Thread: Why does your hear rate go up when in SP?

When I'm ever awake during a SP by heart rate and breathing rate go up and I'm always afraid that I'm gonna die or something. Why is this and can't be stopped or changed?

It's usually a hallucination (I'm not sure why a rapid heartbeat is a common hallucination out of so many other possible ones), unless you happen to get very excited or scared while in SP. It's nothing to worry about.

Yea I dont think its anything bad. I get it all time, and most of the time its just a hallucination or I am freaked out from a scary sp experience.

Decided to move this to the Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams (WILD) subforum.

This same thing happens to me too, and I always wondered why it kept happening, I'm pretty sure it has a lot to do with how excited you are or how nervous you may be, and also simple because your awake but unable to move, its a scary thing until you get used to the sensation. For me however, whenever I do WILD's, I'm never in SP long, I first notice the vibrations and then the paralysis kicks in and seconds later im usually in a LD.

Happens to me all the time. Don't worry about it I just ignore it.

Same, also if it is a HH, breathing deeper will not help it go away, you can try listening in to the noise and it should increase if it is a HH, then you should welcome it as it will help transition.

I think also it has something to do with your attention switching to internal. As I'm sat here typing, I can't hear my heartbeat at all, there's all this ambient noise from the external world. When you hit sp you're much more aware of the sounds of your body.