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
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