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

Well said gab !

Personally when I WILD by luck or with the help of galantamine, I don't feel anything but a quick transition from what I imaging seeing or touching, or feeling to something I really see or touch or feel, and when it happens, I just entered in the dream.
Sometimes I feel strange hallucinations when I cross certain sleep stages, while falling asleep or just after waking up :
-Tactile hallucination of something climbing on my bed, I don't see it but it's like a cat or a dog just climbed on, I feel the shape of the bed changing like if something more or less heavy was on.
-auditory hallucination of something moving next to the bed.
-hypnopompic hallucinations like seeing enormous bugs on the wall, or going quickly under the bed just after waking up (it doesn't happen to me anymore)
-I can hear very short random sentences of random people voices when I focus on and try to hear it when I 'm falling asleep.

All of these hallucinations are never followed by a conscious entering in REM in my case.

I don't suffer from SP (the pathologic one), but twice, when I was very stressed and with some big sleep deprivations, I lived tremendous SP episodes.
I very well remember the night I felt paralyzed and something seamed to strongly pulling me by my foots.
it was horrible, I was struggling to stay in my "body" and was trying to scream for help but I couldn't.
back in that days, I didn't know the true nature of SP, and was thinking like blizardizzing , I thought it was really happening to me, I just didn't know this was an hallucination.

Once, under the influence of Galantamine and other supplements,when I tried the M. Raduga's WILD/DEILD technique, I lived a complete OBE experience, from the floating sensations, to the whole SP process, seeing my asleep body and so on. I understood then how our mind can be tricked by our brain, cause I was persuaded during this dream that it was proving me I was wrong about AP and that this astral stuff was the real shit, until I woke up and noticed that all of this was just a kind of LD, cause the room where I was "astral traveling" has never existed, and my own body I was supposed to look at and hear snoring was another dream creation... lol.
At the beginning of this OBE/WILD, I felt the same sensation of body separation and fear (accelerating heart beat) than when I lived this horrible SP, but I managed to stay calm and let the phenomenon happen.

Once, while I was trying to WILD, I saw an ex-girfriend entering in my room and I felt her kinda sitting on my body while I was sleeping by my side.
This time I was as fully aware of the true nature of this vision, but it was none the less creepy !

I also lived, few decades ago, 3 spontaneous OBE, waking up already "separated", floating on the top of my room, not looking at the representation of my "real" sleeping body, but with this feeling I was living my own death.
I was in a kind of "gray dimension"..
Brain is really tricky.