Does anyone else actually get excited for sleep paralysis

**LDreamer1122** · 11-07-2011 08:11 PM

I know it sounds odd since if you've ever experienced SP even once you know how freaking scary it is, but I've had it happen to me quite a lot in the last year or two since i began trying to practice lucid dreaming. It frightened me a lot, but i finally calmed myself down and realized that once i was having SP it was actually very easy to shift over into the lucid dream so now whenever i experience SP i get excited because i know that I've pretty much reached my goal of reaching lucidity.

Every now and then when my mind is a bit unaware or if I've been sleeping a while and get caught off guard i get a little freaked out since my mind isn't quite awake yet, but for the most part I've come to appreciate what SP means. Anyone else?

**UnrealReality** · 11-07-2011 09:24 PM

I can't wait to hear responses... I haven't yet experienced SP but it is what makes me most apprehensive about taking GalantaMind.. lol

**angie746** · 11-07-2011 09:43 PM

OMG SP is the ride of your life..I love it, i'm no longer scared of it ..bring on the SP I say...it's an amazing feeling, nothing tops it

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**tambu** · 11-07-2011 10:44 PM

I kind of like it, however sometimes can be bit unconfortable

**gan_naire** · 11-07-2011 10:50 PM

I love it! It's cool as hell simply because to me it shows just how powerful the mind can be. Even knowing all of the miracles of the mind, experiencing one, even if it's small, still brings it all into perspective. And it also lets me know that what's coming next is going to be kick ass. Even nightmares with me are amazing just because it's a whole new experience.

**LDreamer1122** · 11-08-2011 12:55 AM

+1 for Miyazaki Avatar, tambu lol.

**tekkendreams** · 11-08-2011 01:02 AM

love them i know im close to pulling into a lucid dream ,

**MarineRecon** · 11-08-2011 01:45 AM

I find it interesting and I also like the feeling that you know that you will be having a great LD soon.

**sanctispiritus** · 11-13-2011 01:03 AM

In my case, SP = LD 100% of the time. Most of the time I am paralized and feel that someone is pushing me againsta the bed. I can not move may hands but I can move my head and mouth. Some times I have tried to bite that entity with no result. I all cases I have not been able to see that entity, but I can feel it and hear it when sometime it whispered on my ears. The voice is raspy but to tell you the true I do not feel any fear. Sudenly I begin to levitate am my body is virtually taken away from my bed. At this moment and can see my room but averything is blurred. I try some times to grasp the frame of the door but I only can detain my body for a while because that entity is stronger than me, I always end up outside of the house, sometimes in front and sometimes in the back. Once outside ( and it is always the same way) I gain strength and become stronger that that entity which has different forms. Some time is a disfigured person, sometimes is like a snake. I am always able to smash it against a wall or the floor and after that they dissapear or transform into something totally different, a mouse, a chicken etc. 2 years ago more or less my sleep paralisis were similar, except for the fact that I was dragged throughout iles with dead people to both sides , and heard voices with did not cause any fear because I always knew for sure that I was dreaming.

**transient** · 11-13-2011 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by sanctispiritus

except for the fact that I was dragged throughout iles with dead people to both sides

Wow, I would have found that sort of creepy.

Whenever I enter SP (or at least what I think is SP) I hear voices that seem to come from the inside of my mind and I cant pinpoint the spatial location of my body (like I'm non-corporeal). But It never goes farther than that, Ive WILDed before but it wasn't through SP. I'm usually brought back to complete consciousness after sneezing or accidentally swallowing. IDK if I can't WILD through SP or if what I'm experiencing isn't even SP. It's never been scary though. Happy dreaming!

**Pops715** · 11-13-2011 02:11 AM

Question: I've never had or experienced sleep paralysis. I've only recently begun having lucid dreams (four in the last 2 months) so I'm wondering at what point does a person start experiencing it? Or is it different for each person?

**Taffy** · 11-13-2011 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by Pops715

Question: I've never had or experienced sleep paralysis. I've only recently begun having lucid dreams (four in the last 2 months) so I'm wondering at what point does a person start experiencing it? Or is it different for each person?

The only way (almost, that is) to have SP is to have it intentionally, when you try to WILD. You won't just get it because you lucid dream, although some people say they get it when waking up from a lucid now and then. However, that's never happened to me.

I like your avatar by the way.

OT: Although I've only had SP a few times, I found it to be an enjoyable thing. I look forward to it during my WILD attempts.

**Puffin** · 11-13-2011 03:42 AM

Yes, I find SP quite exciting... Well, maybe not so much "exciting" as fascinating, but I still do get pretty excited when I'm in it.

Moved this to the WILD subforum.

**Enargo** · 11-13-2011 04:00 AM

When I experienced it once (not sure if it was an accidental WILD, can't recreate it). I didn't see HI but it felt pretty cool if you ask me. Like I felt like I was moving my arms, almost in a swimming motion, I still had control of that feeling. So I could like make my arms go up and down if I wanted to. It just felt... choppy, that's the only word I can describe it with and even then that doesn't quiet describe it correctly.

**nightronics** · 11-15-2011 10:04 PM

I have never seen sleep paralysis hallucinations before, but im acctually really intereseted in what i will see. After all, it will be only as scary as you think it will be, right?

**Puffin** · 11-16-2011 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by Aliasmk

I have never seen sleep paralysis hallucinations before, but im acctually really intereseted in what i will see. After all, it will be only as scary as you think it will be, right?

I don't believe SP hallucinations are that much like dreams, where your emotions and expectations will directly influence the outcome of what happens, or what you will see. But regardless, mentality is definitely a large part of SP, because it's critical not to get worked up about the hallucinations. Good luck with the SP and be sure to let us know what you experience!

**Texture** · 11-17-2011 04:07 AM

SP hallucinations are very entertaining to me

but yes whenever i used to get into SP my heart would race and I'd feel a giant excitement. But that was when I tried to wild before I got anysleep

**lawilahd** · 11-17-2011 04:48 AM

In the beginning it would suck, but it turned out to to be quite the enjoyable trip. When I was completely new to LD'ing and WILD, i would get to the SP stage and always fail to transition becase I was either too excited/scared etc. Now when I get it, I remain calm, think of it as something thats no big deal and am usually quite successful in transitioning into the LD. The transition always happens within a few minutes of SP, and I always feel and hear vibrations as well as my body shape/position changes on the bed, sometimes I feel like I;m floating above my bed, othertimes I feel like im running through a dark void. I have heard voices before, and they weere all voices of family members.