Thread: A Few Questions

It is possible to go into sleep paralysis without first falling asleep, but it is very difficult to do for most dreamers.

A lot of us dreamers would wake up (setting their alarm or whatever) think/do something dream related like browsing our forums or reality checking. Do that for about a halfhour-fullhour (careful not to wake yourself too much) and then attempt WILD or SP. This has been successful for me.

Those body sensations you were talking about, I've had them too and I would consider that I was in the SP/WILD stage. I would probably consider them hallucinations since you don't have to see or hear hallucinations to experience them. I haven't experienced many visual/audio hallucinations that much probably because I immediatly set my attention to enter the dream world.

I would say you were pretty close but that should probably be up to you to decide since you experienced it. To me it sounds like you were there. Probably because everyone has their own experience. But by you getting these results without first sleeping, that must have been pretty hard to do.

That feeling was the feeling of nothing. Strange concept. When you fall asleep, your body gets disconnected from your mind, including your sense of touch. Your mind doesn't get any input from its senses, so it doesn't know how to analyze that. Not feeling is not the same as feeling nothing, which is weird.

Ah, yes, the slow, creeping "numbness." I've had it a few times before in my legs, but the feeling was just too strange to continue. Never made it very far, but when I did try to move my legs, it felt really odd. They were kind of heavy, and when they moved across the sheets, it was like they were feeling again for the first time (if that makes any sense at all). Don't have the patience to WILD, so I MILD instead. It's working wonders for my dream recall.

Good luck to you, and pleasant dreaming!