Going into SP while awake into a dream is called a WILD. Read about it in my guide here. |
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Well, I'm sick trying to LD the normal way, since I can only do DILD's when it's already morning. |
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Going into SP while awake into a dream is called a WILD. Read about it in my guide here. |
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Every time you go to sleep a small pea sized portion of your brain known as the pineal gland unleashes a powerful hormone cocktail of sedatives and anesthetics numbing your nerves and shutting down critical sections of your brain, causing vivid hallucinations and a rapidly fluctuating mental state. Meanwhile the the limbic system halts production of the vital neurotransmitter dopamine preventing your motor neurons from communicating functions, stopping you from acting out these hallucinations. All of which must happen while holding delicate brainstem functions intact, lest your heart might to stop, you could forget to breath, or the circadian rythum might fail and you would to never wake up. |
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"I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia, food of the gods." - Claudius Ptolemy
Sleep paralysis, or "SP", is a completely normal occurrence that your body automatically goes into when you fall asleep, in order to prevent you from acting out your dreams. Usually it happens by you falling unconscious, then the SP; but when you want to LD, you stay conscious. There's nothing "dangerous" about it; I got SP when I was fifteen and had no issues. Nothing bad will happen. Many people even experience SP inadvertently at least once in their life as a result of stress or poor sleeping schedules. Myself, I've had about fifty episodes and a few of them have been accompanied by scary hallucinations, but they can't physically harm you - they're just hallucinations! I've also had some calming hallucinations, believe it or not, one even involving a fluffy white kitten sitting on my bed. |
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We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
Vandermeer
SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) Guide
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