If you look back at my posts prior to a year ago, you will see that I let people mis-use the term and made my best guess at what they probably were refering to. I do a highly advanced form of WILD that requires a step where you feel the chemical changes induced by bodily sleep. In that stage (I am still not sure if it is actually defined by any term) you have such a reduced amount of bodily awareness that moving will require focused attention, basically choosing to wake yourself. I would try to tell students some logic that would incorperate the mis-use of SP, so they would not argue (they expected SP). I would say, here is how you know you have reached SP, but never try to test it. Do not test it, because you will be able to move and moving will break it.
I am fairly confident that that stage is what others are calling SP. I tried re-educating the forum, by explaining that what they called "SP" could be broken by intent, and there fore any attempt to confirm SP by trying to move would set back their WILD attempt. People want to reach a state where they can not move. The state they should be seeking only prevents dream based stimulation of waking motor response. Testing the state by moving leads to failed WILDs.
I just attempted as a teacher to accept the fact that they wanted to call the state I refer to as SP, which made little sense to me, but hey, whatever. I just taught using their inncorrect term, with added caution that it was not actually paralysis. I probably helped a few people with this logic.
Then Sageous started saying he thought the mis-use was harmful and how he wished no one had ever started the whole mess. He also said he thought it could no longer be corrected. Well hell, why not try the impossible? I found out Myzzk and Zoth felt the same way, so I pushed for a refromation. In that sense perhaps some of us sound like zealots. We are attempting to fix a problem that makes it hard for us to teach. The world of DV only has so many good teachers and we are vexed by everyone confusing the heck out beginners with this issue.
The approach is supposed to be simple, refer them to an informative thread, and refuse to accept the term to be used for any other sleep state. People can mis use it, but they will likely have Sageous, a DG or Mod refer them to the correct information.