncbeareatingman Wrote: Post: #3460RE: Shannon's Journal, Volume 2
Had a really exciting breakthrough tonight. While I was going over how the FRM works looking for ways to improve it, I hit upon something so obvious that I hadn't been able to see it previously. I don't yet know how to implement it, or if it is even possible to, or will work, but if it does and I can implement it, that may be the final piece of the puzzle, or pretty darned close to it.

Very exciting!
Me: Dang Man....very encouraging progress. I can sooo clearly that FRM v3 is removing 'stuff' that seriously needs removing. I am confident,Shannon,that when USM comes out that it will REALLY help remove some deeply entrenched fears around money/success/power,in a deeper,faster,even more powerful way than the current version that I AM on,with USLM3( even still,the FRM v3 is phenominal Man,wow! 10 yrs ago we did NOT have any of this newer 5.5G technology,much less,whats planned in 6G! Geez,talk about 'groove is in da heart,and in da house!)

Yeah, 10 years ago we didn't even have the technology necessary to build 5.5G, Lol

But I am starting to get a feeling for how many pieces of the puzzle there are for FRM 5.0 and I therefore have an idea how close I am to solving the puzzle. The idea I came up with last night appears to be the biggest one left, or maybe one of two big ones left.

Remember back in the early 90's when subs were so weak that it took a solid 32 days to even start noticing some effects? I was just days away from putting down subs altogether because they didn't work when I realized that the sub I was trying out worked on me. If it hadn't been for that last ditch effort working... we wouldn't be here today.

Now we can get more out of a sub on the first day that we got in a month or more on those old 1st Gen subs.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - ncbeareatingman - 12-19-2018

(12-19-2018, 07:58 AM)Shannon Wrote:
(12-19-2018, 06:34 AM)ncbeareatingman Wrote: Post: #3460RE: Shannon's Journal, Volume 2
Had a really exciting breakthrough tonight. While I was going over how the FRM works looking for ways to improve it, I hit upon something so obvious that I hadn't been able to see it previously. I don't yet know how to implement it, or if it is even possible to, or will work, but if it does and I can implement it, that may be the final piece of the puzzle, or pretty darned close to it.

Very exciting!
Me: Dang Man....very encouraging progress. I can sooo clearly that FRM v3 is removing 'stuff' that seriously needs removing. I am confident,Shannon,that when USM comes out that it will REALLY help remove some deeply entrenched fears around money/success/power,in a deeper,faster,even more powerful way than the current version that I AM on,with USLM3( even still,the FRM v3 is phenominal Man,wow! 10 yrs ago we did NOT have any of this newer 5.5G technology,much less,whats planned in 6G! Geez,talk about 'groove is in da heart,and in da house!)

Yeah, 10 years ago we didn't even have the technology necessary to build 5.5G, Lol

But I am starting to get a feeling for how many pieces of the puzzle there are for FRM 5.0 and I therefore have an idea how close I am to solving the puzzle. The idea I came up with last night appears to be the biggest one left, or maybe one of two big ones left.

Remember back in the early 90's when subs were so weak that it took a solid 32 days to even start noticing some effects? I was just days away from putting down subs altogether because they didn't work when I realized that the sub I was trying out worked on me. If it hadn't been for that last ditch effort working... we wouldn't be here today.

Now we can get more out of a sub on the first day that we got in a month or more on those old 1st Gen subs.

SO true Shannon, heck I can remember when I was in college ,and using Sub's at my little pad...in 87' & 88',used them'forever' they did work some,but yes indeed it took for--eh---ver for them to kick in' usually after 21 days 'er so...sometimes a month to five weeks,depending on 'the title'. Never came anywhere close to what we have now here at IML! I totally agree in one day of usage of 5.5G IML technolgy,covers months of the old stuff ,even then after months never worked like,your technolgy does,anf again in one day! Geez,incredible!!
Im sooo glad you perservered Man!! Holy Cow FRM 5.0 is coming.YOU should've seen my eyes when I first read that line,they got big as two silver dollars...wow. didnt know that was comin'. Money & removing loads of fear,wow. whaddah combo...'er whatever else one wants conscious success in...rockin' it in 2019!!


