Using SP as a RC

Last night I had a lucid dream, and several times I gained lucidity, mostly because of sleep paralysis.

During the dream, for some reason, I wanted to wake up and physically open my eyes, or roll over. I went to open my eyes, and they stayed shut. Also I could not move my arms to roll over. That made me realize I was in SP, and that I was dreaming.

Since sleep paralysis is not mental, I think this is something that can really be exploited in terms of lucidity. Granted this could fail, like all methods, but I foresee it being accurate.

The trouble is how to get into an in-between state, IBS, when one is part awake, yet still dreaming. I propose suggestion, and regulary moving a body part, and making sure you can.

Just a warning, I have been in the IBS before and if you really exert yourself to move your arm, or whatever body part, it will wake you out of the dream.

I've experienced that before. (I'm having a lot of fun, just reading about all of these things everyone is posted and thinking "I've had that happen before!" It's very exciting!)

I have experienced that SP is espescially powerful if you are asleep in a sitting position. For me, it's hard to sleep in that position i the first place, but if I'm tired enought, I can manage it. In fact, on two distinct occasions (both times I was asleep in a chair in the basement of Notre Dame's Hesburgh(sp) library,) I have actually found it difficult to wake up. I wanted to wake up, and could get as far as the IBS you described earlier, where i could feel my body, but couldn't control it, except to make my breathing shallow (that was just a side-effect of the effort I was exerting trying to wake up), and it took a good four or five tries each time just to get myself out of paralysis. It was very disconcerting, but a fascinating experience.

Hmm, I agree, its such a great sensation to know you arent the only person to have experienced such things, and then be immersed in a world dediated to those things.

Whats scary is when sleep paralyses happens, and you are under the covers, knowing that if you just swing your arms over, you will be awake. And like RCLefty said, your breath becomes shallow, as if you are suffocating in sleep paralysis.

This happened three times for me, the third with me realizing that I was dreaming, instantly waking up. Thats the worst of it though, not being able to become lucid, or at least in a less stressful environment, nor being able to wake up. Its limbo.

I was lucid both times that it happened, and it was creepy as all get-out.