Sleep paralysis - advice.

**Azuraos** · 02-01-2009 02:46 AM

It may have been posted somewhere else, if so I apologise.
I am new here - but I have experienced sleep paralysis many times. In average 5/6 times a month. I know what you're thinking.. hectic life or etc. And you're right , but hey, that's off subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Anyway, I`ll go straight to the advice since I assume you either know what it is , or read the wiki article.
My advice to dealing with it is this: calm down. Yes you're awake. Yes, you cannot move at all. Yes you feel a very deep urge to scream, cry, panic - but don't. Have you ever seen Kill Bill? If not , there is a scene where the main character is recovering from a coma and is paralyzed. She just focuses on her big toe. Move that big toe. Nothing else.
This is my advice to you , and the one I'm always using and calming down.
I focus on one of my fingers, or toes, and concentrate in making it move. Yes I do feel a presence in the room or hear strange noises, but the finger keeps me focused, regulates my heart rate, and pumps the adrenaline in my thinking process.
When you get 1 single wiggle - you`re out of it. You`re safe. Laugh about it after. Consider it a big achievement. This can only build confidence for the next time it happens.
I've reached the point where when I wake up like that, I actually prolong the situation, see how much I last without caving in. Probably not the best idea, but at least I don't have any more problemos with it.

**alexander** · 02-03-2009 08:15 AM

I've never experienced sleep paralysis. Some of my friends that have though don't mind it at all. I would really like to know what it's like.

**hellohihello** · 02-03-2009 08:25 AM

But then you can't WILD

It's hilarious when you know it's all fake. I mean I opened my eyes and saw a zombie. I wasn't frightened though. Last time I saw a rainbow man with a top hat and cane! It was really interesting.

**Shift** · 02-03-2009 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by hellohihello

But then you can't WILD

It's hilarious when you know it's all fake. I mean I opened my eyes and saw a zombie. I wasn't frightened though. Last time I saw a rainbow man with a top hat and cane! It was really interesting.

'sleep paralysis', true or imagined/pretend, is by no means necessary to WILD, to lucid dream, or to sleep.

**shotbirds** · 02-03-2009 08:57 PM

I keep my eyes closed until I feel myself inside the dream.

**magical mike** · 02-05-2009 01:05 AM

I dont worry about SP anymore, I actuly like it! I fells so awsome! I have felt the old hag a few times, but shes cool now

I cant really talk to her but she smiles. Its like her job to be there xD.
Just think, if you stick itthrough, and stay aware you could LD

**hellohihello** · 02-05-2009 01:58 AM

Originally Posted by magical mike

I dont worry about SP anymore, I actuly like it! I fells so awsome! I have felt the old hag a few times, but shes cool now

I cant really talk to her but she smiles. Its like her job to be there xD.
Just think, if you stick itthrough, and stay aware you could LD

I never had old hag yet. Is it just HI like the little floaty colors when your eyes are closed?

**WiLdMaN_78** · 02-07-2009 08:31 PM

Does anyone get those wonderful auditory hallucinations during SP. I used to get them all the time but now that I use my SP as a means to a WILD there gone.

**Tara** · 02-07-2009 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by WiLdMaN_78

Does anyone get those wonderful auditory hallucinations during SP. I used to get them all the time but now that I use my SP as a means to a WILD there gone.

Same here. I used to hear screeching and humming, sometimes echoing laughter. Now there's nothing. It just sounds like I'm underwater or my ears are plugged.

It also feels like lately I can't fully get into SP. It supposedly starts from your toes and works its way up to your head and it feels like I haven't been able to fully submerge my head into the SP experience. I think that's why the auditory hallucinations have disappeared.

**Hidden** · 02-09-2009 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by Anonymoose

Same here. I used to hear screeching and humming, sometimes echoing laughter. Now there's nothing. It just sounds like I'm underwater or my ears are plugged.

It also feels like lately I can't fully get into SP. It supposedly starts from your toes and works its way up to your head and it feels like I haven't been able to fully submerge my head into the SP experience. I think that's why the auditory hallucinations have disappeared.

Do you have to "fully get into SP" for auditory hallucinations to happen? I've had them twice before, but I never really noticed whether or not I was in SP because I didn't want to mess up the WILD I was attempting...

Once I woke up thinking I was in SP because I couldn't move my arm. Then I looked and my cat was on top of me.

**konj** · 02-10-2009 11:08 PM

i woke up from a LD induced by a failed WILD,while in the dream i got SP,and just calmed down(i was in panic for 1 sec,couldn't move my arm)and moved my arm to do a RC,and i woke up to a SP,it was pwnage,i calmed down closed my eyes took a deep breath and it was gone

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