sp or obe experience??

[Oct2003]

After a few years away I am back on the forum again.

I had an interesting experience and an unwanted one it was because it happened at the wrong time in the wrong place.  At my new job as a security guard I monitor cameras at a boring building that is locked and no one can enter and my job is to just let garbage man in and in the morning start signing vendors in so I sleep and have the cell phone alarm clock wake me up every hour just in case I totally fall asleep.  I sleep on my chair sitting up in a relaxed position with faintly tinted sunglasses to make it look like I am avoiding display monitor glare but I actually don't want field supervisors who occasionally 
do surprise visits to see me.  There is also another guard there who does frequent patrols who is contracted with another company in the building so when the front doors are opened the loud sound wakes me up.  I am a light sleeper but last night  I heard the other guard open the door behind me and I woke up to the loud sound but this time not physically.  I could see the display screen from the inside of my closed eyelids and I immediately knew what was going on.  I said oh no, not this not now.  I usually get some sleep in the daytime so I don't have to have this happen to me.  This sleep paralysis that I have been experiencing for decades but it usually happens when I am tired.

During the experience I couldn't move any limps and felt a pressure in the area I focused on trying to move.  I was worried that it was the field supervisor who came in because he recently got a badge and can enter in any door of the building and he would just write the disciplinary report without saying anything and leave a copy and then leave.  A minute or less later I woke up and it was only the regular guard.  From now on I will not sleep in there again.
I will instead go on an hourly partrol and spread my patrol out because 2 interior and 2 exterior patrols are required and one other guard who works in weekends does this so this should give me 20 minutes of sleep every 2 hours inside the back office we have.  And if the garbage man calls it comes to my cell phone.
I didn't know if this was an OBE or sleep paralysis only. 

I've always wanted to reproduce sleep paralysis but failed but now I know that the desire to not fall too deep into sleep like I have on the job is what helps to produce this sleep paralysis.  Waking up every 30 minutes will produce SP for me.  So I will use that to my advantage ot see if I can project.

[manuel]

Interesting experience, I wish I had the job you have!