Thread: Fear

These days, I'm less, and less able to control my fear. Since I am studying Sleep Paralysis, and stuff, I fear more and more of it. And I start to see daytime hallucinations too. I feel like going crazy. I can't sleep. And I just can't control my fear. I need somebody to help me conquer my fear somehow. I need some techniques or something. And you cannot calm me down with "you cannot die of sleep paralysis" because the intense terror can cause death. I need some advice from you guys. The more days pass, the worse my SP and fear becomes.
And I know, I'm completely causing this, still I don't feel I have any control over it... dang... I'm so stupid, but I can't help it. I feel like I fear "FEAR" more, than the actual SP. Do you think opening an SP diary on the forums, and telling my SP experiences would help? Anyways thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by SolvedSnake

These days, I'm less, and less able to control my fear. Since I am studying Sleep Paralysis, and stuff, I fear more and more of it. And I start to see daytime hallucinations too. I feel like going crazy. I can't sleep. And I just can't control my fear. I need somebody to help me conquer my fear somehow. I need some techniques or something. And you cannot calm me down with "you cannot die of sleep paralysis" because the intense terror can cause death. I need some advice from you guys. The more days pass, the worse my SP and fear becomes.
And I know, I'm completely causing this, still I don't feel I have any control over it... dang... I'm so stupid, but I can't help it. I feel like I fear "FEAR" more, than the actual SP. Do you think opening an SP diary on the forums, and telling my SP experiences would help? Anyways thanks in advance.

Well about diary if you think it will help then do it why not.
Anyway i cant give you any advice since Im not experienced with it but if you are that much frightened of it .. try some techniques that dont include being conscious during SP.
But again if you say that you are studying it ,it would be necessary to overcome it and Im sure there must be a way to do it -> that what ill leave to experienced ones.

If you want advice, don't tell people what to tell you. You really cannot die from sleep paralysis; you just need to calm the eff down. The fact that your fears are increasing in strength is only due to your allowing them. In the end, you have control. You decide what scares you and what you don't LET scare you. And if worse comes to worst, just stop studying it.

Welcome to DV.

I completely understand where you are coming from. when I first started having SP attacks I was completely frightened to the point that I could not sleep.

Think about it this way, SP is a gateway to Lucid dreaming. You should view it as the holy grail rather than something horrible.
I promise, once you successfully go into a lucid dream from SP you will feel enlightened and you will look at SP in a complete different way.

The fact that you're so incredibly terrified and actually hallucinating and losing sleep makes me think you ought to see a professional about this...

If it's a consolation, WILD w/ SP is the only technique that uses SP. There is also HIT, VILD, DEILD, unnamed 'techniques' that don't involve paralysis, then there are DILD techniques like RCing, MILD, autosuggestion, whatever. Learning to lucid dream does not have to involve SP.

I highly suspect that the scary parts of SP (mainly the sensed presence or incubus) are rarer than you'd think. Most people on DV who talk about sleep paralysis are merely referring to some hypnagogic hallucinations, like the buzzing feeling. This isn't scary. At the worst you just feel like you've squeezed down on one of those trick shocking pens or something.

Bottom line: You don't need SP to lucid dream, I think you're overreacting, in general SP itself is not as scary as you think, letting yourself be afraid will actually make things worse, so take a deep breath, read more on the forums, and relax.
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Scratch that, I just saw that you suffer from ISP, you're not just interested in getting it to lucid dream.

You say you've been 'studying' SP, but in my experience that leads people to not fear it at all, not to become utterly terrified. What exactly have you been studying? What are your SP 'symptoms'? Which hallucinations do you get?
As deano said, yea, people who suffer from SP can learn to use it to lucid dream, which can completely change the way you think about it and eliminate your fear of it. Like I said above, keep reading, if you want more material I can send it to you, but I think you're overreacting, one thing that can definitely make your hallucinations worse, but the good news is that if you get it this frequently, it shouldn't be very hard at all for you to have that paradigm shift and learn to LD and look forward to sleep paralysis.

Thank you all, for your help, but I don't get sleep paralysis when trying to WILD, I get it almost every night without trying to go LD/OBE. It started 6 months ago, and it got worse and worse up to this point. Its easy to say for me, that I try to get over my fears tonight, but when it happens, I loose my mind, and i can only panic. Its so loud, and all those scary demons. And if I let it happen more, the more intense it becomes...

Originally Posted by SolvedSnake

Thank you all, for your help, but I don't get sleep paralysis when trying to WILD, I get it almost every night without trying to go LD/OBE. It started 6 months ago, and it got worse and worse up to this point. Its easy to say for me, that I try to get over my fears tonight, but when it happens, I loose my mind, and i can only panic. Its so loud, and all those scary demons. And if I let it happen more, the more intense it becomes...

Next time you enter SP close your eyes, I always found that a easy way to deal with the hallucinations.
I assume you already know how to get out of SP, but just in case. Try to move your fingers, once you have moved them your whole body will then be released.

Try and get enthusiastic about Lucid dreaming, hopefully the excitement of having a Lucid dream with drown out the fear of the SP.

but yeah, I ALWAYS close my eyes when in a SP. It helps wonders.

(When I say eyes, I obviously mean your dream eyes. Your real eyes are not actually open.)