Thread: Can someone give me a link to an easy to understand guide to entering SP?

I just seem to always have problems with entering SP. also, n matter what time I wake myself p during the night with an alarm, I can't go back to sleep. What can I do to get to sleep?

-http://www.dreamviews.com/f31/sleep-...utorial-75051/

^There you go! Also, you can listen to calming music. That always seems to help me. You can also look up relaxation techniques to get back to sleep. Good luck!

I clicked on the link and it told me I don't have permission to continue...

Uhmm I might sound negative, but the idea of reaching sleep paralysis is doing so much harm to new people on this forum and even experienced practitioners. So get that idea out of your head!
What you want to reach is the Hypnagogic state NOT Sleep paralysis! Sleep paralysis happens AFTER you have started dreaming and in order to not act out your dream in the physical world, your limbs get paralyzed. If your body paralyses when you are awake and yes even when you are trying to "trick" your body to paralyze something is wrong!
People also talk about feel small and sometimes even heavy vibrations in their legs and mistake that as sleep paralysis, when it's actually your body's normal relaxation sensation, you can go to bed right now and relax yourself to the point where you feel your legs vibrate and almost kicking without actually kicking. It's not sleep paralysis it's RELAXATION.
People who wake up during the night and see aliens, angels, ghosts etc. and experience the feeling of not being able to move is actually aware of both their physical body and non-physical dreaming-body. They are paralyzed because they dream, but they are aware of their physical body and that sensations is brought over to the dream, how else would you explain that they were abducted by aliens afterwards? Were they abducted by aliens and then brought back to their bed? Possibly.... But the most likely explanation is that they had a false awakening and dreamed that they were in their real bed, and therefore they say that they were AWAKE and maybe hallucinating, but if they were taken on an alien ship out through their window they were not AWAKE!

So when you feel weird sensations and think that you are awake but you think you "hallucinate" get up! It's probably a dreambed - There's a DEILD tutorial for ya

But what is the goal if it's not paralysis then? The Hypnagogic state!
It is easiest with a Wake Back to bed so sleep for 6 hours then get up for five or more and then go back to bed.
Then lay back and relax with any method you want there are plenty of tutorials on the forum just look around the WILD section.
The goal is to stay aware and it is very hard to stay aware laying on the side or the back so fluff up some pillows and lay in a sitting position. Legs straight and back against the wall or something.
Then daydream! It's basically a VILD, but the steps are important. All this information is only based on my own experience so you have to find out what's right for you =)
And most important of all, learn your sensations! If I hear a high pitch tone I know I wont be able to enter the dream, but if it is a deep tone I know I will succeed. I'll also start to experience something I call "dream flashes" which is what lets me know I am in the hypnagogic state. Dream flashes are brief micro lasting episodes of me thinking, seeing or hearing something really weird and dreamlike, for example I might start to think "Purple macaronis is what makes elephants grow." I can come up with those examples quite easily now because I have experienced so weird dream flashes
And I sometimes see blue shady things move in front of my eyelids, although I try to not stay too aware of my physical body, because then I wont be able to transition, that's why the sleep paralysis idea is a WILD - killer! It makes people focus on their physical body!
What usually happens on a successful attempt is that I daydream until I suddenly feel that the daydream feels more real and that I am there! And HERE is where my limbs paralyzes... Not before!

You can read about some attempts in my DJ.

I hope this helped you

Thanks a lot! I've had those "dream flashes" before but I always snap out so quicklyy and it kind of keeps my from sleeping because the snap back to reality is so strong

Your welcome When you get those dream flashes you are either dreaming or close to start dreaming in Non-REM. And if you just wait a little (well the little might be several minutes) but time flash by as your in this focus, but if you wait you might start daydreaming vividly, until you transition into the dream. And also it's actually kind of fun to be in that hypnagogic state, instead of repeating a mantra like "I am aware of my dream, I am aware of my dreams, I am aware of my dreams...) In an eternity until you give up, you can instead entertain yourself with your weird thoughts, I have never tried drugs, but I reckon this is a druggy state. You just lay there entertained by images, sounds and tactile sensations in your awareness

If you ever try it let me know =)