I'm not exactly sure if this is the appropriate place, so my apologies if it's not and I'd request it moved if so.

I've made a similar thread in the past but it was a wall of text and no one responded, so I thought I'd construct a more simple post getting to the heart of it.

A few years ago I tried inducing SP, on my side and as far as I can remember before bed (I know this is a cardinal sin that has a poor success rate and dreary results) and it seemed to have kind of worked. I can't really say because I haven't mastered WILDing or any other technique, basically failing on and off for years.

Basically, I felt very weird, my hands were very uncomfortable (mostly because they were underneath my head or other places) and it felt like my mouth was going to overflow with saliva but nothing came of it, I wasn't seriously paralyzed and figured I'd failed and gave up.

So I went to sleep normally and for around 2 weeks afterwards my usual sleep was turned on it's head by a single insanely vivid and clear LD followed by constant poor quality LDs, false awakenings and waking sleep paralysis. I have to admit, it was pretty crazy.

The clear LD was amazing and the low quality LDs were confusing, the false awakenings threw me for a loop constantly and the waking sleep paralysis was intense with crazy hallucinations.

Recently I've been trying to replicate this simply by trying to attain SP when I go to bed for the night, the goal not being to induce anything really but to trigger what I'd experienced the first time and open pandora's box in an attempt to create a crazy shortcut. However, I never get the same symptoms like I did that time and nothing crazy triggered like that time.

What happened? It almost seems like something went horribly wrong, it was surreal but really quite interesting.

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Tl;dr version - Attempted to SP before bed, failed and went to bed normally, was thrown into craziness for 2 weeks with constant LDs, false awakenings and intense sleep paralysis complete with hallucinations, a few years later and I can't replicate it