Explanation of Everything

Well I'm going to cover a lot of things here. To start, and introduction.

Hi....

Yeah not good with that. Other than that I know I think rather deeply is all I can think of to say now. Well second, OBE and SP

Before I starting trying lucid dreaming, before I was even interested in it, I saw this over bloated thing on the discovery channel about sleep paralysis and aliens and ect. Scared me a lot because of the way they depicted it. Now skip forward to today, I was already to try to do the WILD technique, and then I saw it involved SP. I stopped the alarm, and just walked away from it. Can someone explain a SP episode to me to help me ease my mind. Also, OBEs sort of scare me to. Can anyone explain what that's like to?

I was surfing the boards, and stumbled across shared dreaming. This was very interesting to me. And It got me thinking. Lately, a lot of talk between my friends about telepathy and stuff got me thinking. It's been bothering me and since I heard that. Having a shared dream would answer a lot of questions for me, and maybe being a lucid dreamer could help with the daily stresses of life. But, disappointingly, I have only just become a good dream recaller, with only one, unintentional lucid dream. So until I get my fear of OBEs and SPs under control I can begin with lucid dreaming, one more step closer to complete my newly set goal - having a shared dream with someone. I hope people on this board will help me become lucid, and I may even have a share dream with one of you, that is once I get settled in here and make friends. I hope to become a regular member here and to maybe once I master becoming lucid, help other people do so to. - Chris, out.

Ha ha..you wanna WILD and scared of SP? SP is happening every time when we sleep. It is a protection mechanism of our physical body. WILD helps us for the awareness of our physical body in the "Body Asleep, Mind Awake State". Now you are aware of SP, you experience SP. Good thing.
Plenty of posts about SP, OBEs around here. Go through them. Ask questions, share your thoughts.

:welcome: to DV!!!

Hmm thanks about that. lol the thing I saw was saying a bunch of stuff that it was bad or something, so I'm still trying to get my facts straight with everything here. I know that SP happens every night, I just thought crazy shit happens if your conscious and it happens, which is what happens in WILDing. Anyways I will look around on that and thanks for the welcome and yeah, I'm no pro on this yet so I still barely know about things. :cheeky:

During a WILD attempt you will most likely get some sort of hallucinations. Whether they are auditory or visual is completely random. Most people only get a vibration feeling and colour patterns behind their eyes. Other people hear howling wind, whispering voices and other disturbing things. Also some people hallucinate a dark shadowy figure coming towards them, a common hallucination is spiders or snakes on the walls and bed. With sleep paralysis some people claim to feel a large weight pressing on them (the focus of many folk tales), some even see a monster, fat woman, or animal sitting on them.

Now that you are terrified of WILDing I'm going to clear it all up for you. The more intense (scary) hallucinations are very rare and you probably won't have them. Also there are people that get the worst of these hallucinations yet they feel that they are worth it to WILD. Other people look forward to these, they realize they are all in their mind, can't hurt them and mean an amazing lucid dream is coming. I was worried about these for a long time too but, after some research, I'm not worried at all. You probably won't get any bad hallucinations and even if you do, it's all in your mind and they can be whatever you want ;) In fact if you have no fear about it the hallucinations could be very pleasant!

Good luck! WILDing is extremely hard to master, but perhaps one of the most rewarding things too.

Thanks kevojy, that helpeda lot.

Don't be afraid of Sleep Paralysis. Just like dreams, the hallucinations involved can be frightening, interesting, or just plain hilarious. If you know it is not real, the fear is only fleeting. Think of it as another kind of dreaming.

I have gone to a neurologist and, to my knowledge, they use the term "Sleep paralysis" only when you wake up and you are paralyzed (as they described, probably, on discovery channel or whatever)
I have had quite a few sleep paralysis/waking up paralyzed episodes and only a few have been scary as hell. Most have been intriguing. I've seen things flying around the room, a woman in white gliding from one side of the room to another, felt things jumping on the bed or I just lay there and enjoy the weirdness of it. The scary one was I woke up one night unable to move and was on my side and felt someone leaning over me in the pitch black. I felt a knee in my back and a hand touch my shoulder. It was scary as hell even though I knew what it was, because I was a single girl cross country truck driving and it felt like someone had sneaked into my truck and I couldn't move or see anything.