Whenever I usually WILD, everything flows smoothly together, my body enters SP as my consciousness slowly lessens. But sometimes I jerk awake (mentally) and I’m left with my body in SP but my mind completely and totally awake and racing through a thousand thoughts. How should I proceed from here if this happens?
The numbness is not SP… SP is when you’re brain “locks you body” to prevent you from acting out your dreams, so if you’d have SP you wouldn’t be able to move at all no matter how hard you’d try. SP is not a step in the way towards lucidity.
Anyway…
Whenever i “jerk awake” I start taking notice of my breathing, in and out, in, and out.
Then I start counting (WILD Style) again.
Are you sure, because sometimes you can be aware that you’re under Sleep Paralysis. So, you can use it to your advantage to visualizing a dream and so being aware within it.
Hi Halcyon Ragnarok,
is it really SP or body numbness? Cause if you are in true SP, you’re already dreaming, thus it’s not very difficult to enter a LD (by the way, I think that not everyone enter true SP through WILD’ing, most just experience numbness IMO).
Now as you say that your mind is racing through thousands thoughts, it looks like you’re experiencing body numbness. Then I suppose you should practice counting, as MovieMe says, or any mental task that will prevent your mind to wander.