• Positive Experiences with Sleep Paralysis?
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I've been working on inducing lucid dreams and OBEs for a while now and haven't been successful, but that's beside the point. The point is that whenever I decide to turn to a guide some asshole always ends up bringing up his completely terrifying sleep paralysis experience and then I'm terrified to even go to sleep, which is why I'm currently browsing FP at 3:00 in the morning :v: Has anyone had some positive experiences with sleep paralysis for a change? Please share so I can reclaim my sanity because I need to go to school in 4 hours and I don't plan on going to sleep with the mental state I'm in currently.
No, my scariest experience ever was during sleep paralysis. It scared me so much that from now on whenever it happens I jerk awake instantly before I can hallucinate. The first time I couldn't move my body, but now it's easy because I'm so motivated to get the fuck out of there.
Gee, thanks. :worried:
I don't think i've ever had a positive sleep paralysis experience. I can however say that you shouldn't be afraid of sleeping, as the chance of you having sleep paralysis is quite low, unless you've had it in the past. It's not something that will crop up overnight.
Got it while sleeping at an odd angle, thought I was going to suffocate. Yeah it's pretty hellish.
Oddly enough, I've also taken an interest in LDing in the past few days, currently without luck. However, I've had a few experiences with sleep paralysis in the past, neither time was as terrifying as the horror stories indicate. The first time I had it, I had dozed off in economics class at the college and woke up after about 15 minutes. My first reflex was to try to call for help, but when my voice didn't work I remembered my brother mentioning having SP episodes so I was reassured that there was nothing wrong. Movement came back seconds later for a total of about 8 seconds of paralysis. The second occasion happened after having an unpleasant dream of some sort (I don't even remember what it was, but I woke up in a literal cold sweat for the first time in my life) and I had SP, but that time there was no panic at all because I recognized it immediately. My point here is that it's unpleasant, especially the first time, but knowing about it beforehand and remembering that it's short-lived makes it bearable. Good luck on the lucid dreaming.
I've experienced sleep paralysis before, and it was very much not a pleasant experience. Sorry bro but I don't think anyone's going to enjoy going through hallucinatory, mentally hindered, movement constricting shit to be positive. I've experienced it like once though, so I don't think it's really something to worry about. It's temporary, you'll shake it off like a bad nightmare.
I don't think Sleep Paralysis can ever be a positive experience :v:. My last one had me flip out because I could see someone, and almost hear them, but I couldn't move. I learned that wiggling your toes can help, which I could, so I could get out of it. Hallucinations in sleep paralysis are assholes.
I had a sexual sleep paralysis. A black, blurry and slim entity riding me and I couldn't move except putting my hands on its hips. Was gewd. I later read up on it, and seems like this is where the myth of succubuses comes from. I guess this all shows I got a very perverted mind.
I've had some occasions where I am sort of aware I am dreaming and I wanna wake up but I keep getting into more dreams and I just sleep or like 16 hours and wake up feeling annoyed. [QUOTE=!LORD M!;48680162]I had a sexual sleep paralysis. A black, blurry and slim entity riding me and I couldn't move except putting my hands on its hips. Was gewd. I later read up on it, and seems like this is where the myth of succubuses comes from. I guess this all shows I got a very perverted mind.[/QUOTE] I sometimes have something similar happen to me, like a formless ghost is raping/molesting me but in a way it feels nice.
I had my first what I think was sleep paralysis just this morning. I'm actually surprised to find this thread on the frontpage after going to these forums to post about it. It didn't last for long, probably less than 10 seconds, but it started with this dream I had of fighting some dark shadowy beings with a water hose, which wasn't that scary at first, but when I got too close to one of them I could feel waking up like you normally do when you're having a bad dream. This time though, as I was lying on my front, I started to feel this odd tingling and I felt the hair stand up on my body, and then I could feel this huge pressure building up on my back, pushing me downwards. My mind quickly drew the conclusion that something was sitting on my back, probably the same being from my previous dream. As my room was dark and I was lying on my front with my head facing the wall next to my bed, I couldn't see much other than what I think was the beings left knee, but it was very dark and out of focus. After seeing what I thought I saw, I heard a weird scary voice, sort of like when you're inhaling and talking at the same time, saying "fuuuuck meeeeeee" (don't laugh it's not funny). My immediate response was thinking "fuck off", and maybe it worked because shortly after that the tingling and the pressure was fading away and I was awake and able to move, though a little hesitant to turn around because like I said my room was dark and I was afraid that the scariness might not be over. I recognize this tingling sensation from a few occasions before, but either I've been too quick to snap out of it (because I haven't experienced anything like I did today before), or it's not sleep paralysis at all. So I'm not sure whether this was just another dream, but I kind of hope it was because I don't want to experience this sleep paralysis sh!t. [editline]...[/editline] To answer your question, based on the hypothesis that I experienced sleep paralysis, my advice is whenever you encounter scary stuff is to think to yourself in a nonchalant way "yeah yeah alright, piss off", it seemed to work for me. Resisting sleep is probably not a good idea because I think you might be more prone to suffering sleep paralysis when you are very tired.
