Hypnogagia/Sleep paralysis - General

[img]http://i43.tinypic.com/8y6yh4.jpg[/img] Has anyone had voluntarily induced sleep paralysis? AKA hypnogagia? I tried the exact thing 2 days ago and shit was scary. You just lie on your back, in bed. Arms next to you on your bed and you just lay there. You don't need to put your mind at ease. You can just think of anything and freely listen to soft music etc. Most important thing is that you ignore itches and the temptation to roll over to your side / stomach. After you get a few itches and you let them pass then the paralysis starts. It started from my toes all up to my head. It feels like there's a lead blanket being put over you and your breathing becomes automatized 'n it's pretty scary to be honest. When I got it I felt my pulse raising and I broke the paralysis by changing my breathing pattern. I really suggest it, it's so strange but at the same time so awesome. Look at this epic feedback; [quote]When I experienced sleep paralysis it was the scariest night of my life.[/quote] [quote] To All The People Saying They're Going to Try Hypnogagia Tonight: DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD SLEEP PARALYSIS. You will literally sh!t your pants if you end up getting it successfully. The first time I ever got sleep paralysis (not voluntarily) I thought it was the end of my life. I was in my bed in complete darkness and I saw my bedroom door open and some guy dressed all in black walking in. He had a gun in his hand and I knew he was coming to blow my brains out. I couldn't move sh!t no matter how hard I tried. And I was in a full blown panic thinking my life was over. Thankfully I woke up before I had a heart attack or something else. JUST A WARNING.[/quote] [quote]oh my fuking god, just tried the hypnagogia thing. I literally just laid still and did not move (for like 10 min) and I swear I basically witnessed my mind going from awake to asleep WHILE STILL BEING Awake. I know that makes no sense but I have never ever felt anything like that. It was a mix of euphoria and absolute terror and I literally just had to start shaking myself before shhhit got to real. [b]- I experienced this too[/b][/quote] Thought I could add my experience from last night. [quote]I had the sleep par. happening to me last year for few times(posted story on pg2), i didn't know that other experienced it as well until this thread. So I thought i would give it a try last night and see if i can do it on purpose. Was laying down for approx 35 minutes, literally nothing was happening, it was hard to keep my eyes closed because of the position; then suddenly i felt my facial structures getting numb, it was weird as hell.. i guess by this time i finally fell asleep, opened my eyes and seen the exactly same looking humanoid from my first sleep par.. and again it was coming at me, it was like 3 steps away from my bed but it took it few minutes to come close to my bed, looked ****ing weird then suddenly it layed down next to me, i was getting sweaty as hell, heart pumping like it had never before; I was trying to turn my head to the left side to see what the **** it looks like, but i simply couldn't move any part of my body. It literally was simply laying down next to me, i tried to scream to wake up myself, but i had no control over my body. Then I felt the same tingling in my back like the first time and i finally woke up, sweaty as hell and ran to my bathroom for a cold shower. [/quote] [quote]The most remarkable symptoms of SP (Sleep Paralysis) are the accompanying audio and/or visual hallucinations often causing extreme terror and panic in it's sufferers, who more often than not mistakenly believe they are being visited by aliens, malevolent beings and other evil presences. OH MY GOD AWESOME. You guys just ask questions and shit. Oh yeah and also. Why would you do this shit to yourself voluntarily? I heard you can get some epic lucid (controllable dreams) from doing so. I'mma read up some more.[/quote]

I am soooooooo trying out that shit.

Does this actually work? Sounds scary :ohdear:

Holy shit, I have to try this. Also I read "Most important thing is that you ignore itches and the temptation to roll over to your side / stomach." as "Ignore bitches". Haha.

Do you need to do this before going to sleep or can I just do it right away? (17:57 here).

Sounds awesome.

[QUOTE=SpartanApples;22042437]Does this actually work? Sounds scary :ohdear:[/QUOTE] Yeah.. I tried it 2 times and it works. But you can have a heartattack, so if you die, I dont give a shit. And you can do it right now. You dont have to wait the sleep time.

I had this once when I was resting whilst ill. I thought I saw a car coming towards me and when it collided with me I actually felt like I was hit by a car dead on, my hearing was muffled and everything. Needless to say I was scared shitless just after.

Sleep Paralysis can occur naturally if you sleep on your back a lot. It's also common to undergo SP if you've just had a Lucid Dream.

[QUOTE=Fault;22042462]Holy shit, I have to try this. Also I read "Most important thing is that you ignore itches and the temptation to roll over to your side / stomach." as "Ignore bitches". Haha.[/QUOTE] Haha that is so not funny!

It happened to me one time involuntarily, it was the scariest night of my life. Everything felt all tingly and I couldn't move at all, when I tried screaming nothing came out. [editline]04:08PM[/editline] It was really fucked up.

Sounds awesome, gotta post back in a few hours with results!

I want to do this but risking death? I ain't sure now.

Loved the article Cracked made about it. Give me one second to find it...

