I gotta share my first SP!! It was amazing.

**jake1596** · 01-12-2012 12:22 AM

I went into SP for the first time the other day! (after weeks of trying a couple months ago, I gave up. I haven't thought about it in quite a while.) So last week, I woke up early, and was very tired when I got home so I kind of rested my eyes. I was dreaming, but I was still concious. In my dream, I dreamed I was climbing on monkey bars, and all of a sudden... While on top of the monkey bars, I couldn't move! I thought to myself OMFGGGG ITS HAPPENING I KNOW WHAT TO DOOOO. lol I was so stoked. So I kept talking to myself // counting down to keep my mind active. My body went COMPLETELY numb, and the cooooolest most weirdest vibration sensation was coming over me (the coolest thing I've felt in a long time)l. I didn't open my eyes, but my chest did get tight like it was being pressed. I dreamt (but was still concious) that I was falling from the sky into the ocean. When under the ocean, I couldn't breath, and that's when my chest got really tight. I started to panick and hyperventillate because I couldn't breath, but then I just said to myself "relaaax it's just your imagination you can breathe completely fine!" I focused on regulating my breathing, and I got too excited and woke up. SO, now I'm 100% motivated to do it again. =D

I needed to tell somebody my story because my family thinks it's all hocus pocus! :p thanks for reading!! =)

**lawilahd** · 01-12-2012 02:02 AM

Good job, sounds like you had quite the experience. Now all you have to practice is remaining calm when lucid in a dream, which is a lot easier said than done, but if you keep at it, it will come eventually. good luck

**Juf** · 01-12-2012 03:23 AM

Actually, you had an odd experience here. It seems (from what you wrote) you went from a LD to SP back to LD. Just learn to be calm sounds like you're doing pretty well.

**gab** · 01-12-2012 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by jake1596

I dreamt (but was still concious) that I was falling from the sky into the ocean. When under the ocean, I couldn't breath, and that's when my chest got really tight.

Acctually I believe, what you saw was not a dream, but HH (hypnogogic hallucinations), which you get around time of SP. The falling feeling is very typical sensation you get during transition.

Next time when you feel vibrations and also after they stop, try saying to yourself "up" to see, if your dream body separates from your sleeping body. If it does, you get the floating feeling, or maybe just your limb or two. If you feel your body floats, try rolling out and stand up next to your bed. You will be in a dream, that starts in your bedroom. Good luck to you.

**jake1596** · 01-12-2012 04:06 AM

Originally Posted by Juf

Actually, you had an odd experience here. It seems (from what you wrote) you went from a LD to SP back to LD. Just learn to be calm sounds like you're doing pretty well.

Well I don't think I was very lucid to begin with, I was slipping into the dream state, and I think maybe what happened is my body going paralyzed acted as some sort of dream sign maybe!

**jake1596** · 01-12-2012 04:08 AM

Originally Posted by gab

Acctually I believe, what you saw was not a dream, but HH (hypnogogic hallucinations), which you get around time of SP. The falling feeling is very typical sensation you get during transition.

Next time when you feel vibrations and also after they stop, try saying to yourself "up" to see, if your dream body separates from your sleeping body. If it does, you get the floating feeling, or maybe just your limb or two. If you feel your body floats, try rolling out and stand up next to your bed. You will be in a dream, that starts in your bedroom. Good luck to you.

You can have hallucinations even if your eyes are closed?!

**gab** · 01-12-2012 04:12 AM

Originally Posted by jake1596

You can have hallucinations even if your eyes are closed?!

Yup! Those are hallucinations just before you fall asleep. You can find out more in tutorials in DV Wiki, from the top nav bar.

**Puffin** · 01-12-2012 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by jake1596

You can have hallucinations even if your eyes are closed?!

Yep, hallucinations can take the form of HI (hypagogic imagery, or swirling colors/shapes behind your eyelids), sounds, or tactile sensations. Congrats on the SP.

**jake1596** · 01-12-2012 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by Puffin

Yep, hallucinations can take the form of HI (hypagogic imagery, or swirling colors/shapes behind your eyelids), sounds, or tactile sensations. Congrats on the SP.

I've always heard "just don't open your eyes, you'll be fine." but that doesn't matter? you'll get hallucinations no matter what?

**lawilahd** · 01-12-2012 09:19 AM

I've never opened my eyes during SP and the only hallucination I've ever got was hearing voices of family members who don't live in my house saying random things as well as other voices. If you are afraid of SP hallucinations, then don't be, because expectation plays a key role in your dream and SP experience.

I've heard of some people being able to control their SP hallucinations as well. Sometimes when I WILD or DEILD, I feel paralysis in my dream body but its fake because my conscious brain still thinks I'm in SP in my bed(where my physical body is actually paralyzed) and this feeling carries on into the dream, and then I have to kind of force myself out of my body as it feels very heavy, and I end up in my dream body very unstable.

If this sort of thing happens to you, I would reccomend you don't struggle against it, as when I usually do the dream doesn't last very long but when I let myself fall the dream usually starts more stable. Hope this helps.