Thread: Hello Everyone!

I used to experience exactly this ALL the time! First happened to me nearly ten years ago and I would go through stages of having it practicaly every other night for weeks then nothing for 6 months or so.

A couple of years ago I started experiencing it again quite acutely and tried to find some ways of dealing with it. I can't remember the site that I found the technique from (do a couple of google searches on sleep paralysis - this is quite a bit of info out there on it) but here is the suggestion that (nearly) completely turned it around for me:

When you realise you can't move, instead of trying to move physically try and imagine yourself, or will yourself to move - if you see what I mean. Also, try to imagine yourself doing a forward roll or 2 or 3 in a row in one fluid continous motion. It took a couple of times but the 2nd or 3rd time I tried this I broke free from my paralysis flew out the window and starting flying round the garden!! What before had seemed like a curse was now potentially a very exciting and enjoyable experience. Since then, I've had sleep paralysis less and less but recently have become more interested in lucid dreaming and controlling what I do in my dreams, hence joing this forum (this is my first post, hi!&#33.

Good luck with it Todd, I hope you can turn this around into a good experience!

Dan

Originally Posted by Dan_B

I used to experience exactly this ALL the time! First happened to me nearly ten years ago and I would go through stages of having it practicaly every other night for weeks then nothing for 6 months or so.

A couple of years ago I started experiencing it again quite acutely and tried to find some ways of dealing with it. I can't remember the site that I found the technique from (do a couple of google searches on sleep paralysis - this is quite a bit of info out there on it) but here is the suggestion that (nearly) completely turned it around for me:

When you realise you can't move, instead of trying to move physically try and imagine yourself, or will yourself to move - if you see what I mean. Also, try to imagine yourself doing a forward roll or 2 or 3 in a row in one fluid continous motion. It took a couple of times but the 2nd or 3rd time I tried this I broke free from my paralysis flew out the window and starting flying round the garden!! What before had seemed like a curse was now potentially a very exciting and enjoyable experience. Since then, I've had sleep paralysis less and less but recently have become more interested in lucid dreaming and controlling what I do in my dreams, hence joing this forum (this is my first post, hi!&#33.

Good luck with it Todd, I hope you can turn this around into a good experience!

Dan
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Thank you, Dan! I'll definitely work on that.