inducing sleep paralysis

[blidge]

Hi all, ive been doing AP for some years but my experiences are very infrequent and most nights i try to stay awake while my body falls asleep, only i fall asleep at every opportunity, so another fail.

But for those of you out there who try sleep paralysis and then exit, what technique do you use to stay mentally conscious? i could do with some ideas as my afirmations dont seem to be working anymore.

many thanks

[AstralJames]

Although this might not be answer you would want, it's the only way I can help with my knowledge
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_out_of_body_experiences/sleep_paralysis_the_whats_whys_and_wherefores-t38734.0.html

[blidge]

Hi, thanks astrajames, im reading it now and it looks informative, ill see what it says.

thanks

[roman67]

Yes, this thread is actually very helpful for those who want to try sleep paralysis.

[Bedeekin]

The main 'trick' for inducing Sleep Paralysis is to induce it after you have woken from a sleep or nap. If you for instance want to do it first thing at night before you go to sleep proper, you will need to have had some sort of nap at least 1 hour before and at the very most 5 hours. The same for the morning. If you want to have SP on a morning you will have woken from a nights sleep. This only works however if you woke up from a dreamless sleep. If you woke up, hit the snooze button and rolled over and dreamt.. you will have lessened the chances of SP. If you set an alarm so it wakes you an hour and a half before you normally get up and actually wake up you have a window of inducing SP until mid afternoon.

It sounds complicated but it's actually a very very simple way to 'manage' your experiences. I've been doing this for 30 years and it's kept my experiences regular as clockwork.. give or take the odd dry spell.

[blidge]

Thanks for the good tip there Bedeekin. ive never really previously tried to wake myself up before i reach REM dream state or purposely had some sleep so i have a better chance of SP but on the occasions i have woke up early ive tried it. usually i wake up for the loo but ill try what youve suggested.

When ive had these they have always unsettled me and the vibrations would usually just fade away and keeping still to induce SP would off been a waste of time as it would come to nothing. Times ive managed to deal with the vibrations are when ive awoken to feel the vibrations just fading so i would become conscious when the vibrations were nearly at the end and then i would exit my body to roam the astral world. On sleep paralysis, how do you cope with the energy vibrations, eyelids fluttering and staying still?

[Bedeekin]

I usually don't hang around too long for the SP sensations to peak these days. I used to wait till the peak calmed down then separated. I used to think I had to. The truth is... as soon as you enter SP you are already nonphysical and how you realise this fact is usually in the form of some sort of 'method' to get out. We are so used to operating in a meat body with apparent substance in a reality that requires cause and effect that we assume when we are logged into 'pure consciousness central' these same rules apply.

Being distracted by the sensations can be switched. Use a metaphor that allows the intense sensations to be a form of an energy expulsion process that is working your nonphysical loose. The more intense... the more you are being shook away from your physical. Like a snake sheds its skin.

Excitement and fear seem to increase the sensations. This is heavily likely to be a physical response anyway; the release of endorphins and/or adrenaline. So bearing what I've said above in mind... relax. Go with it and just give in to it. In the words of Lionheart... SURRENDER.

There are so many ways to skin this chicken that it's down to you to find the best way that suits you.

[blidge]

I used to wait till the peak calmed down then separated. I used to think I had to. The truth is... as soon as you enter SP you are already nonphysical and how you realise this fact is usually in the form of some sort of 'method' to get out. We are so used to operating in a meat body with apparent substance in a reality that requires cause and effect that we assume when we are logged into 'pure consciousness central' these same rules apply.

You say that you used to wait till the vibrations were over before you would exit, so at what point do you exit now then?I feel even before the energy vibrations come that my physical body is seperate as i can feel numbness literally through my whole body. Guess ill have to master another method of exiting as when ive exited in the past after the vibrations i tend to just role out.

[Bedeekin]

I've separated at different times... in many... if not hundreds of different ways.

These days I lay down.. get comfy... and wait a little while. I notice the state and turn my attention to the nonphysical 'me'. Sometimes I float out but more commonly I just end up somewhere. Generally wherever my nonphysical was before I turned my attention to it.

[blidge]

Being distracted by the sensations can be switched. Use a metaphor that allows the intense sensations to be a form of an energy expulsion process that is working your nonphysical loose. The more intense... the more you are being shook away from your physical. Like a snake sheds its skin.

please explain if possible, lamen terms

[blidge]

Last night I awoke up around 3am after going to bed at 11pm. I lay there and thought to myself that I would try SP so I did. Went to the loo so as I settled down with no physical discomfort I completely relaxed every muscle in my body.

25mins or so well, it felt as if it was that length of time went by and I had already noticed that most of my body was numb. My thoughts swung from imagining myself standing beside my bed then at my bedroom door all ths while willing myself to exit. I looked at the blackness behind my eye lids to see if I could evoke any Hypnogogic images, but no i couldn't.

Then mild vibrations started around my lower leg area. It felt like a warm feeling and then it shot up to my chest and head area. The feeling was amazing but my heart rate increased my breathing increased and my eye lids started to flutter. While this was happening I kept telling myself to just relax and let it happen. But, the feeling disapated and was near enough gone almost immediately. I lay there for an other 10 mins or so but then turned and fell asleep.

The frustrating thing is that I know what's happening to me but for the life of me I need an effective method to just let it happen instead of doing just the opposite.

Thanks

[Bedeekin]

please explain if possible, lamen terms

When I say use a metaphor for separating... I'm saying that it makes it easier for someone to separate using their creativity.

Some people's descriptions of how they separate can be quite creative and imaginative. I was just giving an example of how some people use the sensations during SP to help the metaphor (way) they separate. That it's an energy body coming out... that the raising of the vibrations determines the success of their separation... that they are pulled out by an entity... that they are carried off by aliens (in some cases.. not all).

Last night I awoke up around 3am after going to bed at 11pm. I lay there and thought to myself that I would try SP so I did. Went to the loo so as I settled down with no physical discomfort I completely relaxed every muscle in my body.

25mins or so well, it felt as if it was that length of time went by and I had already noticed that most of my body was numb. My thoughts swung from imagining myself standing beside my bed then at my bedroom door all ths while willing myself to exit. I looked at the blackness behind my eye lids to see if I could evoke any Hypnogogic images, but no i couldn't.

Then mild vibrations started around my lower leg area. It felt like a warm feeling and then it shot up to my chest and head area. The feeling was amazing but my heart rate increased my breathing increased and my eye lids started to flutter. While this was happening I kept telling myself to just relax and let it happen. But, the feeling disapated and was near enough gone almost immediately. I lay there for an other 10 mins or so but then turned and fell asleep.

The frustrating thing is that I know what's happening to me but for the life of me I need an effective method to just let it happen instead of doing just the opposite.

Thanks

It is very common (myself included) for newbies to experience a thumping heart rate... dizzyness or vertigo... fluttering/vibrating eyelids. It seems to be  a phenomenological modality of induced Sleep Paralysis for beginners.