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underfliptown
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i think i just experienced sleep paralysis
#19201186 - 11/28/13 03:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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This was really fucking weird.
I was asleep, and then I heard a loud noise. But when I went to move I had the vision of getting up out of bed but i was still stuck in my bed. It's still kinda fresh, and hard to recall.
I felt the need to get up and talk to someone because it was kind of uncomfortable. It is almost like my soul was leaving my body and could get up and walk around my house, only to return back to my body when i opened my eyes. At times I would open my eyes and I could see "visions" of scary looking demons in my room, but only briefly. The weirdest part was trying to get up out of bed but just not being able to.
It was like I was inbetween dreaming and being awake. I was aware that I could not move, and I was hallucinating so i assume I was still asleep. But I could also think perfectly lucidly. I don't know if my eyes were actually open or if it was just a really intricate dream. It was not entirely pleasant.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19201315 - 11/28/13 03:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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My sister had the same thing happen a couple days ago. She said she heard what she described as "waves" or "a pulsating frequency"
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: Periscope]
#19201347 - 11/28/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Might've been. Everytime I've had it I was awake and I'd get a feeling of electricity going through my whole body and I couldn't move anything but move eyes really. Then within a couple minutes of closin my eyes again I start getting all the weird visions. Usually starts with watching myself asleep from above my body.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: Eminence]
#19201363 - 11/28/13 04:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah that's sleep paralysis, sometimes I (almost) wake up and can't move whatsoever, completely paralyzed. I don't even really care because I'm out of it lol
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19201476 - 11/28/13 04:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah, you did and sometimes it can be frightening I used to get it almost every night but now it's just every couple of weeks Don't think I'll ever get used to it
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: iamerror73]
#19201748 - 11/28/13 05:42 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is what you call a false awakening. That loud noise and other strange sensations are a normal part of the brain's transition into sleep that we all experience every night, but we're usually already unconscious by the time it happens. I believe it may be designed as a sort of test to make sure the sleeper's mind is actually asleep before shutting the body down for sleep by trying to prod the sleeper awake with these strange sensations.
You would be considered lucky by many to experience this sort of thing naturally. You should totally take advantage of those false awakenings to have lucid dreams.

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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: Dreaming Nomad]
#19201758 - 11/28/13 05:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's sounds like it.
After reading about sleep paralysis a few months ago, I had trouble sleeping for a few nights. I'd always wake up feeling slightly relieved for not having experienced it
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: DirtyTomFlint]
#19201909 - 11/28/13 06:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sounds exactly like sleep paralysis. I used to get that shit all the time and its very unnerving
I've also experienced the sensation of coming out of my body and moving about the room, even floating upwards and seeing my body still lying on the bed. Its crazy stuff
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: Melkor]
#19201994 - 11/28/13 06:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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This happened to me once. It was what I believe to be a spontaneous spout of astral projection. The first and only time I have successfully projected. Too bad it was an accident
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19202055 - 11/28/13 06:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I used to get this as a kid ALL the time especially when falling asleep in a car ride, or when I was sick with the flu. The breathing is also controlled and when you're trying to get up, atleast IME you have to struggle many times before breaking out of it, and the slow controlled breathing was the scariest part because I never felt like I was getting enough air struggling to breathe and "wake up. Can't move at all which was also frightening.
Sort of related? I used to get Night Terrors as a kid aswell.. I'd wake up in the middle of the night having really terrifying hallucinations. I always slept with the TV on and the audio would bounce all around the walls, the screen zooming in and out, and shit I can't even remember. The doctors described it as my body waking up but my brain still asleep. I've walked all the way down our stairs and outside before my dad caught me and brought me in. I would be screaming for one of my parents and they'd be in front of me trying to wake me up essentially. My eyes were open though but I would stare into nothingness. Docs said it would stop by 12 or 13 and did. I was guaranteed to have a terror if I was sick with the flu up until 13.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19202062 - 11/28/13 06:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah that sounds like a version of sleep paralysis. I've had varying degrees of it since I was a young child, and one of them is waking up paralyzed followed by the very real, "lucid" sensation of getting up and doing my usual morning routine. I would take full showers, brush my teeth, get dressed and then suddenly wake back up in bed. It almost sucks because I would have to do it all over again. I didn't know that people used this as a launchpad for lucid dreaming and astral projection, but I was doing a version of it back then.
