The BIG sleep paralysis and old hag topic Part III

Yeah, thx. I actually woke up with SP a few nights ago- it was pretty cool, but when you are trying to get up its like your numb and half retarded lol.

Actually I want to experience sleep paralysis since I’ve read about it…

LOL I love SP - that is with out the hag. don’t worry though- before you attempt wild, just tell yourself that you’re safe in your bed. This also helps because in an dream your SubC will wonder why you aren’t safe in your bed and if you make RC’s a habbit then you can become lucid eisier.

I had two SP experiences last night, both of which led into LD’s! I woke up around two or three in the morning and I rolled over put my head into the pillow and just relaxed, trying to go back to sleep. For some reasons, I stayed awake as I drifted away, and my body froze. I couldn’t move but I had the sensation of my body curling up into a ball. I tried rubbing my hands together to try and stimulate movement in my dream but to no avail. I tried another approach and tried to sink through my bed. There was a weird senation being washed away and there I was, stood in a bathroom with my Spirit Guide. It only lasted about twenty seconds but it was a good experience. I drifted out of sleep again and immediately relaxed back into the SP. I felt a hand on my face for a few seconds then I rose out the ground into a forest where a battle was going on. Unfortunately I can’t recall much of that dream but I think it was a game of capture the flag.

I’m pretty sure that it was a dream but I was in my bed and i shifted a little and suddenly i felt that i was in SP. I tryed hard to move but to no avail. I then was like awesom my first SP but then my vision turned blue and I heared some crazy clown ( never been scared of them ) voice and it said we should poison Chris and I thought I saw a Grim Reaper standing in my room.

I wanted to know if you actually can die do to the feeling of not being able to breath? Can you die from the old hag? Also, when you’re in sleep paralysis are you really not breathing, or does it just feel that way and you’re actually breathing normally?

Everytime we sleep our body undergoes sleep paralysis without our realising it. So it is completely normal, natural and not dangerous. You do breathe during it but your body takes over this function so it feels odd.

What’s the old hag?

there is a good description on the lucid crossroads site lucidcrossroads.co.uk/guide.htm

we also have a big topic for SP and old hag in this stuff dreams are made of forum (this topic will probably be moved into the big topic at some point).

Can you make the old hag go away instead of them being there a whole 8-10 min as soon as they appear…?

Just close your eyes and you should go back to sleep or wake up

I haven’t had SP in a long time(4 years), but I thought you wouldn’t be able to move, none the less be able to close your eyes…

Well I was talking about the old hag

Oh, okay I get it. :3

:smile: I’ve never had SP, I mean, we do when we sleep but I haven’t been “awake” to feel it once, never the old hag either.

Feel lucky, Smiffy!

Does the old hag only show up when you sleep on your back? (I sleep on my side)

I think the old hag can show up no matter how you sleep, but that’s just what I think.

Stop talking about the Old Hag, it’s not necessary that she comes when you SP. It only comes during a high level of SP, I never saw it and yet I often do SP that last about 1 minute.

It’s possible to have SP with any position ( side, back, and stomach ).

moved from beyond dreaming to the sticky SP and Old hag topic :moogle:

If you think hallucinating scary things in sleep paralysis is bad, wait till you hear what happened to me. I have never woken up in sleep paralysis in all of my life until these last couple of weeks. It’s happened to me twice so far. I hate the feeling of not being able to move. Know what else I hate? Being tickled.

Do you know how people that are being tickled spas out and kick and swing? Imagine not being able to do that, no way to fight that feeling off.

During the SP, I felt a finger rubbing up and down the bottom of my foot and I couldn’t do anything to stop that tickle feeling. I don’t even know what to call that feeling. What I felt was not pain, but something even more uncomfortable. Because I couldn’t struggle, if felt like that tickle feeling radiated through my whole body, and all I could think about is when would it stop. I’m estimating that it only lasted about 6 seconds, but it was the longest 6 seconds I’ve ever had to go through.

I would have much rather hallucinated a knife going through my foot. :sad:

Ouch… gee I never heard of that before. That’s some hallucination! I’ve only ever heard my dad calling me -which freaked me out, and as far as SP goes i’ve only have partial SP in my arm.

Perhaps your fear of being tickled came into your hallucination - it really does pay to have a positive outlook on things, even when they are bad because then your mind won’t be as likely to trick itself with those bad thoughts.