What are the signs that your body gives you when entering sp or a dream?

**nobodycares** · 01-06-2011 02:59 AM

Here's what I have gotten up to so far:

1) Go to bed at midnight... lay flat on my back, don't move, breathe deeply
2) After about 20 minutes I start losing track of time and I find my mind wandering to other places and thinking about "stories" or "situations" that might resemble dreams
3) I get muscle twitches that jolt my body....
4) I start feeling a warm sensation come over me....

Then I get excited and keep repeating steps 2 - 4... where I go back and lose track of time and then get muscle twitches and then the warm sensations again. This can repeat for over an hour before I finally pass out and wake up in the morning.

I feel that the muscle twitches and warm sensations are very close to where I want to be but I can't seem to get past them. Does this have anything to do with going to sleep at night and trying this? I don't have time for a WILD because of work so I am trying to lucid dream through DILD methods. Entering SP right as I go to bed would be ideal.

Just trying to pick some brains.

**DoctorYikes** · 01-06-2011 11:05 AM

The biggest Key Warning Sign for me is the buzzing sound in/around my head. It's usually a little after that point where I can start trying to "move"... with various degrees of success. Anything from full-on immoble sleep paralysis to rolling sluggishly out of bed (Not in RL, just in sensation), to disengaging from my body and floating in the room.

**Zephyrus** · 01-06-2011 01:32 PM

are you getting a few hours sleep first? if not then that is your problem

**nobodycares** · 01-06-2011 05:13 PM

No sleep prior. I go to bed at night around midnight and wake up at 0600. That's the only sleep schedule I can use right now.

I have WBTB before and it most definitely is A HELL OF A LOT EASIER to wake up first (it seemed 10 times easier). However, since I can't WBTB as often as I'd like, I'm trying to do this during my sleeping hours. I guess when I feel that warm sensation and muscle twitches I am going to sleep, not entering a dream, which would explain why I can't remember anything after it.

JP · 01-06-2011 08:24 PM

It's incredibly difficult if not impossible to truly experience sleep paralysis without prior sleep. It is recommend to have at least six hours of sleep before attempting to enter sleep paralysis. With your sleep schedule you are either going to have to experiment and wake through the night or start going to be earlier. Hope I helped. Good luck.

**r2d2651** · 01-12-2011 06:33 PM

Well,

I've only had 3 hours of sleep and slipped into SP almost instantly.. Long story short, 3 hours.. Got ready and went to school.. Called Home.. Went back to bed.. BAM! Near instant SP!

I think the low amount of sleep and then the business is what induced it so quickly..