Hello Sleepers!

**justis** · 06-12-2013 04:02 AM

Hi, I'm Justis (not my real name >_O)

Just a quick intro about myself. I've experienced sleep paralysis a good few times in my 20+ years. Lucid dreaming has always happened randomly for me. Only once did something happen to me in reality while I was sleeping and affect the story of my dream. I'll post that in the General dream discussion area.

Here's a link to my thread there -->

Turns out I can't post links until I have been a member for at least 7 days so here's the Url.

www (dot) dreamviews (dot) com/general-dream-discussion/144142-dream-changes-because-external-simulus-has-ever-happened-you.html#post2025985

**Zoth** · 06-12-2013 01:22 PM

Hey justis!

Seems a nice thing that you experience lucid dreams once in a while without effort. Personally, I don't remember having any before discovering the concept. Just read your topic and your experience is way more common than you'd think ^^

**paigeyemps** · 06-13-2013 07:10 AM

Hey welcome! Gonna go check out your thread now. :3

**RickeyHicks** · 06-17-2013 07:00 PM

Sleep paralysis can be a pretty frightening thing if you don't know what it is. As a child I would often only experience sleep paralysis while I am still asleep. Due to my tendency to sleep face down it was also accompanied by a sensation of not being able to breathe, which is also quite frightening. The key to instantaneously breaking sleep paralysis is breathing. Sleep paralysis occurs so that you do not act out your dreams, because dreaming about something creates the exact same brain response as actually doing it. In order to break it you must communicate to your body that you are in fact awake, and there is no more need for the paralysis. Before I knew how to break it properly I was stuck struggling with all of my might (obviously I was actually moving) until one of my limbs spasmed and the paralysis was broken. Later I found the slightly more efficient way to break it. Even in total sleep paralysis your fingers and toes will still have a little mobility. If you continuously wiggle them then gradually your limbs will also be free from the paralysis, in which case you are free to spasm, which will break the paralysis. The most efficient and easy way to break it is using breathing. If you breathe in a very aggressive and irregular pattern your body will realize that you are awake. The reason for this is because a sleeping person's breathing is usually quite calm, slow and uniform. So breathing in any way different than that will tip your body off that it is time to release the paralysis.

But that's a catch 22. I didn't really need to tell you any of that, because you are on a lucid dreaming site! Sleep paralysis is your best friend. You are in the perfect position to try a WILD. Having genuine sleep paralysis from the get go will save you a lot of time. Happy dreaming