[Method]

I think I was briefly coming out of it actually a couple of nights ago as the right side of my body was completely paralysed and I was freaking out, but I actually don't really remember really freaking out...

I don't know. Its complicated.

[goin-god]

QUOTE (CrowBarZ @ Sunday, Jul 29 2012, 00:13)

I don't see why this seems to be so special to some of you. It happens to everyone every single night, it's just your not consious to realize it.

Exactly, genius. Do you see it now?

[Miamivicecity]

I've experienced it a few times. It's a really bizarre feeling not being able to move or talk.

I used to see spiders and stuff crawl on my roof. That was the worst because I have a fear of spiders.

[Varrio]

I have experienced sleep paralysis but only because it was induced by alcohol. Like everyone has said it feels like you're being smothered/hard to breathe and you cannot move your limbs even though you're wide awake. It is quite terrifying.

[pauliux2]

So that's sleep paralysis? When you can't move, speak? God, i've been having these SP's like every 5 days. Everytime it's a little scary because i can breathe hardly, and i can't breathe through my mouth. But i just force myself to move somehow, and then the regular day begins... Should try to wait for something next time.

[NikoGTA4]

This morning I was taking a nap. I started to have sleep paralysis. I thought that it might be an oportunity to do lucid dreaming. After a few tries, I slept on my back, the best position for sleep paralysis and damn, it worked! I was in total control of my dreams. That was awesome. You just have to let yourself go in the sleep paralysis and not try to move... Try it, it's worth it! Might take a few tries but you'll work it out.

[Chunkyman]

My dad had this happen to him once, he said it was terrifying.

I've never had it happen to me (thank god ), so I don't understand why exactly it's so scary to have it happen.

[gta_rulez]

QUOTE (Chunkyman @ Friday, Aug 3 2012, 17:59)

My dad had this happen to him once, he said it was terrifying. I've never had it happen to me (thank god ), so I don't understand why exactly it's so scary to have it happen.

It's scary because your mind is awake but your body is not. You can only open your eyes. You're trapped in your own body and sometimes you can't breathe properly. What works for me is going totally wild and trying to move my body to the extreme. It seems like the "connection" between body and mind is fixed when I do that.

[darthYENIK]

I've had it happen to me once in my life. I was on vacation in Mammoth, and was sleeping. Suddenly I was aware that I was conscience. I'm not sure if my eyes were open or not, but I could see the room around me in brief flashes. I saw a dark figure was in the room with me, and I knew what it was. My mother suffers from sleep paralysis. Sometimes every night. She'll be laying there, and from the outside you can see that she's struggling to wake up, and is trying to scream or say something. Until it stops, or somebody physically shakes her to wake up. Usually the latter. She then tells about what she sees. Shadows. People. Monsters. That's how I knew what was happening. it didn't help the terrifying feeling, though.

I'm pretty sure my dad goes through the same thing, except he thinks (I am absolutely not joking) that it's ghosts.

I think I go through a minor form of it, on a regular basis. My body isn't paralyzed, but I see things, when I feel that I'm fully conscience after sleeping. I see things right in front of my face, that when I really wake up, are ridiculous. I've seen tons of bugs, and a few mice. My coat rack is a different person each time it happens. No one I know, just people. But when I see my coat rack, I know instantly I'm just dreaming.

This post has been edited by darthYENIK on Friday, Aug 3 2012, 19:59

[pauliux2]

Since i read NikoGTA4's post, i thought i would try it.. And then i read the other posts, and i changed my mind. :ohgodwhy:

[NikoGTA4]

It's not scary. I used to be scared when that first happened to me, but me I like to explore these kinds of things. It can be an awesome experience in the end. If you're scared, which I see no reason why, you may see things if you open your eyes... That's the power of dreams, it plays with your emotions. If you tell yourself to feel like floating in the sky, on a lake, while sleep paralysis, you will feel it.

You shouldn't be scared. It's an open door for lucid dreaming. It's gonna make it worse if you try to move or scream. Don't move, let yourself go, and you'll see. Another trick I did to enter the lucid dreaming state is to roll your dream body on the floor off your bed.

You'll then take control of you dream. In my experience, most of the things in my house were normal, exept that my cat was pink. It was quite funny, it lasted at least 30 minutes for me. I don't remember most of it but anyway... I really want to try it again tomorrow morning.

[goin-god]

NikoGTA4 I completly agree. There is nothing to be afraid of, except when you find it hard to breath... but that dosn't allways happen.
You just need to learn how to avoid panicking, wich it's easy after you try it a few times. I recommend doing it, it's an interesting experience.

