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Originally Posted by ngdawg
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.
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No that's not what i'm doing, it's true sleep paralysis. Read up on lucid dreaming, you can be aware when sleep paralysis sets in, if you relax your mind and body greatly but your mind a little less because otherwise you'll fall asleep. Everyone has sleep paralysis every single night, we're just not aware because our mind is asleep almost always before it sets in.