Thread: After SP

Alright.. So it took me a while to finally reach SP and i know what ot feels like and how intense it is. i've ha it 3 or 4 times now and always end up coming out of it. I reality check after it stops and im awake. i thought it would be a breeze once i hit SP but i guess not. So how do i enter the dream from SP?

I also experienced what you're going through, I was like "alright, this is pretty cool but what now?"
Still don't know to be fairly honest and ever since I got in SP once (almost half a year ago), I haven't been able to do it again.

I get to SP more often than I WILD, but I've gotten pretty good at shifting my attention. SP for me is usually accompanied by a change in awareness. I stop noticing any of my surroundings and only have a general sense of my body. SP sort of pulls me out of the relaxed state I had been in. It would be easy to focus on my body too much and end up shifting out of it. What I do is go back to thinking about whatever I was doing -- whether imagining a situation, counting, reciting a mantra, or building my dreamspace. The less you pay attention to your SP, the easier it'll be to slip into a WILD.

I have a lot of experience and this still happens to me sometimes. There are an unknown number of unknown variables that may prevent success. Just don't let it get you down.

Once you reach SP don't worry about accidentally losing consciousness. Reiterating what Sanctum said - Just let go of your body and wait for the dream.

May I ask exactly what kind of sensations you're feeling when you reach SP? Do you feel any sense of movement like floating or being pulled down?

Originally Posted by dms111

May I ask exactly what kind of sensations you're feeling when you reach SP? Do you feel any sense of movement like floating or being pulled down?

Yea i experience a pull like major gravity, pressurization coming out my ears, extreme vibrations throughout my whole body, a faint high pitched noise, and i hallucinate my jaw spazzing out usually.

Do you focus on these sensations? It sounds to me like your mind doesn't want to disassociate from your body in bed. That spazzing jaw could be the culprit. If you feel any sense of movement during SP try to follow that movement. This is a method that's often described and I have had a lot of success with it myself. If you feel gravity pulling you harder onto the bed try and imagine it actually pulling you off of the bed. Imagine yourself slipping off of the mattress backwards as if you were going down a long slide head first.

I find it's best to try and eliminate all thought during the transition and just ride the wave. But if your mind wants to wander around during this make sure it wanders anywhere but your real body.