Making SP feel safe.

[MRH92]

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.

[VagalTone]

nice post ! i also fear WILD and manytimes the whole process just stops even without moving. ill try your suggestion, and give some feedback soon.

[Ninjaa]

Another good one is thinking off something/someone who means a lot to you, makes SP feel like nothing.

[gab]

Guys, SP is paralysis, when you can't move, no matter what. It happens when we dream, so we don't act out our dreams. If you don't regularly have paralysis when falling asleep, you will not have it when WILDing. SP can be scary, because you can't move and often you see/feel threatening presence around you. SP explained But, the sensations you get when WILDing are not SP. Vibrations, feeling relaxed, hearing sounds... are normal signs of you falling asleep. And signs, that you stayed awake longer than you normally do. And that's good. If you get some scary thoughts, push them out with pleasant thughts and some nice image in your head, like a cool dream you want or had previosly. This way it's likely that your whole experience will be pleasant. Happy dreams

[dutchraptor]

It is hard for a lot of people to keep calm during a WILD attempt and I like how you've used something that soothes you to help you keep your mind off the sensations of falling asleep. I used to have the same problems but I no longer do because I don't focus on actually falling asleep, I just focus on reaching the dream state.