I hear about it all the time at DV, but i have never experinced it. |
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I hear about it all the time at DV, but i have never experinced it. |
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"Dreams are as portals. Flat visions of misty places. But I can write dreams!" - Myst Uru
Yeah, all the time. Almost everybody does. Everybody except sleepwalkers that is. I've never been conscious of it, but I always wake up in the same place I went to sleep, so logically I must have had sleep paralysis the whole time. |
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“The sleep is still in my eyes
The dream is still in my head
I heave a sigh and sadly smile
And lie a while in bed
I wish that it might come to pass
Not fade like all my dreams” —Rush
Yes, I have gotten sleep paralysis. It never happened until I started lucid dreaming though. It was pretty scary the first time. Loud static noises, strange illusions and such. |
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It is very scary. The first time it happened to me I realized I was conscious but my whole body was paralyzed. I could not move, talk, scream, open my eyes. The only thing I could use to snap out of it was try thinking and the harder I thought about waking up the easier it became for me to move my arm and before I knew it I was no longer paralyzed. Its very scary though. Ive done it twice the first time it was pretty short. The second time I fell asleep had a quick dream and remember waking up at 11:00 in the afternoon, then I got into sleep paralysis (were i couldn't move anything) and then I remember trying to move I remember my right eye opened for like a second and then I was paralyzed again. Then I just thought about waking up and I woke up first thing i did was look at the clock it was 9:00 in the morning. Which seemed really strange because when I looked at the clock in the previous episode the same day and it was 11:00. |
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Everyone experiences this, whether they know it or not.....It's a normal part of sleep. It happens when you go to sleep. Don't worry about it; it can't hurt you.. |
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I have, only once though, and before I started LDing. I woke up, but with my eyes still closed. I tried to move my arm and with all the effort I could muster I could only get it to move about half a centimetre. Trying to move it made it feel like it was going to explode because of a feeling of geat energy inside it. Then in an instant I had full mobility again with no hinderences or lingering effects. |
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Even if I was able to move a limb I wouldn't know it because I couldn't not feel anything I couldn't even hear or see anything either exsept for a static noise (I assume the noise were alpha brain waves) |
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I've had it a couple of times recently. It's worst when it's in darkness bacause I will usually hear people who I know (like my family) in the room saying really fucked up random things. |
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Yeah...in fact, I did alot when I was 3, b/c I never slept for long amounts of time at a time. It never frightened me at all though, as I would just wait, & WILD. Now I can either WILD, or just goof off w/Cody ! |
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It happened fairly often as a teen but not so much now. |
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Martha
Phoenix, AZ
Change your life with your very next thought.
-Dr Wayne Dyer
I have never woken up and found myself still in SP. I'd like to just to see what it's like, but alas, my body won't cooperate. |
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"If there was one thing the lucid dreaming ninja writer could not stand, it was used car salesmen."
I've experienced it a few times. I think it's a pretty neat feeling. Guess I'm in the minority. Actually last time it happened I wanted to laugh for some reason. |
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I voted "yes"; but I'm not sure whether that's so. All I remember from the times I've had what might be SP is lying in bed after awakening and being aware of not being able to move; but I wasn't afraid--I just realized my body was still asleep. It never took more than a few seconds to fade; and when you've just woken up you don't want to move right away anyhow. |
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Die Gedanken Sind Frei
All statements contained in this post should be read as though they are prefaced by the phrase, "In my opinion."
I remember my first sleep paralysis. I was about thirteen. Scared the bejeebers outta me. I couldn't move but very little and that was only with great force. I tried to scream, but nothing but a very quiet raspy sound would come out. Happened quite often then kinda died down to once in a great while. When I started lucid dreaming, it brought it back with a vengeance. It scared me it happened so much, I stopped lucid dreaming for a couple months. Now that I have read up on it more, I am less scared about it and miss the fun I had. I have been working to start back up on lucid dreaming. |
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I have had it most of my life. It was really scary until i figures out what it was. Use to have living living nightmares because of them. |
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Hmmm, I can only recall one instance where I was concious and experienced SP. |
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Just now delving into LD.
I had it once, just recently. I was trying to LD... |
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I've experienced sleep paralysis many many times. It can be freaky and frustrating, but I'm so used to it now that I know I must focus hard on waking up to release myself from my frozen state. It usually happens when I am napping, or concious of the fact that I only have a short time to sleep. The trippy part is that I can usually see and I can definately hear my surroundings while I"m paralyzed. -caught in between the realm of dreaming, and the realm of being awake. I am concious of the fact that my eyes and ears work...and I can look around the room. I often wonder while I"m stuck in paralysis if someone will walk in on me, and find me in this frantic state, eyes moving wildly but body paralyzed. I would look completely possessed....or would I? Are my eyes really open? A long time ago I started napping with the light on in case of this...so I could really examine my surroundings while asleep. Can anyone relate? |
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Am I a butterfly dreaming about being a person...
or a person dreaming about being a butterfly...?
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