The BIG sleep paralysis and old hag topic Part V

Almost every time I wake up by myself (without the help of an alarm, other people, etc) I get SP. It’s happened to me for as long as I can remember. I always hallucinate as well - I always see spiders. When I was a little kid, this terrified me and I’d end up screaming my head off as soon as I could. I’m used to it now. I just watch the spiders until they fade away.
One day there’s going to be an actual spider an inch away from my face and I won’t realize it. x3 That would prolly freak me out a bit.

Hello people !

I never had had a SP before and I’m very happy I hadn’t. I might have one, BUT I am prepared if I do. I read many techniques of how to get rid of SP so I’m not afraid if I want to wake up. For those who are experiencing strange noises things ans stuff like that. Itis because you are stressed out so hard that your mind starts going crazy :content:.

Now if you can’t move and have these things you’ll be shaking in fear. The first thing to do is to CLOSE your eyes and let everything be as it is for about 2 or 3 seconds. Don’t try to do anything. Then in your mind say something like “God, please help me !”. You will feel like you get just a tiny little bit more of courage. Then use that to relax. Just relax and let the nosies and everything you hear be. After a few seconds take HUGE breathings. About 2 or 3 will be enough. Next the feelings the sound and everything will dissapear and you will be able to move. Just be 100% sure about it.

The secret is: Atuosuggestion. If you say it and be 100% sure about it nothing can bother you anymore. Just remember: it is in your mind. The mind belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with your mind, ok ?

Good luck !

PS: you can use these SP’s to have OBE’s. IF you hear, feel or see strange things then you are 99% close to an OBE. For more info, pm me. :smile: (Because I can’t poste here or else the post will seem long and boring)

I have never experienced SP before, but since I have been trying for LD’s lately, I’m terrified of it happening.
My worst fear in the world is aliens or being abducted by them. I rarely have nightmares, but when I do it is ALWAYS about aliens. So I’'m scared that if I end up having SP, it’ll be aliens. And that will most likely send me into a 13 year old heart attack. :bored:
So, are there ways I can prevent SP? And if I do end up getting SP, what would be the best way to calm me down?

Everyone has SP when they fall asleep, it’s just that we usually aren’t aware of it. When practicing WILD we stay aware so we experience it.

Best way to calm down is knowing it isn’t real and that you are moving closer to that lucid dream.

I intentionally didn’t sleep the night before the last one, and even though I was tired as hell I couldn’d sleep even last night, because the moment I fell in my bed I started to feel my body falling asleep and suddenly I was really scared that I’ll get a SP and an old hag D: I have never experienced it and I have no idea why I was so sure I was about to get one…and the more I was thinking about it the more I was sure it will happen >__> I even told myself it won’t be that bad because I know it’s not real and stuff, and that I could get lucid easily, but still… it was like I subconsciously refused to fall asleep because I was so frightened…in case it happens again, help? :sad:
I then went to bed at about 5am and got 4 hours of bad sleep…

Well I guess you just have to make the experience once to see it´s not that bad.
People in the middle ages were very frightened of it because they didn´t know what it is and thought it would kill them or something.
If I was you and would be overwhelmed by the fear of experiencing SP I would just think of something else and just don´t think about it. Think rational about your fear before lying down but make clear to not think about it after you layed down.

I´m not afraid of SP anymore because I had it really often when I was young.
The box on the other side of the room transformed into a monster at least twice a week and if not the flower pot hanging from my ceiling did :content:
Now it almost never happens…

Okay, So I’ve never experienced sleep paralysis
but I was watching a video by Reece Jones on the subject (I dont know if any of you are familiar with his LDing tutorials, He is actually how I found out about LDing)

But I’m just interested to know if any of you have had any freaky experiences,
Kinda to see what I’m getting myself into haha.
Because from what I hear Its bound to happen to me at some point.

Well, [The BIG sleep paralysis and old hag topic Part V) :tongue:
But you’re wrong in this regard, SP is a completely optional step if you want it so, I WILD all the time without experiencing any :content:

Two night ago, I’ve try to stay awake and enter in a dream. Before, I’ve decided to make an exercice of relaxation. I felt a kind of floating, but there was no light in my room and I felt frightened. I imagined a kind of monster or something that can arise in front of me, but I realized that I could’nt move. So I decided to stop it, and little by little I did not feel paralyse any more. Was it a kind of Sleep paralysis ?

And last night I’ve kept the light on to make the same exercice of relaxation and I didn’t imagine and see anything, but I heard weird things, like steps. Can we hear things during sleep paralysis ?

Should head on over to the “FAQs and Tutorials” section and look at some of the great WILDing guides. Also it is very likely to hear/see things durring SP, called HH, HI, or HS.

Ok, thank you !
I knew that during SP we often see thing but I didn’t know about sound :smile:

If you don’t sleep on your back, it probably won’t happen to you.

If you ever experience it fully, you’ll never want to experience it again.

@tosxychor

I have read many times that it can happen as you wake up, so that would really be unavoidable.

I think the people who say that it’s nothing or that it’s fun have never really experienced it. They’ve just been aware of the moment before they fall asleep.

That’s basically saying that anyone who claims that they didn’t find it absolutely terrifying is lying by default. I don’t think that’s a fair call to make. People experience things differently, after all.

Well, I don’t think waking up is that required of a step for a WILD induction :tongue:

Also arne, there’s SP where you just can’t move, and SP where it’s dark and eyes plays you tricks and some shadow appears in the corner of the eye and people get scared and the whole thing spirals down into some freaky encounter, but they’re both SP experiences. Get my point?

I’ve had SP and ‘old hag’. In my case, the hag was a medusa/gorgon peering at me from the corner of my sight. I knew it was a hallucination, so I didn’t freak out. Now I’m not too sure about this anymore, but the colors I could see in my room were dull, reminded me of Silent Hill but not quite as drastic.

Me I was around 17 when I experienced my first SP. There was this evil dark hunchback creature just looking at me, I was helpless paralyzed and I couldn’t scream. Finally I got out of it, I started researching and I thought it was a succubi or some other demon. I should probably brush up on my malleus maleficarum. or it’s just a HH

I’ve experienced SP a couple of times. And I’m planning on it again tonight. I do it just to relax and fall asleep as practice, but I don’t actually try and LD until the second time after my alarm clock goes off. I love it because once it kicks in, your feeling starts going away. And it’s almost as if you’re kind of floating on a cloud. It’s so easy to fall asleep then, too. :meh:

Have anyone here succeeded in making SP less horrorfull?
I have problems with SP and seeing and hearing voices, horrific images and voices (like the girl in the ring who crawls up from the well) and accompaning voices telling me Im gonna die.
I truly hate those! I only have one way of getting out of them and that´s when I eventually getting able to move my hand and arm to wake up my husband.
You may think I should get used to it but Im not, it would be more ok if I wasnt seeing horrific things.

The strange thing is that as I cannot manage what I see when having a SP, I can somewhat manage what happens in my dreams. Shouldnt these be connected? Am I thinking/doing something wrong?
Now Im off to bed hopefully not getting an SP, :content: just nice dreams :content: