Sleep paralysis scares the hell out of me. I spend days praying for it to happen and when it finally does I automatically go into panic mode and have the unshakable belief that I am dying so I try to wriggle myself free.
This has been annoying me so much as I keep blowing perfectly good WILD and DEILD opportunities. However a few nights ago after waking from a dream I went for a DEILD. I stayed still and waited for paralysis but nothing was happening so I started to think of things that help me fall asleep. I started to think about sleeping in cars and that the hum and vibration of the engine normally helps me to fall asleep (obviously when I'm not driving ). As I thought of the engine humming I could feel myself drifting off and soon enough I was in SP. Now normally in SP I hear very high pitch noises which hurt my head and therefore make me think I'm dying. This time however I kept thinking of the car engine and soon I could feel the vibration and hear the engine as if I was in the car. This felt really comforting and I no longer feared the SP but embraced it and entered my DEILD.

For the last couple of nights I've been trying this and it has been working. I've always been told to just relax with SP but that never seemed to help me but focusing on something that makes me feel sleepy and makes me feel safe seems to be working well for me as the SP starts to mimic what I am thinking about.