premature WILD symptoms?

**ChaosReaper** · 06-24-2011 01:49 PM

okay i just tried twitching my hands to see if it actually tells my brain that the body is asleep.in a few minutes this is what happen i moved my hand and tried to move my fingers and there was an inertia! so is this a symptom of me going to SP?

**Puffin** · 06-24-2011 11:25 PM

Moved to Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams (WILD).

It's difficult to tell whether the fact that minutely trying to move your hands and failing means that you're in SP. Most instances, you'll know right away when you've hit SP, be it a strange shift in awareness, the feeling of a presence in the room, etc. Sometimes your body can just become numb and the initial attempt to move something can be a bit hard. If you tried to move your fingers relatively strongly, though, and still couldn't move, that definitely sounds like SP, even though you didn't experience any hallucinations (I'm guessing from what info you've provided). Sometimes you'll enter SP without knowing it because you don't have any SP symptoms (besides the fact that you can't move).

**Robot_Butler** · 06-25-2011 12:50 AM

No. Sleep Paralysis happens when you fall asleep. If you were not asleep, or close to it, you were not in sleep paralysis. It sounds like you were just deeply relaxed.