Thread: Cannot turn sleep paralysis into LD anymore

Hi everyone,

I had sleep paralysis since I was a teenager but later I understood it and controlled it. Some months ago I could control it so well that when I went to sleep and had a sleep paralysis I could turn it into LD by swinging out o it or turning to the other side. I could feel how my limbs detach from my body and then my whole body. When I entered the LD I felt only very very little connection with my body, but I was in a completely different world, very vivid and beautiful. I would usually wake in my bedroom (and see my body and my boyfriend's; the bedroom was a bit different; also it felt very real, maybe it was an OBE, I don't know exactly) and I had to walk out of it and out of the building in order to change the scenery. I was usually an observer because if I wanted to change something, then the dream became unstable. When I wanted to wake up I would just state my wish and wriggle my fingers and I was back in bed and awake.

Since I had to study and had little time to devote to this, I stopped it, but now I am on vacation and I started it again. I have sleep paralysis with only stating my wish during the day of having lucid dreams. When I enter the sleep paralysis I can no longer get into a LD and lose connection with my body, I can free a limb or so, but I can no longer free my whole body. I tried every technique, but it's useless. I sometimes enter hypnologic states, or even dreams but they no longer feel like before, they are not vivid and clear anymore. I cannot sustain them, after some seconds I feel the vibrations and enter sleep paralysis again. I try over and over again until I get so frustrated that I stop the sleep paralysis and go to sleep normally.

Thank you very much for reading my post and if you can give me some advice I would be very grateful.

PS: I just realized I posted the thread in the wrong section Feel free to relocate it.