It can be frightening also as the paralyzed state is sometimes accompanied by very unwelcome hallucinations, not in the lucid dream sense, but more of a presence in the room with you. There's a lot of accounts of it, but my personal experience was seeing a dark energy one time when I was able to slightly open my eyes. It covered the entire room and then sat on my bed and pushed me like it was trying to wake me up. Its a very real tactile sensation too, it felt like i was being moved, I thought somebody was trying to wake me up. I've heard it call my name and say small phrases in different voices right in my ear. Spooky shit.
I used to hate being paralyzed but now I look forward to it to try and launch into a lucid dream, which I've only had success with once but now that I know I can do it I want to all the time lol.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: galindoi]
#19202346 - 11/28/13 07:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I used to have practice at 5am every morning. It used to happen to me if i ever too a long nap after practice.I'd say its probably happened to me 20-30 times. Would wake up have pretty perfect vision but I just couldn't move. Would try so hard to move any of my arms and they would just not move. Eventually am able to once i "wake up??" Crazy stuff man. I kinda think it is fun.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: LittleBill]
#19202349 - 11/28/13 07:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah always happened during a nap, the paralysis.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: theRAPeutic]
#19202358 - 11/28/13 07:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've done this before, it's pretty wild.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: galindoi]
#19202359 - 11/28/13 07:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Have experience this all my life and it used to scare the crap out of me. I even told my girlfriend at the time that the house was haunted. Which scare the crap out of her too, she could see how serious I was.
Anyway, after many nights of all kinds of visual and auditory halluciantions and being stuck to my bed, scared out of my wits, I started to change.
I learned to resist the feeling that there was someone/something in the room with me. Then after I was no longer scared, something amazing happened.
I left my body and floated to the ceiling of my bedroom. I saw myself on the bed, even still felt my pillow on my head. It was like a very clear lucid dream.
Since the first time I managed to escape, I have had this experience multiple times.
My main problems with this have been 1). Sometimes when it happens, I struggle to see properly. My vision almost becomes a tunnel and it seem very dark. Possibly because the light is off in my room? 2). The astral projection I experience often turns into a dream and then sleep.
In this projected state, I have met and talked to people who don't seem to exist in the real world.
So my end conjecture is that either my mind is creating this fantastical lucid dream state that enimates from within me, or I am astral projecting myself out of my body.
The way to leave your body when your in the sleep paralysis state is as simple for me as turning over and kind of falling vertically upwards out of it.I hear no vibration sound, although I feel a dense humming or grinding throughout my body.
I am currently trying to obtain this state though meditation and any tips would be great. Sleep paralysis seems to only happen to me when I am in a state of stress such as quitting smoking etc. I want to be able to experience this when I want to.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: jase1974]
#19202699 - 11/28/13 09:37 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have this at least once a week.
I never knew what it was but I think this might be the answer
I get this weird pulsating, almost vibrations in my ear (or hearing?) that i feel and i am always on my stomach when it happens and i cannot move and i force myself to do so cause it kinda wigs me out, although I am half asleep and disturbed by this crazyness I always go right back to sleep as if it never happened. Is this what i'm experiencing? I don't have visions or terrible dreams(that i can remember) but i do suffer from anxiety.
wigs me out
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: BlindEye]
#19202752 - 11/28/13 09:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I get something similar to sleep paralysis sometimes, its like I have a really vivid dream that I wake up before waking up. And then I come back to reality and can see around me without being able to wake up yet.
