Thread: What do you do in these situations? (sleep paralasys)

Hey!
I have so far never experienced SP or any hallucinations while attempting to WILD. But what you are describing sounds really cool, scary, but still fascinating

Anyway, I heard/read that altering your breathing pattern, taking long deep breaths or quick shallow ones wakes you up since your body realizes that you are awake. You could always try that

// Kris

The best way to get out of a dream or sp is to focus on your head and think of your head laying on your pillow and the Kawng! your back in your body.

This is what is keeping me from WILDing. I am scared of the hallucinations my twisted mind will come up with.

I feel your pain. It is hard to remember to do anything when shit like this is happening. If you are aware enough to realize what is happening, there are a few things you can do. The most important thing is to stay calm. Don't try to scream, thrash, or wake yourself up. Instead, try to interact with the hallucination. Engage it, reminding yourself it is a dream like any other. Try to talk to any apparitions, embrace them, or ask them for help getting into a dream.

If everything is just way too frightening (which is often the case), try to imagine a new scene. Pick something from your recent, familiar memory. Imagine what it felt like to be there doing it. With luck, you can distract yourself from the hallucination, and enter a new dream.

Change your breathing pattern to anything but what you're currently using. For instance, if you got into SP by breathing deeply, breathe quick, shallow breaths. You should snap out of it almost immediately, within 10 seconds or so.

Try wiggleing your small muciuls. Ect: Wiggling you toes, shaking your head. Then your bigger mucles will get loser, and then slowly move them. Easy Peasy Lemen Squeesy. Sadly I can't SP

It can be scary, for sure. But fun, for the more wicked among us. Heh.

Regardless, on my last unwilling WILD attempt, I wasn't quite in the right mood and mindset to succeed but I did anyway. (I just wanted to take a quiet, uneventful afternoon nap for crying out loud.)

So yes, success or not, SP kicked in somewhere in there eventually. I was struggling to breathe, yet I remained calm because I knew it was all in my head, quite literally. It's... hard to describe. It is as if I saw it coming from the start and knew everything about it, but wanted to prevent it from happening anyway.
As was mentioned above, move your fingers, your toes, grind your teeth if you must, but you have to stay focused to get out of it. From the moment you start literally feeling your fingers (and whaveter else) as you move them, 'freedom' is only a short trek from there.

Your number 1 is almost exactly what happend to me...awful feeling. I'm glad I'm not the only one though.

Does anyone else hear an obnoxious, high pitched tone during SP? I have only been under SP against my will, and am curious as to whether or not it is different when done intentionally.

I know how you feel and those sound pretty scary to me. If I were in that situation I would've been scared shitless too.

Whenever I unwillingly get into some SP mode and have scary hallucinations, what works best for me is to just start thinking logically and remain calm. I find that if I start freaking out and get really afraid and anxious, the hallucinations become even worse. If I stay calm and think logically and rationally that this is all just bs that my mind is conjuring up since I'm in some weird sleep mode, then the scary aspects of everything usually disappear. Sometimes they don't, whereas I just lie there watching everything happen but it just isn't that scary anymore, since I know it's nothing to worry about.

Hey! What you experienced sounded very scary! From what you write I presume you are afraid of the dark, am I right? There is no point in fair, unless you are about to do something stupid. There is nothing that can happen to you that can hurt you. Just relax.