Guaranteed sleep paralysis technique (for me)

Quest for Lucidity
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Firstly, I hope this is in the right section :content: . Not exactly a pathway TO lucidity, but to SP after being lucid.

Anyway, for the past couple of months, I have been experimenting with sleep paralysis each morning to try and find out in what situations it occurs, the variation of effects and what I can do in order to allow and prevent it from happening. I usually get it very often and thought that I should run a few experiments while I have it instead of wasting the moment. After a bit of time and practise (and mostly luck), I managed to develop a technique which sent me into SP every day for the past 2 weeks! I’ll try and describe it the best that I can.

After about 6 to 7 hours of sleep, I wake up and attempt WILD, making sure that I have a hand is placed right next to or on my leg. When I realise that I have just entered the lucid dream, I have to attempt to move my fingers scratch my leg in real life whilst still being in the lucid dream. If it is done at the right time, I can feel a VERY strange sensation where I know that I scratched my leg, but I didn’t feel it (pretty much identical to touching a numb spot when you’ve lost circulation), but I can 100% tell that I have done it. As soon as I do it, I have to force myself to wake up from the dream. I remember that one time I couldn’t, so I killed myself off in the dream and it still worked afterwards. When I wake up using this method I’ve always ended up in SP, which is 15 days in a row now.

Every single time, I’m greeted with the mother of all ear buzz/static. Its infinitely more intense than any other audial hallucination that I have ever had. Has left me with migraines on several occasions right after I break out of it. As a whole, the SP usually lasts about 5 minutes and other than the extreme buzzing, has all of the characteristics of any common SP. Absolutely stunning closed eye visual hallucinations if I’m wearing an eye mask may I add. Could watch them for hours :smile:.

If anyone would like to add some insight to why this may be happening, would be greatly appreciated, as I’m still fairly new to LD theory. If someone figures it out, I could then possibly experiment further and try to figure out a way to eliminate SP altogether from my/other people’s mornings.

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Sounds interesting, but I’m not sure many people would want to trade in their lucid dreams for sleep paralasis. Maybe some of the people who get lucid every night would.

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The reason you experience SP is because when you’re entering that LD, you’re entering REM sleep (which is basically just the bit where you have dreams). Your body paralyses itself during REM, so that you don’t act out your dreams and hurt yourself. So if you manage to wake yourself up as you enter the dream, your mind is awake, but you’re still paralysed for some period of time.

But I have to agree with Stevenscar. I wouldn’t give up a lucid dream just to experience sleep paralysis. Not normally anyway.