Using mantra to regain consciousness during sleep paralysis?

[MrOMGWTF]

Has anyone here tried this? What I mean, you're repeating the mantra while falling asleep which is like, "I'm aware of sleep paralysis", or something like that. What do you think? Does it work?

[gab]

I don't quite understand why you want to be aware of SP. Do you get SP? As in you can't move no matter what? But if that's what you want for a mantra, any mantra can keep you aware.

[MrOMGWTF]

I mean, REM atonia. I just want to get aware of the rem atonia so I can enter the dream with full awareness. Normal WILD doesn't work well for me, so a MILD-like induced WILD would be cool

[gab]

Normally, you do use mantras to keep your mind awake as your body is falling asleep. Any mantra will do. The shorter the better. You want it to be easy to say, so it doesn't keep you awake too much. You still need to fall asleep. But I would not call it MILD - like induced WILD, since mantras are a part of WILDing for the purpose of keeping your mind awake.

[MrOMGWTF]

Normally, you do use mantras to keep your mind awake as your body is falling asleep. Any mantra will do. The shorter the better. You want it to be easy to say, so it doesn't keep you awake too much. You still need to fall asleep. But I would not call it MILD - like induced WILD, since mantras are a part of WILDing for the purpose of keeping your mind awake. My question is to re-gain consciousness just when the rem atonia kicks in, not to keep it while falling asleep. Thanks anyway

[transflux]

My question is to re-gain consciousness just when the rem atonia kicks in, not to keep it while falling asleep. Thanks anyway Go ahead and stick to it. I had hundreds of OBEs this way.

[Zoth]

Go ahead and stick to it. I had hundreds of OBEs this way. Also had a few OBE's that way off-topic, I still think the whole "is OBE a lucid dream, or lucid dream an OBE?" a very good discussion we never had presented in one topic that I've read :x To MrOMGWTF: re-gaining consciousness during transition into REM is harder than WILDing. Many WILDs may result on a loss and regain of consciousness yes, but it's much more likely that you shut down or you just become aware of the whole process (aka, you perform a WILD) than it is falling asleep and then waking yourself up in a specific time. That requires prospective memory, and prospective memory is significantly weaker when it's related to time (like a mantra "I will become lucid when I'm entering a dream") when compared to prospective memory based on events. On short, you'd be much better off doing WILD or choosing a mantra that relies on an event that has frequent appearance in your dreams (like a situation of axiety/stress/harm or based on dream signs).