Sleep Paralysis - a mystical experience. Describe yours.

[Inliytened1]

Just now, Judy2 said:

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.

Why do you do to break out?

[ExploringReality]

@Inliytened1

Nice. I am not this body while also pretending to be this body. You have to be careful not to fall into deceptions, spiritual bypassing, and dysfunction of survival. It can be destabilizing depending on the kind of psyche you have. People chase powers, experiences and siddhis but they never stop to notice who is the one that is experiencing.

I have had ego deaths, the ego comes back online but only now I understand that I am dreaming reality in the same way I beat my heart. I love to push boundaries and to explore different states to go deeper and to challenge my self. For the purpose of self liberation 

Edited 5 hours ago by ExploringReality

[Inliytened1]

4 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

@Inliytened1

Nice. I am not this body while also pretending to be this body. You have to be careful not to fall into deceptions, spiritual bypassing, and dysfunction of survival. It can be destabilizing depending on the kind of psyche you have. People chase powers, experiences and siddhis but they never stop to notice who is the one that is experiencing.

I have had ego deaths, the ego comes back online but only now I understand that I am dreaming reality in the same way I beat my heart. I love to push boundaries and to explore different states to go deeper and to challenge my self. For the purpose of self liberation 

The awake sit quietly among us.  The lucid unknown.   The dreamer is known only to the dreamer.  

[Judy2]

9 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

Why do you do to break out?

i don't do anything other than waiting and letting it happen. there's still some anxiety when i'm in paralysis, so it helps to remind myself of what's going on and that it'll be over in a few seconds. so maybe i do do something, by simply trying to relax into it? 

Edited 5 hours ago by Judy2

[Inliytened1]

8 minutes ago, Judy2 said:

i don't do anything other than waiting and letting it happen. there's still some anxiety when i'm in paralysis, so it helps to remind myself of what's going on and that it'll be over in a few seconds. so maybe i do do something, by simply trying to relax into it? 

I panic and try to use all my mind force like the Force in Star Wars or something. Like the Force that's literally what it is.  And I always win. For now. Darth Maul hasn't won yet.

[Judy2]

4 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

I panic and try to use all my mind force like the Force in Star Wars or something. Like the Force that's literally what it is.  And I always win. For now. Darth Maul hasn't won yet.

 

i think it goes away on its own, whether you fight it or not. maybe you fighting it is even prolonging the paralysis:)

[Inliytened1]

34 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

@Inliytened1

Nice. I am not this body while also pretending to be this body. You have to be careful not to fall into deceptions, spiritual bypassing, and dysfunction of survival. It can be destabilizing depending on the kind of psyche you have. People chase powers, experiences and siddhis but they never stop to notice who is the one that is experiencing.

I have had ego deaths, the ego comes back online but only now I understand that I am dreaming reality in the same way I beat my heart. I love to push boundaries and to explore different states to go deeper and to challenge my self. For the purpose of self liberation 

Coming back from ego death can be dysfunctional too.  Any stories? Man.  I barely came back to sanity. 

[Sugarcoat]

One time during sleep paralysis I felt this female presence and she told me, that suffering is “love”

[Inliytened1]

5 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

One time during sleep paralysis I felt this female presence and she told me, that suffering is “love”

Wow OK that's the best experience yet hands down.  

I want a beautiful woman coming to me in the night where I cannot move telling me that suffering is love.   I love that man. Thanks for sharing .

[Malkom]

1 hour ago, Inliytened1 said:

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

 

 

By the way, asking yourself "Am I dreaming?" in reality and getting into the habit of checking reality for dreams is one of the practices for achieving lucid dreaming.

[Inliytened1]

5 minutes ago, Malkom said:

By the way, asking yourself "Am I dreaming?" in reality and getting into the habit of checking reality for dreams is one of the practices for achieving lucid dreaming.

I've never achieved it in dreaming.  In the sleeping dream.  Never.  I'm lucid now in the waking dream but have never been able to in the sleeping one. Weird.  I have however experienced sleep paralysis which is a total mind fuck. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Inliytened1

[Malkom]

6 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

I've never achieved it in dreaming. In the sleeping dream. Never. I'm lucid now in the waking dream but have never been able to in fhe sleeping one. Weird. I have however experienced sleep paralysis which is a total mind fuck.

I've never experienced sleep paralysis. However, while researching this topic, I learned that those who experience sleep paralysis have a much easier time achieving lucid dreaming. But lucid dreaming has been, and still is, a thing. I remember walking, then trying to run, then thinking, why run? I'd rather fly right away. But faith (a limitation of the adult mind) prevents me from fully flying, but I was able to convince myself. I flew, but somehow strangely. I started going up and down, like on a roller coaster. It became incredibly breathtaking, so much so that I felt like I was about to fly into higher dimensions. But such a rush of feelings broke my concentration, and I woke up. This has happened a couple of times.

If you experience sleep paralysis, perhaps you need to practice certain techniques, and things will improve. I don't know exactly which ones, but I do know that they exist. Of course, they are chosen individually in any case, through personal experimentation.

[Inliytened1]

4 minutes ago, Malkom said:

I've never experienced sleep paralysis. However, while researching this topic, I learned that those who experience sleep paralysis have a much easier time achieving lucid dreaming. But lucid dreaming has been, and still is, a thing. I remember walking, then trying to run, then thinking, why run? I'd rather fly right away. But faith (a limitation of the adult mind) prevents me from fully flying, but I was able to convince myself. I flew, but somehow strangely. I started going up and down, like on a roller coaster. It became incredibly breathtaking, so much so that I felt like I was about to fly into higher dimensions. But such a rush of feelings broke my concentration, and I woke up. This has happened a couple of times.

If you experience sleep paralysis, perhaps you need to practice certain techniques, and things will improve. I don't know exactly which ones, but I do know that they exist. Of course, they are chosen individually in any case, through personal experimentation.

Yes I've heard this before.   I believe one gifted in that they can experience sleep paralysis could in fact experience lucid dreaming.  And that would be so cool because right now honestly my dreams are so powerful they are on the same level as the waking dream.  I wake up in hot sweats unable to differentiate realities. 

[Sugarcoat]

2 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

Wow OK that's the best experience yet hands down.  

I want a beautiful woman coming to me in the night where I cannot move telling me that suffering is love.   I love that man. Thanks for sharing .

I was going through a hard time during that period, so I believe it was some kind of entity that visited me, perhaps a “spirit guide” that some claim everyone has. 
 

Sometimes during sleep paralysis hallucinations can arise, but for me they’ve always been very random so I can tell it’s a hallucination 

But this particular instance, it was so specific, and relevant what she said, that I’m sure it was not a hallucination . Also she said something that is said within non duality, how “reality is love”. It makes me feel that non duality is true

It’s like how some people can meet entities during astral projection. It seems these kind of states can gain us access to another “realm” of reality where we can gain contact with non human intelligent entities

It’s very cool! My tip is to remain calm during sleep paralysis, because if you’re scared you’re more likely to have scary hallucinations, but if you’re calm I think it opens possibilities for more positive experiences 

[OBEler]

Sleep paralysis is interesting and fun for me. Good opportunity to do an out of body experiences.

Not so mystical. No panic. I know it's just a phase. I love it.

[cetus]

@Emerald has extensive knowledge of sleep paralysis and possibly a YT video on the subject.