Hi djv,

It would be nice to chat with someone that also experiences sleep paralysis all the time.

My first experience with sleep paralysis was nothing like all of the others I have had since. There were only a few episodes of SP after the first which scared me. They involved me feeling a great pressure on my chest and my hearing one time someone talking near me to others and saying "let me kill him! lets kill him!" That really freaked me out. All my recent SP have been very pleasent. So don't take the first account of my SP to be what it is for me now.

I've been reading over what you wrote above. Since I've formed the habit of closing my eyes during SP, I'm starting to wonder if I could open them at all because I may be in a dream during some of the times I think I am in SP. I doubt it though, buts it a possibility that I will test out the next time I have SP, which may be tonight. What I see during SP, is blackness. I never have HI, and rarely hear voices or things like that. But always feel the tingly vibrations, wave of energy, and the sound of waves and crickets. I don't consider that hallucinations though.

For you personally, when you go from SP to a lucid dream, as you described, does the vibrations and sounds end? I know that when I went into my OBE directly from SP, all of the sounds and sensations ended. I assumed it would be the same for a lucid dream, but perhaps there are different types of LDs.

Can you explain, if possible, how you go about getting up out of your body and walking around?

One time, I tried for many hours to have a lucid dream. At one point I thought it didn't work and so was rolling around in my comforter. However, my light and computer were no longer on the desk by my bed and the room was cast in a greyish tone. Everything else seemed the same, but my cat wasn't around. I could feel the comforter and everything. I got excited and woke up in my bed. This time with my computer in place and the light on. It was amazing. Do you think what happened to me that time is what you normally go through?

I've read that when people wake up in their dream bedroom, that everything is dark and objects are misplaced, etc. That is exactly what I experienced.

Thanks for sharing with me. I've very eager to read your response!