Almost like my soul is coming back to me
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: BlindEye]
#19202767 - 11/28/13 09:53 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Man i love sleep paralysis. I once woke up facing the wall and there was a face in the wall clear as day. It was staring at me and smiling somewhat sinister like. Then it pulled out of the wall, twisting the wall with it like a bedsheet ghost and spiraling towards me before it turned back and headed back into the wall. Then my vision was normal.
I used to get them pretty frequently last year but it stopped for some reason. Another time I had some ayahuasca breakthrough type flashback thing in the middle of the night. Pretty indescribable but i don't know if that counts.
Also, not sure if this is totally off subject... But since we're talking about sleep phenomena, one thing i had last night that i get once in a while is this strange feeling where i'm halfway asleep and it feels like i'm on a bunch of whippets. Like my mind is just buzzing hardcore and i'm high as fucking but i can chose to go deeper or snap out of it completely. Of course i always go deeper... But interesting nonetheless
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: JacksonMetaller]
#19203498 - 11/29/13 03:23 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hate it when that happens that's why I smoke before bed time stops this but know exactly how you feel except it happens to me EVERYTIME. Unless if I smoke a bowl witch is annoying and costly.
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underfliptown
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: JacksonMetaller]
#19203505 - 11/29/13 03:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I am too drunk right now to properly respond. But I am glad that ppl understand what i am sayign, Shit is scary and weird. It's as bad as a bad trip. Again... too drunk to respond...
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19203551 - 11/29/13 04:01 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I had similar thing happen this afternoon, used to happen a lot when I was a kid with a reoccurring dream. I would roll out of bed and kneel down in front of my window and the room would be filled with bright light and I would have the sensation of getting sucked out, many times I would actually wake up kneeling at the window.
This afternoon I fell asleep on the lounge for a couple of hours, was having very vivid weird dreams, I remember my eyes being open and seeing the room, felt like I couldn't take as deep a breathe as I needed, then switched back to dreaming back and forth a few times until finally I woke completely and had control of my body again.
I am extremely exhausted in pain at the moment and that's been taking a toll in every way, but its one of those things that really make one re assess reality.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19203561 - 11/29/13 04:09 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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underfliptown said: This was really fucking weird.
I was asleep, and then I heard a loud noise. But when I went to move I had the vision of getting up out of bed but i was still stuck in my bed. It's still kinda fresh, and hard to recall.
I felt the need to get up and talk to someone because it was kind of uncomfortable. It is almost like my soul was leaving my body and could get up and walk around my house, only to return back to my body when i opened my eyes. At times I would open my eyes and I could see "visions" of scary looking demons in my room, but only briefly. The weirdest part was trying to get up out of bed but just not being able to.
It was like I was inbetween dreaming and being awake. I was aware that I could not move, and I was hallucinating so i assume I was still asleep. But I could also think perfectly lucidly. I don't know if my eyes were actually open or if it was just a really intricate dream. It was not entirely pleasant.
I had a sleep paralysis 17 years ago I remember like yesterday
they can be worse than the worst bad trip, even though they dont last 12hrs like LSD
have had a few really bad trips, but nothing like that SP
remember it clearly like it was yesterday
luckily I looked inside myself to face my fears, no fears left, now the demons jump off me in SP :-) and I chase them instead of them chasing me
Lucid dreams are definitely worth a few bad SP states
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: lessismore]
#19203627 - 11/29/13 05:12 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The best way I've found to induce sleep paralysis is to get too much sleep. I used to experience it a couple of times a week, but over the past year or two it's tapered off (lack of sleep is to blame I think.)
Whilst waking up into the SP state can be momentarily startling, it's a fantastic way to push into an OBE (or WILD/LD depending on your belief system.) I let the electrical energy sensations build until they are roaring in my head - then I roll out onto the floor and go exploring. The sensation of rolling out can be a bit hazy at first, and vision can be dim. But crawling away for a few meters usually makes everything more solid.
