Thread: Sleep Paralysis - Have you experienced it?

i have SP once and a while, and can say its not scary at all for me, even when i first had it mostly because i prepared for every thing i might experience. If it where up to me I wish I could have SP everynight.

By the way is there a way to willfully induce SP? Like drugs, foods etc

Originally Posted by westonci

i have SP once and a while, and can say its not scary at all for me, even when i first had it mostly because i prepared for every thing i might experience. If it where up to me I wish I could have SP everynight.

By the way is there a way to willfully induce SP? Like drugs, foods etc

Hey guys, just wanted to give a little insight into my past experiences with sleep paralysis. The first time I experienced this was shortly after I had developed a problem with pain pills. I am in NO WAY saying that people should take pills in order to produce this state as it is a horrible horrible habit. I believe that it has something to do with the lack of serotonin my brain had at the time. Throughout my addiction I would have SP nearly every night that I abused opiates heavily. I don't want to give out dosage or pill names, suffice it to say that I was under the influence of ALOT of opiates sometimes opiate substances other than pills. I had a friend that was on about the same amount I was and never once experienced (to my knowledge) SP. I have no doubt that the two (in my case) were related.

I experienced SP for nearly 2 years before knowing exactly what it was. My first time was the most frightening thing I had ever experienced. I was just falling asleep watching TV when suddenly I woke up or partially woke up, I couldn't hear anything except for a loud ringing, I knew that the TV was not muted but I couldn't hear it. I realized that I could not move and I also saw a dark shadowy figure staring very intensely at me, it was poised nearly 5 feet away from me at the foot of my bed. I had the greatest feeling of dread, I felt as though this "figure" was extremely evil and if it could reach me, it would certainly kill me. I'm not sure how long I lay there, it seemed like an eternity, I know that it was actually no more than a minute or two. The "figure" continued to stare at me intensely as though it was studying me. I felt as though it had some type of hold over me. I felt a great pressure on my chest and it was getting difficult to breath. The ringing continued in my ears and the only thing I did have control over was my eyes, I could open and close them with ease. Eventually I was able to wiggle a toe and just like that, I felt it all let loose. I was desperate for an answer. I had been brought up in a religious household and my first thought was that I had been visited by a demon and that it was God's way of disapproving what I had been doing with the drugs. As silly as that sounds, the experience was so foreign to me that I was willing to accept anything as an explanation. Over the years I was able to anticipate when I was beginning to enter the SP state. I'd feel my body start to somewhat lift up and I knew that it was beginning. I've read people whom have experienced SP and knew how to take it to what they explained as OBE (outer body experiences). While in a SP they'd say you can roll out of your body and free float around the room and all sorts of odd stuff. I semi tried this once and it freaked me out so bad that I never tried it again. Honestly I'm not really sure what you can experience in a state like that but I think there is too much fear in me to really try it safely.

I've recently discovered that I can lucid dream. I'm enjoying my LD's however sometimes they too scare me. I'm really not sure what this other dimension is that we are all playing around in. Everyone has their theories but I don't know that anyone has enough concrete evidence to explain what it all means. Anyway, thats my experience, I wish you all happy dreams.

southmc