A question

[shaman]

Sleep paralysis is a normal state of your body while you sleep and dream. What happens is that while you dream your body does not move at all, so that even (in a normal dream) when you dream that you move your body parts, you actually do not move any part of your body. That is lucky, because if  you were dreaming that you are chocking/killing your partner (for example) you don't want this to really happen.

Transe is when you focus your attention on something. Light transe can be when you focuse your attention on something and do not pay attention to the rest of the world around you. Deeper transe is when you are absorbed in focusing on one particular thing, eyes close, not moving, and so much that you do not pay attention to anything around you and to your body itself. You might feel like paralysis but you can actually move your body any time you want - it is just a feeling not an actual state of your mind.

Now when you sleep and dream and are in sleep paralysis, if you (say) become lucid and decide to wake up, then the dream (its pictures, story, sound) will dissapear, you will find yourself in a dark place with no sound, no sensation of your body, just your mind - that's all. And from there you can look for the sensation of your body and eventually wake up. This dark place is different than a normal dream state, it is a lucid dream with no dream, or a very deep transe with no sensation (and also sometimes no possibility to reach) of your body. I would say that this "dark" place is the same whether you come from awake into a deep transe, or whether you became lucid in a dream and the dream dissapear. There you have (temporarily) reached a paralysis. So that is the only common point I see between the two states you mentioned: transe and sleep. But this common state does not belong to transe or sleep in itself, but it can be reached from both of them.

[flyingpig]

What is the different between sleep parlyse and trance ?
if there's any at all