Sleep Paralysis

**SleepParalysis** · 05-22-2011 05:12 PM

Hey! I'm very new to this forum and I only recently discovered the world of dreaming.
My brother was the one who first told me about the abillity to become lucid. My dreams has always been very vivid and very imaginative. Dreams has always been a part of my life but only recently I've started to pay attention to them. As I did, I started to remember 2-4 dreams every night.
About three months ago I got my first Sleep Paralysis. It really freaked me out. Usually I have short dreams right before the actual SP starts. ''This first time, I remeber beeing in my school. Suddenly the fire alarm went off. I rushed out into the corridor outside the classroom, saw the smoke coming towards me. I quickly turned around to get back into the classroom and warn everyone. Just as I passed through the door everything went pitch black, I lost my possibility to see and the fire alarm increased in volume until it was almost too much to bare. I fell forward and hit the floor face-first. I couldn't move at all. I drifted back into waking life and I did everything in my power to wake up since i was really scared. Just to move my head an inch took all my strength and then I woke up.''
After that first dream they started coming more and more often. All this was before I heard about Lucid dreaming. I was almost 100% certain that I was actually close to dying everytime I had one. It's like I have two options when theese SPs occur. Either I submit to the sound and get drawn into the blackness (which really does feel like dying) or I try really hard to wake myself up.
There's always a sound connected to my Sleep Paralysis. This sound has changed over the past three months that I've been having SP.
I've had theese Sleep Paralysis about 1-3 times a week every week for the past three months. Now that I know what it is it doesn't scare me as much as before but I've never really been able to just let go and go with the flow, all the way.
Last week I had this really odd dream that occurred right before another sleep paralysis. ''I was running inside a castle. I felt someone or something chasing me. The corridors of the castle where dark and I couldn't see much. I ran around a corner into a larger corridor lit by torches. I turned around to see what was chasing me. Out from the corridor from which I had just come from, 300 people with Downs syndrome came running out. I thought it was hilarious and doubled with laughter.'' The SP sound this time was my own laugh.
Just 3 days ago, I actually managed to go with the flow

I submitted to the sound and then I saw myself from a thrid perspective. I was levitating above my body and I could see myself lying in the bed. Things where pulsing to the SP sound beat and then, as my breathing got heavier I freaked out and woke myself up.
Are theese SPs a doorway into Lucid dreaming?
I've put together a little sample of the sound I heard three days ago! Once you hear this, turn the volume up slowly until it's really high, then imagine a vibration inside your head. (Almost like when you shut your eyelids together really really hard).

If you had any similar experiences, please do share!

**Matte87** · 05-22-2011 06:02 PM

Hi and welcome to DV! Yes, SP can be used to induce a Lucid Dream. Just relax when you're in it and a dream should start forming around you in seconds. I always hear a very loud rushing/blowing sound in my ears and my arms and hands starts twitching violently. Quite scary since I've had epilepsy, but I have overcome the fear by just knowing and telling myself it is all in my head.

Try to be curious instead of frightened, and you will start loving them

You can read a few tutorials in here: DV Tutorials - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource Check out the WILD or DEILD tutorial.

If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask!

**SleepParalysis** · 05-25-2011 06:13 PM

Alright

Thanks for the advice! I've haven't had a SP for quite som time now! It's really quite annoying. It seems to me as if you really want to have a sleep paralysis it won't happen! I guess I'll just have to wait for it..
As for lucidness, I've been doing reality checks on a regular basis but once i'm dreaming i get completely lost. Yesterday I had a very surreal dream and it never once occured to me that I was dreaming! In this dream I was a spanish woman wearing a dress. That should be more than enough to make me realize that I was asleep and dreaming..

**Matte87** · 05-25-2011 07:32 PM

Haha that's a weird dream, but since our logical part of the brain is basicly shut down during sleep, anything like this is "normal". Just keep on wanting to achieve lucidity and try the different techniques out. I myself love the MILD + WBTB combo.

I have hallucinations once and a while, and when I had them the most, they were messing up my life. As soon as I started to want to have them, they disappeared. Now I only get them two or three times a month.