Weird experience with trying sleep paralysis

Quest for Lucidity
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So I watched those lucidology 101 videos on youtube on how to induce sleep paralysis for lucid dreaming. I just decided to try the technique on tricking your body in to thinking you’re asleep. So the jist of it is to resist the urge to roll over. I was completely relaxed, while lying flat on my back. I wasn’t moving a muscle. Soon I started getting really uncomfortable, my body wanting to roll over. The video said once this happens you should slowly roll on your side, this lets your body know you’re ready for sleep. Now I was on my side and after a few minutes the urge to move stopped and the next thing I knew I felt like I was just my head with no body. I seriously felt like I had no limbs or torso, although I could hear myself breathing. Then my heartbeat got loud. I could easily hear it, which I never do. Next my feet started tingling, and this sensation started moving up my legs. When I became conscious of this it started to fade. I tried to take my mind of it by thinking about me skating, but I couldn’t help but get excited about the tingling. While I was tingling every time I pictured someone’s face it would become distorted, I don’t know if this was HI or what. Eventually I got so freaked out about feeling that I had no body that I felt that I had to move. I did and I was instantly awake. After that I couldn’t go to sleep for half an hour. Next thing I know it was morning and I forgot to write my dreams down.

Now I would like to know if this is what it feels like for people who can do WILD. And is there anything I can do to progress further from this state.

I would really appreciate your input!

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I got into lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences in the first place to help me with my episodes of sleep paralysis. They’ve been fun and fascinating, but for the original purpose… nothing. I really have not experienced any connection of either of them to sleep paralysis, whatsoever. I still have episodes of sleep paralysis, without being able to turn it into a lucid dream or initiating an OBE. When I OBE, I don’t feel any transitional paralysis-- and when I lucid dream I’m not aware of my body at all.

Frankly, I began to find it puzzling and annoying. What’s this SP requirement that everyone talks about? :confused:

Here’s my OBE method:
[community.ld4all.com/t/fits-and-starts-ellyeves-lds/28402/32)

As for LD’s, combining WILD with WBTB worked a string of wonders for me around last November. :content: (The “play dead” WBTB, that is, not the “WAAAAAKE… back to bed” where you actually get up and read about lucid dreaming and all.)

Hope that helps!

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Hmmm, interesting…
I haven’t gotten full SP, so I don’t know what it feels like.
And there is no SP requirement for WILD. I didn’t even get SP when I got an LD from FILD.

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I’ve experienced Full Waking Sleep Paralysis several times before, and I too have those strange sensations. I find it best to think that the sensations are all in your head.