Where do I begin?

I've experienced SP for many years now, perhaps since I was 10 (so about 20 years). It's never been positive as it was not voluntary, but from about 15 I realised (I have generally been able to control my fear in this state) that with a small amount of concentration towards a single extremity it would twitch and I would go for breakfast.

My mother, who experiences it roughly once every couple of months, immediately panics (she has a phobia of being buried alive because everyone thinks she's dead), and I cannot seem to teach her how to control her fear.

I have had maybe two LD in my life, both not from SP but from logical realisation about my surroundings (i.e. wait, I'm not in High School anymore...)

So, in short - I got SP a lot, it's very simple and coherent (i.e. I'm very much awake, just paralysed), and I've never LD, hallucinated or anything else.

Fast forward to now - I hadn't experienced it for a few years, until late last year, and this happens.

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...67#post1480067

It was frightening, beyond anything I've ever experienced. So much so, that I was motivated to find out what this is all about. It was only then that I read to find out what the being was, and that what I had was not uncommon and in some circles, SP was sought after.

So this forum has made me see that there is a very positive side to SP, which I have regularly, to which I'll have to investigate.