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Last night I became aware of my thoughts as I delved deeper into sleep paralysis. It's been such a long time since I felt sleep paralysis coming on as my first experiences were so apparent. They were as I stated in a previous post, "electric".
I was wondering if this is something that happens often during a WILD/WBTB. Can I use this to my benifit?
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Feeling all electric? SP can take many forms and feeling a big buzz throughout your entire body is a pretty common one. Just keep on relaxing and perhaps visualizing and you should be able to enter a dream shortly after that.
[Moved to the WILD subforum.]
Like Matte said, there's really nothing that can't happen during SP. I've felt all kinds of different things from buzzing, a presence in the room, humming, to tickling sensations and rapid acceleration. A change in awareness can also accompany SP; to me it often feels like my mind becomes more clear, and my hearing has been amplified. It's like you feel more awake, but that sensation isn't as common as actual hallucinations, I believe.
You just have to ignore these sensations or incorporate them into a daydream, which may turn into an actual dream if you continue to visualize it.
Perhaps "[feeling] electric" was a bad term to explain the sensation. I guess what I meant was that it felt like electricity was being pumped through my veins (not that I know how that feels). When I first started WILDing, the above would happen: My body would twitch rapidly all over -- it was like I was being pricked by needles, (especially on my feet). I no longer get that "big buzz" you mentioned. I only get a dulled sensation of my body going deeper into sleep paralysis, (limbs getting heavier). There is no longer a sensation of twitching or that feeling of getting poked by needles -- it's as if I'm no longer focusing inwards.
I started to put more emphasis on focusing on my limbs getting heavier. Is this perhaps a bad way of achieving SP?