Before I even new what Lucid Dreaming was, I had many instances of sleep paralysis. I wish I was a little less ignorant at the time, I would have had so many chances to lucid dream through that. Most of the time I SP'd due to pulling all-nighters then crashing on the couch in the living room.
well i couldn't move or breathe and i saw shit levitating around me
I don't know how to induce lucid dreams, but I know how to induce night terrors Booze, and lots of booze
I got some positive ones during WILD technique. By "positive" I mean "I learned to stop being afraid of them". When you're doing WILD (basically, you let your body fall asleep while staying conscious yourself. During those 30-60 minutes you will see dream images more vivid by the minute, then when it gets real enough, you grab it and your senses will switch to dream mode. Now you're in a dream without actually falling asleep), So when you touch the dream object, brain usually goes full confusion mode, not understanding anything. You see an impossibly bright light and hear an impossibly loud buzz, with the added pleasure of your body being crushed under something extremely heavy in all directions, feeling like all your bones, especially leg and arm will snap. Basically all your senses are doing an overdrive, and when you learn to remember that it's just imaginary - you can get some fun from it. I even made this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E3wioRz0x0[/media]
My latest experience was to be molested by an alien. I'm not kidding. I could feel its arm going down my back. It was not fun. :disgust:
The only time i can lucid dream is when i have sleep paralysis so its both cool and awful, especially after one hellish night when i was hearing whispers beside my ears and seeing faces all around me, this happened after waking up twice with paralysis
I usually see black little fuzzy balls on my walls and stuff if I open my eyes. Other than that I just feel like I'm falling. I guess occasionally I might hear some strange sounds, but most of the time it just sounds like things that are coming from my house that I'm used to. Literally nothing scary has happened to me while going into sleep paralysis. I feel sorry for the people who hear and see fucked up shit like people standing inside their bedroom or hearing screaming when trying to sleep.
I've never hallucinated while under sleep paralysis, I just can't move + my vision is super blurry and everything has a tremendous echo. The only creepy thing that happened to me while sleep paralyzed was when I tried to say something and it just came out as "...uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugghh..." like a generic zombie groan. It was pretty creepy to not be able to put thoughts to words or to control my vocal cords.
Positive? None. But it used to be scary until I understood what it was, when it doe occur it's simply just annoying. Thankfully it hasn't happened in awhile.
[QUOTE=slayer20;48680647] I feel sorry for the people who hear and see fucked up shit like ... hearing screaming when trying to sleep.[/QUOTE] That's [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome"]Exploding Head Syndrome[/URL]. Cool name, absolute shit to deal with. I have it, imagine trying to go to sleep and RIGHT WHEN you doze off, you hear someone call your name or scream. Or you hear the window near your head bust open. (that last one actually happened to me)
EHS = Tinnitus right? Hate that shit, also very annoying.
Yeah if you realize it's sleep paralysis it's not scary or stressful, you just wait it out. That's about all you can do though, if you don't realize it you're in for a shit time.
I got them a few times when I was a kid, however I ended up just falling back to sleep but was still kinda semi aware, ended up paralyzed in the dream even.
I've started having some recently. Just your average "spooky black figure is coming to get you" type of sleep paralysis. A classmate told me that he has frequent sleep paralysis, and one time he had an instance where Johnny Depp was in his Jack Sparrow character next to him and said: "It's about to get fucked up now" and then throws his bed into a whirlpool.
[QUOTE=RedStar;48680976]That's [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome"]Exploding Head Syndrome[/URL]. Cool name, absolute shit to deal with. I have it, imagine trying to go to sleep and RIGHT WHEN you doze off, you hear someone call your name or scream. Or you hear the window near your head bust open. (that last one actually happened to me)[/QUOTE] I have exploding head syndrome and used to hear gunshots most of the time right before I sleep but now I usually just hear a voice say something. Its pretty eerie, just last night I woke up to the sound of the doorknob turning back and forth violently, left me up for awhile.
[QUOTE=Totenkreuz;48680978]EHS = Tinnitus right? Hate that shit, also very annoying.[/QUOTE] No Tinnitus is a constant or near constant ringing noise usually in the background. You can get it from very loud one off noises near your head like drums being banged or a gunshot. Normally it dissipates after a while but it can stick around for a long time.
[QUOTE=RedStar;48680976]That's [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome"]Exploding Head Syndrome[/URL]. Cool name, absolute shit to deal with. I have it, imagine trying to go to sleep and RIGHT WHEN you doze off, you hear someone call your name or scream. Or you hear the window near your head bust open. (that last one actually happened to me)[/QUOTE] I think ive had something inbetween this and sleep paralysis. I experienced being unable to move, completely lucid in my bed, and completely convinced that some incredibly loud noise was just about to happen. Like, imagine lying there, cant make your limbs move and your heart is hammering in fucking panic, because you KNOW there's gonna be some horrible, ear-deafening noise any second now. Only happened to me once, but that was more than enough.
Sleep paralysis is one of the only things that have really frightened me. I really hope that I never have to experience it again. The worst time I saw a lot of lights and heard really weird noises outside but was unable to move and I had no fucking idea what was going on. This made me afraid to sleep near windows for a long time.
I hate sleep paralysis. You never know when it's coming, and the first few times it's terrifying. More recently I've kinda half woken realizing I can't breathe and I need to move. It turns into this thought fest of "I need to roll over or I'm gonna die right here". But I had sleep apnea (had jaw surgery 4 weeks ago to help that) and haven't had any episodes since.
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