Sleep Paralysis - a mystical experience. Describe yours.

[Inliytened1]

Please state your experiences here.

I have experienced it often in my life. Most recently late last week as my consciousness was shifted.  

This is indeed a very unique and mystical like experience in which one wakes from the dream but is still trapped.  Almost metaphorically its like after you awaken from this dream but you are still trapped to this body. 

Here you awaken, and yet are trapped and cannot move.

Consciousness is there but you are without any body.  Until you push hard enough with your mind to break through and feel the body again

This can be terrifying but I would like to hear your experiences.

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[ExploringReality]

Yes! My experiences are as follows 

• body is dead asleep, the body cannot move, cannot respond, consciousness is fully awake but unbounded by the body.

• I experience paranormal phenomenon, seeing entities, projections of fear of the unknown, seeing behind my head, feeling a presence of an other. I describe it as the underworld of your psyche where all the creepy crawlers dwell. 

•fear of death and a clinging to certainty. Great resistance. 

•there is a book by osho on Leo's booklist with some meditative practices and there is a specific technique used by Ramana maharshi which resulted in him experiencing ego death as a young boy, he had a paralysis but he decided to just let the body die, remain alert and just look without panicking. He noticed the body became stiff and it resulted in his enlightenment. Powerful shit if you can remain conscious throughout a paralysis, 

[Hojo]

I used to get it all the time. Eventually I figured out how to break out of it. When you break out of it your body is extremely tired and heavy  and you fall back into it instantly. One night I was having it, just looking around and I see stuff moving flying around my room and I practiced breaking out like 7 times and I fell back into it over and over.I managed to sit up a couple times but it was like having 0 energy and I flopped back down. It stopped being scary and I never had it again. 

To get out you just like put pressure on your body and head like you are taking a really big dump. It sounds like you are driving down the highway with all the windows open.

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[Inliytened1]

4 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

Yes! My experiences are as follows 

• body is dead asleep, the body cannot move, cannot respond, consciousness is fully awake but unbounded by the body.

• I experience paranormal phenomenon, seeing entities, projections of fear of the unknown, seeing behind my head, feeling a presence of an other. I describe it as the underworld of your psyche where all the creepy crawlers dwell. 

•fear of death and a clinging to certainty. Great resistance. 

•there is a book by osho on Leo's booklist with some meditative practices and there is a specific technique used by Ramana maharshi which resulted in him experiencing ego death as a young boy, he had a paralysis but he decided to just let the body die, remain alert and just look without panicking. He noticed the body became stiff and it resulted in his enlightenment. Powerful shit if you can remain conscious throughout a paralysis, 

Awesome.  Yeah.. I don't experience all that stuff but I wish I did.  Your experiences are more vivid.

[Inliytened1]

3 minutes ago, Hojo said:

I used to get it all the time. Eventually I figured out how to break out of it. When you break out of it your body is extremely tired and heavy  and you fall back into it instantly. One night I was having it, just looking around and I see stuff moving flying around my room and I practiced breaking out like 7 times and I fell back into it over and over.I managed to sit up a couple times but it was like having 0 energy and I flopped back down. It stopped being scary and I never had it again. 

To get out you just like put pressure on your body and head like you are taking a really big dump. It sounds like you are driving down the highway with all the windows open.

My ego kicks in and I get scared of being paralyzed awake forever.  But next time it happens im going to try and do what you are saying.  Stay calm and welcome it.  Then see what it brings.

You will have it again. Maybe.  I went decades without it and I am a lot older than you.  

[ExploringReality]

@Inliytened1

There are techniques to use while it's happening, just in case it feels overwhelming just mentally imagine pulling yourself up a rope and you will exit smoothly. You have to do it mentally because your body is dead weight and it's counter productive to fight it physically 

[Hojo]

@Inliytened1If you can manage to push yourself out one time and then go back into it it stops being scary, cause when it happens you can see that theres nothing there. When you go back in you will know theres nothing there, and you are just seeing things. When it was happening it was looking like there were peoples heads poking out from behind things and I was home alone but I just said fuck it i dont care.

You gotta do something like this guy.

