Focus on the LED light of your stereo system - then rock back and forth - I can it for hours and don't know where the time went - much better than TV for an alpha-state...speaking of alpha have your ever tried to sort the alphabet from a can of hot soup? You are always missing some letters that are missing and then you begin to think that maybe you ate them and they might be in your gut but that is OK because you can always puke (which is better than looking for them the next day) and then you realize that you have really wanted to puke for the past several hours and you do but when you wake up and look in the toilet their are only i's, and c's and o's and no a single missing p anywhere and you vomit again because you see the p is in your pee but that doesn't help because it is crawling slowly away, somewhere to disappear under your bare ass....and then you worry about tape-worms and perhaps the pot was not fresh or the brownies not cooked or the milk had come from a mother that left it in your freezer sometime last spring? Alpha is a all in your state of mind - is it any wonder the Buddists never built any thing close to a New York City?