Thread: Need Help Getting past sleep paralysis.

Wow its been a while since I've posted. I've mostly just been lurking around the forum for the past 3 months or so...

Anyway, I think I'm getting closer and closer to reaching sleep paralysis by will. It takes me consistently about 10 minutes to start feeling vibrations (literally just vibrations ... no sounds or HI or anything else)... my entire body gets this tingly, vibrating feeling. I start getting HI within about 1-3 minutes after this.

But I've never been able to get past... I would appreciate it if you guys could give me a little insight on how you transition from HI into a dream. What should I be thinking/not thinking about? Should I try to visualize anything at this point? How should my breathing patterns be ?

Also, just as another question aside, when you are WILDing do you have better luck sleeping on your back or on your side ? The only WILD I ever had was when I was sleeping on my side.

I don't experience the SP anymore but I do get HI. I just let the HI happen and watch as it forms more complex shapes. It eventually shifts into an entire dream scene, I'd wait for a few more moments and then try to do something in the scene. If my body is deeply enough asleep I'll have stepped right into a lucid dream.

I usually sleep on my side or stomach when I WILD. I've had my more vivid and controllable WILDs while sleeping on my stomach.

Don't know if any of that will help but hope it does.

i dont know if ur in SP cause u should go pretty much right into a dream, atleast i do

Originally Posted by Kane

But I've never been able to get past... I would appreciate it if you guys could give me a little insight on how you transition from HI into a dream. What should I be thinking/not thinking about? Should I try to visualize anything at this point? How should my breathing patterns be ?

Your questions indicate the problem that you have. You think too much about what to do. Don't do anything, stay calm and let it happen. Just watch and stay aware. If thoughts pop up, perceive them passively and let them slide. The difficult part is not to get excited. That usually takes time.

In sleep paralysis, are your limbs actually paralyzed? Occaisonally when I'm really tired, I feel my body grow very heavy and I feel like I'm shaking. However, if I want to, I can move my arms and legs and suddenly the shaking feeling goes away. Is this sleep paralysis?

Originally Posted by CCKid716

In sleep paralysis, are your limbs actually paralyzed? Occaisonally when I'm really tired, I feel my body grow very heavy and I feel like I'm shaking. However, if I want to, I can move my arms and legs and suddenly the shaking feeling goes away. Is this sleep paralysis?

No, in sleep paralysis your body really IS fully paralyzed. Scientists say it protects you from acting out movements that you dream, esotericists say that the subtle bodies have to reconnect to the physical one. I leave the interpretation up to you. Well, you're not fully paralyzed... you can still move your eyes and control breathing. There are various ways to get out of that state: You wait (about 5 minutes) for the state to wear off, you start to speed it up by trying to wiggling a toe or breathing emphatically or you use the hard way, gather all your strength and put all your will in moving your body at once. I wouldn't recommend the latter though, this can give you some pain that lasts for a while. Probably because of muscle overstraining. You can also go back to sleep and try to induce a lucid dream, since you've already taken the first hurdle of preserving your consciousness beyond physical sleep at that point.

No it's not! Your consciousness isn't connected to your body anymore, but your body is only paralyzed to the extent you forgotten its there! When people sleep, they move all the time during their sleep, without waking up. Some people can even sleepwalk. So I don't think you should take the SP too litterally. You're paralyzed allright, but thats only a sign on the road to dreaming.. next step is falling asleep without sleeping..

Alright thanks. I guess I've never felt true sleep paralysis then...