sleep paralysis- so what?

[Nerezza]

Im guessing it's really uncomfortable. The last time I had sleep paralysis a clown attacked me(no joke).

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." St. Thomas Aquinas

[Meg]

Sleep paralysis is certainly terrifying when you don't know what it is! I spent years waking up with it beforeI even started looking into the idea of astral projection.  That kind of fear takes a long while to get rid of - it becomes automatic.

Meg

"...listening like the orange tree..."  - John Shaw Neilson

[kmd242]

here here Meg. I experiened the same thing. The fact that you are out of your body doesnt occur to someone who knows nothing about Astral Project. let me explain how sleep paralysis feels.
You just woke up. You are lying in your bed, and you cant move. You cant scream for help, although thats what you are trying to do. Eventually you snap out of it by closing your eyes, and when you find you can move again, you are scared to back to sleep.
This is what drove me to find out about out of body stuff. When i read "Astral Dynamics" descriptiion of sleep paralysis, i was like "HEY! THATS WHAT HAPPENS TO ME!" Then i read on, began practicing, and found out i was a natrual to OBE!

[Paukki]

Nuts.  I've experienced waking, or sleep paralysis off and on over decades, but it's few and far between and I think usually happens when I'm exhausted.  (Almost like not having the energy to wake up???)  Now that I'm ready and willing for this to happen in a way that might lead to AP, think it happens?  Naaaaaa!  (Maybe I should go out and exhaust myself!)  
--Paukki

Would you run 10 miles for an obe?

[Lysear]

i can imagine sleep paralysis is quite distressing, i got it once or twice when I was a kid and it wasnt nice

[Jacara]

Every time I have sleep paralysis, it's upon waking from a dream (or what I assume are dreams, they're always pretty surreal).  So I'm never 100% there, and I get scared instinctively.  It's worse lately since so many of my dreams are nightmares (it happened twice last night, a nightmare followed by paralysis).  Also, when I get what I assume are vibrations, my ears don't just ring, they scream.
So I wake up scared, but I'm not totally back to reality, plus I can't hear, and I can't move.  Naturally it disturbs me.

[Lysear]

thats a shame jacara, that you are a bit frightened of this paralysis as it could be brilliant for projection.

[Meg]

Jacara, this is good!! Really, I was plagued by #@$!ing  terrifyning "nightmares" when I was a teenager and had lots of sleep paralysis. I see now that all that time I was really out of body without knowing it. I reckon maybe the scary stuff is sent to test us, or maybe it's just easier to get in touch with the "lower astral realms".

I remember the exact moment I realized they were OBEs. it literally took years. Normally in my nightmares I would be face to face with some terrifying creature that I could never quite remember afterwards, and I would try to wake mself up, only to find myself paralysed. One night I remeber being at that stage and letting out this giant, blood-curdling scream, and taking a running jump out my bedroom window, breaking through the fear barrier.

Suddenly I found myself  flying through these beautiful landscapes, one after another. It was so amazing, diving to the bottom of the sea, flying through the stars.

There's been one or two scary hiccups since then ,but its never been like it was before. I'm getting more and more control over the process as time goes on. Now I can actually feel the physical/astral body split, and it's become more of an obvious process.

Good luck to you!

Meg

"...listening like the orange tree..."  - John Shaw Neilson

[Meg]

Also, the buzzing - see if you can just climb out. It's how I have most of my OBE's now. It's the same feeling as the during the paralysis from my nightmares, but now I know what it means.

Meg

"...listening like the orange tree..."  - John Shaw Neilson

[Leyla]

Hang on- so you guys are telling me that you can actually use sleep paralysis to jump start yourself into an OBE?
Now that's interesting.
But I can see how it works- you'd have to be in a lucid, half awake/ half asleep state to even realize your body is sedated.

I remember once being terrified out of my wits once during a sleep paralysis- but that's because at the time there was an upper level being floating over me talking who's power scared the holy living crap out of me.

So here's what I did - I calmed down enough to communicate back with her. A little rational thought was all it took.  She wasn't there to hurt me.

[XTC user420]

Sleep paralysis happens to me too
Its been happening to me ever since i was 14 and now in 19 the first time it happended i was at this school by my house and i was floating up in the hall way I was scared senseless, then its happended alot more times, once i was at this place called ppd in raleigh nc to make some money being a guiny pig, they test stomache pills and stuff and when i went to sleep i started feeling the sleep paralisys and then i heard something saying "come see me"  "come see me". I wasent even on any drugs at the time. then just the other day i woke up into sleep paralysis and got halfway out of my body and heard some noice like a dog or something going "ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra" so I got scared and snapped back in.... anyone had any of the same expierences...?

[MJ-12]

I'vfbb

[Tisha]

It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the noise.  Folks, please chime in if you find these experiences noisy, in a horror-movie-soundtrack kind of way.  When you don't understand what is happening to you, and all you can hear is a high pitched buzzing/whining/screeching (think about the shower scene in Hitchock's movie - - was it Psycho? - - - and you get the kind of freaky suspense I'm trying to describe here).

Once, out of sheer determination, I FORCED myself to move my arm upward from the bed.  I opened my eyes, and saw my "ghost" arm . . . my real arm was still lying on my bed.

Once I tried to scream, and eventually (after much forcing) made a noise that sounded like something from a monster movie.  Creepy.  I stopped doing that.

Anyway, I just got used to it.  One night I thought, ok, this time I'm going to relax totally.  I just floated up!  I wasn't expecting THAT, either, and I tried to "swim" back into my body in a panic, but I couldn't get back "in."  So I just floated around my house. Eventually I faded out of consciousness.

A few weeks later I found AstralPulse.  Whew!


Tisha

"As Above, So Below"

[kmd242]

Basically, i had sleep paralysis from age 13 to age 22. At 22, i was at a point in my life when i was heavily depressed and hopeless due to the loss of my only sibling. And ya know what, one night I just told myself, "If i wake up and cant move tonight, i wont be scared." And of course, i came to the state of paralysis (which was always accompanied by a feeling of levitation) and i wasnt scared. I went with it, and had my first real OBE. It was like, i didnt care about anyting at that point in my life, even if was shocking and scary as my past paralysis experiences were. And wouldnt you know it, thats exactly what propelled me out of my body and into reasearching OBE and finding Astral Dynamics. This in turn helped me understand the pain and hurt i was feeling and put it behind me. Its been a tremendous help for understanding that which seems uncomprehindble before.
So, my advice to you is, go with it. Throw your earthly fears to the astral wind and remind yourself that it is a natural thing and you just happened to be dispostioned for it. Some actually might wind up being jealous of skillz as a projector when you find out the method behind controlling it.

[Leyla]

I've been reading all these posts on sleep paralysis and I don't understand what the problem is. Once you're out of your body why do you care if it doesn't move? Just do your traveling and come back when you're done.

When I get back from being gone a long time I expect that it'll take me a few minutes before I can move my arms and legs.

It's supposed to happen. When in a deeply relaxed state your body releases a light sedative- it's to keep you from thrashing around so much in your dreams that you accidentally hurt yourself, or the person sleeping next to you.