I firs experienced sleep paralysis when i started lucid dreaming and have been fascinated by it since. Therfore I thought it would be intersting hearing about how diffrent people experience SP
So if you dont mind, please take a minute to write a few words. What I would like to know:
How it starts
Do you hear sound/voices ?
Images/colours?
How does it make you feel?
Does it develop into a dream/LD/OBE?
When I get SP it tends to follow a certain pattern:
It happens sometimes when I’m attempting to WILD after having slept for 4-5 houres. It feels like pressure waves hitting my body whiht incesing strenght. When a wave hits, I hear a sound that reminds about static noise, I can feel pressure in my ears and its like a heavy blanket is being laid on me and liftet up again. The waves last for about 1 sec and i’m “hit” by 2-3 waves before SP occurs. When I get SP its like a explosion of static noise in my head and a sensation of high pressure on my body and in my ears. I tend to gasp for air when this occurs. Then its silence. Its hard to breathe and my body feels super heavy. After a few seconds I often get the feeling that I’m levetating and start flying slow out of bed. This can go on for several minutes where I’m tubelig around in empety darkness and if I try to open my eyes I wake up. But somtimes my dream body drop form the air and down on the floor. When this happens I am abel to stand up and walk out of my room in a lucid dream
I dont think that SP is scary and have never had the old hag syndrom. The only creepy exprience i’v had was a whispering voice calling my name and saying: “You shouldent be here”
Very first one was when I didn’t even know what it was. My mum experienced it before. At that time, I was told that SP was bascially an evil entity trying to suffocate you. So one day I woke up and everything SEEMED normal, my room was nice and bright and it felt like I was pretty much awake, but when I tried to turn over I couldn’t…I just couldn’t move anything. I right away figured that I must be targetted by an evil entity , but I wasn’t exactly scared. I recall a lot of pressure on my body and hearing the bed creak a few times. I struggled for a while and actually ended up waking up shooting my body to the side ahha.
-After this experience I figured out what it was, from this site…or maybe google-
Another time I was stuck in SP after my lucid dream kicked me out of the dream. I remember seeing a bunch random objects flying around in a black void. There were flying statue heads, colours, and random sceneries. I tend to experience sounds in my SP, that time I remember hearing a male voice that told me, “You’re dead.” Which made me laugh while in SP haha.
The most memorable SP was one I didn’t intend to induce. I was really tired and flopped onto bed…next thing I know is that my body is paralyzed and I was stuck in the twilight zone. I could still hear my siblings IRL, but couldn’t move. There were these giantttt GIANT eyes just kept staring at me…it was so creepy. It was also accompanied by wooshing noises that were extremely loud. It was like walking very close to a busy road x5 of that sound. Anyways I tried to take control but didn’t do so well. So I tried my best to wake myself up, I slowlyy woke up …but those creepy eyes continuted to stare at me until I was able to open my eyes.
Those are a few of my SP experiences that I could think of at the moment.
I dont wanna go to deep into this cuz i dont like it
All of them were kindof same, i woke up middle in the night and cant move…
I was tryin to sleep again cuz i was afraid of hallucinations, then i heard really loud voice like buzzing or someone drilling into my neck.
I tried to sleep again, then i got a mild LD / semi-LD then i got ND.
I’ve had one SP that I can remember and it was right before my first WILD. I had just woken up from a nap in Driver’s Ed and realized I had another 20 minutes before lunch. I leaned forward to go back to sleep and immediately I was paralyzed. Less than a second later I had massive HI. I could still feel my IRL body and heard garbled noise from those around me in the class. I could manipulate my body in the HI and I saw my hand moving back and forth, but if I tried to move it without using thought, but like you do IRL I could feel my IRL body try to respond so I gave up and just let the dream flow for about 20 dream seconds before the lunch bell rang.
When I was younger I experienced the hag many times. I didn’t know what it was and it frightened me quite some. It happened to me in the morning when I’ve just been half awake and went back to sleep again. Dreaming a lot and then waking up but not being able to move myself. I then would began hallucinating and hearing voices, seeing shades going through my bedroom and feeling a heavy black fade on my chest, around my neck. I’d wake up a little but still not able to move, forcing myself to move but wouldn’t work. This repeated itself some times and finally I would be able to move myself.
When I do WILD before going to bed I feel my body going numb, either from toe to head or head to toe. I start to feel like there is more saliva in my mouth and I feel the need to swallow it. I start breathing irregular and feels difficult too. My body becomes heavy. I feel my body pulsing and it gets more intens after every pulse. My heart starts beating realy loudly and it feels like my body is shaking. Sometimes I feel my body fall to a side, into a depht. I’m in a void and I start to see or hear things…
When I wake up after dreaming and I’m going back to sleep (I guess it’s also WILD) my body feels intensly relaxed and everything is numb, I feel like there is a lot of saliva in my mouth again but this time it’s all okay because for some reason I don’t mind that because I feel so relaxed and because I know there is actually not that much saliva in my mouth. After that I just begin moving my limbs (they don’t actually move in RL) and I start feeling and hearing things (often some music or someone who is turning pages of a book) and finally also seeing things although I don’t always see (yes, sometimes I’m not able to see…)
You shouldn’t be frightened, Dablooey. I’ve had one other SP that I can remember and it was a split second hag. I woke up and realized that I couldn’t move and saw this black figure across from me. There was a millisecond of fear, but then I relaxed. I realized it was the hag, I was in SP and I would have tried a WILD had I not awoken to turn off my blazing alarm clock.
