What Is Sleep Paralysis?

[derejrcar]

Where can I find out about it, what is it, ect.

[gagaku]

Sleep paralysis happens when ones body goes to sleep before, or wakes up after the mind. It takes place during the hypngogic (going to sleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) states, and is often accompanied by imaginary lights, sounds, sesations of movement, sinking, and floating. In order to perform a WILD (wake initiated lucid dream) you must go through SP (sleep paralisis) and usually those hypnogogic hallucinations that I described. If you want to try a wild remember that you might be sure that there is something in your room, but there's nothing there (unless you share a room).

[AlexLou]

When we dream our bodies will stop responding to commands from the brain so that we don't "act out" our dreams, this is called sleep paralysis. SP fails to occur when people sleepwalk or talk in their sleep. Usually we are unaware of SP because we are dreaming, but sometimes people will still be mentally awake at the onset of SP when they begin to fall asleep, or SP will linger after they mentally wake after dreaming. These conscious experiences of SP are what people are talking about when they refer to SP. During conscious SP people feel as if they can't move. This is often accompanied by strange sensations and auditory and visual hallucinations as Gagaku mentioned. Now you will see a lotta people talking about trying to experience SP in order to WILD. Besides the fact that they usually don't know what their talking about and aren't really experiencing SP, when WILDing it is unnecessary to be conscious of SP.

[unclesirbob]

Try this page http://ww.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessayparalysed.php Sleep paralysis is absically just a sleep phenoma. We wake up in shallow states of dreams. we feel really unpleasant. Its a kind of halfway house were we are neither asleep or awake. Dreams often record our emotional state. Well if we feel dreadful at the time then dreams will record that. Its really just the mindsway of saying "I have woken up with sleep paralysis and I feel dreadful,powerless and unable to move". The images represent these very emotions.

[Chance Wayne]

I had an SP experience the other night. There was a buzzing sound that reminded me of an RC car. While I was lying there struggling to move, the car seemed to come into my room, under the bed and back out from under my bed and out of the room. The car made the journey several times. I wanted to shout, "This isn't happening!" but I couldn't until my body was released. I simply shouted, "Ung!" and woke fully up. I find SP to be very unpleasant. I can't imagine anytime that SP would be a pleasant experience.