Thread: need help with sleep paralysis

i am trying it when I'm napping and when i go to bed to i usually wild at night after 5 hours of seed going to bed at 8 and waking at1 any thing I'm doing wrong

how do you turn partial sleep paralysis into full paralysis. I experienced partial paralysis last night so now i want to enter full paralysis. Any ways to enter full paralysis would be nice

How was it partial? You could move some parts of the body?

the lower half my legs and feet were paralyzed but the top half my arms and hands we're not i am looking for tips on how to enter full paralysis

Oh I see. I don't know, though, sorry. Never had such thing...

Why do you want to get into SP, surely the objective is to get into a WILD, don't concentrate on getting into SP and just let it happen.

i don't think those are the answers i'm looking for thanks tho i'm trying to have and obe

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It's impossible to have half paralysis like that. In SP your entire body will be paralyzed. I think your legs were just really relaxed or you were imagining it. Sounds like you need to slow down and stop pushing - it's about relaxing and falling asleep - you don't get there by being impatient and trying to force it.

Keep reading up on techniques - get Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming if you don't already have it, and just stick with it. Keep trying - eventually it'll happen.

This is what you do...

First you should be meditating, exercising, getting outside regularly and naturally developing the chemicals in your body you need for sleep like melatonin. If you have not learned to relax, you can not have full paralysis. If you have not learned to be present in the moment, you can't relax. If you don't exercise your body you have no idea how to breathe and be aware of each of its parts. "Zen Body Being" by Peter Ralston will help here.

When you are ready, able to lay back and instantly relax, recalling the feeling of relaxing or a meditative state, then you are ready to begin. Place a pillow under your knees if needed and lay on your back, or use a comfortable recliner. You must be on your back! Starting with your toes, or your feet if you are not quite able to sense each toe, tense first the one on the dominant side of your body then the one on the opposite side. Tense and hold for 10 seconds. SLOWLY RELEASE! Think of your muscles like a bow string, you DO NOT want to snap it! Work your way up your body, lower legs, knees, dominant but cheek then opposite, sides and chest. Now start with your fingers, hands, lower arms, elbows, upper arms and shoulders. Now each side of your face, lower to higher, and finally your scalp. For each member tense, hold for 5-10 seconds, then SLOWLY release.

Breathing should be through the nose, slowly and naturally, If you are a mouth breather like me you may have to leave your mouth partially open but closed in back so you can breathe through your nose. If as your body goes to sleep you notice irregular breathing you have have relaxed too much. Continue the attempt with caution, but next time you don;t need to do the tense/release muscle (PMR) relaxation exercise. You have probably gotten to a point where your body is already really relaxed, and relaxing it more is not safe or necessary.

Melt into your bed, your chair, or wherever you are doing this. Feel all the flesh, muscles and tendons in your body just draping on the bones. Now, starting once again with the feet, every 30 seconds or so twitch. The twitch should be enough to slightly, almost imperceptibly move the body part. Watch a dog as he or she sleeps and is chasing something. these are the movements you are replicating. Don't worry or focus on your body parts. Just twitch, working your way from side to side, staying relaxed, and DO NOT ROLL OVER! DO NOT SCRATCH YOUR NOSE! DO NOT SWALLOW! Pretend your are paralyzed, you are dead. You are fooling your body into believing you are asleep. If you feel an itchy spot try to move it with your mind to another area nearby, and in so doing you will make it go away. Otherwise ignore it.

Eventually something like a warm blanket will start to come over you, and your body parts will feel numb and sort of vibrating. If you wish to project, you need to focus on something outside your body and keep it there. if you are attempting a dream re-entry, you need to focus on a particularly powerful part of the dream. Make your focusing the very last thing you do,m because you should not do that for more than 5 minutes, or you will mentally exhaust yourself.
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wow thanks really what i was looking for

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okay so maybe what i experienced last night wasn't sleep paralysis): i just feel like i will never enter waking sleep paralysis i want it so bad any tips on how to enter Sleep paralysis

Meditate. Practise staying aware whilst doing nothing. Strong meditators have been known to enter lucid dreams from their meditations. Just sit there for 5mins, staying aware. This increase in ablity to be aware without sensory input will transfer over into your dreaming skills. They are very related.

hello i was wondering i mistake sp for numbness/tingly feelings this is what i get when trying to wild will the numbness/tingly feeling transform into sp if i lay there after my body feels numb/tingly will i eventually enter sp or do i have to do something to put my body in sp ?

The numbness is pretty normal, it does not mean you are entering sp at all. Timing for trying wilds is the only way to really induce sp , you have to attempt it after some hours of sleep and interrupting a rem cycle.

okay hears my problem went to bed around 10:00 woke up at 4:00 A.M turned off my alarm got up for 5 minutes got in my bed lied on my back layed there started to feel numbness but thats all no sp i waited an hour what am i doing wrong

This is happening to me, i even interrupt my rem, yet no wild i really need to investigate what im doing wrong.

Your probably way too awake, remember usually there should be no focus and the objective should be to get to sleep. Don't worry it takes practice, but just try to let yourself drift off and stay slightly aware of what's going on!

would this work wake up go back to bed and clear my mind and when i feel like i'm drifting off to sleep count backwards

I'm personally not a big fan of counting, but that could be just me.

What I feel works, is if you feel yourself drifiting off, use the FILD (Finger Induced Lucid Dream).

Dont aim for sp, aim to fall asleep, whilst remaining aware, you will get there in the end.

thanks red up on fild gonna try this tonnight

Sorry if this post is a bit late.

The thing is you need to get ready as you wake up.

This means you do not want to do anything to get your heartbeat up and wake your mind. Do things very slowly and calm.

Also you want to clear your mind with meditation before attempting to get into the hypnagogic imagery.

Remember when your mind is clear and your focus is only on your SUBCONSCIOUS lucidity is a mere obstacle.

is this true it's easier to dild than to wild i've been trying to wild and have had no sucess so would didl work better for me

WILD is generally more difficult i think because it involves more self-control and concentration. Also, with DILD you usually don't get all the physical side effects that you do with WILD, SP can be difficult to manage at first and requires practice to get used to. It's definitely a cool experience, but usually beginners find it harder than DILD. It really all depends on the person though. If you've been trying WILD and it's not working, I would try DILD instead, but don't give up on WILD completely. Wait till you get a good number of lucid dreams under your belt and come back to it.