Oh, and if I could have a hag experience everyday or a nightmare every night I would be delighted. Simply because both are gateways to lucidity and nightmares bring with them piercingly sharp recall and vividness. It’s like all the work’s being done for you.
I have to say that I love SP, it’s great sensation and experience…
It usually happens in early morning around 6 - 7 am, when I woke up for second or third time… I’m having this sensation of pulling down toward mattress [this sensation of pulling feels like every muscle in my body was attached to some kind of strings that were pulling me down, it’s just the awesome feeling], but I forget to say that I only enjoy SP if I sleep on my belly but when I’m sleeping on my back I get this uncomfortable feeling in belly, I don’t know why is like that. So while having sensation of being pulled down I start to see images, often some complex shapes like geometric bodies, sometimes something like charts and diagrams and those images changes very quick… And only once after SP I entered in dream [I was lucid], but other few times I just focused on SP intentionally, because I wanted to experience that again…
I agree whith you db_FTS SP is great! It can leed to soo many exciting experiences. But I’m glad I read about it before I experienced it. If not I think it would scare the shit out of me
I have never seen any shapes, objects and halociantions though. Is that strange? maybe because I have my eyes closed…
I was a bit ironic when I a wrote “maybe because I have my eyes closed…” but the fact is, as far as I can remeber, I have never opend my eyes during SP. Maby I should try it?
But as i think about it, I have seen some dark siluetts of my room as i soar aroud (I allways get the feeling that I’m flying out of bed during SP ). Once it felt like somone was dragging me out of bed and smashing me against the walls in my bedroom. Freaky
True that, some have experience like you, flying or levitating or being pulled down like me, but the truth is that if we want to get to LD trough SP we are not suppose to keep mind on SP, but passively observe it untill those images become dream, but still I enjoy SP!
OMG! This morning I had one hell of an SP experience:
Around 4:30 AM this morning I awoke and had my eyes closed. Immediately I saw my room through closed eyes. Then in Ghost Hunters fashion, my vision zoomed to one spot in the upper left corner of my range of sight and a red circle was drawn around ghastly red eyes and a red mouth very similar to the scream face, but not as wavy. Simultaneously I felt an intense tingly sensation all over my body, I made the stereotypical sudden inhale, my body felt instantly weighted, and I had a peculiar sensation in my stomach. Instantly I knew I was having a sleep paralysis experience. Although a split second of fear crossed me, I felt like I was smiling. Then the image was smiling. I laughed to myself and announced that it was so. “Why are you smiling?” I asked to the air without moving through thought. “Because I’m going to kill you!” I heard voiced back to me and the image became extremely malevolent. I continued to smile because I knew it was sleep paralysis, and nothing could hurt me.
As I pointed out in a previous post, nightmares and SPs are your best friend. I tried to turn the SP into a lucid dream by going back to sleep, but my dog pulled his paw out of hand, and that knocked me out of SP into waking life. Still, it was an amazing experience.
interesting responses and i am most grateful for them thank you to you all for sharing.
before i suceed in my DEILD i need to overcome my fear of this rather strange phenomenon.
I just started and wrote out what I think is my SP experience is on my first post. And you seem to know a lot about all this. Which I’m very new too since I can’t make sense but would like to make sense with whatever is happening to me in my dreams? So if you have any advise I’d really appreciate it. Thank you
I often have the same sensation as you, db_FTS, being pulled down into my mattress like if gravity was at least twice as strong as usual. In fact, that force is so strong that it’s harder to stay awake than letting myself fall into a dream. If I let myself fall back I end up directly in a dream. During my many experiments with sleep I tried to se how many times I could go in and out of sleep during SP. One night, I woke up in SP and let myself fall back into a lucid dream. As soon as I was in the dream, I tried to wake up again and was in SP, and as soon as I was in SP I let myself fall back into the dream. I didn’t really count but I did this at least ten times in a row, it was amazing! Alternating between a LD and SP so fast, it was really a great experience.
I’ve had at least a couple of situations when I was awake but unable to move, and in both, my mind chose to play tricks on me. The first time, I saw in the corner of my vision some kind of monstrosity, like a medusa. The second time, I thought I saw something slowly coming out of a box in front of me. Both times I stayed calm and was eventually able to move again.
, but I wasn’t exactly scared. I recall a lot of pressure on my body and hearing the bed creak a few times. I struggled for a while and actually ended up waking up shooting my body to the side ahha.
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