Hello Everyone,
This is my first post. I wanted to share my experiences with Sleep Paralysis as others may find it interesting. Caveat emptor: I have no applied experience with lucid dreaming, but have understood the basic principles since reading a book on the subject when I was younger.
I had my first experience with what I now know as sleep paralysis when I was around 10 or 11 years old. I had the typical experience; I was lying on my back on my mothers bed during the day, staring at a corner of the ceiling. After focusing on this corner for five minutes or so I began to feel four sensations simultaneously:
- An increasingly loud white noise
- My field of view began shifting, in a jerking spinning fashion
- A feeling I was sinking into the bed and my feet were sliding off the edge
- Inability to move
All I could think was “cool!”, “no wait, freaky!”, “cool!”, “ok, i’m obviously about to die, so I’m going to stop this now”. I then came out of it, sweaty.
It happened again many times in my teenager years. I did not know what it was I was experiencing. I began to develop a reverence towards the experience. Despite its “fear of god” inducing sensations, I happened to take a very scientific approach to things as a child. I started to notice a pattern in how it was induced and how it presented itself. This led me to believe that it had something to do with my physiology. I had tried to describe it to a few friends, none of whom had heard of or experienced such a thing. I erroneously concluded that I’m special and left it at that.
Fast forward ten years to my mid twenties. I had completely forgotten about the sleep paralysis experiences I had when I was younger, until one day, by chance I was lying on my own bed and staring at a corner of the ceiling (which you may gather by now that I’m wont to do), and voila, it’s still there. Keep in mind I never let it continue on past the initial sensations, primarily because up to this point I had convinced myself that I may end up in a coma if I let it continue.
And then, things got weird…
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This brings us to today. Today I learned that some use sleep paralysis as a means to have lucid dreams. I’m very excited to try it again, as I seem to be able to do it when I’m relaxed and it is quiet.
…I’ve always wondered what would happen if I kept letting the noise get louder.
Take care,
Jeremy