I've found that I can enter the preliminary stages of SP and maybe even get a little bit into it for real when I first hit the hay at night. Like last night I was reciting to myself, "I will wake up and completely remember my dreams" and I began feeling the common precursors to SP. I was all relaxed and eventually my hands and feet started feeling limp and some time later I could tell my feet and legs were beginning to hit the paralysis. I had the familiar visual effect of seeing lots of small yellow spots with my eyes closed. (If that makes any sense).

Only issue is, it takes a long time for it to advance that far. And this seems to happen whenever I have a mantra like that which I recite in my mind. I'm not looking to WILD at 12:30 at night. I'm trying to get my dream recall up. So really I'm trying to not experience the SP like that, because I don't actually fall asleep when it happens (or perhaps I never get far enough along through it to experience the sleep). And I need to actually sleep. Any ideas on what to do?

All the best,
Youssarian