i used to fall asleep on the school bus all the time and i dont know if i was awake or asleep or what but i would always be paralized and it was scary because i thought i would be stuck there and it was not just for like 2 seconds it was like 30 seconds and i would be able to hear the outside voices to but it wa like i was dreaming and i could not move i dont know what it was but i think it was like the old hag thing am i right and if so am i nearing lucidity
What you experienced seems like the ‘old hag’, or sleep paralysis to me, yes. After what I’ve heard, when you’re in the SP state, you can use that to induce a lucid dream, if you just manage to relax and go back to sleep while remaining consisous. But I’ve never managed to actually do that trick even though I do have SP once a while, I’m always too scared to do it. Maybe someone else have helpful experiences with this
Sounds like SP, which isn’t the Old Hag (but you can get a OH experience from it). I’ve gone into a lucid from SP once, I wouldn’t say you’re ‘nearing lucidity’ from getting SP, because you certainly don’t have to bother experiencing anything like that to get into a lucid dream, but you of course can use it if you have the right mindset (which is hard because it’s pretty freaky). I used to get SP all the time, glad I don’t anymore really.
You were dreaming. This state in which you don’t know if you’re awake or sleeping (your mind is awake, but you feel sensations like you’re dreaming) is called “intermediate state” by C. Bouchet in his thesis about LD’ing.
So it seems it’s not the sleep paralysis trouble with severe hallucinations (Old Hag syndrome). By the way, you were perhaps not so far to a LD.
aww man why did that only have to happen when im on the bus
also next time im on a long car ride im going to try wild because cars make me sleep it sux that i can only have SP when i am on a bus about to get off cause then i cant go into lucidity