Thread: Something I Heard About Lucid Dreaming

Well, you have sleep paralysis everynight, you're simply not conscience.

So, if you use the WILD technique (Keeping your mind awake while your body falls asleep) the goal is to achieve sleep paralysis.

Also, chances are you might get SP after ending a lucid dream.

Ok. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

I'm also new to all this. I have managed to achieve sleep paralysis in 3 times in as many nights. I've not managed to drop into a dream yet tho, lucid or otherwise. I love the feeling of sleep paralysis though, if you keep in mind that its harmless then you can just enjoy the numbness :p its pretty comfortable...or not? i dont know. its kind of weightless, but heavy...i like it anyhow

Originally Posted by treblig

I'm also new to all this. I have managed to achieve sleep paralysis in 3 times in as many nights. I've not managed to drop into a dream yet tho, lucid or otherwise. I love the feeling of sleep paralysis though, if you keep in mind that its harmless then you can just enjoy the numbness :p its pretty comfortable...or not? i dont know. its kind of weightless, but heavy...i like it anyhow

It's probably because you're paying too much attention to the fact tha you're in SP. Just keep focusing on your breathing until you see HI. Even then, don't pay much attention untill it starts to get very vivid. When it gets to the point where the HI seems just about real, simply walk into the dreamscape in front of you. Ta daa. LD.

mint. i've had bits of HI, colours & curtains n lil pictures, but nothing significant. and I'v kinda sensed scenarios around me (lastnight i had to stop counting and wait for larry....who larry is i dont know), which is pretty wierd haha, but i dont know they're going on until theyv finished n i think "why didnt i notice how wierd that was".

breathing is probably a better focus, i keep counting but i think it might take a bit too much focus, i keep counting through little daydreams etc. i'll give your advice a go tonight!

Lucid Dreaming can cause it. As you may end up waking up from the dream in SP.

It has happened to me but then I dream exit induced lucid dream and had another

You do not have sleep paralysis every night. Every night during REM periods your body should paralyze you to prevent you from acting out your dreams, and this is called REM atonia. You are not aware that you are in REM atonia, because you are asleep and usually dreaming by this point.

Sleep paralysis is when this atonia or paralysis persists when you awaken or when it kicks in too early before you've really fallen asleep. If you are not already experiencing this in your life regularly, you should not expect your frequency of sleep paralysis to increase significantly unless you are trying to WILD and having it happen over and over again, or the few chances where you wake up from a dream lucid and find yourself in SP. These moments are, as hellohihello stated, ideal for a DEILD. People have SP, normally, very rarely during their lives or, possibly, during periods of intense stress. I have been on here for just over ten months now and not read of a single person experiencing SP more frequently than they used to, unless they were WILDing and trying to. And even so 90% of the descriptions include nothing but hypnagogic hallucinations- no paralysis, sensed presences, or incubi.

Also, once you read more about sleep paralysis you will realize that it's nothing very frightening so long as you inform yourself of what hallucinations are, what's happening to your body, what you should expect, and how to reduce your own fear- which may prevent it from being scary at all. Then you'll realize that really if you DO experience SP, it can be used as a helpful tool to enter a lucid dream.

So, hope that helps. Unless you've already got sleep paralysis, you should not even consider this when considering learning to lucid dream. It's not really a feasible worry, I'd be more concerned about losing sleep during WBTBs and being tired. If you ARE already experiencing isolated sleep paralysis, well then you've just discovered a way to use it to your benefit!

Originally Posted by Shift

You do not have sleep paralysis every night. Every night during REM periods your body should paralyze you to prevent you from acting out your dreams, and this is called REM atonia. You are not aware that you are in REM atonia, because you are asleep and usually dreaming by this point.

Sleep paralysis is when this atonia or paralysis persists when you awaken or when it kicks in too early before you've really fallen asleep. If you are not already experiencing this in your life regularly, you should not expect your frequency of sleep paralysis to increase significantly unless you are trying to WILD and having it happen over and over again, or the few chances where you wake up from a dream lucid and find yourself in SP. These moments are, as hellohihello stated, ideal for a DEILD. People have SP, normally, very rarely during their lives or, possibly, during periods of intense stress. I have been on here for just over ten months now and not read of a single person experiencing SP more frequently than they used to, unless they were WILDing and trying to. And even so 90% of the descriptions include nothing but hypnagogic hallucinations- no paralysis, sensed presences, or incubi.

Also, once you read more about sleep paralysis you will realize that it's nothing very frightening so long as you inform yourself of what hallucinations are, what's happening to your body, what you should expect, and how to reduce your own fear- which may prevent it from being scary at all. Then you'll realize that really if you DO experience SP, it can be used as a helpful tool to enter a lucid dream.

So, hope that helps. Unless you've already got sleep paralysis, you should not even consider this when considering learning to lucid dream. It's not really a feasible worry, I'd be more concerned about losing sleep during WBTBs and being tired. If you ARE already experiencing isolated sleep paralysis, well then you've just discovered a way to use it to your benefit!

My, bad wrong term =D

Originally Posted by Shift

You do not have sleep paralysis every night. Every night during REM periods your body should paralyze you to prevent you from acting out your dreams, and this is called REM atonia. You are not aware that you are in REM atonia, because you are asleep and usually dreaming by this point.
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oh, that explains something that happened to me a couple of times.