Getting lucid with The Mendez Effect

I'm going to try it with a stress ball, my retriever has a tennis ball fetish so if she hears bouncing shes bound to freak out if she can't play :D And there are plenty of stress balls around my house, and plenty of socks too :)

Has this worked for anyone yet? I've tried it 3 times with 2 metal balls that you rotate around in your hand. It took me ages to fall asleep each time and I kept putting the balls away so I could get to sleep.

Hey Placebo - Sleep Paralysis doesn't prevent you from feeling stuff, if it did then we would be easy prey because we wouldnt be able to feel when some animal is eating us. To my knowledge, SP only stops you from acting out your dreams.

I think I might try this with wearing a watch on my left hand instead of my right (which is the norm for me), because I dont wanna hold a tennis ball all night.

Good point, Lewis. But SP does make your hand go numb.
Or perhaps its the effect of the sock.
Point is, if I stay lucid while falling asleep, the feeling of the ball in my hand starts going away
My senses begin to normalise to the sensation of the ball... :?

Pressure from the sock might cause a totality sensory effect on your hand ?

I haven't tried this in a while again, but will start again tonight.
Holidays have left me lazy :roll:

I am getting some good ideas for reality checks..... :)
I have an astrojax, which is toy kinda like a yo yo i often play with at work so I'll have to remember to ask if i'm dreaming while i play with it. I don't think i would need to hold/sock/duct tape it in my hand all night because anything repetitive I do during the day tends to seep into my dreams anyway, especially if I let my mind wander while i do it . (but it really sucks to ring up sales all night sometimes.......*sigh*:()
My only concern would be getting used to the bouncing or whatever so that you no longer dream about it, if you know what I mean.... I'll try it and see. Maybe I will try cycling toys if they get old, like bouncy ball, astrojax, juggling sticks, reapeat, or whatever.
hmmmmm. cant wait to try this! :D

I'm not sure if that'd work for me, but if I ever find a tennis ball or a stress ball, I'll be sure to try that Mendez effect! :D

Well, SP only inhibits your brainstem so that it doesn't transmit messages TO your muscles, but I'd imagine that it somewhat dulls the messages it recieves from them as well, if not entirely blocking them.

As the member who started this thread said that he and his friends had great success with this I am going to have to buy myself a tennis ball.

This sounds good but I cant bring a tennis ball to school and start bouncing it around. lol :)

Are you at a boarding school then?

No I just go to a normal school but I had the day of today because there was too much snow. :D