Sleep Paralysis

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Comment by ilikepies on July 20, 2009 at 7:10pm

yah apparently its just a matter of you being awake but your body still thinking your asleep, apparently the best thing to do if your concious and experiencing sleep paralysis is to try and conciously fall back into the dream state and start lucid dreaming...sexxx parrtyyyy

but yah sorry about your experience i guess id be kind of freaked out if this happened to me but its a normal occurence and not something to worry about, apparently this is also the cause of a lot of abduction stories, people will be sort of half asleep and experience paralysis so theyll say later there were aliens that came into their room and used their freeze rays or something, its also the cause of many legends like evil invisible spirits that sit on you when your sleeping and shit like that

Comment by DeusEx on July 20, 2009 at 8:08pm

I think I might have experienced this once before but after a few seconds I was able to calm myself down and realize what was happening. I'd imagine if one was freaking out they might start seeing aliens or something :P

Comment by ParadigmShift on July 20, 2009 at 8:18pm

Sleep paralysis is actually a blessing in disguise. You can go into LDs or false awakening straight from sleep paralysis so I wish I'd get them more often. If you're too scared, the best way for me to snap out of it back when I didn't know the LD trick was to move my head to the side a bit (kind of like the confused dog motion) it would somehow override the paralysis.

Comment by Tab on July 20, 2009 at 10:37pm

Yup it happens all the time. A good way to provoke it if you're curious is to set your alarm for the middle of the night, get up and wake up a bit and then go back to sleep. But it's mostly dream-like aaaagh I can't move! AAAGH! A ewifjo wake up.

Comment by james_uk on July 20, 2009 at 10:50pm

I'm a Lucid Dreamer myself and have experienced sleep paralysis twice since I started researching it back in late 2006. Both of which would fall under the catergorynof WILD (Wake Induced Lucid Dream). I should also add that in both cases was completely unintentional. It actually happens to you every single night but your not actually conscious at the time to experience it.

One case of mine.
It basically feels like a warm heavy buzzing sensation then after a while I got up in my bed performed a reality check (in this case the pinched nose reality check) and found I was able to breath through my nose. Hence lucidity was attained.

Comment by PrincessHeart on July 21, 2009 at 2:48am

I get this all the time. It started kind of late in life, like 16-17 and happens regularly since then.
Alot of the time it's just like that, not being able to move-the body still asleep but you're conscious, but I also feel like I know exactly why people would think they got abducted. I've had voices in my head, 'sensed' people in the room that aren't there, felt pressure of things lying on me (made me miss my dog D': )and heard footsteps while paralysed, I guess from dreams still kind of happening while you're lying there as well.

Comment by Chaleb on July 21, 2009 at 3:42pm

Meh. I have this happen to me nearly 5 times a month, no biggy. Nothing to worry about.

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