Now, if you wish to induce sleep paralysis this has worked 40% of the time for me.
The trick is to convice your mind that you are asleep, since (I think) this takes place a few minutes after Non Rapid Eye Movement. So you need to be actually asleep or trick your mind into thinking you are, so it can "shut down".
You have to lay down still (preferably on your back), and I mean completly still. You shouldn't even move your eyes, nor fingers. Nothing. You are a stone.
The first minutes aren't so bad, but after a while your mind will start testing you. You will start to feel "the Itch", this strong urge to move, but DON'T do it. Fight it, you have to stay still. It will seem that this urge wont stop, but after a while it will slowly fade away and you will be entering sleep paralysis. Now this is the part most people are afraid of, but it's nothing to worry about. You will feel this weird spinning sensation.. some people say it feels like dieing... and from there it can get better.

This post has been edited by goin-god on Saturday, Aug 4 2012, 07:18

[NikoGTA4]

I never tried that method goin-god, it sounds interesting.

Also lucid dream is somthing I can compare to a free drug trip.

[deepthroatgta6]

This topic has been made at least three times in the last year. My point is, so many of us experience it!

I never see no ladies but I have had such paralytic situation in sleep many a times. Its f*cking scares the hell out of me. My eyes move but can't open the eye lids. Nothing moves no matter how hard I try.

This post has been edited by deepthroatgta6 on Monday, Aug 6 2012, 16:27

[Benzoboy]

I experienced it for the first time a couple of months ago, here's what I posted on a forum directly after. Direct quote.

QUOTE

Okay it's just coming up to 7.55am GMT on Monday 4th June, I've just woken up from what is literally one of the scariest things I've ever experienced. I went to bed probably an hour and a half ago and about 10 minutes ago I woke up from a vivid and horrible nightmare, the nightmare itself was weird, not a typical nightmare where you're falling or being chased etc. I remember lying in my bed being absolutely terrified of something that was in my house but I couldn't see, this probably lasted for 2 minutes or something similar before I realised the scene had changed and I was in the bathroom of a random house which for some reason felt really familiar, certain details stuck out like, for some reason, a towel was stuffed into the toilet. Anyway in this bathroom I was looking at myself in the mirror and I remember talking about a girl to myself, at this point I remember randomly lunging towards the mirror and getting really aggressive, even scaring myself somehow. After this bit was over the only other bit I remember was walking along my landing to my bedroom, looking right (There's at least one member on PCA who knows the layout of my house) and seeing/hearing my dad and his girlfriend going at it. At this point the real scary s**t happened, I woke up and I was still terrified of something, I tried to lift up off the bed but felt as if something was holding me down, or I was stuck to the bed. I pulled on my arm really quite hard before it moved, bear in mind this was when I was awake/aware of my surroundings Anyway that's what's just happened to me at about 7.30-7.45am this Bank Holiday Monday morning, no this isn't a joke post, no there's no punch line, no you're not funny if you reply with a smart post. I just thought I'd post here because I'm still kind of shook up and I was wondering if anybody had experienced stuff like this before. I've read before about all this and I read about all crazy paranormal stuff like Demons and 'Shadow People' who are, from what I could gather, the spirits/people who inhabit/possess/control human bodies. Now I'm not saying any of this happened to me but it sure as hell is a scary thought and one that will be in the back of my mind for a long time So yeah, I'm posting this from my phone by the way so there might be grammatical errors and it might not be easy to read

[NikoGTA4]

Benzoboy, something similar happened to me. It's a sleep paralysys mixed with a panic attack. I must agree that it is not very pleasant. It makes a nightmare very vivid.
Even after I woke up, I was still scared. I still had the feeling that something bad was going to happen, like impending doom. Afterwards, I had trouble getting to sleep, I had the sensation that someone was in my room. It's not cool, but once you know it's just your head messing with you, you feel a bit better.

[shiva s]

Well, I never had sleep paralysis but my grandfather says he had it so many times. His sleep paralysis experiences are really scary to hear. He use to tell that a tall dark figure use to stand on his body shifting all its weight on him.

This post has been edited by shiva s on Sunday, Aug 5 2012, 16:17

[Xcommunicated]

After having not experienced sleep paralysis for a while now, I had a bizarre instance of it this morning, and I fully blame it on this f*ckING THREAD SHOWING UP EVERY TWO GODDAMN MONTHS.

