Thread: Sleep Paralysis Help

So I haven't tried a LD in a LONG while, maybe 1, 2 months. My dream recall is ok except for the last two days.

So yesterday I decided to try it again. Whenever I try to do a lucid dream I always fail at it. It's because whenever I try to stay still, my neck will get irritated and it messes me up (I have a sensitive neck and it only happens when I need to think of something like the number counting or saying things like "I will lucid dream"), but when I just go to sleep I can drift off in less than 10 minutes.

Yeah, so I tried last night and this is what happened: Everything was going ok, I was staying still trying to not move. I had problems with my mouth though because I needed to swallow. I just did it and tried my best to not know that I am doing it. While all of this was going on, I was thinking of stuff. Like being on the beach or flying or being Superman.

Later I got this tingly feeling in both my hands (sleep paralysis). At first they were pretty low. Then they got bigger and bigger and it moved on to my feet. The rest of my body was still fine, and I was still able to feel that I can move my body. After like 30 minutes I felt what seems to be a tingly feeling on my chin.

5 minutes later and I just stopped. Why was I not able to drift off to sleep or be completely paralyzed? I think because I was thinking about stuff, it made it harder (even impossible) for me to drift to sleep or develop full sleep paralysis.

Any help. I already read the guide in the General Section about Sleep Paralysis and tips for it.

Going into dream state directly from being awake is not an easy thing to do... My guess is that you were trying too hard but you might've succeed if you tried for a bit longer...

Originally Posted by qurut

Going into dream state directly from being awake is not an easy thing to do... My guess is that you were trying too hard but you might've succeed if you tried for a bit longer...

I would have went longer, but tthe tingly feeling was getting so annoying so I had to quit. It lasted about 30 minutes before I stopped due to not alot of progress.

But this is the second time I tried sleep paralysis. This is the first I have gotten closer.

I will keep trying though.

Yea, same here, I often get to this stage but I'm always having hard time going past it

Ok, so last night I tried to do sleep paralysis again. I was dry for a few days because I would sleep and not talk myself to keep awake.

So yeah, I was telling myself that I will lucid dream and counting sometimes(it was like 10:00). Soon my hands and feets began to numb. This time however, it wasn't the tingly feeling (like when you hit a nerve). So as I was talking to myself I realized that I couldn't feel my hands anymore. I then knew my SP is developing so I stayed calm and let it happened. I then couldn't feel my feets anymore. I could still move them though .

So then my arm was getting pretty numb, my little brother came in on me after watching TV (it was like 10:30). I tried not to pay attention, and it seemed to work. He even turned on the lights and I could see the HH a little bit. He turned them off and I kept going. It's now 11:00 and still no dream yet.

I had about 2 moments at this time where I would forget to talk to myself and it's like this:

As I talk to myself looking at the black in my eyes, the border is about medium size. When I forget to focus, my box widens and I feel I am about to transition to a dream.

This is where I realize I am about to fall asleep normally and I snap out of it by counting again.

Another time is when I picture myself sitting on a bench, and there is this door. It's a door to enter my dream, and the lady is telling me, "not yet". I keep saying to myself now that I will enter the door to my dreams and it seemed to work.

Every often my "border" widens and I feel I am about to enter a dream untill I lose it.

So at like 11:50, I had a twitch for some reason and I yawn streching my body ending the SP. I was mad, but it was progress.

I'm getting there...

hey Jhony, I'm not that experienced but I have had quite a few accidental lucid dreams (unfortunately stability has varied). I have tried WILDing but have been unsuccessful each time and it's very frustrating to feel all that time and effort wasted along with the extra 30 min, hour + you could have had. I often feel the widened border of vision and I have been able to induce a wider border at will but it either stays at a certain level or retreats. Usually when it widens if feel like i'm getting sucked into space. I also feel really alone and disconnected from the world, it's kind of strange, exciting , a bit nerve wracking even. Sort of a rush, now that I'm thinking about it I must be getting pretty close but I always hit that wall.

Thought you might like some reply from the same perspective. It seems to me though that we must be getting pretty close. Luck to you, and keep it up. Let me know how it works out for you in the future and any tips or good experience you come across.