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - blth - 12-19-2018

Shannon can you explain a little bit how important non masturbation is on dmsi and why, how it helps the end goal etc?


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - josh84 - 12-19-2018

(12-19-2018, 07:53 AM)Shannon Wrote:
(12-18-2018, 10:53 PM)josh84 Wrote: Hi Shannon with 3.3 you have self confidence and self esteem all included which is one thing im hoping will start working soon obviously after 1 cycle it wasnt going to change much but you have mentioned that 4.1 is a lot faster working then the 3.2 versions do you think it will take a lot less time even for strong resistors to start seeing changes in confidence?

Since something like FRM has literally never been done before... I can't say yet. But I believe it will, yes.

Quote:I ask because having that extra confidence would of been really good this weekend, i had thoughts of approaching women but still held back, but dmsi the women are meant to show us interest first too when we start to execute.

Just curious by all your tests that you run for people that resist a lot will it still take 3 or more months to start seeing big changes and external results from women?

I don't believe there is just one "level of resistance". It's not "resistant or not". It's a spectrum. The more resistant someone is, the more fearful they will be (in some way, at some level), and the longer it will naturally take to remove their fears. I think FRM v3.x should take 3+ months. I think 4.x should take less time. I don't have enough actual evidence to know, and I haven't modeled it.

Quote:I see a lot are getting good results from looks and confidence boost and more already so thought to ask, i am using hybrid trickling stream volume is quite loud but comfortable with headphones each night while awake for the 5.5 hours no other music or videos playing during that time so i end up doing some reading. Only exception to this was for 2 days had to use ultrasonic on the cruise as the headphones kept falling off.

So you're going for the "more is better" approach, which is likely why you aren't seeing results. Too much is just as bad as too little, just for different reasons.

Calibrate the volume such that you can only faintly hear the lowest levels of ocean surf, and the highest points are comfortably loud. That is your maximum volume. Try that for a week and see what happens. If you don't start seeing more results, then take it down one notch each cycle until you do.

Thanks shannon, i will try changing the volume on vlc media player on the next cycle, tonight is the last night of trickling stream hybrid and will drop vlc media player volume to 75%. After the 2 day break will move onto ocean surf hybrid and will try between 50 and 75% and see if the lower volumes will work better for me.

Just seeing that 12 of 15 volume is recommended and others having volume up loud is why i had been doing it that way but will decrease volume for the cycles from now on and see how it goes.

Would 10% decrease be equal to one notch on a phone?


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - Jake2015 - 12-19-2018

(12-19-2018, 07:45 AM)Shannon Wrote:
(12-18-2018, 09:36 PM)Jake2015 Wrote:
(12-18-2018, 08:38 PM)Shannon Wrote: Jake, I'm not convinced you will take this seriously. "Only 10 days" is "only 8 days" more than you were supposed to take off, IF it was timed correctly for an ASRB break. Otherwise it was 10 days more. So that, best case scenario, is only what, 400% or 500% more time off than you were supposed to get? Yet here you are talking as if it's no big deal. How do we classify this, Jake? Self deception, or self delusion?

When you want something, you do what it takes to get it. Do what it takes, and I'll believe you're serious. Until I believe you are serious again, you will have to figure it out without my help.

After 3years if you don't see this as me taking it serious then I don't see what will. First time I've broken asrb.

I'll plod along and hope for the best.

Jake, what I see is someone who is being self deceptive. You aren't doing this to make the changes, you're doing it to have an excuse not to. You could have had all these issues dealt with a long time ago if you had done one simple thing, but you refuse to do that one simple thing. You do everything in your power to dance around it, but you never do the one thing that would end your issues in one fell swoop: take full personal responsibility for your choices and actions.

I have been around the block many times with people on this in many directions, from procrastination to drug use to being deceptive to others and self deception and alcoholism and many others. I know what I am looking at, I know why it is what it is, and I know that at your core you refuse to take personal responsibility.