Anyways, I had already slept the whole night, but being a lazy c*nt bastard, I decided to lay back down for a while except I left the light on for no particular reason. I fell asleep, had some dreams, then woke up only to partially fall back to sleep. As I started to fall back into sleep, the paralysis set in and that awful winding noise kicked in. I was actually aware of what was going on and ended up back in a dream I had earlier in which I was in a house. At this point I was in full control of the dream and decided what the hell, I'll take a look in the mirror and see if I can actually see myself since I'm aware of what's going on. Nope. My appearance was volatile, changing rapidly and sometimes not there at all, yet the cool part about this is that it didn't freak me out like usual since the dream was lucid. It's like I could see my brain fumbling about trying to process what my reflection should be, but not sure how to do it.

[deepthroatgta6]

QUOTE (goin-god @ Saturday, Aug 4 2012, 12:44)

NikoGTA4 I completly agree. There is nothing to be afraid of, except when you find it hard to breath... but that dosn't allways happen. You just need to learn how to avoid panicking, wich it's easy after you try it a few times. I recommend doing it, it's an interesting experience. Now, if you wish to induce sleep paralysis this has worked 40% of the time for me. The trick is to convice your mind that you are asleep, since (I think) this takes place a few minutes after Non Rapid Eye Movement. So you need to be actually asleep or trick your mind into thinking you are, so it can "shut down". You have to lay down still (preferably on your back), and I mean completly still. You shouldn't even move your eyes, nor fingers. Nothing. You are a stone. The first minutes aren't so bad, but after a while your mind will start testing you. You will start to feel "the Itch", this strong urge to move, but DON'T do it. Fight it, you have to stay still. It will seem that this urge wont stop, but after a while it will slowly fade away and you will be entering sleep paralysis. Now this is the part most people are afraid of, but it's nothing to worry about. You will feel this weird spinning sensation.. some people say it feels like dieing... and from there it can get better.

Well, it worked. In fact, I was in a different dimension in a matter of minutes. I was also following those Out of Body effect instructions and the rope method. I could feel being pulled up but also noticed my muscles contracting and stretching so I reached nowhere. I started at 3AM and from there on, neither was I fully paralyzed nor was I fully lucid dreaming or out of my body. I never slept yet I was asleep. Right now its 6AM. The 5.45 alarm broke my meditation but it seems like only few minutes had passed since I started. Nothing scary, nothing amazing. Just like a drug effect and now it feels like a hang over. f*ck.

[Coat.]

You set an alarm 2/4/6 hours after sleep to interrupt REM (rapid-eye-movement). Get up, go to the bathroom, come back and lay in bed and close your eyes. Like NikoGTA4 said, don't move your fingers or arms and your eyes. It may be difficult to trick your body to fall asleep, but, with a few techniques it can be simple. Usually, if you wake up during REM and do this, there should be no problem to get SP. A few minutes after laying there, your body tests to see if you're still awake; it sends an itch or urge. Whatever you do, do not move. This is the climax of the experience. The urge or itch is usually very strong and powerful and in some cases, overwhelming. This is when you can use an object or thought to pull that urge away. For example, focus on your name and try to listen for it as if someone is calling it; make it sound real. Another technique of distraction (TOD) is playing a song you know in your head over and over until you think you can actually hear it playing. You should soon be in SP, and you can test by imagining a fresh apple pie out of the oven, and you should be able to smell it.

Your body is paralyzed right then and there. This is where you might want to (leave your body; mind) and it is possible. Since your hands are laying beside your body, try to imagine phantom hand moving an inch each time WITHOUT moving your muscles. Don't be shocked by this, because the feeling is real. If your moving your hands at this time, these are your phantom hands and you know you are in full blown SP. As you are moving your hand, try to look into the blackness of your eyelids (if you can't see anything yet). Continue moving your phantom hands and let your mind wander off slightly to grab a visual but don't drift off too far otherwise you'll fall to sleep. Use the phantom hand as a lure when your mind is wandering. If you're mind wanders too far, remember you are moving your phantom hands and you should quickly be pulled back into self realization. When you realize your mind was todding off, a strange feeling moves over your body and usually you may see things.

Another technique of having an (OOBE) is after using the phantom hands, imagine your body is rotating 360 degrees. After you feel it rotate, roll to your side of the bed towards th ground and usually, what happens to me after this, is I see my bedroom. Try to stay in your bedroom for some time being, to get use to your exit location. Otherwise, you can't go too far as well. I tried to leap out the window but was pulled back into my bedroom (I wasn't ready to leave).