So this has worked for me the second night in a row. But I can't be 100% sure I was accomplishing a WILD because I'm not sure if I was already dreaming.
Also, is sleep paralysis painful for anyone here?
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So this has worked for me the second night in a row. But I can't be 100% sure I was accomplishing a WILD because I'm not sure if I was already dreaming.
Also, is sleep paralysis painful for anyone here?
I've used to have plenty of frightening experiences with sleep paralysis, including hearing menacing voices. I recall one in particular - a laughter of an old, evil had (or so did it sound). In other instances I could see hallucinations superimposed on the real world - they were so vivid that I've had trouble determining if they were real once I was through the experience.
The method you are using to put yourself to sleep paralysis is akin to the 61-point technique, which consists of mentally focusing on a sequence of points in the human body in order to induce a state of relaxed focus. I've used to use similar body-oriented technique to put myself to sleep and to increase my dream recall.
Hahahaha! "Who can I bang?"
I had a weird dream two nights ago, where I was about to get it on with my long distance girlfriend.
Her bed was behind a Viel, and I opened it at the same time as I jumped into it and there was a Bed of Cactus' around it. ARYH! I got over it and we were about to get busy, and my mom woke me up!
Congrats on the effortless WILD. Those are the best kind, where you just lay down and BAM, you're LDing.
As for sleep paralysis, imagine being 5 years old, in the dark of yoru bedroom all alone. You're wide awake, heart racing, mind trying to wrap around why you can't move or speak or do anything but think and be afraid. You don't know what's happening, if it will go away, maybe you're dying? A billion thoughts charge through your little mind and still you can't move. You want to cry out for parents and can't even do that. The longer it last the more dire your thoughts become.
Then suddenly it breaks. You can move. It feels as if a planet has been lifted off of you. You run and look for someone to comfort you, only to be told that it was all a bad dream. But you know it wasn't a dream. So you spend the next 10 years sporacically waking up in this state, each time that first fear comes back, death? And there's nothing you can do about it but endure. Not knowing what it is it becomes like a curse, waking up several times a week thinking you're dying. And no one there to quell the fear.
That's what Sleep Paralysis was for me as a kid. I didn't find out what it was until I was about 16. And even after finding out what it was it still plagued me. It was horrible and frightening. I didn't get the old hag or vibrations or sounds. It was just me and my grimly overactive imagination always jumping to that first conclusion... I'm dying. I sort of got used to it but that inital horrible and cold fear was always the first thing I'd feel when waking up in SP.
Only a couple of years ago did I rid myself of that. All of it. I don't get SP anymore. I do get it at the beginning of WILD's now though, strangely enough. I wake up in a dream and have to break out of the paralysis before I can proceed. It's not scary like the real thing was though.
Hmm... I think I'll shut up now.
Congrats again.
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Yeah SP is painful, but just know that its all fake and your body is just making itQuote:
Originally Posted by Diablo Mablo
Yah, it just makes me want to roll over and get comfortable. But I know it's over then and I'll be asleep within minutes.
Wow, that is so strange that people find it painful. Though, I understand of course. I have anxiety disorder and get panic attacks. I would say SP is almost identical and the only reason I don't find it scary or get that dying feeling is because I am purposely doing it to myself. When panic attacks come on or I have a bad trip it is unexpected and the first thought is to try to get out of this state.
The ONLY thing to stop you getting scared and to cease the feeling of dying is to get right into it. Go with the flow and know that you are purposely doing this because it brings you pleasure. The actual SP is amazing if you don't get scared from it. Just as a good drug experience is amazing if you don't fall into a bad trip. Just remember that SP is a natural thing and it can be a very peaceful moment. It feels as if you have been paralysed and are floating on nothing. You see imagery that you won't see IRL unless you take hallucinogenics, which I don't recommend if you get scared from SP or have panic attacks; that is why I have never taken them.
It is a really cool experience and you feel soooo relaxed. Just remember this and the anxiety will subside.
Also, if you meant painful on a physical level, no not at all. You are paralysed and thus cannot feel a thing physically.
Peace and good luck with an amazing SP experience.
Tommo
Every one was looking for a follow up on how this method worked, well it kind of worked last night i woke up during a early morning awakening i rolled over and felt all my body parts using the 61 points of the body
after about 5 minutes of doing it i knew SP was coming and it did come, i was so close to wilding but unfortunately i fell asleep during SP.
The funny thing was my dream was a False Awakening. I thought I woke up because my attempt at WILD failed, it turns out i was wrong
If i stayed awake during SP it would have been a WILD
I'm getting better at this, it ain't that hard