Is this Sleep Paralysis?

[camera_man1231]

I was just wondering if you can tell me if this was SP. I was laying in my bed for quite a long time and after a while, my legs got numb, but only my legs. The numbness stopped after abut 2 minutes, and then came back about 2 minutes later. I just want to know for certain.

[camera_man1231]

oh yeah, and if any of you guys have any tips that you use for getting into SP, they would be greatly appreciated.

[Lordalmar]

sounds like the start of it yes. when you wake up and can't move, thats SP.

[G0MPgomp]

You got it! Some people confuse sleep paralysis with the state where one wake up before sleep paralysis breaks off..That is probably because it is part of the truth, thus not wrong...

[camera_man1231]

Thanks guys! I think I'm starting to tackle this SP thing, but there is one more problem. When this starts to happen, i think about it to much and eventually it goes away. Is there a technique that can help me keep my mind of it and on the goal of lucid dreaming?

[Sara]

Oh, that sounds all too familiar for me :-) When you only feel your legs being numb, I don't classify that as real SP, but it is a start I like to compare it with an orgasm: you WILL know if you've had it, once you've experienced it. If you have to question it, you probably didn't. I don't have a lot of experience with WILD, but SP is very common for me (used to scare me a lot before I knew what it was). I'm most likely to go into SP when I'm very tired (and some sleep debt from sleeping not enough the day before). I have the same problem though, since I know what SP really is, I get excited when I start to enter it and wake up before it's complete So, first thing I would do is try to be tired before you go to bed. Then keep your mind busy with other, structured thinking, so you won't think about SP. What helped for me: -counting, can be in rhythm with your breath or just slow counting -Clairity's alphabet technique (going throught it A-Z (or Z-A) and imagine a picture with every letter) -imagine a dream scene you would like to be in (but this is tricky, because I can easily fall asleep unconsciously if I do this, so this is only helping when I'm not so tired) Good luck! And may your SP be nice and peaceful!

[Maric]

What I find that helps a lot is counting, not your breaths, but just counting (not one hippo, etc) to about 100-150, then I just let my mind drift to basketball, where I need reflexes to steal that pass and I can sort of visualize it, and that speeds me up to SP...only been in total SP once before but thats how I got into it :p

[camera_man1231]

Thanks for all that great info guys, i pretty much understand what i should be looking out for now. So i'll give that counting technique a try tonight and we will see what happens because it seems like it is the most common that people use on Dream Views.