Thread: SP Question

Hello!

I've been doing a bunch of reading here on Dreamviews for the past couple days, (after just seeing 'Avatar' I had stumbled across this awkward link as one of the search results while Googling the movie, hahaha and when I explored the site a bit more I became fascinated with lucid dreams ... apparently I'm not the only one around here in love with that movie, lol!) and after learning about sleep paralysis yesterday I decided to see what would happen if I tried completely relaxing as much as possible and staying still as I went to bed. I figured not much would happen since it was early at night and I hadn't been through any REM cycles beforehand.

Anyway, I started counting breaths and before long I started having to swallow thanks to the saliva building up in my throat

I tried to do it as involuntarily as possible (if that makes sense) but eventually I had a 'drifting' feeling and I was unable to distinguish my arms and legs; like the feeling you get when you cut off circulation to a limb while sleeping and you wake up and can't feel it there at all. All I could feel were my eyes and chest as I breathed. Also, parts of me felt like they were getting warm too.. But I don't think that I was really in SP because the whole time I could hear the water trickling around in my aquarium (plus the obnoxious snoring coming from the room next to mine ) so I was sure that I was still awake. After a while I decided to give up and wanted to see how easy it was to sit up and move around.... it happened instantly, so I figured I never made it to full SP.

Anyway, I guess my question is... about halfway through it all, my eyes just started moving around like crazy involuntarily- I wasn't trying to move them, and I figured that this must be what REM is like.. but I know REM is impossible while you're awake. So has anybody else experienced this? Is it a possible occurrence during SP?

Thanks!