Thread: "Sensational"

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If you try at night you won't be able to go into REM right away. Try it during a nap or a WBTB.

Originally Posted by DynoTAP

I was just 'sleeping' if we can call it that - I had two really nice, but really strong cups of coffee so... no, I'll call it meditating. I was meditating and I decided to turn on my Ipod and listen a bit as I had just bought an Isochronic CD (by Technomind) from iTunes earlier toda-- yesterday. It took a while of listening but about an hour later I began to feel the beginnings of sleep paralysis - and I don't mean the dulled kind of sleep paralysis which stops soon after, it was the real deal kind within which your body feels "electric".

I'll try again tonight, perhaps I'll get further

An hour seems very long to experience SP, I can get to it in 15 mins without music, were you moving?

Originally Posted by Arch

An hour seems very long to experience SP, I can get to it in 15 mins without music, were you moving?

I think it might be because of the music. Music relaxes me, but I can't focus on anything else while listening to music. I can't even fall asleep.
Or maybe because it was at night, I don't know.

Originally Posted by Matte87

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If you try at night you won't be able to go into REM right away. Try it during a nap or a WBTB.

Hey Matte87, thanks for moving this post. I'll try what you suggested. I usually do meditation before hand but tonight I jumped right into it ...so that may have been a factor.

I used to get to sleep paralysis just fine at night.

Originally Posted by Arch

An hour seems very long to experience SP, I can get to it in 15 mins without music, were you moving?

Hi Arch,

As stated, I had coffee which I know affects my ability to relax deeply. Aside from the coffee, I know I've been experiencing issues in successfully attaining sleep paralysis (in an aware state) for a long time now. I also used to get there without music and in a short amount of time too. I think it's because I was no longer practicing eagerly.

At times it felt as though I was moving but then the moving would stop.

Originally Posted by TruMotion

I think it might be because of the music. Music relaxes me, but I can't focus on anything else while listening to music. I can't even fall asleep.
Or maybe because it was at night, I don't know.

I was actually able to focus thoughtlessly, though you may be right, music can be very distracting.

Originally Posted by TruMotion

I think it might be because of the music. Music relaxes me, but I can't focus on anything else while listening to music. I can't even fall asleep.
Or maybe because it was at night, I don't know.

I only figured out later on that if I breathe as if I was sleeping, I would start feeling the sensation come on. So had I been meditating before hand, I would most likely have started sleep paralysis sooner.

Yeah you can end up in SP and even start dreaming if you do it at night, but that dream will quickly fade away and it won't be anything good at all, since you won't be in REM

Originally Posted by Matte87

Yeah you can end up in SP and even start dreaming if you do it at night, but that dream will quickly fade away and it won't be anything good at all, since you won't be in REM

Honestly didn't know that Matte87. Perhaps rethinking lucid dreaming is a good idea after all, though I still enjoy the challenge of attaining sleep paralysis at night. It also makes me more aware of my non-lucid dreams (I'm at a point where I know that I'm dreaming but I still haven't quite figured out that I can control them).

Originally Posted by Arch

An hour seems very long to experience SP, I can get to it in 15 mins without music, were you moving?

OH!!! Was I moving! Yes, I kept moving - under the influence of coffee - however there was a sense of floating sideways/downwards, (I was on my side), even though I wasn't in sleep paralysis.