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Physiology & Medicine / Sleep paralysis research
« on: 21/06/2007 00:55:37 »Wow, this thread just grows and grows. Anyhow, I had a couple more Sp experiences since I've last posted. What's hilarious is that it's become a game for me. I realized that if I begin to feel fear, it becomes sudden hell. In the darkness (which seems to be the recent theme, where everything is just a dark nothingness), my leg started to be tugged, I thought, "Crap, I'm thinking of fear" and just that thought alone made that tug an yanking. Soon I was playing tug-of-war with... hm, I wonder what it was. Anyhow, the "thing" pulling my leg, although was "winning", could not pull me away from where I was (although I was really nowhere inside the vast of darkness), perhaps a few inches. Then it started spinning me around and around, as if trying to twist the attachment between me and the surface apart. It didn't work.
The day after that, I thought, "If I thought fear... it becomes scary, but what if I thought of... her (a particular girl I've had a crush on for a while)? So I tried my best to remember, and I did. I began thinking her name, repeating it in my head and thinking of her image. Although it didn't work out as planned, I met with a different girl... of which I've cannot say I have had any real experience or imaginations with. It was very brief, as if I couldn't sustain the ability to "control" my dream, and I woke up.
What do I make of this?
A) It's all in the mind in these two cases
B) Experimentation with such phenomenons are scary. Why? Because sometimes you think "maybe I'll just let it win and 'take me', but just before it feels like it's really going to take you, you panic. I imagine it to be the sudden regret of those committing suicide.
C) These two dreams do not conclude what my beliefs of SP are.
For those who are interested in experimenting with it, please share your experiment results
Hey,
I'm 19 and been experiencing SP since i was about 15, when it first happened it scared the crap out of me one minute i was lying in bed going to sleep, the next i was just froze but i knew i was still awake in my head it was a very daunting experience and was every time it happened for a year or so...after a while i found out why this was happening to me, i used to take Ecstasy and i realised every time i took it the night after id get SP and it would happen over the next couple of days.
I tryed telling my mum about it but she kept saying i must of been dreaming which i know for a fact i wasn't and still know now. I still take cocaine occasionally ( i know this is wrong but when i go out drinking i sometimes take it) and this also sometimes brings on my SP...Ive learnt how to control it now though like fm47 said its almost like a game to me now, at first i was terrified of it and it would happen then id wake up try to sleep and it would happen again a few times but now when i go into it if i think of something i can make it happen in my mind, i know it sounds completely crazy but its true, like if i think I'm on a rollercoaster i can be on one for a minute or so i can enjoy it sometimes lol until it gets annoying and i want to go to sleep !!
I'm glad Ive found this forum because when Ive told my mates they think I'm lying or like my mum thought just dreaming he he but now i know and id like to find out more about it.
I said i can control it but not all the time, sometimes when i go into it ill hear my stepdad or a mate/brother walk in my room and touch my leg, or speak and i cant move its scary even though i think in my head its not real it seems so real its unbelievable I'm sure you lot know what I'm talking about.
My advice to you is when you go into it if its scary, this might sound daft but think of something like going for a walk or in my case being on a rollercoaster :p i hope it works with you.
Ill keep checking back here to see whats said and look at your experiences...Thanks for reading this !