Sleep Paralysis is as far as I can get.

[oxKirstenxo]

Hi everyone I'm new here. For most of my life since I was 4 or so I have been having sleep paralysis. It's happened to me about 10 times in my life and I never really knew what it was til a couple years ago. The only lucid dream that I can remember having was when I was at a very young age. It was me being chased by these huge furry monsters in a sewer which quickly changed into me waking up and looking out my window to see my dad shooting someone with a shotgun in their truck. Of course that was me not really waking up and I realized that after what I saw. Recently I have had two times where I have had sleep paralysis and I just cannot get them to turn into a LD as hard as I try. The buzzing in my ears just gets too loud and the fact that I am paralyzed just adds to the alarm I feel when It's happening. So from there I would usually freak out and try to move my body and get out of it. My most recent paralysis, however, I actually tried enduring the buzzing and paralysis but just found it too alarming still to just lay there and let it happen. I was just wondering if I have to lay there and take the buzzing longer or do I have to do something to go into something of a transition?

[Shift]

Try looking up the VILD and WILD tutorials on the site, they should help you out. Just try to relax, see the SP as a way to get a lucid dream, and try to imagine the dream you want to be in. Also keep a positive outlook on it, you will be fine, it happens every single night! Try not to focus on the SP itself, but on the dream that you want to get in to, and I think you'll get there!

[TheMoon]

Hi everyone I'm new here. For most of my life since I was 4 or so I have been having sleep paralysis. It's happened to me about 10 times in my life and I never really knew what it was til a couple years ago. The only lucid dream that I can remember having was when I was at a very young age. It was me being chased by these huge furry monsters in a sewer which quickly changed into me waking up and looking out my window to see my dad shooting someone with a shotgun in their truck. Of course that was me not really waking up and I realized that after what I saw. Recently I have had two times where I have had sleep paralysis and I just cannot get them to turn into a LD as hard as I try. The buzzing in my ears just gets too loud and the fact that I am paralyzed just adds to the alarm I feel when It's happening. So from there I would usually freak out and try to move my body and get out of it. My most recent paralysis, however, I actually tried enduring the buzzing and paralysis but just found it too alarming still to just lay there and let it happen. I was just wondering if I have to lay there and take the buzzing longer or do I have to do something to go into something of a transition? I know how you feel all too well. On a few occassions ill get SP when i wake up in the middle of the night a couple times a month. I wake up, go pee or something, lay back down and right away instantly my body paralyzes, i get back up, lay back down, paralyze again heh. The best thing i can tell you to do when this happens is. Forget about the SP part. Convince your mind that everything will be okay and nothing bad will come from the feeling. Lay down, and completely clear your mind of any thoughts. Move your consciousness into the center of your mind, and stay there, ignore everything else from your body, and just wait and try to look for images in the center of your mind. Its important that you don't look for images in front of your eye lids. They don't come from there, look inside your mind. Ask yourself(your subconscious) to help you lucid dream. Thats all the advice i can give you. If that doesn't work, try getting up for 10 minutes or so, get a drink of water, go onto the computer, then go lay back down. The SP may subside some, and you may be able to obtain lucid dreaming from what i told you. Edit, also one more very very important thing. Don't try to lucid dream, the more you try the more it doesn't happen, a lucid dream should happen on its own without you trying. When ever i try to have a lucid dream, it doesn't work, when i just let it happen i get lucid dreams.

[The_Lone_Deranger]

I often experience sleep paralysis. I used to panic when it would happen and would force myself awake. After learning more about sleep paralysis I now embrace it and it can be a rather euphoric experience; instead of a frightening one. It has become a useful tool for lucid dreaming too. It helps me maintain consciousness all the way into the dream state. It seems to happen most often during the afternoon when I want to take a nap or if I wake up earlier than usual, stay up for awhile, and then go back to bed. I lie down and sometimes experience a strange vertigo-like sensation; as if I'm spinning, or as if my bed is rippling like it's on water. Then I know that sleep paralysis is about to set in. Auditory hallucinations are usually contemporaneous with the paralysis. For me it usually seems like a loud windy noise in my ears; similar to the sound you hear while yawning. This is where I used to panic and struggle to force myself awake. Now I just tell myself that it's all fabricated in my mind and that nothing about it can hurt me. I just relax, tell myself that it's just an innocuous hallucination, and let it take over. Next I experience vivid and chaotic visual hallucinations. The auditory hallucinations become ever more intense; like a strange, distorted electronic noise or hissing. It sounds like my brain is being scrambled or something, but I find it strangely enjoyable. Sometimes at this point I'll just lose consciousness and sleep normally, but often I maintain my awareness, the imagery begins to stabilize into some sort of setting, and I enter a state of lucid dreaming. When I enter the lucid dream I try performing reality checks and it seems to increase the vividness of the dream. I like to attempt counting the fingers on my hand or looking at the time on a clock. It's always really distorted and I know that I'm dreaming, but sometimes I get too excited and the dream will begin to fade away. Spinning or floating around seems to help me maintain the dream.