Some people experience sleep paralysis and hypnopompic/hypnagogic hallucination, others don't. And that's all there is to it basically. We don't really know why some people are prone to sleep paralysis and some people aren't, it's a mystery. What is clear is that SP is not necessary for WILDing, not at all! As for hallucinations, the reigning theory (Allen Cheyne at University of Waterloo in Canada) is that the Intruder and Incubus sometimes experienced are results of a brain's panicked reaction to sleep paralysis. It's a bit more nuanced than that, but the gist is that you awake with SP, then brain realizes it is vulnerable and produces a 'felt presence,' with lack of sensory stimuli the brain creates its own (hallucination).
Seeking out hallucinations is a tricky business, and you prob won't be able to accomplish it without somehow harming yourself (eg. methamphetamine abuse, extreme sleep deprivation etc.). That being said, I am not a hallucinator, yet I've experienced sleep paralysis with hypnopompic imagery before when I'm very stressed AND have recently been thinking about SP. So who knows
|
|
Bookmarks