Sleep paralysis on purpose?

I'm very interested in sleep paralysis, the real sleep paralysis (not hypnagogia). I experience it very occasionally, just once or twice every now and then. Usually there's not much to it besides the feeling of being stuck but sometimes pulling out of my body into a non-physical one for a moment before snapping back and some visual data from my room being skewed or misinterpreted, but recently I've had a couple more significant ones. One was in complete darkness and I felt an entity approach me and start pulling the sheets off of my bed, and the other had the air bending and twisting and there was a humanoid demon with empty eyes staring at me from the foot of my bed. I've also had a few interesting hypnopompic experiences where I wasn't paralyzed but I did continue to dream after waking up; each time I had short imagined conversations with my friends before they faded away. I have a lot of interest in these as well.

So, my question is, is there a way to cause these experiences on purpose? I'd really like to be able to explore these states more without having to just hope they happen from time to time.

the first three sentences describe an experience i had recently... pulling out your physical body and exploring. i didnt get far though...

That's really what interests me the most. When it first started happening I would actually get all the way out of my body and land on the floor or something, but it would be more like a delirium and a second later I would realize it wasn't happening. But the time with the demon that I mentioned I was fairly lucid, rather than fighting the feeling of being stuck I just moved a phantom arm out of my body and outstretched my hand for him to grab, but he just stared at me until he vanished. :c That's really what I'd like to explore more, though. It was pretty cool to do just that little bit.

Hi there, I'm sure there's a post on here already on how to bring on SP. when you wake in the night just lay still and keep your eyes closed, focus on the last dream you had, or on a dream you want to have, SP will soon follow but only if you have an anchor. What I mean by anchor is, keeping that little part of your concious going so you slip into a dream from an awake state. An anchor like counting from 100 down to 0 and keep repeating this. It may be hard for you to do it at first but with practice it gets easier. And when you go to bed every night tell yourself that your going to wake up in the night and when you do remember to keep still, again with practice it gets easier and you remember to keep still when you wake. Take no notice of any fear that may overcome you, some people get it, some don't. Just remember to calm yourself down and nothing can hurt you because it's not real. Hope his helps a little. PM me if you need more help :)

Ohh of course the biggie..RELAX lol :)

I know a guy that has the same interest and a wealth of experience in this matter. I'd point you in his direction, but he doesn't frequent the DV scene. =/

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Hi there, I'm sure there's a post on here already on how to bring on SP. when you wake in the night just lay still and keep your eyes closed, focus on the last dream you had, or on a dream you want to have, SP will soon follow but only if you have an anchor. What I mean by anchor is, keeping that little part of your concious going so you slip into a dream from an awake state. An anchor like counting from 100 down to 0 and keep repeating this. It may be hard for you to do it at first but with practice it gets easier. And when you go to bed every night tell yourself that your going to wake up in the night and when you do remember to keep still, again with practice it gets easier and you remember to keep still when you wake. Take no notice of any fear that may overcome you, some people get it, some don't. Just remember to calm yourself down and nothing can hurt you because it's not real. Hope his helps a little. PM me if you need more help :)

Ohh of course the biggie..RELAX lol :)

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Thanks for the tips. :) I always forget about anchors so I'll definitely keep that in mind from now on! I'm trying to get better at not moving when I wake up the meantime, I can get it some of the time but I still usually get distracted before I can do anything with it.

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I know a guy that has the same interest and a wealth of experience in this matter. I'd point you in his direction, but he doesn't frequent the DV scene. =/

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That's too bad. :? I certainly wouldn't mind talking to him!

The strongest sleep paralysis experience I had was when I had a nightmare in the middle of the night, and tried to move my physical body in response to the nightmare. When I couldn't, I began to panic, only making the emotion of fear worse. Stubborn as I am, I'm the type to dig my heels in and fight harder, only making matters worse.

The trick is to relax. Don't panic. You are in control. Yes, it may feel a little unsettling at first, but don't panic. If you freak out, you can't fall asleep.

When I was younger I did have some very unsettling experiences (I did vaguely know about LD and OBE after reading a few books, etc.) where I was trying to fight my way out of my body, often with strange pulling and twisting motions which was quite frightening.
I had those occasional 'old hag' experiences as well - I didn't enjoy those whatsoever.
What I found is when my body was relaxed, but my mind was too 'active' or aroused on going to bed too late then I used to get this 'intense' mind-chatter' of random voices in my head (auditory hallucinations) as soon as my head hit the pillow, plus I would get this sudden 'pulling' feeling in my body. I knew from this that I would likely have an 'interesting' sort of night ahead.

TL;DR - A combination of slight sleep deprivation (in my case), a relaxed body, coupled with a mind that is over active with thought where it won't switch off.

There are ways to increase the chances this will happen, if you search 'sleep paralysis' on this site I am sure you will find plenty of techniques.

One that works for me I have posted before that I got from a William Buhlman book:

Set an alarm for after 5-6 hours sleep. Get up, use the bathroom, have a glass of water, sit down and read for a bit.
After about 30 mins go back to sleep.

You should go back into a lighter phase of sleep that should make it much easier to lucid dream, but I frequently wake up after this over the next 2 hours and I am in the vibrational state. This is when you can apply some of the techniques for getting out of the body.

If you don't know any, research Robert Monroe or William Buhlman techniques for getting out.

Good luck.

Hey again Alya, take a look at my dream diar, I tend to explain second by second of how it happens to me :) PM me if you want more help Hun :)

I'm exploring dreams coming from an entirely different perspective on sleep paralysis. Since its happened to me many times in life and each time has left me feeling helpless, I would wonder why anyone would want to "try" it. One of my long term goals is to find the source of my fears, so that I can break down the walls that I'm sure I've created to protect myself from something that I can't yet see (in order to cope I choose not to see), and my gut tells me that whatever this is, is the cause of my episodes of sleep paralysis. I don't know what SP is to anyone else, but mine's definitely not pretty. It's being awake, aware that you are in your body, aware of whats going on around you, but your unable to talk, blink your eyes, move any part of your body, and it always goes away for me beginning at my feet and working its way up through my torso, and as soon as I can take a nice deep breathe I can usually simultaneously start wiggling my fingers and that will be when I start to try to sit up, and make sure everything in the house is OK. Its never accompanied by a warm feeling or nice presence. Nine times out of every ten, there's a BRIGHT light coming from one corner of the bed room. There's always something else in the room, in the light where I can't distinguish what/who it is. My children have described almost identical episodes. For their sake, I would like to get to the bottom of this.

The edit option wont work for me, but I wanted to add that I'm also deaf during the paralysis, and the deafness subsides when I'm able to breathe deep and wiggle my fingers. I'm assuming this deafness is from the ear drums not vibrating during paralysis.

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