Thread: paralysed/semi paralysed in lucids

Hello Inceptionnist,

I have experienced several dozens of SP, and when the conditions are ok I sometimes turn them into LD's.
I just roll on my bed 'till I'm out of it (I end by standing next to my bed). Then there is a randomly long time during which I have to walk to my window to get outside.
At this stage, I am very clumsy, I sometimes feel semi-paralysed (my arms are difficult to move, my legs don't fully obey...). A couple of times, I even fell to the ground!
I think this problem is only about the SP we just left, it's like we still feel a little bit of it. That's why we have to stabilize the dream by touching and feeling the surroundings. We need to "anchor" ourselves in the dream to completely leave the SP sensations. This way we fully join our dream body to the detriment of our physical body and sensations (which are responsible of the paralysed feeling)
Anyway, it works for me, I hope it will help you too !

Usually when I get paralyzed or too "intoxicated", for lack of a better term, to properly move or talk (only bits of my intended message get out) in dreams (lucid or otherwise), it's actually unrelated to when I get in a dream after waking up in sleep paralysis and DEILDing, or from falling asleep from WBTB and getting it. Usually it happens randomly and almost never after I get lucid by slipping into a dream from a REM Atonia/Sleep Paralysis state. More often than not I'm some level of "intoxicated" rather than paralyzed. It's as if only a small percentage of the signals I'm sending my dream body actually get through, and so I can still move and make noises, but I can't articulate my speech (or if I can, barely anything gets out), and I can barely move from where I'm at.

I've read enough about "dream drunkeness" and stuff like that that I know this is a somewhat common phenomenon. I'm sure some of the time the cause can be trying to transition into a dream from SP, but in all of my experiences it is definitely unrelated. Although, I have had times where I suddenly got paralyzed at what I would soon find out is the end of the dream, and it turns into something that feels exactly like SP, and then all of a sudden I seamlessly wake up still in SP. Just never the other way around. I think it has to do with my method of transitioning from SP to a dream though. More often than not I imagine a vortex of some kind near my feet or head and I get sucked in and after a few seconds I'm in a dream. I lose all feeling of my body in the process, so all the REM Atonia/SP vibrations business goes away, and I'm kind of just born or rather "appear" or suddenly exist in a new body in the dream.