I know what you mean - once I felt like I falling through the sky at 200mph. It definitely felt like a roller coaster It was more exciting than scary, when I realised what was happening.
Not only can SP be exciting, but it can be quite relaxing.
Thanks a lot, I’ll try this on my next attempt (maybe tomorrow morning, if I have time). The character visualisation thing sounds like a great idea, because I’ve been struggling to visualise a whole scene because that’s quite difficult when I first wake up.
The section that I’ve highlighted in bold was the part I definitely agree about.
Sometimes when I’m daydreaming my mind wanders and creates scenarios (e.g. Scary Scenarios) that make it harder to daydream/visualise, and sometimes enough to put me off.
Once I was in an LD, and I immediately thought of something bad. I quickly distracted myself with the dream, and I forgot about the bad thought and had a great lucid.
I had another attempt this morning after waking up, and had SP (I always get sleep paralysis if I sleep on my left side for some reason). It was quite relaxing, and tried to visualise a scene, but I lost the ability to (like I mentioned earlier in this post, it’s kinda hard for me to visualise in the morning).
When I tried to move, that’s when I got frightened.
If you lay still during sleep paralysis and stay relax, it will be less scary (from my experience).
When I awoke, I moved my hand a lot which I think messed the attempt up a bit.
I layed still for 5 minutes, and then my hearing changed. I could hear a slightly higher frequency buzz, like when everything is dead silent and you pay attention to your hearing (I hope you get what I mean).
A few minutes later I then began visualising my scene. Soon, I felt as if the scene was getting more vivid and my legs began to feal heavy. My arms and head were tingling a bit, which eventually spread to my legs.
After some more visualising I actually felt like the scene I was visualising was happening right next to me, in the waking world. I couldn’t hear anything and the scene wasn’t THAT vivid, but I definitely felt close.
When I felt really close, my heart began to pound faster and harder and it made me loose concentration. I couldn’t sit still because it got so intense, and then I snapped out of it.
I rolled over onto my right side and tried again but got nowhere.
I just tried to fall asleep but nothing.
Interesting…will try again tomorrow morning with the knowledge from other posts.