[QUOTE=LeonS;22042706]I want to do this but risking death? I ain't sure now.[/QUOTE] If you have heart conditions, yeah. You can die.

I have a friend who says hes badass when it comes to this shit.I will tell him to try it but I am afraid he might die from a heart attack.

From cracked.com: [highlight]Sleep Paralysis[/highlight] [b]What Is It?[/b] Ah, another morning. You open your eyes and stare at the ceiling. Time to toss those covers aside and start the d- Wait... what's this? Your arms don't seem to be moving. Or your feet. And... HOLY SHIT! There's a monster in the room! And that bastard glued your entire body to your bed! [img]http://cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/5/1/9/8519.jpg?v=1[/img] [i]"You'd think a monster would have more sophisticated methods of terrorizing, but I don't, at all."[/i] Well, that or you're suffering from sleep paralysis. Also referred to as "devil on your back" by Africans, "the dark presser/assailer" in Turkey and "on the pig's back" by the Irish. [b]Wait, What's Going On?[/b] As you fall asleep, several things happen. First, your conscious mind is set to low-level functioning. Next, your body is immobilized so that you can dream of doing things like running, without actually running into your bedroom wall like the dog in that YouTube video. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzMAXqu8qU[/media] Then, your brain cycles in and out of REM. Occasionally, your conscious mind wakes up, but forgets to include other parts of your brain, usually just seconds before the REM is phased completely out. The result is that for the next few moments, you get to watch the dream, or rather nightmare in most cases, played out as a vivid hallucination right before your very much awakened eyes. Oh, and that part about you being immobilized? That's still there, hence the "paralysis" half of "sleep paralysis." Not only do get to watch the demonized spider-crabs on your ceiling eat a tiny kitten just above your immobile body, you are completely helpless to do anything about it when they come for you. But, you can tell the difference between real life and some stupid waking dream, right? Apparently not, since as we have mentioned before, this condition seems to explain the whole "alien abduction" phenomenon, and several thousand years worth of ghost stories and demon encounters. [img]http://cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/5/2/0/8520.jpg?v=1[/img] So yeah, pretty fucking real. [b]Can it Happen to You?[/b] It's already happened to some of you reading this. Surveys show that about one out of four people have experienced it, though who knows how many more A) had it but didn't know what it was or B) forgot about it or wrote the whole thing off as a dream. Then again we don't know how many of the ones who claimed to have had it were actually abducted by aliens instead, so it probably balances out. More brain-related awesomeness into the full article [url]http://www.cracked.com/article/199_5-horrific-ways-your-brain-can-turn-you-without-warning_p1[/url]

I've had this a few times, it's FUCKING SCARY. You can't move anything at all, and you WILL get breathing problems since you can't control anything!

[QUOTE=AnthraX;22042750]If you have heart conditions, yeah. You can die.[/QUOTE] So if youre completely Healthy nothing won't happen to you right?

I've had this plenty of times before. I never really see anything, my eyes are closed every time, but I do hear random noises and stuff. I just try and stay relaxed and it's usually over in like, 10 seconds for me.

I have never experienced this, mind you I don't need much sleep.

Still sounds pretty fucking scary

[QUOTE=starpluck;22042622]It happened to me one time involuntarily, it was the scariest night of my life. Everything felt all tingly and I couldn't move at all, when I tried screaming nothing came out. [editline]04:08PM[/editline] It was really fucked up.[/QUOTE] My psyhcic is fucked up anyway, i`l try this. With someone around me of course.

[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;22042789]So if youre completely Healthy nothing won't happen to you right?[/QUOTE] Nope. Not at all. Well, I have heart condition. I keep getting rapid breath rates and breathe hard when i drink an energy drink. But when it comes to sleep paralysis, nothing really happens.

[QUOTE=AnthraX;22042850]Nope. Not at all. Well, I have heart condition. I keep getting rapid breath rates and breathe hard when i drink an energy drink. But when it comes to sleep paralysis, nothing really happens.[/QUOTE] Well I would love to try this but my worst fear is not being able to move,only thinking about it I shit my pants.

It's not that bad, just remember that all of the stuff you see isn't real.

[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;22042891]Well I would love to try this but my worst fear is not being able to move,only thinking about it I shit my pants.[/QUOTE] If you hold your breath for a few seconds, you break the paralysis. Easiest way.

[QUOTE=AnthraX;22042926]If you hold your breath for a few seconds, you break the paralysis. Easiest way.[/QUOTE] Wish I knew when I was suffering the never ending agony and torture,

[QUOTE=Ragamuffin..;22042900]It's not that bad, just remember that all of the stuff you see isn't real.[/QUOTE] Kinda hard when your hallucinating that someone is about to stab you or other disturbing things...

I remember i waked up before my body did or some shit like that not being able to move, yell, or do anything was really annyoing and scary, i had to try really hard untill i got my body to move after i wake up. And when i wake up in an uncomfortable stance AND cannot move, man, that's some scary shit. [editline]03:36PM[/editline] I would not recommend trying this, to anyone, as i remember i cried when i woke up and could not move but i was six so