THAT WAS EXTREME! *80's Guitar Solo*

**Artixknight** · 02-17-2008 08:13 PM

I never thought that having a dream journal was neccesary. I thought I had a very good dream recall- but boy was I wrong!

I set an alarm to wake up at 3:00 am (that's 6 hours of sleep.)

I had a dream, and once I woke up by my ipod's alarm, I sat there are tried to recall everything that just happened. Instead of just remembering the dream and it's main events, I rememberd what is felt like to be in the dream. I remembered the small details, what the dream characters said, and what my state of awareness was when I was in the dream. I was so amazed by these results! I wrote down the dream in my journal, but was then so excited to go to sleep, that I couldn't go to sleep an hour later

I was more focused on actually falling asleep than dreaming, so I couldn't focus on lucid dreaming. I eventually went to sleep... Didn't have a lucid... But my God.

I was adruptly awakened from the short dream to sleep paralysis.
I woke up, with my body locked up, and it felt as if my body was subducting into itself (I had that very heavy and numbing wave go over me... Indicating I was entering SP). I was probably half way into it, and my feet and hands were achingly numb. I had my eyes open, and I was hearing wierd sounds. I closed my eyes in hopes that I wouldn't have any horrifying hallucinations. I tried to think about a dream, but then stopped to break out of the SP. I didn't budge.

What an awful (yet awesome) feeling that was! I focused on my right index finger, jerked my hand up, and broke out of the SP.

I'm finally over my fear of SP

I think I can "trick my body into falling asleep" now that I know what SP is like.

The whole SP deal lasted about 4-5 seconds. It wasn't as bad as I thought

**Barns** · 02-17-2008 10:19 PM

4-5 seconds? Hmmn. It would have been a lot longer if you hadn't stopped it.

You were only seconds away from a WILD if you wanted to do an LD.

**Artixknight** · 02-17-2008 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by Barns

4-5 seconds? Hmmn. It would have been a lot longer if you hadn't stopped it.

You were only seconds away from a WILD if you wanted to do an LD.

My objective at that point was just to experience what SP was like. I know that I stopped it kind of early, but I wanted to know how to break out of SP if it ever happened again.

It wasn't even that scary

I'm going to Wild tonight... Or at least try to.

**psiiiijay** · 02-19-2008 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Barns

4-5 seconds? Hmmn. It would have been a lot longer if you hadn't stopped it.

You were only seconds away from a WILD if you wanted to do an LD.

how? every time i have SP i really look farward to having a WILD and i wake up ALL THE TIME, i recall maybe one time i got a LD out of it.. but still its fun.. and its very easy to break out of it if you dont want to..

**Pk.sage** · 02-19-2008 07:48 AM

I'm never fully sure if i'm in sp. I get a really aware feeling, feel sorta detached. My body doesn't tense up or anything. I feel sorta numb like. I've never really tried to move in it, maybe next time i will just to see if i'm resisted.

I'm curious, when i'm laying down i think i slightly flex the back of my eyes or something. How relaxed should one be relaxed and does flexing your eyes effect getting to sp at all? I find if i don't flex them they rest open and i can't sleep.