So you are looking to subs for help, but it has become a convenient excuse to stagnate and do nothing. Wait for the sub to do it, while defeating the sub and then you don't have to move while saying you are trying to. Which, really, is a lie to yourself and everyone else. And that means your real goal is stagnation and procrastination, and the lengths to which you are going to maintain the status quo is amazing. When you use the subs, it takes effort equal to what it would take to achieve the goals of the program to resist achieving them. That is intentional effort to achieve the real goal.

At this point, I think you have three options.

1. Go find something else that works better for you than subliminals.
2. Start taking personal responsibility and outgrowing the desire to stagnate and fail.
3. Use something with FRM in it.

I don't see you doing #2 anytime soon. You obviously don't want to do #1, because it might either work or cost you your excuse for stagnating and maintaining your real goal. So that leaves #3, and you're even finding excuses not to do that.

So it's the end of the road. There's nothing left to try.

Im not sure what you mean. I click and I play. Ive been doing that for 3 years on all the subs. Only difference here is that around the 80th day life got in my way.

The biggest obstacles I have are both my insomnia and my travels. My home life is very chaotic in the UK as compared to my life in europe but the travelling always messes up my already screwed up sleeping schedule and habit. This in turn becomes a dilemma for which I have always looked at solutions to over come.

In 2015 I was terribly sick for 6-9months, where my life was potentially at risk but even then I stayed with the subs I was listening to back then.

I went to europe and bought 20khz speakers and placed those around my bed there but in the Uk I had no speakers and couldnt afford it. As a mature student my money is super tight which meant I had to improvise as best as I could.

I bought Bose headphones for the purpose of listening to subs by headphones.

Sleepphones caused me major ear ache so couldnt use those.

Any time I have had a challenge and an obstacle I have faced it, and tried to find a solution. I have in that time through my struggles manage to deal with both university issues and family issues but yet here i am committed to the subs.

This time around I missed 10 days, by whichever day it was around 80th day, and I had hoped by now I would have seen results. I didnt. Sure I can be blamed for it but all I have done is cram, pass exams and procrastinate on everything else I want to do and feel I need to do - both due to insomnia and due to poor diet etc.

Yet im still here. Im not looking at subs to do anything more than what they say they will. I missed 10 days, unfortunate but I couldnt avoid it.

I cant go into details on the world wide web as im sure you will appreciate but the obstacles were unavoidable. Thats not me avoiding the subs, that me seeing life has a way of hitting when its least warranted. The same could be said perhaps of you and your cycles.

Yet here I am.

You then assumed somehow that I had lowered the volume to 0 wrong. You for the first time in 3 years have now told me to up the volume so guess what I have even done this.

As I have said before I am prepared to restart the 90days, I have nothing to lose but everything to gain but I really dont understand what you mean.

Perhaps you say this from how it comes across with the way I type, obviously you arent privy to my private life, and I can only share as much as I deem fit but I dont see how I have not been committed to the subs.

Im not executing, you say its my subconscious well I have no idea how to speak to that except through your subs so like I said all i can do is plod along in the hope that I execute.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - AriGold - 12-19-2018

Jake, two questions:

- Which of the subliminals did you use according to the instruction and for the required amount of time (90 days)?

- Could it be that the same excuses you have now are the excuses you use to procrastinate? (A lot of travel, ...) The answer to this question is for you, maybe it helps to see things in a different light, maybe it's completely irrelevant.

Anyway, I wish you success with the subliminals.
In your shoes I would have used AM6 to get rid of the victim mentality because I see you looking outside for people to make decisions for you and be responsible for your life. AM6 should change that.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - ncbeareatingman - 12-20-2018

RE: Shannon's Journal, Volume 2
Today I figured out the preliminaries of how to script last night's breakthrough with FRM. I ran it through the models. It comes back unmistakeably indicating that this is a significant step up in effectiveness for the FRM.

So all I have to do now is develop it into a finished script, and we have FRM 4.3.

This may take a bit, but it will be worth the time for me to stop developing LTU and make FRM 4.3 from 4.2.
Subliminal Audio Specialist & Administrator


Keith:
Re: Dang, YOU Just dont stop! wow... so test flights indicate,quite a jump in FRM design technology. wow. as stated,Im having some remarkable 'stuff' shift and change on "FRM 3.0",so 4.3 to 5.0 has got be some serious altitude n; attitude shifting as a result. thats the goal,right. Wow and so it goes!


