Breaking illusions: Sleep paralysis We all got trough this. Itches, serious body sensations.

We desperately wanted to have our first SP experiences and these damn body signals made us loose so many attempts. What about it? Are we doing something wrong? Introduction I started lucid dreaming maybe a year ago, and didnt manage to have WILD with unaltered consciousness transition yet. But I had a lot of unfinished attempts ending with DILDs. I had some DEILDs and best results came with slight modified MILD techniques. {I hate naming techniques, but it is the best way not to make it too long}. Nearly every evening i am doing WILD preparation exercises and it is starting to get serious. I think, I can help you with problems you surely experience when starting your first attempts. So how dit it all probably start for you? How it all starts? You had your first spontaneous lucid dream {or not yet}. You try researching on google and you find dreamviews with dozens of motivated people here. You do your research and sign up here. You find some interesting techniques, how to achieve WILD and SP. You study them and try them yourself. And here are the roots of the problem. Nearly everyone thinks sequentially and as everyone here describes, WILD is technique which takes time to learn. So why not to achieve SP as the first step in a row. For most of you sleep paralysis is body sensation happenning on sleep onset, when you loose control over your body. If you are just starting you are fully motivated and cant wait to achieve this cool new Sleep paralylis everyone talks about. Your first gate into lucid dreaming at will. And what you do next? Later on... You are in search of techniques to help you relax your body and sink deeper and deeper into relaxation, and hopefully sleep paralysis strikes and you go trough it all and you finally made it. You will eventually make it trough first step and you may continue further with another steps. WRONG !!!. Do you think, it would be that simple? You will surely experience things like itches which must be desperately scratched, body sensations sometimes even hurting. Swallowing sensation. And believe me, first nigths, you will not be able to sleep well, becouse you will be fully awake after the body finally wins the battle against you. Most of you even dont search for sleep paralysis, most of you would like to experience the transition phase at first: When everything shakes, some electricity-like sensation, sounds... Well. Its almost impossible to achieve this intentionally {unless you are pretty good with concentration (most of us isnt)}. Remember. Your mind shuts your body down only if it believes you are no longer interested in sensations coming from your body. But if you are waiting for transition, if you would like to experience it. It simply cannot happen. Your mind is not and idiot Your search after Sleep paralysis is something you should forget about as soon as possible. Remember your first and last goal. You want to achieve WILD and what happens en route, simply happens. Forget about your body So according to what I said, you should concentrate on WILD and not on SP. But how? You feel

like your body is attacking you with itches, and these signals get stronger, the more you pay attention to them. So you will soon find out, you should no longer pay attention to your body. Simple task which is probably not as easily performed as stated. (luckily it is not as bad as it seems at first ) What now? You want to forget about the body, thats the task. I tried many methods like counting and breathing, but this methods are not fun, and they keep yourself within your own body, which is attacking you with signals, which you are probably starting to dislike. Bets way how to forget about your body is to create another, internal world. And this is really, really simple. Believe me. With practice you are heroes. Internal world - gateway into lucid dream You are in your own body. You feel your muscles. Take a deep breath or two becouse you are going to construct our own internal world. You will be using nothing more than your memory and one cool phenomenon:Inertia (As soon as you start something with your body, it starts performing on its own) Step 1: Relaxation Relaxation is vital. Relaxation is crucial. You have to be relaxed before you make your WILD transition. Everyone says that. But why? Simply if you dont relax yourself, the body does it for your. It makes some twitches to relax the muscles automatically and this unfortunatelly breaks the concentration you will need later. So you should prepare your body to be slightly relaxed. You dont have to go into extremes, becouse as you go deeper, it will continue to relax more and more becouse you gave it the instructions, how to do it and Inertia does the rest. Use method you like most, but dont spend too much time here. Step 2: Forgetting about the body Your body is slightly relaxed and you start to sense, that the body starts to shut down on its own. Still you feel it. And thats what we are going to change in step 2. Pretend you are in your bedroom. You dont have to see it. Just pretend. Pretend you are near your desk. Touch it with your hand. You dont have to see your hand. How does the texture feel like? You dont feel anything, but your own hand in bed? Doesnt matter .... use your memory. You touched that desk in past. You know, how it feels, try harder... You get it? Thats it. Now imagine it in your minds eye. You dont see it. No problem. But you saw it in past... Try harder. You see darkness? Pretend you see the desk. Move your imaginary hand over the desk. Construct the sequence of tactile feelings, maybe visuals, sounds.... Maybe each second one feeling. If you cannot see, feel, hear, touch, just pretend it. This way you build some kind of choppy film made only of your memories. This way you program yourself to act on its own later. I know, it needs some anmount of concentration to mantain at first. But as you progress, it takes its own inertia and it gets more detail. You are starting to move into your own internal world. Step 3: This is the place for sleep paralysis As you are using memories of touch, guess, what happens? You are forgetting about external world. About your body. And it continues relaxing without you being mentally present. And as you dont interfere with the process. You may or may not suddenly feel the transition which you awaited sooo much at the beginning. And this time it is becouse you were not present while it was happening. You were playing in your own internal world made of memories and fully forget about your body, just as in real life when you do something requiring concentration. Internal world starts to become more and more real overtime. The film you made with concentration starts to take its own way and you might discover yourself in your dream world.

Conclusion WILD is the process of falling asleep consciously. But this doesnt mean, that you must consciously observe the process of shutting down. It is much easier to hide yourself into your own mentally created memory world and have fun within your head, while it happens. Believe me. I cannot imagine well. I was not good at tactile imaging and i could see only blackness. But I simply use something what is natural, and what we all have. Memories and inertia. I hope, I managed to break some illusions about sleep paralysis and helped to clarify the process of wild how i percieve it. You really should change your view on sleep paralysis, and start experimenting within your head. Let your body relax. The true WILD happens in your head. Share Lucidreaman, SilverBullet, LucidJuggalo and 4 others like this.