First ever Sleep Paralysis!

[bellatrix18]

Well I've been lurking aroung on the forums reading posts for ages now and finally have a reason to post. I tried WILDing this afternoon and made it to sleep paralysis!!! This is my first post btw so Hello everyone!! I only saw a tiny bit of HI (a few light dots and swirls, a bit like pushing your fingers on to closed eyelids for a minute) and a few daydreams that I could actually see playing out in my head almost like a mini dream. Plus I heard some voices which always seems to happen to me. I even notice them when I'm trying to sleep normally. Its like my 'mini dreams' burst through and suddenly become so real I can hear them... This is a typical WILD for me and usually this is as far as I get, just lying for hours getting jumped back to reality by every single HH I get and feeling uncomfortable. But then I remembered reading a self hypnosos thing somewhere about counting down from 100 and at 1 I'd be relaxed. I tried this and I got to about 7 and suddenly I was going into sleep paralysis. It lasted just over a minute and felt SO strange. My whole body felt fuzzy and really heavy and it just seemed to suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks. Plus I could hear a fuzzy buzzing, kind of a wooly sound that almost felt like it was holding me down... weird Then I just lay there feeling relaxed and tingley. But I got so excited I woke myself up rather than LDing... So i tried to stay still and count down from 100 again but the phone rang... Plus I was so buzzed from what had happened I don't think I could have shut down enough... After quite a few hours of lying in the dark trying to WILD with next to no results this is a real achievement for me! I feel great Plus I'v always wanted to know what it felt like... Nothing could have prepared me. Just want to know, how do you get from sleep paralysis to dreaming. I felt so aware it was strange, I thought Id be less coherant in my head and a bit more dreamy... But just lying there in the blackness and my brain was totally awake. But I couldn't see any HI any more or think of anything but the fact that my body was paralised. Hmm maybe thinking about my physical body pulled me out of it... Anyone have any thoughts??

[StingPT]

That kinda happened to me too (the SP). It seems that not everyone has very strong or normal HI (I dont), but if you were hearing a noise I think you should focus on it! My first SP was similar to yours but it only lasted 20 secs max. By some experience on DEILD (attention i dont have any experience on WILD but its basically the same thing since you enter SP) you should focus on the buzz and go along with the SP. And always when the vibrations or noises disappear do a RC, because you might be dreaming.

[IndigoGhost]

Don't push on your eyelids bro, it damages your eyes.

[bellatrix18]

Don't push on your eyelids bro, it damages your eyes. lol that made me laugh I used to sit there with my fingers on my eyes for ages when i was a kid, almost every night. It really hurt though and I've not done it for years... I was a wierd kid! Thanks for the info Cardeal So if i focus on the noise it will help pull me into a dream... kind of like going woth the flow? I can't wait to try again tonight. I've not been able to try for the past 2 nights cos i've had a few crazy days where I couldn't do WBTB. But I'm convinced I'll do it this time...