Frustrated With Lbrp Progress... Have You Ever Seen "visions" After Doing It? Options

It's been doing it for about a year, during some periods every day... and I just can't get any juice out of it.

It started well enough, but after a few months of daily practice, I didn't seem to have any results. I read Kraigs' modern magic book and he says it is likely you'll start seeing "visions" of things, he says he saw a snake disappear into the floor or something.

I'm no where near that point, if indeed I can get to such a point. I know the point of magick is NOT to have little tricks and visions but I feel bad that I cannot sense any true progress. I expected I would at least have gradual signs or feelings that I was advancing, even if just in baby steps.

Part of my problem may be that I rarely vibrate the names aloud, and when I do, I tend to feel a bit silly. My room has no curtains on the windows and there IS a constant sense of paranoia, at most times of day. I don't know. I dont plan on giving up but I wanted to know other people's sensations of "progress."

Again, everybody, thanks for chiming in with some good advice. Here's one more issue:

when doing the Qabalistic cross or Middle Pillar, aren't you meant vibrate other body parts? For example, right shoulder with ve-geburah? And when you thrust your hands, what part of the body is meant to vibrate? it begins in your chest? In your third eye? Anywhere you feel accustomed to?

I have so far been trying to focus my attention on that part of my body while vibrating. I might not be sensitive enough to feel things, who knows. (Also, I should add for what its worth, I live near a small but busy road. Constant whoosh-whoosh of cars and its quite annoying for doing most types of things, magical or otherwise.)

when doing the Qabalistic cross or Middle Pillar, aren't you meant vibrate other body parts? For example, right shoulder with ve-geburah?

Yes

And when you thrust your hands, what part of the body is meant to vibrate? it begins in your chest? In your third eye? Anywhere you feel accustomed to?

The initial vibration is along the middle pillar, during the thrust the entire body should vibrate.