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      Cool Sleep Paralysis

      Hey, I am fascinated by the experience of sleep paralysis and I wanted to know, in detail, everyone's experience who has experienced sleep paralysis, while going to sleep. I've been trying it but so far, because of lack of knowledge about what's happening to my body, I've yet to experience it, or recognize it. So everyone please in detail let me know, as far as hallucinations, lights, auditory hallucinations, different sensations, tingling in hands or feet, vibrations, how loud sounds were...stuff like that.

      I'm not sure if it's the same type of situation and if I can use it to my advantage but when I'm really tired and falling asleep, I hear tidbits of music, people talking, different sounds, but when I try to actually "listen" it's like they quickly go away and I wonder if that is apart of the hallucination associated with dreaming and sleep paralysis.

      Thanks for your input. I'm always excited to learn about different people's experiences about a truly little known subject. It's amazing how much we really do not know about what the brain is in control of.
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      As far as I know, your body needs to be extremely relaxed before SP can occur. By taking away all of your attention from your body's senses, it encourages your mind to afflict SP on your relaxed body - if that makes any sense.

      I've only entered it once, and it comes after small, slight, barely noticeable sensations in all areas of your body. You must remain still for a while and think about anything.. e.g. walking around on a beach (That's what I used and it worked).

      I only know I entered SP because right before I was about to fall asleep something distracted me and when I tried to lift my arm I barely could. It was like my muscles weren't completely responding.. Very strange.

      You have to concentrate on relaxing your body.. Focus on your breathing, think of places and tactile sensations. If you move or shift in bed, it resets your body and it will take longer to enter SP.

      It's easier if you WBTB, because when you get out of bed your body is likely already relaxed enough to enter SP smoothly, as opposed to going to bed for the first time, where your body isn't as tired.
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      My SP's are pretty typical with almost every thing ive read up on it. I get very intense and vivid hypnagogic hallucinations, a presence of a supernatural being in the room usually to my right at the corner of my peripheral vision like a shadow, some times demon like voices REM eyes sometimes where i cant focus, tunnel vision.Sometimes i can control it and actually make a hot girl walk in my room lol. i usually use them to go into a LD. I get more of them when i lay straight on my back and have my head tilted directly up wards towards the ceiling. I actually get them alot but they dont bother me anymore so i dont actually care if it could actually be bad for you having so may but i advocate them.

      pleople actually confuse SP with being abducted by aliens and hunted houses....silly country people, when will they learn.
      Before you drift off, don't forget. Which is to say, remember. Because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. Federico Garcia Lorca in a poem said that the iguana will bite those who do not dream. And as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person's dream, now THAT is SELF AWARENESS.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Sony86 View Post
      As far as I know, your body needs to be extremely relaxed before SP can occur. By taking away all of your attention from your body's senses, it encourages your mind to afflict SP on your relaxed body - if that makes any sense.
      I actually get more of them when i get really drunk. guess it makes me relax alot.
      Before you drift off, don't forget. Which is to say, remember. Because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. Federico Garcia Lorca in a poem said that the iguana will bite those who do not dream. And as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person's dream, now THAT is SELF AWARENESS.

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      The first time I experienced SP I had never heard of it or lucid dreaming. At the time I was worried about my health, and consequently not sleeping very well and having frequent palpitations.

      One night I was laying awake worrying and listening to my heart beat, then it felt as though my heart stopped. My natural reaction was to sit up, but I couldn't move. My body felt heavy, stiff and totally unresponsive and the absence of hearing my heart beat brought total silence. I honesty thought I was dying. I felt a tear roll down my face and then blacked out / fell asleep. The whole thing probably only lasted a few seconds but it felt much longer.

      That was a very scary experience. Now I am in to lucid dreaming I look forward to signs of SP as I experiment with WILDS.
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      Last night I got into SP

      It was my second time.

      I used to relax my body on every exhale.. but last night thought it would be easier if it relaxed on inhale also.. so to do this I imagined myself floating.. my body was floating or falling.. or no gravity .. just weightlessness.
      It took my about 15mins last night.. and I got this wave I remembered from the first time. In my head down to my feet about 5times.. it is so intense it takes my breath away like shock, but not unpleasant. The first time I remembered I read on here I would know when I am in SP .. and people said stuff like you will know trust me.
      Anyway after the wave all my vision went bright blue :] If I had stayed longer and carried on I think I could have WILD but I fell asleep :/

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      Generally I get sleep paralysis when I rest my eyes a few minutes before I go to class. I fall asleep, and then my brain jerks awake immediately remembering that I can't go to sleep because I'll miss class. Now my brain is awake, and my body is completely unresponsive.
      It's a little freaky at first, but a very awesome experience.
      Anyone know if there are cases where people are unable to snap out of it? That's my only fear.

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      I used to get it alot when younger .. I would wake from dreams/nightmares and unable to move. I would hallucinate too and see people come into the room. I always thought I was dead. I sometimes did it for what seemed like an hour. Was very horrible.
      In very many cases, the visionary quality, the quality of the vision so to say, spills over, into the external world, so that the experiencer, when he opens his eyes, sees the outer world transfigured...

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      For me, I get SP right after waking up in the middle of the night or early morning.

      All I do is think, "Okay...time for SP time," and I lay on my back while knocking myself out of my "deep sleep phase". Or in other words, quickly acquainting myself to my environment. Still being really tired from just waking up, I easily fall asleep and I slip into SP.
      There have also been some nights where I've been able to do this back to back to back, however, I'm not always successful in reaching a fascinating LD. In fact, most of my LD take place in or around my house.

      Usually I know I enter SP because I am awakened in my bed, but it is almost as if the pressure in the room is different or I have super sonic hearing. My ears pick up a unique sound that I only hear during SP. I don't usually feel the vibrations like other people, but I think as long as you know you're in SP, it doesn't really matter.

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