I had my first true experience of SP just a few nights ago, let me tell you what happened to me.
Just before I start, I will say that I was scared at first, but once I realised what was happening....well, you'll see.
I remember waking up earlier in the night and hearing my two dogs running around and playing, I have two staffies, so they're not subtle.
I went back to sleep and I don't know how long it was, but I was woken by the sound of someone climbing my stairs towards my bedroom. I opened my eyes to get up out of bed and investigate, but found that I couldn't move, I mean literally, not even my head, all I could do was look towards the door with my eyes. I remember trying really hard to move my arms and trying to speak to wake my partner, but I couldn't even talk. So my heart started to pound out of my chest and a feeling of dread came over me, but it lasted literally 5 seconds or so, because as quick as it happened, I understood that I had woken in SP. As soon as I realised this, the sounds of the person climbing my stairs changed and became the true sound of my dogs running up and down the stairs. Now I tried to use it to DEILD, but the fact my heart beating had made me breathless and needing to inhale deeply a number of times, brought me completely out of SP and I was so excited after the fact, that I forgot all about getting lucid and just fell back to sleep thinking about SP.
I think I handled it quite well at the time, I could have really panicked and maybe put myself off. I am now wondering if it was SP or if indeed I had a false awakening or maybe even my first LD, who knows, but I am looking forward to my next encounter as now I know what to expect, I have made a mental note to handle it even better. I will also say that I now know I have experienced SP in the past, but not knowing what it was, had just put it down to nightmares. I have in fact encountered it on numerous occasions and just put it down to bad dreams, as they say, you learn something new every day.
In summation, don't fear SP before you get there, you'll just be hindering yourself, your SP may be quite pleasant, if you are scared, question it as soon as you can, once you do, the fear will drop and if your anything like me, wonder and excitement will take it's place.
Good luck.
Nicho...!
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