What was this exactly?

**Stephanie** · 09-03-2008 04:52 AM

Hi, well I was trying to take a nap today. Well after awhile there was a white flash and my body felt really heavy and the white flash happened a couple more times and each time my body just sank and got heavier, and after about 20 mintues my arm started going numb and it became more intense and was starting to move up my arm to my back. Do any of you know what this was? Thanks for any comments posted.

**pdiddles03** · 09-03-2008 05:03 AM

sounds like a wild to me!

**poliganometry** · 09-03-2008 05:07 AM

You were experiencing the onset of sleep paralysis. It happens to you every night when you fall asleep, but this time you were awake enough to remember it.

sweet stuff

**Snowy Egypt** · 09-03-2008 05:08 AM

!!!

This is the occurrence known as SP, or Sleep Paralysis. It's completely natural. Most of the time, we aren't aware that it happens. But it's possible to be conscious of it by doing the WILD technique, or Wake-Initiated-Lucid-Dream. You can look at how to do it in the Tutorial section, if your interested, and if you have anymore questions, please feel free to ask.

**blackjack** · 09-03-2008 05:10 AM

hey stephanie, well that there seems like sleep paralysis to me. Seems as though you must have had some hynopogic (sp?) imagery, if you had stayed conscious you may have been able to go right into a lucid dream... lucky lol