How do you guys compare dreaming through sleep paralysis?

[kaori]

Hey guys. Just wanted to get your guys viewpoint on this>? Is it really "wild"? I'm not sure if I compare my methods as wild or is it same? I gotten prety good at it as well, I can wild out of SP very easily within the first hour of sleep at least 2-4 times. Takes about 15-30 minutes for a dream to kick in. I'd wait til the edge of sleep, once I notice I am nothingness, then I would jump out of my body onto the side of my bed, I be like yay im free. Then I proceed onto my dreamworld. Sometimes I test different methods see any variances. Other times If I find myself paralyzed in bed, this is when I would perform same methods above even though I see myself there on the bed, I'd focus from 3rd person view. Other times I would float out of my body. Other times I would just sit up. Or I ask for assistance of the shadow person. Since Sleep paralysis is based on negative fears/emotions/imagination, I always keep these in check, so my imagination dont screw with me. Why does pain feel sooo oddly in this dream world? If someone yells into my ear in SP, I wake up with my ears ringing? If im being choked, I can feel the actual choking sensation around my neck when I'm awake? Sex is a completely different story once under paralyzed effect, use your imagination to create something scary to sex you up, and see what I mean. While in lucid? its more like meh. While in lucid dream, I dont think I feel pain, i just shrug it off, if I get shot or stabbed. To me its still lucid dreaming, my level of imagination still exists here. But there is 1 extremely nice thing about dreaming through sleep paralysis is that I have full awareness. If I lucid dream during a dream, I need that special click of awareness, where maybe partial part rational thought exists of me, where people would focus on repeated ADA or RC world checks. While in Sp, theres no need to use ADA/RC world checks, you can if you want, if you are not sure. I'd say 80% of my lucid dreams are cause of sleep paralysis. While other 20% would be induced within dreams. I have a harder time with ADA, I do get lucky once in a while with a full blown lucid without no effort at the start of dream.

[UG8806]

HI, I used to induce sleep paralysis to go into lucid dreaming. For me too it was the most direct way and a real buzz in itself. I have never, however, experienced any fear during sleep paralysis. Except the first time it happened as a child and then years and years later when I fell asleep in a chair, woke paralysed and thought I'd had stroke! And youre right about the full awareness, although I'd always have some sort of marker like telling myself that there would be a duck on the coffee table when I "left my body". Alas, Ive lost the ability now.

[TravisE]

I think I did something like that once, where I woke up in SP and tried to “force” my body to move, and I managed to pull myself out of bed and found I was in a LD. (Usually when I try this, it merely feels like I'm moving for an instant but then I realize I'm still stuck in bed, and I never get anywhere.) I didn't encounter OBE or see myself in third-person, though. I can't 100% prove that this wasn't simply a FA where I was in SP and did that, but it was a pretty convincing FA, if so. I don't know what the thing with pain is. It's hard for me to remember any dreams (lucid or not) where I experienced any significant pain. I even had a dream once that I cut my fingers clean off with some kind of laser beam, yet didn't feel anything.

[UG8806]

Travis, SP is very interesting isnt it. I found that the best way is to gently 'roll' out of your body. Your conscious mind will convince you to try and move arms and legs. Of course the paralysis will ensure you cant and ultimately you'll just wake up. The OBE, for want of better term, is amazing. I'd be in control and able to look at where my 'body' was and see just my empty clothes neatly arranged. This was a comforting marker for me. I think sp explains a lot about NDE's. Certainly someone who has never experienced this phenomenon would certainly be convinced that they had left their body. Regarding your pain: I not sure that experiencing realistic pain is all that common in dreams, I think most people would simply wake up before getting to it anyway. But also since all types of dreaming takes places during REM sleep when we are experiencing sleep paralysis - perhaps its logical that we cant feel it?