sleep paralysis or laziness?

[kage]

this has happened to me a few times . . . i will be laying in bed, very tired. i will think of doing a reality check, but then i won't actually do it. i just don't feel like moving at all. doing an RC involves bringing a hand up to your nose, or bringing both hands together, or turning head and looking at clock, etc. i just don't feel like moving anything, at all. so here's the problem: am i not moving/RCing because i don't want to move, or do i not want to move because i know (subconsciously) that i can't move? i suspect that whenever this happens, i am really awake and very tired, and just don't want to move. but i always wonder deep down if i'm really in sleep paralysis and that's why i can't move. i feel like maybe if i try too hard to move to perform an RC or anything, i will bring myself out of SP, if i'm really in it. does anyone have any similar stories or advice?

[MarthaM]

I have on a few occasions been too tired to follow through on an LD. I find it puzzling and disappointing. The last time it happened was just before I came down with a really virulent case of flu that I am just getting over. There may be a connection but do not know for certain.

[TravisE]

I'm usually not sure whether I'm under sleep paralysis unless I try to move, but the first few times in my life I had sleep paralysis I actually just thought I was too tired to be able to move, rather than actually thinking I was paralysed. Later on I started to realize I was likely actually under paralysis. I think it takes a few experiences to get an idea of what it feels like.

[Sortilegio]

HAHA, your lazy as hell!!!! . When your in SP your body feels completly different, like if its all numb, plus you will defenetly note it. Just try and see how your face feels, if it feels all deformed(like trying to move an eyebrow), then your on SP(at least for me).

[kage]

Originally posted by Sortilegio HAHA, your lazy as hell!!!! . When your in SP your body feels completly different, like if its all numb, plus you will defenetly note it. Just try and see how your face feels, if it feels all deformed(like trying to move an eyebrow), then your on SP(at least for me). yes, i truly am lazy as hell . . . oh well, what can you do? maybe next time i'll try just moving my face and see how that feels. thanks!

[TravisE]

Originally posted by Sortilegio HAHA, your lazy as hell!!!! . When your in SP your body feels completly different, like if its all numb, plus you will defenetly note it. Just try and see how your face feels, if it feels all deformed(like trying to move an eyebrow), then your on SP(at least for me). I don't recall feeling strange when in SP, just that when I tried to move, my body simply didn't respond. But most of the handful of SP experiences I had were cases where I woke up directly after a dream--I was fully awake (or close to it) with my eyes open, it just took 30-60 seconds to be able to move. I did "wake up" while still in a semi-asleep state with SP once, and when I tried to move, I would up in a lucid dream. My body didn't feel numb that time, but there were two other instances where I did the same thing and my body did feel numb, but I don't know if I was under SP because I didn't try to move those times.

[RyanParis]

Your body is paralysed because you're astral projecting. You've probably seen through your closed eyelides, too, and was slightly projected out-of-body. Your body is paralyses so you don't physically act out your dreams.