Firstly, I hope this is in the right section . 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 .
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.