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[Inliytened1]

3 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

@Inliytened1

There are techniques to use while it's happening, just in case it feels overwhelming just mentally imagine pulling yourself up a rope and you will exit smoothly. You have to do it mentally because your body is dead weight and it's counter productive to fight it physically 

Well that's interesting because i know that and I fight it mentally.  That's the only way you can as your body is dead weight as you say. And yet it works. After a few seconds. 

But I wonder what it would be like to stay like that for a while - with no fear of breaking out- would there be those other phenomena you mentioned. 

[Inliytened1]

3 minutes ago, Hojo said:

@Inliytened1If you can manage to push yourself out one time and then go back into it it stops being scary, cause when it happens you can see that theres nothing there. When you go back in you will know theres nothing there, and you are just seeing things. When it was happening it was looking like there were peoples heads poking out from behind things and I was home alone but I just said fuck it i dont care.

You gotta do something like this guy.

Jesus that vein looks like its going to blow up the earth lol

 

[Inliytened1]

@Hojo but that's precisely the effort it takes to break out.

[Hojo]

@Inliytened1lol, its like the feeling of being in a scary dream and you forcefully end the dream.

[Inliytened1]

3 minutes ago, Hojo said:

@Inliytened1lol, its like the feeling of being in a scary dream and you forcefully end the dream.

Exactly.  But here is the mindfuck. What if this thing that you're in right now is exactly the same thing?

 

 

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[Hojo]

@Inliytened1Then you should be able to get out the same way. High pressure shaking and pulling back.

[Inliytened1]

Just now, Hojo said:

@Inliytened1Then you should be able to get out the same way. High pressure shaking and pulling back.

I meant waking from the waking dream. 

[ExploringReality]

@Inliytened1

 Your simultaneously in two states at once. Deep rem and conscious awareness. It's interesting because sleep paralysis can easily be co-opted by the ego as " I am experiencing paralysis" but sleep paralysis can be used as a launch pad for spiritual inquiry into the nature of ego, identity and self realization as pure unformed consciousness.

It's easy to get sucked into content no matter what it is, lucid dreaming ect... But the main event is to pay attention to awareness itself, to wonder what is this awareness that is conscious of this? While everything is happening, what remains aware? Realize that it's all dreams. To awaken not just from the dream, but to be aware of the dream like nature of reality, the only real thing is consciousness itself without the contents of awareness 

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[Hojo]

@Inliytened1 Yea do what the guy is doing in the meme for a period see of it works. Maybe not so much head pressure but internal pressure.

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[ExploringReality]

15 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

Exactly.  But here is the mindfuck. What if this thing that you're in right now is exactly the same thing?

 

 

This is a beautiful question and it is possible to awaken from this dream. Not just our sleeping dream, but the waking dream. What is your current experience of this inquiry? Have you fully awakened from the dream of survival and life?

Edited 1 hour ago by ExploringReality

[Inliytened1]

11 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

@Inliytened1

 Your simultaneously in two states at once. Deep rem and conscious awareness. It's interesting because sleep paralysis can easily be co-opted by the ego as " I am experiencing paralysis" but sleep paralysis can be used as a launch pad for spiritual inquiry into the nature of ego, identity and self realization as pure unformed consciousness.

It's easy to get sucked into content no matter what it is, lucid dreaming ect... But the main event is to pay attention to awareness itself, to wonder what is this awareness that is conscious of this? While everything is happening, what remains aware? Realize that it's all dreams. To awaken not just from the dream, but to be aware of the dream like nature of reality, the only real thing is consciousness itself without the contents of awareness 

Exactly!!!

 

8 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

This is a beautiful question and it is possible to awaken from this dream. Not just our sleeping dream, but the waking dream. What is your current experience of this inquiry? Have you fully awakened from the dream of survival and life?

I have.   This is just entertainment.  So ask me anything on that.  Well I shouldn't say entertainment because there is much to learn aside from awakening. 

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[Inliytened1]

@ExploringReality what is yours?

[Judy2]

happens to me most often with afternoon naps, and sometimes it goes hand in hand with some kind of astral awareness of my sleeping body in bed before waking up and experiencing the paralysis.