moving in sleep paralysis

For about a year now I've found out that while caught in the sleep paralysis of the Hypnagogic State I can still move. I feel the effects of the sleep paralysis and the familiar sensation when I attempt to move as well as the fear that I sense while in the Hypnagogic State yet I've been able to open my eyes, move my arms, and barely sit upright. I don't understand this, I KNOW what sleep paralysis feels like because I've entered the Hypnagogic State dozens of times but recently in the past year I've suddenly found that I can still move while in sleep paralysis. Is this supposed to happen and does it happen to anyone else?

I felt the exact same way when I moved my limbs as I do when I can't move them.. except somehow I still feel them move but very distantly and they still move :

I've considered it might be because I wasn't deep enough in the state but having been concious in the hypnagogic state many times before I can feel how deep I am in the state and each time I moved, I was.

Are you a sleepwalker? Or just do a lot of moving around or talking when you're asleep?

Neither because sleepwalkers aren't concious when they do those things. I also mentioned that I can't move enough to walk while in sleep paralysis but I am concious and can move a little bit.

If you can move a little and still be "paralyzed", then I may have acieved this state after all!

One thing I find is that no matter how deep I get into the process, I can still move my arms. The thing is, I can't lift them straight up at all. All I can do is bend them at the elbow...

Sorry, I don't think I'm being constructive. I'll shut up now.

I've been able to do this, only thing is that if you move to hard you get out of the sleep paralysis, you have to do it carefully little by little, it feels funny too. Its very helpfull when in cases like if your neck starts hurting cause of bad positioning or if your a part of your body gets to cold or hot, I find it more usefull than anything else. but when in to deep stages it just seems to make you enter into the dream already, if your not in it already, or mabey its an OBE, but I couldn't say although its cool cause you feel your body asleep but all of a sudden your standing up without using strenght or anything, the part of my body I mostly feel sleep is my ears, It makes this sound like a tv out of station but harder and it feels like if it is deformed shut, really cool experience, had it a couple of time trying to move late on a wild, strangely after standing I tend to fall back to bed like a log and wake up jumping in rush, you should try it :D

I know what your talking about. It happens very rarely to me, and generally happens after a false awakening. The only thing I've been able to do is sit-up, or move my arms. My arms however felt like they're were 100 lbs a piece, and for me to sit up required every ounce of physcial effort i could put to use.

One time I was able to pick my arm up and move it over towards my alarm clock, but it smashed down on the table because i couldn't hold it up. That sucked.

I experinced a weird sleep paralysis one time! It sucked, because I was awake, I could her everyone around me, but I couldn't move at all :| It was very weird I might say, because I wasn't dreaming...

The only time i experience sleep paralysis is right before, in the middle of a nightmare. Its the strangest feeling in the world. Usually, i can get out of it. It takes a lot of work and effort though. I can usually sit up like half way, almost open my eyes, and maybe move my fingers a little bit.
I know if i give up i would be scared though, so my motivation gets me out of it.

Seeing as you probably know better since you were talking from personal experience this might be total bs, but there IS the possibility you dreamt yourself moving.

The only motion I've been capable of by the way has been very very laboured and minute movements, so I have no expertise in what you are talking about.

I was wondering the same thing recently. I've never been able to acheive what I thought was Full SP because I though in order to be in SP you can't move. But, nevertheless, I will always get that Tingle and numbness that everyone talks about But I am still quite capable of moving without the slightest more effort than usual.

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Originally posted by Forsaken Exposition
I was wondering the same thing recently. I've never been able to acheive what I thought was Full SP because I though in order to be in SP you can't move. But, nevertheless, I will always get that Tingle and numbness that everyone talks about But I am still quite capable of moving without the slightest more effort than usual.

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:D And I was thinking I was doing something wrong :D I can still move slightly, but it feels incredibly weird and my whole body tingles. I've tried doing a WILD twice, but both times I lost my patience and just went to sleep, I'll see if I have better luck tonight.

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Originally posted by krau_soles
For about a year now I've found out that while caught in the sleep paralysis of the Hypnagogic State I can still move. I feel the effects of the sleep paralysis and the familiar sensation when I attempt to move as well as the fear that I sense while in the Hypnagogic State yet I've been able to open my eyes, move my arms, and barely sit upright. I don't understand this, I KNOW what sleep paralysis feels like because I've entered the Hypnagogic State dozens of times but recently in the past year I've suddenly found that I can still move while in sleep paralysis. Is this supposed to happen and does it happen to anyone else?

I felt the exact same way when I moved my limbs as I do when I can't move them.. except somehow I still feel them move but very distantly and they still move :

I've considered it might be because I wasn't deep enough in the state but having been concious in the hypnagogic state many times before I can feel how deep I am in the state and each time I moved, I was.

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if you could move then you werent in SP... SP isnt the Hypnogic state its when your doby actually turns off to the point where you cant move no matter what


PS: sleepwalking isnt actually acting out your dreams, it happens way before REM