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Originally Posted by tiger777
I laugh when I hear how you guys are scared simply because I try to get to Sleep Paralysis, because it is a gateway to lucid dreaming. Sleep Paralysis is when your body becomes paralyzed by your brain so you don't act out in your sleep, and if you remain calm and focus you can then jump into a dream and you were be aware you're dreaming so you can do whatever you want, one man's trash is another man's treasure I guess.
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I think what you're doing is a type of self-hypnosis; I've done this and it gives the same effect as sleep paralysis whereas you can not move and are in a state of semi-consciousness, but it is not true sleep paralysis. The feeling of peace comes with self-hypnosis, not the other.
I have never had pleasantries with sleep paralysis. If you have, kudos to you.
The most frequent episodes involve a horrific nightmare where I am uncontrollably floating and can't get down. Since I'm partially awake and paralyzed, it behooves me to think my way out of it or force myself to be fully awake-those few minutes are frighteningly tortuous.
The only thing I'm pretty sure of with these episodes is that they occur when something in my waking hours was felt to be totally out of my control to the point of stressing me. So I'm both exhausted and in mental despair, hence the half-awake nightmares.