Edited by misterjingo (11/29/13 05:13 AM)
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lessismore
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: misterjingo]
#19203636 - 11/29/13 05:18 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Dont worry about my beliefs :-P
15 years of a few LDs/SPs a year have convinced me ;-)
I like laying down on my back, binaural beats/or very quiet environment, dont move for 1-2hours then getting heavy etc.
often if doing that a few times on a regular basis an SP will be achieved
I rarely get directly into LDs, usually have SPs which are always a bit scary, then when the shadows move away from me I walk around and suddenly get light and realize Im dreaming
SPs can be a very good way to get into LDs, and to learn to overcome fear
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: lessismore]
#19211407 - 12/01/13 07:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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sleep paralysis scared me more than once too, but once you have conscience of it just calm yourself and demons will go away, i think our fear create it..and yes you can push the enveloppe to an OBE experience cause your body is asleep and your mind is awake. your conscience still tuned with your body but there ways to get out, for me i simply needed to jump away from my body with a great confidance(once calm enough and without fear).. i used this 'door' when i was younger but now it's not so frequant, i'm not missing those demon but to travels yes!
i'm glad to see so many people experienced it! good luck exploring this state
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: cArcace-x]
#19229928 - 12/05/13 03:20 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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This has happened to me quite often over the last 20 years or so. Sometimes while settling into sleep and sometimes when coming out.
At first it was always horrible. Always. Sometimes I'd stay up the rest of the night scared. After so many repetitions I learned to talk (in my head)to myself and even at the dream (or whatever) itself, and gained some control. Mobility even to an extent.
To be honest this is the first time I've found that I'm not alone in this particular experience. That feels good.
One thing on the plus side that I've noticed over the years is that I have gained a lot more control in my every night dreams having had practiced forcibly trying to take back control so many times.
On the minus, when I fight it and lose the battle the dream/paralysis seeps into my psyche and lingers throughout the next day with a lot of weight..
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: NarkedAt90ft]
#19229960 - 12/05/13 03:45 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cool man, sounds like a partial or border line out of body experience/astral projection. You can see/hear/feel some pretty disturbing shit, but if you can manage to get a grip on what's happening it can be better than tripping. It comes easier to some people than others. If you're the least bit interested in it I'd point you in the direction of Journeys Out of Body by Robert Monroe. It's one of the first and still one of the best written accounts of out of body travel.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: OnePerEyeM8]
#19230752 - 12/05/13 11:09 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Very interested as a matter of fact, thank you kindly for the nod in the right direction, I will definitely be looking into the book you mentioned.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: NarkedAt90ft]
#19231783 - 12/05/13 03:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Definitely You can probably find the book on ebay for a dollar or two.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: misterjingo]
#19232924 - 12/05/13 05:29 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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misterjingo said: The best way I've found to induce sleep paralysis is to get too much sleep. I used to experience it a couple of times a week, but over the past year or two it's tapered off (lack of sleep is to blame I think.)
Whilst waking up into the SP state can be momentarily startling, it's a fantastic way to push into an OBE (or WILD/LD depending on your belief system.) I let the electrical energy sensations build until they are roaring in my head - then I roll out onto the floor and go exploring. The sensation of rolling out can be a bit hazy at first, and vision can be dim. But crawling away for a few meters usually makes everything more solid.
When I lucid dream, I like to do the hold your nose and blow out reality trick. If you can blow out your nose then you're lucid. Go explore. Another thing I like to do, but doesn't always work is try to push your thumb through the palm of your other hand. I remember one LD I did that reality check and it didn't work. I felt my thumb hit my palm. But another try later it popped through. It kind of shocked me and made me realize I was lucid, and then I woke up.
Ahhhhh. That electrical body buzz feels SO good.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19241875 - 12/07/13 05:28 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sleep paralysis is scary as fuk. It happened to me once, about 1.5 years ago. I remember being frozen in bed, laying on my right side. THere was someone/thing that had its hand on my hip and ho9lding me down. THis thing was whispering what sounded like demonic chants, i really didnt understand what it was saying and felt like it was holding me in bed.
