Strange self-induced sleep paralysys?!

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I’ve read alot about sleep paralysis, or the old hag as some call it, and it had never happened to me before, I am 17. I always wished it would happen, just so I could see what it was like, because it seemed pretty cool.

Well, yesterday, I was in a very lazy mood you could say, I decided to just not get out of bed, and stay in it the entire day. Throughout the day, I would slip in and out of conciousness, just laying there half-asleep most of the time, while sleeping for brief periods the others.

Well, at the end of the day, during a state of half-conciousness, I began to imagine myself ringing a bell for some reason. Only not…it’s like I was ringing an imaginary bell with my head. Not banging on it using my head, I mean like I’m just making this imaginary bell ring with my mind.

Well, this was very strange for several reasons. First, I have no clue why I was doing this, or how. It was just kind of something I knew how to do at that moment…

Heres the weird part though. I always have a slight ringing in my ears (well, my one good ear) and every time I rang this bell(I couldnt actually hear the bell ring in my imagination, I just kind of…knew it was ringing…if that makes sense) but every time I would “hit” the bell with my mind, the ringing in my ear would get loud for a second, and I could feel the impact on my head. I’m not sure how long I was ringing this bell, maybe for 10 seconds, maybe for 3.

But immediately after I struck the bell the last time with my mind, I felt extremely weird. My whole body went slack, and I looked at the ceiling. I was also moving across the bed slowly, feet first, but I think this was just part of my body going limp. Everything was moving really, really slowly, and my mind was kind of dellayed, like being drunk I guess. My vision got kind of blurry, but it was more like waves of static going through my vision. I had a strange feeling all throughout my body.

I’m not sure if I could not move, or if I just thought I could not move, but I did not move at all during this time. It only lasted for a few seconds. After it was over, I got up for a second, looked around, and wondered if that was sleep paralysis, then lied back down, brushing it off. I almost immediately went back into my half-concious state, and I remembered what I was doing with the bell in my head, and I began doing it again.

It was just like the first time, I began striking the bell with my mind, and after a few seconds, instead of the previous experience, I felt my left hand go numb, and there was this strange energy feeling all over it, then I “woke up” and it went back to normal. This happened once more with my ankle. After that, I could not get back into the same state of mind, and I could not remember how to do it.

And I know that this was in no way a dream. I am 100% sure that I was concious the entire time this was happening. I’m just not sure what the hell I was doing. I know my descriptions aren’t the best, but this is the best I could do. I was wondering if anybody knows what happened, or if this has happened to anybody before.

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It seems like a SP to me. Because on my first try, when I had some ordinary relaxing exercise, I had the same energy feeling around my hand.

My whole body had gone numb already, but it was not in the sleep paralysis stage, yet. And then I kinda drifted into my thoughts for the time that I waited SP. I noticed it’s really easy to kinda like, daydream when you are relaxed and really tired. So then I felt it. Huge and enormous vibrational energy effect around my right hand.

I thought it was really cool, and I was like: “Ok. It seems like I’m into the Sleep Paralysis stage.” But it didn’t evolve any larger even though I wanted to.

And some nights ago, I woke up straight into SP. It was really cool, but I was kinda freightened of the hallucinations I think, even though they didn’t appear. I tried to lift my leg, but I could not.

So yeah, my final conclusion is that you definetly got a SP. (Well, you get it every night, but I mean concious SP.) :happy:

SP = Sleep Paralysis

:wink:

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Heh, I see. It’s so weird though. I’ve never heard anything about the whole bell thing, and the effect being limited to certain body parts. My only other conclusion was that I was messing something up in my head and my nerves werent communicating right, haha. And I’ve also never heard about anybody being able to force themselves into the state, let alone making it happen three times. Well, the other two were limited to body parts, but still.

I’m going to try to do it again, if I can ever remember to while I am in that state of mind. If I can find out how to do this at will, it will be so neat, hahaha. maybe I could even teach others how to do it.

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Well yeah, but I think that to achieve sleep paralysis like that, you have to be extermly tired and your body has to be tired too, like you had.

But good luck, and maybe it will work again. But don’t get dissapointed if it doesn’t.

If you get into sleep paralysis again, try keeping at it, you might incude a LD straight from there.

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cool. :tongue: I’m not that experienced in SP to tell if that was a SP, lol. But I think the best description is “when you have SP, you KNOW it’s SP”. So if you are wondering if it was SP, it probably wasn’t. Of course that doesn’t meen it wasn’t. Everyone is different, so… :grin:

Anyway, in one of my SP I could hear this song on my guitar. And everytime I moved (tried to move, since I couldn’t actually…) my right foot, I could hear a not from the guitar. It was pretty fun :rofl: