SPish When I First Go To Bed

[youssarian]

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

[jarrhead]

So that was SP. I couldn't comfirm I was SPing. Will try the SUB tech again! Thanks Youssarian!

[Muggler]

Well, if you don't want to experience SP, just make another mantra to yourself. "I will not experience SP unless I intend to." Perhaps that will let you sleep. If dream recall is all you want to focus on though, sometimes doing a WBTB will help you with that.

[Abra]

Do nothing. This shouldn't have any effect on your quality of sleep or your dream recall unless you stress out about it. It's a phase, it's harmless, and it'll pass. So for now, just ignore it.

[youssarian]

OK. I have another issue. I find that as I enter SP, or at least what I assume is SP given the familiar characteristics, muscles in my feet contract - my toes curl, feet arch and bend, etc. Any useful info on that? Thankies again

[jarrhead]

OK. I have another issue. I find that as I enter SP, or at least what I assume is SP given the familiar characteristics, muscles in my feet contract - my toes curl, feet arch and bend, etc. Any useful info on that? Thankies again My muscles twitch as well. I don't think there's any problem with it, just body reactions.

[Abra]

OK. I have another issue. I find that as I enter SP, or at least what I assume is SP given the familiar characteristics, muscles in my feet contract - my toes curl, feet arch and bend, etc. Any useful info on that? Thankies again Sounds like a hypnic jerk, occurring in beta (light) sleep, especially in athletes (according to one of my old profs).

[jarrhead]

I am an athlete. My legs always twitch. I play soccer. This makes so much sense abra!

[youssarian]

Haha athlete I am not. But that makes sense, I guess. I always associated 'hypnic jerk' with the falling sensation from when muscles all laxed at once.

[jarrhead]

Haha athlete I am not. But that makes sense, I guess. I always associated 'hypnic jerk' with the falling sensation from when muscles all laxed at once. It doesn't wake you up any though. It's just a twitch. Kinda breaks the unease without disrupting your SP! my problem with SP is that my nuts always itch. bad.

[youssarian]

Roflcopter. I get twitches in my legs mostly, and itches in various random places that don't last long enough to merit treatment.

[youssarian]

That put imagery in my head that did not belong there.