One of the scareist things in my life lol luckily it hastn happened since *knocked on wood*
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: blackmilk]
#19241894 - 12/07/13 05:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think that you just gotta kind of embrace it when it happens. The more you fight it the worse it gets. If you sort of just go with the flow, then it seems to work itself out.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: underfliptown]
#19242776 - 12/07/13 09:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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The demons are a recurring theme it seems in SP or OBE phenomena, I think they are some kind of fear test, because when you disregard the demon or other shadowy creature as just part of your mind or something unreal, you usually are free to leave the body after that. I know it sounds strange but I think something really strange is going on as 'reality' anyway. It's quite apparent when you have certain types of OBE, that the world is not what it seems.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: circastes]
#19243414 - 12/08/13 02:07 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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circastes said: The demons are a recurring theme it seems in SP or OBE phenomena, I think they are some kind of fear test, because when you disregard the demon or other shadowy creature as just part of your mind or something unreal, you usually are free to leave the body after that. I know it sounds strange but I think something really strange is going on as 'reality' anyway. It's quite apparent when you have certain types of OBE, that the world is not what it seems.
I've always seen such negative entities in the SP state as manifestations of (unconscious) fear generated by being thrust into the SP state. The SP state rides the hypnagogic/hypnopompic border, so it seems sensible to assume that fears can manifest as physical scenarios.
I've had a lot of crazy negative stuff happen at this point. Being torn out of my body and bashed around by huge dark entities - hearing them come up the stairs into my room, scream in my ears - even had entities crush my consciousness down to oblivion, or smear it sideways across the face of reality. pretty trippy stuff. I don't buy into the whole negative entity world view, so I see them as somewhat exhilarating and fascinating negative reactions to the SP state.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: circastes]
#19243441 - 12/08/13 02:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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circastes said: The demons are a recurring theme it seems in SP or OBE phenomena, I think they are some kind of fear test, because when you disregard the demon or other shadowy creature as just part of your mind or something unreal, you usually are free to leave the body after that. I know it sounds strange but I think something really strange is going on as 'reality' anyway. It's quite apparent when you have certain types of OBE, that the world is not what it seems.
It is interesting that LDs are often 99% similar to this reality
I wake up where I went to bed, I meet the people I do in my everyday life then suddenly I start to float, or I get chased by some demonic being
if facing the being I can control my reality almost 100% sometimes
only light switches dont seem to work often, else everything physical works until it doesnt work suddenly
OBEs often feel more real than this reality, maybe because you notice the body is an illusion of the brain when you start to float from it and see it from above reality is forever changed since that, and it is never forgotten
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woaronun
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: lessismore]
#19243722 - 12/08/13 05:08 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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mio said:
It is interesting that LDs are often 99% similar to this reality
I wake up where I went to bed, I meet the people I do in my everyday life
it makes sense though: your brain processes what happened during the day or in the recent past. For most of us, notable things that happened recently were interactions with other people. For lucid dreaming it helps to keep a dream diary so you can find out which things you dream about frequently. Then you can start doing reality checks around these things in your waking life. The reality check I always do is to examine my hand. In a dream it never looks like in waking life. Sometimes I have seven fingers, sometimes I have some sort of claws, sometimes I have an additional thumb... Always works for me.
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Re: i think i just experienced sleep paralysis [Re: Periscope]
#19243984 - 12/08/13 08:39 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Definitely hypnogagia. Nothing to fear though - although sometimes you can definitely feel very awake and stuck in your own body getting frustrated trying to roll out of bed a few hundred times with your eyes closed and disconnection from you're body.
I've also had some incredibly strange waking nightmares where my eyes will be open and shadowy creatures will fly around and fill the room and right before something HORRIBLE happens, I wake up, looking at the exact same perspective, but all the halllucinations and feelings of dread are gone and I'm left with a brisk memory of it and wanting to hold my girlfriends hand and fall back asleep.
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