Thread: How to attain sleep paralysis easily

It's different for everybody. I sleep on my belly all the time, but I am never awake enough to experience sleep paralysis. I would have to sleep on my back which is VERY uncomfortable for me. *VERY*. I had one sleep paralysis once and that was on my back doing my first WILD.

Try whatever you did when you were young.. the way you slept.. I remembered that and was able to boost my dream recall and lucid dreaming..

just sleep the usual way you would sleep. just dont fall asleep

Wow it sounds so easy when you say it like that.

Originally posted by TheUnknown
Try whatever you did when you were young.. the way you slept.. I remembered that and was able to boost my dream recall and lucid dreaming..

I remember until I was like 7 or 8 I slept with my legs curled up super tight, and like hugging them, but i put them under me, sort of like kneeling, I couldn't fall asleep any other way...no one else I have ever talked to slept that way, I don't remember exactly when I made the transition to sleeping all strait out, but I don't think I could go back to that lol, that would be funny someone comes in and see a lump sticking like 2 feet up under the sheets

why would you want to induce sleep paralysis it always freaks me out

Originally posted by HurloThumbro
why would you want to induce sleep paralysis it always freaks me out

I think it's kinda fun ^_^

I also think the paraylisis is kinda fun, its like i have 2 bodys,
let me say i dont belive in obe's tho.
anyway a good way to kick off sleep paraylsis is with my CILD technique for lucid dreams, which on this site somewhere, cut most of the technique out and just basically stay awake while your body falls asleep.
a good way to do this is to concentrate hard and focus on the hypogocognal images (bad spelling there)

I used to think I was having OBEs when I first started LD 8 years ago, but eventually realized it was just sleep paralysis (when your body feels like it's lifting, it's your mind becoming confused -- it's really just your body becoming paralyzed from the feet up as you're drifting to sleep).

After a couple years, my mind figured this out so I no longer have the OBE sensation (or false awakenings, for that matter), but always welcome sleep paralysis since I know this is a quick lead-in to a LD (much easier to attain than waking up in the middle of a dream).

I ONLY have these when I sleep on my back, usually in the late morning(who knows why -- perhaps I'm breathing deeper?). Also have had some great kundalini energy sensations in this state of deep breathing.

Read the Dalai Lama's book "Sleeping, Dreaming & Dying" for a good description of the 5 stages of LD development. This is VERY helpful as you progress with new experiences.

yes I fall asleep on my side, but in every episode of Sp I have ever had, except for one or two, I find that I had turned onto my back or belly somehow in my sleep I guess. These are good positions for SP...at least for me they are.

Originally Posted by HurloThumbro

why would you want to induce sleep paralysis it always freaks me out[/b]

I've only had SP once and it only lasted a few seconds. However, the idea of getting the old hag freaks me out. Has any had this? If so, what happened?

Originally Posted by caz457

I've only had SP once and it only lasted a few seconds. However, the idea of getting the old hag freaks me out. Has any had this? If so, what happened?[/b]

I haven't had her sit on my chest, but I've seen incubus(or what I guessed was incubus) at the foot of my bed a couple times and I've had a dracula type shadow coming towards me. I've also sensed the hag coming for me before, but never saw her. Some peoples Sp can be way more scary and severe and even make them feel as if they are dying. Personally after I lost fear of it by realizing it was a natural thing the body does to protect us. I actually quit having the scary hallucinations after this. I have yet to have another super scary one...knock on wood.

Ok, who or what is this Hag? It like a figmant of your imagination during SP?

Originally Posted by caz457

I've only had SP once and it only lasted a few seconds. However, the idea of getting the old hag freaks me out. Has any had this? If so, what happened?[/b]

After my grandmother died, I lived in her house for a few years. In that time, I had a dream where I left the house and went far away, to the "same" house. When I got there, and old lady figure was there. She resembled my grandmother, but I didn't sense that the same mind was there. I just sensed that an old lady figure was there, and I had no mental connection to her at all. It was as if it was a mindless (or just not of a mind I could connect with) zombie. But I sensed some kind of supernatural significance, like she was some big wig in the supernatural realm.

I had a bunch of OBE's when I lived in that house. They all happened in dreams. I very often would levitate straight up. That only happened when I was lying on my back. I would wake up in exactly the same position I dreamed I was in, and I seriously questioned whether I had actually levitated. After levitating in one of the dreams, I felt the presence of my grandmother. She was expressing love to me without words and without any visual or auditory representation of her. I just felt her communication of love.

There was another time in that house when I dreamed I was sitting in my closet and looking straight into my grandmother's face. She was communicating to me that she still exists, and she did it without saying any words. Her look and pure mental connection to me said it. My brother spent the night there that night. The next day, when I had not mentioned my dream to anybody, he told me that he had a dream where he saw our grandmother and she said, "I told you I'm not dead."

Originally Posted by person

Ok, who or what is this Hag? It like a figmant of your imagination during SP?[/b]

It's supposedly what alot of people see during SP. Either her or incubus. Sometimes it's other stuff though. I guess it depends on the person.

I sleep on my side, and my stomach. I'm afraid of sleeping on my back because i keep thinking i "might" swollow my tongue.

Originally Posted by LucidFlanders

I sleep on my side, and my stomach. I'm afraid of sleeping on my back because i keep thinking i "might" swollow my tongue. [/b]

The thing under your tongue holds it on really well. You have nothing to worry about.

Yeah

Almost everytime I attain SP, I'm laying on my back. Maybe you could try the same.

I sleep on my belly everynight...but when i try and WILD i get SO uncomfortible on my stomach...i have to attempt it on my back. (Which i never sleep on)

I don't quite understand what sleep paralyzation is....could someone elaborate?

When your body falls asleep and you cant move it. :-) Welcome to Dv's BTW.


(Its a natural thing, it happens everynight, you just dont remember it because your mind usually falls asleep before it happens)

Nothing to be scared of.

Originally Posted by Yggdrasil

I don't quite understand what sleep paralyzation is....could someone elaborate?[/b]

The goal is to try to beome aware during this state so you an have a lucid dream. If you don't know how to induce it you can find out how under the tutorials.

By the way, the "hag" everyone has been referring to is just an illusion. Look up a concept called "the dweller on the threshold". It appears very real, and scary, but your mind creates it. Usually anyway.