Thread: Sensations you've felt when when falling asleep, in sleep paralysis, or while WILDing.

Originally Posted by blizzardesigns

sleep paralysis is not just a hallucination... it's not a symptom of dream state or sensations, it's something astral, a spiritual attack, and if you still haven't realized that you're just being naive and labeling your intuitive conclusion about these events as superstitions when in reality they're much more real than you could ever rationally comprehend.

LOL!

That is one of the funniest and silliest misinterpretations of sleep paralysis I have seen in years. I hope it's some kind of a typo, like a "not" missing from "it's NOT something astral, NOT spiritual attack..." If not a typo, then please don't do it again. It has no place on this forum.

Sleep paralysis is when our body is immobilized after we start to dream. Simple defense mechanizm, so we don't act out our dreams and kick a wall or punch someone sleeping next to us, or start walking, screeming, anything pretty much that we are doing in a dream at that moment.

REM atonia, which is a normal state our body engages after we enter REM state and start to dream, happens to everybody every nite, every time we dream. It starts automatically and ends automatically the moment the REM is over or we woke up. Sometimes it can happen that REM atonia starts while we are still aware, or doesn't end the moment we wake up. Those instances of REM atonia are called SP - sleep paralysis. It can be scary if we don't know what is happening. But if we know what it is, it can actually be used to enter a LD, since we are already half way there - all nice and relaxed. Just relax and try to enter another dream while keeping your awareness. Or if you want to end SP, start by changing your breathing. Make it faster, and your body will realize that YOU are in control of it, so you must be awake and it will end the SP. Also, try to wiggle tips of your fingers and toes. Everything else is paralyzed. But the point is to show your body that you are awake so it ends the SP.

When lucid dreamers WILD, we get into state when we are still aware, but already dreaming. In that moment we could be already in REM atonia. But normally we don't even notice, because why whould we? SP is not a goal of lucid dreaming, and testing if we are in SP is counterproductive, since moving and testing if we are in SP could and would get us out of the state when we are already in a lucid dream.

So, SP is anormal state our body enters us into every time we dream. Nothing supernatural about it.

Originally Posted by JShadow

Ever WILDed and felt strange sensations like this? What did they feel like?

oooooh yeah! I love those! For me, they are as good as LD itself.

Floating
body rotating
being lifted up and twisted like a pretzel
vibrating
flying head first at warp speed, sometimes over bumpy surface
falling down

The falling down sensation is one of my favorites. So sometimes when in HH, I try to induce LD by finding a chair, standing up on it and falling down backwards.