"Moving" during sleep paralysis?

**AkiKaza-chan** · 08-28-2010 06:38 PM

I get sleep paralysis sometimes, especially when I'm sleeping in the middle of the day. So I was taking a nap on the sofa the other day, and I woke up into SP. I've gotten pretty used to it by now, so I wasn't afraid. The thing is, I was trying to get out of it, so I started "moving" my fingers. I wasn't literally moving them, but I distinctly felt as though my fingers were bending back and forth. Also, I'll try to move my legs, and I can feel them move away from my body, but then they'll "snap" back into place. It's like I'm struggling to get out of my body. I'm not physically moving anything, but I feel the sensations as though I was consciously telling my body to move. It's really weird, and hard to explain. Does anyone know what this is?

**Snowboy** · 08-29-2010 09:01 PM

It sounds like some of your non-physical body was trying to get out of your physical body during SP. Search "astral projection" if you want more info on it.

**LondonGirl** · 09-10-2010 03:05 AM

I know exactly what you are talking about. It always freaked me out, and I'd fight it trying to move deserately. I would think I was up and walking only to find out I was still lying paralized in bed. I did learn to wiggle my fingers and toes to come out, but then I always wished I could just go with it...and havent had any for quite a while. I is a very odd feeling.

**SystemsLock** · 09-10-2010 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by Snowboy

It sounds like some of your non-physical body was trying to get out of your physical body during SP. Search "astral projection" if you want more info on it.

Not this again. If you feel like discussing things of this nature please do so in the beyond dreaming section. In this forum, for all intents and purposes, such things are not real.

**Perlinfalcon** · 09-10-2010 04:54 AM

Alright, for a more scientific explanation, that feeling can be attributed to the signals from your dreaming state and waking state getting crossed. You can still sort of feel your real body but you can also feel your dream body. People describe different methods for separating the two. Some imagine floating upward or downwards and some roll or spin. I usually focus on a nearby object and grab onto it and pull myself up. At that point I am more solidly in my dream body and my dream bedroom and can go on to a lucid dream from there.

**TracyN** · 09-11-2010 05:35 AM

I get this sensation all of the time and I usually try to jump out of my body. Once my dream body gets free, then I have the LD. It is a very strange sensation though. What I find most interesting is when I dream that I'm trying to jump out of my dream body to have a LD while not being aware that I'm already dreaming.