How to get past sleep paralysis?

Ok so I woke up after about 5 hours of sleep and stayed up for about 15-20 minutes. I did i relaxation meditation for 15 minutes and my body was pretty deeply paralyzed. After waiting another 5 minutes i couldnt move or feel it at all. After that i waited maybe an hour looking in my minds eye and absolutely nothing happend. I had no vibrations and it was pretty much just black with a few colors here and there. Sometimes i would get a feeling like a astral projection was going to happen if i looked even deeper into my minds eye but it was pretty short before that feeling went away. I was pretty conscious, Is there something im doing wrong? This has been going on for a while and ive been pretty patient but this was the first time i actually got up frustrated :crying: .

I have had the same problem when I do the WILD. When you achieve the SP the next thing you have to do is start to visualize the dream you want to enter, always be relaxed, it helps you to not freak out while in SP. Don't give up and keep trying to WILD you will succeed.

Hi Luna400, Welcome to DV! First, WILD is a real art. It is a very challenging meditative skill, that may not be the best choice for memebers with less LD experience. I hope you are working hard on getting DILDs through MILD tricks, like mantras and RCs. That is where the bulk of LDs come from. I think untill you have had at least 12 LDs with MILD, you may find WILD will not work. Keep trying as it is not harmful to try and is good experience. I have this advice from my own experience. First, I have much more luck when I can sleep in and do WBTB after 7 hours sleep. That is only an option if I can sleep in. Second, do not expect success every time. I can only speak for myself, but with many years practice, I still fail 2 out of 3 WILD attempts.
On the practicle side, here is a link to a DVA lesson that talks about just what you have asked, look down towards the bottom for the info you are after, http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/dream...aining-133302/

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Originally Posted by Luna400

Ok so I woke up after about 5 hours of sleep and stayed up for about 15-20 minutes. I did i relaxation meditation for 15 minutes and my body was pretty deeply paralyzed. After waiting another 5 minutes i couldnt move or feel it at all. After that i waited maybe an hour looking in my minds eye and absolutely nothing happend. I had no vibrations and it was pretty much just black with a few colors here and there. Sometimes i would get a feeling like a astral projection was going to happen if i looked even deeper into my minds eye but it was pretty short before that feeling went away. I was pretty conscious, Is there something im doing wrong? This has been going on for a while and ive been pretty patient but this was the first time i actually got up frustrated :crying: .

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You weren't in sleep paralysis, and SP isn't even a part of WILD to begin with. In other words, you weren't even close to being asleep. Sorry.

Please read the guide in my sig and all the other guides by mzzkc if you want to actually lucid dream. Sorry for being harsh, but lucid dreaming is a science and it's frustrating for some of us to see such bad guides still being used.

@Catalan Thank you! I do have a slight problem with jerking a little when i feel something odd happen so ill keep trying to work on it
@Sivason Thank you Ill start reading now :)
@cmind Im curious as to why you say it wasnt a sleep paralysis? Im personally pretty convinced it was but still I wanna hear your reasoning

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@cmind Im curious as to why you say it wasnt a sleep paralysis? Im personally pretty convinced it was but still I wanna hear your reasoning

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Yes, that's a common misconception, but he is right. Read this and you'll be informed.

Also, just to give that "Im personally convinced" a bit of a shake so you can keep your mind open, reflect on this: sleep paralysis is the event in which you experience REM atonia being conscious. It's not something that lasts for an hour or anywhere close unless you have a pretty serious sleep disorder. Think about that ;)

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Originally Posted by cmind

You weren't in sleep paralysis, and SP isn't even a part of WILD to begin with. In other words, you weren't even close to being asleep. Sorry.

Please read the guide in my sig and all the other guides by mzzkc if you want to actually lucid dream. Sorry for being harsh, but lucid dreaming is a science and it's frustrating for some of us to see such bad guides still being used.

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Fine, so you and a few others don't want us to use the term SP. What do you think I should call the experience in a WILD attempt were moving becomes difficult and requires a clear ecurtion of will power and concious intent. I never understood the lucid dreaming term sleep paralysis to mean the same thing as the medical term. I know for a fact that I reach a point where I feel numb and discontected and can only move through force of will. So if you are so offended by us using the same term as medicine to describe what happens in a WILD attempt (and make a point of basically calling us all stupid) please let me know what term you wish us to use.

What you experienced was not sleep paralysis. You should never have to "get past" SP. If you actually reach SP you are already consciously transitioning into a dream. SP is just a term used for what you experience during the transition.

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Originally Posted by cmind

You weren't in sleep paralysis, and SP isn't even a part of WILD to begin with. In other words, you weren't even close to being asleep. Sorry.

Please read the guide in my sig and all the other guides by mzzkc if you want to actually lucid dream. Sorry for being harsh, but lucid dreaming is a science and it's frustrating for some of us to see such bad guides still being used.

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No need to take your frustration out on a noob. And come on, she won't lucid dream if she doesn't read guides you suggest?

Sleep paralysis is in great majority of cases a spiritual problem caused by ghosts, negative energies and other entities.
Trying to get into these different mental states, astral projection and similar, without actually knowing what we are doing can be detrimental to our spiritual progress.

This way we open ourselves to attack from negative energies and this way we lose our positive spiritual energy.
Actually thought to do these kinds of different practices are given by negative energies to trick people, and all the experiences that people have are usually given by negative energies themselves.
Even in the past people knew about this, and there is a 17th century painting depicting a ghost causing sleep paralysis.

There has been an in-depth research done on the topic of Sleep paralysis, with many case studies, and many people who overcame this problem.

You can read more about it at the link below, as well as get guidance on what you would need to do to protect yourself.

Wishing that your problem gets resolved soon.

spiritualresearchfoundation.org/blog/spiritualitynews/2168/sleep-paralysis-causes/
w w w.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/articles/id/spiritualresearch/difficulties/sleep-paralysis
w w w.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/articles/id/spirituralresearch/difficulties/sleep-paralysis/case-study-ruchi
w w w.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/articles/id/spiritualresearch/difficulties/sleep-paralysis/case-study-sean