A Vision quest where you don't eat or drink anything at all for 96 hours

In the summer of 1983 when I was I think 35 years old I went to the South Fork of the Trinity River in Northern California and Crow who was a medicine man from the Blackfoot (or Blackfeet) Tribe located in or near Browning Montana and Glacier National Park did a sweat that day to send me on a 4 day vision quest of no water and no food for 96 hours.

The visions come from your body not having food or water for 96 hours while you are praying for visions with God.

However, you have to be healthy enough to survive this so mostly even if you are really healthy I likely wouldn't recommend doing this over 40 years of age simply because no food and no water is quite shock to your system, both physically and mentally and also spiritually and psychologically.

However, the good thing about all this is you trigger your starvation mechanisms which allow to you speak and hear back from God doing this too, especially during the 2nd two days of your vision quest.

Though I have heard of medicine men continuing their vision quests of no water and no food for up to 9 days (just remember these guys or gals have been doing this all their lives not just once). So, not only are they vision quest veterans, their bodies have gotten more used to this.

So, when you are a newbie like I was at this this is pretty extreme in every way you can imagine.

However, if you are comfortable in the wilderness alone out there with bears and deer and porcupines and squirrels and Bald Eagles and Hawks and Wood Ducks and you name it then maybe this is for you too like it was for me then. I always felt much more comfortable in the wilderness than in a city or even in suburbia anyway. 

The Wilderness was always my spiritual home. Always!

So, after 2 days in the wilderness alongside the Trinity River I learned to "Eat" the sunlight as it glinted off the River for 4 days.

Though my body and mind screamed at me for the first 2 days: "You are going to die! You are killing us! etc. etc. etc." I perservered knowing I needed to Talk to God in this way. 

So, by the night of the 2nd day I was having visions and being aware all the time of how different I was experiencing life around me from this "Starvation mode" of being a human being. I became aware of just how amazing a human being actually is in ways I had never expected before.

I realized then just how much more powerful and amazing we are as human beings while at the same time realizing just how vulnerable we are in other ways which most people don't seem to realize especially when they are young.

I saw this way of viewing reality was much more real than the way most people are enculturated by their languages and cultures.

I was grateful more than ever before to be a Human being and to learn what I was learning about what a human being is because this really isn't taught about in school or even in church what I learned.

This was God talking to me 24 hours a day in this.