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - Oversoul - 12-20-2018

Looks like most people are executing DMSI to some degree. nice.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - Shannon - 12-20-2018

(12-19-2018, 02:33 PM)blth Wrote: Shannon can you explain a little bit how important non masturbation is on dmsi and why, how it helps the end goal etc?

Masturbation is the release of sexual energy, among other things. That sexual energy is both a form and source of energy, and a form and source of motivation to achieve sex.

When you have a lot of that sexual energy, you are motivated to do something about it. The goal is to use that energy to make yourself more sexually attractive. The way to defeat that goal is to jerk off.

DMSI is not designed to prevent you from socializing or approaching if you want to. It is designed to maximize how sexually attractive you are, and part of how it does that is by causing you to generate more sexual energy, so that there is more SEX in your aura with which to affect those around you.

The more sexual energy you have, the more sexually attractive and arousing you become, even without the help of DMSI. DMSI uses that sexual energy to achieve it's goals.

Masturbating interrupts that.


RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3 - Shannon - 12-20-2018

(12-19-2018, 02:35 PM)josh84 Wrote:
(12-19-2018, 07:53 AM)Shannon Wrote:
(12-18-2018, 10:53 PM)josh84 Wrote: Hi Shannon with 3.3 you have self confidence and self esteem all included which is one thing im hoping will start working soon obviously after 1 cycle it wasnt going to change much but you have mentioned that 4.1 is a lot faster working then the 3.2 versions do you think it will take a lot less time even for strong resistors to start seeing changes in confidence?

Since something like FRM has literally never been done before... I can't say yet. But I believe it will, yes.

Quote:I ask because having that extra confidence would of been really good this weekend, i had thoughts of approaching women but still held back, but dmsi the women are meant to show us interest first too when we start to execute.

Just curious by all your tests that you run for people that resist a lot will it still take 3 or more months to start seeing big changes and external results from women?

I don't believe there is just one "level of resistance". It's not "resistant or not". It's a spectrum. The more resistant someone is, the more fearful they will be (in some way, at some level), and the longer it will naturally take to remove their fears. I think FRM v3.x should take 3+ months. I think 4.x should take less time. I don't have enough actual evidence to know, and I haven't modeled it.

Quote:I see a lot are getting good results from looks and confidence boost and more already so thought to ask, i am using hybrid trickling stream volume is quite loud but comfortable with headphones each night while awake for the 5.5 hours no other music or videos playing during that time so i end up doing some reading. Only exception to this was for 2 days had to use ultrasonic on the cruise as the headphones kept falling off.

So you're going for the "more is better" approach, which is likely why you aren't seeing results. Too much is just as bad as too little, just for different reasons.

Calibrate the volume such that you can only faintly hear the lowest levels of ocean surf, and the highest points are comfortably loud. That is your maximum volume. Try that for a week and see what happens. If you don't start seeing more results, then take it down one notch each cycle until you do.

Thanks shannon, i will try changing the volume on vlc media player on the next cycle, tonight is the last night of trickling stream hybrid and will drop vlc media player volume to 75%. After the 2 day break will move onto ocean surf hybrid and will try between 50 and 75% and see if the lower volumes will work better for me.

Just seeing that 12 of 15 volume is recommended and others having volume up loud is why i had been doing it that way but will decrease volume for the cycles from now on and see how it goes.

Would 10% decrease be equal to one notch on a phone?

A volume of 12 is recommended for Jake. Not for everyone. There is a high correlation between a volume of 10-12-13-14-15 for Beast, but I haven't tested DMSI, etc. I am recommending 12/15 to Jake because it is known across several different programs (Beast, MIR, ARA, USLM, SE, DNWS, GPR) to be the sweet spot for execution from resistant personalities when you are using a cell phone.

You will have to use a volume meter to know what the equivalent volume is for VLC, and you have to take into account volume at the source (speaker) and distance from speaker to ear. Even that isn't perfect because some phones have speakers positioned at different distances from their microphones, which may translate into a different volume than 12.