Thread: My first short, but exciting, encounter with sleep paralysis.

You may experience dream paralysis everytime you want. I wrote this exercise for OBE experience but if you want to experience only sleep paralysis do only points 1 and 2... maybe 3 too, it is more comfortable to warm body up. (it is comfortable dry heat)

1. lay down comfortably... get something soft under lumbar part of your back. It will make laying more comfortable. Use something comfortably warm to cover your body... body tends to lose warmth when it is laying long without moving and deeply relaxed.
2. start to concentrate on your hand. Concentrate on feeling how heavy it is. How it is pressing on bed. Feel it stronger and stronger. Feel it, how is heaviness permeating up your hand... and how it is filling all your body. Make your body very heavy. It becomes impossible to move it, so heavy(similar to sleep paralysis). This will deeply relax your skeletal muscles and it is also exercise of concentration.
3. relax your smooth muscles through concentration on warmth. Start again with one hand. It is warm... feel it. Make that feeling grow... concentrate on warming. Let that warmth permeate up your hand... let it flow... like the hot water. make whole body warm. Make it hot... but comfortably hot.
4. Concentrate back on your hand, feel its heaviness. Send impulses to your hand, to move... but at the same time muscles must be relaxed, unmoving. Concentrate on making rocking movements with your hand. Miniscule at start is enough. Once you start feeling movement, start to make it larger. You will feel heavy physical hand laying on bed and second hand permeating and surrounding physical hand rocking slowly. You will start to feel second body permeating and surrounding physical one... Start slowly to rock your whole second body, till you can make rolling movement with it and separate it from physical one.

During the whole exercise :
-be quiet, still. Be concentrated on here and now.
-be in balance. Your emotions must be neutral. Separation brings extatic feeling- observe it. Don't attach to it. Feel it but remain neutral to it.
-don't think. Feel. Observe state of your body and mind.
-don't imagine things. Be unattached observer.

I'm afraid I don't have any tips at all. I just wanted to tell you congratulations on having sleep paralysis. :3 I've had it once, when I was a bit younger--nothing exactly scary happened, but I was terrified because I couldn't move and had never heard of SP before. Perhaps I should try it again sometime!

thanks for your reply psionik. i meant to reply much sooner but i believe i exited out of the browser before i sent my really long reply. i had said that reading your method of relaxing and letting yourself become heavy reminded me of my brief study of the hypnotic process. just reading it made me realize how i could tie self hypnosis and sleep paralysis together in a way that makes it abit easier for me. also i like the rolling technique you described. when i get time to get it a conscious try i will definitely give it my all. Thanks again

oh and i was thinking on what had happened with the dog tugging at my leg. i think since i wasn't frightened, i felt maybe he was trying to assist me out of my body. like my little helper dog buddy lol. i hope he visits me again soon so we can give it another go. of coarse im just being silly. he was a projection of my mind that felt i needed alittle assistance. or so i think.. right? lol
on another topic, my wife had terrible episodes with SP, and much more often than i do. (since it has only happened once for me lol) she always experiences the shadows and the fear and anxiety. i try to tell her there is nothing that she need fear because it is her world, and she creates these fearful beings.. i am jealous of her, that they happen to her, and also saddened that she not know how to handle what she brings.. if only she knew how beautiful it could become if she drop the fear..

^ About that problem. I think maybe you can just teach by example

-- Psionik is very trained afaik. I'm not sure if before or after reading that post but I had my hand at producing warmth starting from my feet and working up to the whole body. It took a long time for me though it is note easy. I actually noted that it was easier to start with the hands. I think simply because I normally pay more attention to the hands anyway.

I'm not an expert on the subject.. I have little to no experience. But from reading around the net I find that Chi Gong is one of the most genuine spiritual exercises around. I recommend doing Chi Gong exercises before working your way into "insert-selfhypnosis exercise" however you want to do it ofcourse; wild, ap, obe, hi, remote viewing. I suppose there's subtle differences in all of these.

Chi Gong exercises. I recommend looking into it. I find out first-hand that it is very energizing so it may help with not falling asleep as well. Overall it is a very benificial practice anyway.

From my own personal experience I find it very relaxing when done in a non-stresfull non-committing way. I am actually doing some research (on cancer) for school, and have found quite interesting and even scientific results for the widespread benefits of Chi-Gong exercise. Namely Immunotherapy.

Originally Posted by Family04

thanks for your reply psionik. i meant to reply much sooner but i believe i exited out of the browser before i sent my really long reply. i had said that reading your method of relaxing and letting yourself become heavy reminded me of my brief study of the hypnotic process. just reading it made me realize how i could tie self hypnosis and sleep paralysis together in a way that makes it abit easier for me. also i like the rolling technique you described. when i get time to get it a conscious try i will definitely give it my all. Thanks again

It is about approach. If you are scared about losing control of your body, then what your wife fears is only logical. But when there is no fear, when there is only here and now, unattached observer... then there is a gap... distance between fear and curiosity. Fear has not power when there is nothing to fear of. Fear of unknown is illogical, when you take an unattached observation of it. You see that you fear something which doesn't exist... The sleep paralysis is only illusion. It is easily broken by concentration to move.
Your imagination can create something out of nothing. When you start to imagine something you are afraid of, then there is food for growing that fear larger... till it is unbearable. I lived it and I rejected it.

I had big problems with emotivity of my mind from puberty from what I remember. I didn't like it. I found ways around it. My way is to observe and not be touched by that what I observe. It is not perfect. Exercise makes perfection. And I exercise in all my time. It became my hobby to observe my emotions, feelings. Everything I do creates something in my mind. I chose to observe and not to react.
I have wife too. She is a good person and she has some kind of understanding for what I do. Some kind Really. She is not spiritual person. But she is very tolerant and open.

That exercise is distilled form of autogenic training. Very basic, nothing more is necessary, I think and I feel. Fourth point is added for OBE, most simple method I found. If you change fourth point for imagination of simple tunnel constructed of moving circles then you will reach unguided WILD (unguided because you will fly somewhere from that tunnel but not on place of your choosing. If you start to imagine static picture, very detailed, then it could lead to wild into pictured place(I have problems to do detailed imagination).

Dthoughts hands are better... We are changing world through them. Our mind is closely connected with our hands. Start with your dominant hand. Once the heaviness is felt it can penetrate through whole body and it is relatively easily amplified. With the warmth it is the same. Much harder is to concentrate mind into one... and then into nothingness, the true meditation. When being is observed by itself without thoughts, without judging, without comparing itself with something...

cant be a coincidence that i have a few dvds on chi gong lol. my father gave them to me ages ago and i never got around to looking that deep into them. i have heard good things, perhaps i will dive into that next. thank you for that Dthoughts