Thread: Instantaneous Sleep Paralysis

Last night, I stayed up writing really late (well late for a work day). I come to bed at 11ish, and I am trying to read as my eyes are falling. I finally decide to sleep, but every time I do, I hear a loud static within seconds, and my body feels really disjointed and removed. It startles me at first, but somewhere in there, I realize I am entering sleep paralysis. Puzzled, I try to form a dream around me while this happens and it works. My lucid control was very, very low, and my recall was far worse, but it was a dream that went from completely awake to WILD in a short span.

Anyone had this happen before, and if so, how can I recreate it?

If you wake up using calm alarm clock when you're in REM, and instantly get back to sleep, you'll enter a dream pretty fast. But it's hard not to lose consciousness.

Never had it before but sounds really nice. Thanks for sharing.

More likely your exhaustion caused your body to fall asleep very quickly and you were able to witness NREM stages 1 and 2, you don't enter REM sleep when first going to bed so you would not have entered REM atonia. But you constituted a dream, and was lucid, in NREM (hence the crappy visuals/control) so you should be proud of that at least. WILDing through to REM at bedtime should take well over an hour of navigating NREM (including the silence of delta) sleep.

EDIT: I have had lucid NREM dreams from similar circumstances, and the effect is like entering a painting, static and difficult to influence, very unstable. It's possible to slip in and out for a bit before either entering deeper sleep or waking up.

Are you sure it was sleep paralysis? Sleep paralysis is rare event where you can't move on falling asleep or waking up, it can't be induced and happens only like once and twice through lifetime unless sleep disorder. But the sensations you stated sounds like normal sensations of falling asleep and HH.
Congrats on lucid dream though , it's pretty rare to have success with WILD while going to sleep normally.

Originally Posted by Checker666

Are you sure it was sleep paralysis? Sleep paralysis is rare event where you can't move on falling asleep or waking up, it can't be induced and happens only like once and twice through lifetime unless sleep disorder. But the sensations you stated sounds like normal sensations of falling asleep and HH.
Congrats on lucid dream though , it's pretty rare to have success with WILD while going to sleep normally.

I used to have really severe insomnia, but I have never been tested for sleep disorders. It was very startling at first, since my natural thought was that I'd just go to sleep.

its happened to me before, i was trying to astral project for like maybe 5mins and then i got bored, and rolled over onto my side, when i did that i was instantly in sp... it was crazy how fast it snuck up on me