Sleep Paralysis

[themindsi]

i woke up this morning around 6 am. at 8 pm i smoked half a blunt and went back to bed to try a WILD. well, i'm having nice imagery, and i feel my body going into paralysis, and I'm thinking, great, I'm not too far off from entering an LD, well, i was wrong. There's construction taking place accross the street and I had left all my windows open, the noise was so loud that it was bothering me and preventing me from LD'ing. Now, I didn't want to throw it off so quickly because i felt so close to LD'ing, so I tried to wait it out and block out the sound hoping my LD would come on and hurry up already. Then I decided I was going to close the window since the breeze was making me kind of chilly anyway. I tried to move and nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, NOTHING! Now, since I know about sleep paralysis I wasn't frightened, simply perturbed, I knew if I concentrated hard enough I could get some movement, but still, NOTHING! I started to get annoyed, and soon the construction noises sounded like the horrible sounds of some type of slaughter house and my visuals were getting way to real and scary, now I was trying to stay out of the dream because it was frightening me. Again, I tried moving, and I couldn't move at all aside from a quick jump in my fingers. I felt my boyfriend moving around next to me arranging the blankets and shit like that. I tried desperately to move my lips or make some type of sound, but it wasn't working, until i wet my lips with my tongue and forced my mouth open, then I was able to speak but still could not move my body, it was all so strange. I had to yell out to make him wake up and then instruct him to grab my arm and lift it up quickly. I was stuck in SP for quite a long time. Is this normal? I have been stuck in SP before, but never for such a long time, and never to the point where i felt frightened or uncomfortable.

[Artelis]

http://www.sleepeducation.com/Disorder.aspx?id=34 I read this article and it confirms that it is normal for you to have multiple sp episodes, longer episodes, and frightening episodes. Don't think it was anything to worry about, but yeesh, sounds scary.

[elcorazon33]

as a frequent sufferer of sleep paralysis, i know exactly what you are talking about. they have determined recently that there are a few contributing factors to the phenomenon, though no one knows exactly why. first, sleeping on your back seems to cause them to happen in some people. also, a lack of electrolytes. it;s sort of like a charlie horse of the mind in that way. they tend to occur at a certain time during the sleep cycle, and some believe are related to what people have described as incubi/succubi dreams, or even alien abduction. i'm really fascinated with this phenomenon. some say that if you can learn to not be horrified by the situation, you can surpass it and move into astral travel. i have tried this, but when i attempt to exit my body, i feel the SLIMIEST little hands holding onto me, as if they are coming from within my chest. i think, obviously, that if you are inexperienced in astral projection, there is going to be some resistance by your ego when you attempt to detach and go elsewhere i have a ton to say on this topic but will stop for now!