Thread: Why I have never experienced sleep paralysis?

Originally Posted by L4xord

P.S SP is not something to suffer. Don't use the term to suffer. SP can actually be quite amusing when you take control of the hallucinations.

No, it is something you can suffer. The majority of people who don't have a disorder will only get SP a few times in their life and will undoubtedly not really enjoy the feeling the first few times. The ones who do suffer from ISP etc are usually also suffering because they might wake up half way through the night paralyzed, on top of this one does not simply overcome a fear of the unknown, it is a trait held by a minority.
It can be amusing and personally the few times I've had it I used it to my advantage, but since the people who frequently get SP usually have a disorder they are suffering from it in some way, especially considering that it is beyond your control not to go into SP.

yea dutchraptor, ive herd of people, that whenever they go to sleep and relax they will get sp, and i have herd those who have it more than 1 time a night. honestly dont take it the wrong way but i im kinda jealous of them sometims. i fully enjoy my sp episodes. there are even entire forums Fully devoted to sp episodes. but honestly you can overcome the fear, maybe not every single time, but you can.

Originally Posted by DarkestHour

yea dutchraptor, ive herd of people, that whenever they go to sleep and relax they will get sp, and i have herd those who have it more than 1 time a night. honestly dont take it the wrong way but i im kinda jealous of them sometims. i fully enjoy my sp episodes. there are even entire forums Fully devoted to sp episodes. but honestly you can overcome the fear, maybe not every single time, but you can.

Can you describe your SP? Lot's of times there is a confusion, as SP used to be described as vibrations, feeling of heaviness, floatiness, movements, feeling that it would be hard to move. All of these you can get when you just relaxing and you start to fall asleep while keeping your mind aware.

But REM attonia is something that everybody gets every single night every single time when we start to dream. It paralyzes muscles, so we don't act out our dreams. You can't induce it just by laying still. Then I would be paralyzed everytime I chill on sofa watching TV. It's something that we have no control over.

If you falling asleep and you are very close to dreaming, or you waking up and you feel paralyzed, the name REM attonia changes to Sleep paralysis. It is a condition some people have chronicly. For majority of population it's a 1-2 a lifetime experience. When it happens, something went wrong. Attonia failed to disangage when it should have, or it kicked in prematurely.

But you wake up numerous times at night, many times straight from a dream and you are not in SP/attonia, because it worked exactly as it should.