Sleep paralysis

Does anyone else here suffer from sleep paralysis? For anyone who hasn't heard of it, wikipedia give a good summary here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I never suffered from sleep paralysis until about six months ago, and its getting more and more frequent, last night I think I had about 4 individual episodes, luckily with no horrible hallucinations but it was still really terrifying. Like I could blink and look around me but no matter how hard I tried, I could not move any other part of my body whatsoever, and no matter how hard I tried to scream, nothing would come out... Horrid...

Does anyone else get this? And does anyone know of any ways to stop it?

Does anyone else here suffer from sleep paralysis? For anyone who hasn't heard of it, wikipedia give a good summary here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I never suffered from sleep paralysis until about six months ago, and its getting more and more frequent, last night I think I had about 4 individual episodes, luckily with no horrible hallucinations but it was still really terrifying. Like I could blink and look around me but no matter how hard I tried, I could not move any other part of my body whatsoever, and no matter how hard I tried to scream, nothing would come out... Horrid...

Does anyone else get this? And does anyone know of any ways to stop it?

I actually would love to experience one.
I am pretty sure you can try and perform astral projection while in sleep paralysis, if you concentrate really hard!

I get sleep paralysis all the time. Had it last night, actually. It's weird - I always get a weird vibrating feeling accompanying it, along with a loud buzzing sound. It's got so frequent that I'm aware of the fact that I'm in the middle of sleep paralysis when it hits me, and I try to enjoy it as if I were tripping. They can be quite scary though, but I guess the frequency of them makes it 'alright'.



You lucid dream? Ahh, so envious, so envioussss!

Yeah I used to think that before I actually experienced it!! Its weird cos I was always 'into' this kind of thing - knew a lot about OBE's/astral projecting, sleep paralysis, lucid dreams etc but never thought it would happen to me...

What teachnique do you think I could use to try and turn it into astral projection?! Its not like you have an 'unreal' body that you can just pull out of your real one.. I mean it doesn't feel like that, it just feels like you're stuck.

Well, from what I have figured, the feeling of being is stuck is because you are actually feeling your "astral body" and it is not moving / you've not gained perfect control of it.
You could try closing your eyes and simply imagining your body float out a bit by bit like a gas or water, if you are in sleep paralysis; but my description is pretty vague.

Perhaps this would be the best way, from my personal experience: imagine walking on a really tall skyscraper, seeing a skyline in early morning. Come closer and closer to the edge of the building. Visualise all of it in as much colour and detail as you can. You walk near the edge and look down - yellow taxis are commuting passengers through the town and miniature people are walking on the sideways. You simply walk off the building and feel rapid acceleration towards ground. You speed up more and more, but don't get to the bottom for a while, because the height of the skyscraped is very large. In a few seconds, you see windows of buildings coming closer and closer and relatively speeding up as you go down. Time stops. Nobody is moving except yourself. You reach the ground and feel your body push away from you, as you still are accelerating downwards. Visualise the collision as strongly as you can, and try to feel it.

This might work for you to astrally project. This method was the most successful method for my experiments, where I almost projected, but freaked out. Imagining any scenery and big heights always helps, from what I read. Just keeping your state as long as possible will enhance next attempts (not many people succeed quickly): some people get it in 10 minutes, some may take as long as two hours after twenty attempts.

You can further improve such experiences by altering your sleep a little: go to sleep at 11pm, set your alarm for 4am and do something that would make you stay mentally alert, but not physically (your body should be quite tired, still) and then attempt such a scenario / relaxation. The important aspect is keeping your mind alert and your body tired.

I'm a bit vague and am sure you could read more on the internet at lucid dream forums and such.

Good luck! Keep me posted, I want to hear if you succeed by any chance.

Now I want to try this, as the last lucid experiences I had were about two years ago.

Thanks

Do you mean try the sky scraper thing at any random time or just when I'm in sleep paralysis??? What awere the circumstances when you came close to astral projection? What did it feel like??

I think I may have come close to it once.. I remember waking up in the night, in my first ever episode of sleep paralysis. I didn't realise straight away what it was due to the feeling of sheer panic that took over when I realised I couldn't move. I was actually lying on my back this time and I remember feeling as though I was flailing my arms around but not seeing them move, then I felt something like an invisible cord pulling at me from above, like it was trying to suck my soul out. I was so scared that I was dying that I fought it with all the strength I could summon, kept trying to scream etc, and eventually the 'cord' let go of me and I was able to move again, but I DEFINITELY felt the pulling feeling, I remember describing it to my mum the next day and her thinking I was weird.. lol. Looking back, I realise that could have had the potential to be my first experience of astral projection, but the pulling feeling was so terrifying and I had never experienced SP before so naturally I was very scared and stopped it... Damn...

Interestingly, the above time was the only time when I have been lying on my back and had a sleep paralysis episode.. I'd never thought of that before, maybe that was something to do with why it was so different...