[payporanymn]

there is insomnia and then there are all other sleep problems we don't hear about everyday.

a couple of years back i watched a show about the "other" sleep disorders. it was mostly about the disorder where people fall asleep all the time and sleep paralysis.

at first i felt like i can somewhat relate to sleep paralysis, but due to the subjective experience of the girl that was interviewed in this documentary, i thought that this isn't the case for me.

yesterday, out of the blue, i decided to look up sleeping disorders. i ended up on the wiki page for sleep paralysis (plz look it up if you'd like). the objective description of the disorder fully fits my profile.

it started around the time of my parents’ divorce (almost 5 years ago). i might have had earlier episodes, but i don't remember them.

here are some of the thought causes of the paralysis
sleeping in a face upwards or supine position
increased stress
sudden environmental/lifestyle changes
a lucid dream that immediately precedes the episode.
excessive consumption of alcohol coupled with lack of adequate sleep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sleep_paralysis

when the paralysis occurs with me i am always in a face upwards position. stress obviously relates because i see horrible things. lifestyle changes, maybe. i did have a couple of really bad episodes when i was pregnant. and lucid dreaming... i can't really remember the dreams i have before the episode because of the intensity of the episode itself. i do though sometimes able to overpower myself and come out of my body via astral projection. the last cause is surely not my style

anyways the episodes occur like this: i wake up, see the room as it is. everything so real, i think i am just having a super realistic dream. i can't move, not even my eyes (sometimes barely). this causes panic right away. due to my neuralgia situation this is very dangerous. usually i see a family member coming into the room. and then something really scary happens. like one time, my mother set down on the bed and then tried to eat me. i can’t speak, i try to scream but it is impossible. my mother reported the same ‘dreams’ where she can’t move, nor speak.

why is it important for me to know i have sleep paralysis? well, because using this i can categorize what was an episode and what was real. on the wiki page, it says that these episodes might explain alien or ghost visitation. the last time i saw a ghost in my room i was able to rub my eyes, so i know i wasn’t sleeping. when a ufo landed outside of a house i was in, i was able to spring up in bed. also now i know when i am actually astral traveling in a dream. if i can move around my room and nothing scary jumps out, then i am astral projecting. if on the other hand, i can move but there is still some sort of story line going on (still in my room but events are occurring) i know that it is a lucid dream or if i am not in control of my movement then it is a normal dream. btw, i often have ‘rubber legs’ in dreams, as in i can barely move my legs. or sometimes i can’t look up and have to walk around in my dream staring at the floor.

anyone with similar experience? did anyone ever see something in their bedroom that should be there yet you could not move a muscle? this can surely explain a lot of demonic visitation. people usually say that they could not move when they saw a demon in the corner of their room or something like that. for my mom the story is usually the same. someone comes floating through the window and then tries to chock her. one thing is to disregard this as sleep paralysis. the other way, the force that was there paralysed her. one time, i awoke to find a huge imprint of a hand on my stomach. kind of scared the s*** out of me.
reality is sure hard to define.

love and light and love,
et

[glamourcitys]

hi ... well ive been around here before


but now i need some help ... i dont want people to make jokes or anything

ok ... this happened for about 4 times already and its freaking scary...

about a year ago at night i went to sleep on the sofa ... but i couldnt ... when i was about to sleep ... ive got freezed ... i couldnt move ... i could move my eyes , breath and think ... and my head was like a big loud sound zzzzzzz , i feel something on my chest and feel like my lower body get chills

now... 2 nights ago ... it happened the same ... but i could stop it ... and then do it voluntary ... i just close my eyes... and when i hear that sound in silence ( that every1 has ) i concentrate on it ... and it breath slowly and its like i let my eyes rest and i go into that state or something ...

i dont know what to do because my mother had an aneurysm and didnt die but when i start hearing that big sound on my center of the breain i get really scared and i think the same is going to happen

i wanted to recieve some tips or help... or if any1 experienced the same recently...

thanks in advance ...

hey friend,
you have the other side of the same problem. the episodes happen to you before the mind is able to fully shut down. just like we can learn to control the episodes we have when we awake, the same way we can control the situation when we are falling asleep. you just have to tell yourself: you are in between two states of mind... kind of stuck in limbo. it's not really long, even though time might seem to slow down. it is over once your mind can fall asleep or your body, wake up.

love and light and love,
et

[CaseyFronczek]

i had this often when i was a kid some 10+ years ago. but only when awakening.. i was scared and almost hallucinating. i was like i can't wake up i can't wake up! please mommy wake me up!

did not even know it had a name untill now.. any significance to it?

[codecouponqw]

i had this often when i was a kid some 10+ years ago. but only when awakening.. i was scared and almost hallucinating. i was like i can't wake up i can't wake up! please mommy wake me up!

did not even know it had a name untill now.. any significance to it?

i didn't know either till a month or so ago. for me the biggest significance in this is that i can tell when i am astral projecting and when i am in paralysis. and then i feel better and can relax knowing that whatever is out there can't touch my astral body because it is still inside. you don't usually see these types of things when you are astral projecting. only if you think them up.

love,
ra ma

[eocavrWM]

just experienced this few days ago, and really scared the hell out of me. while being awake in this state of paralysis, i couldn't move, scream or even close my eyes because my eyes would eventually start twitching because i was in rem stage (rapid eye movement) and i also had that feeling of what most people describe as some invisible entity holding onto you. from my experience, it'd mostly likely happen when i'd wake up at 3 a.m in the morning and drifting back to sleep but you'd somehow feel conscious while your asleep before the effects kick in.

[xtrupoke]

i know exactly how you feel and have experienced this to a continuing degree, strong and total physical paralysis while asleep and yet apparantly awake in the face of something overtly unwelcome and horribly cloying yet as lucidly real as the day is bright - sometimes layers upon layers of thinking i am awake, but not, as it turns out. i find that a conscious affirmation and intent to be protected works wonders, before laying myself down to sleep.

one time i awoke and turned to and awoke my loved one and shared my unctious feelings of the just passed moment of sleep paralysis, only to have turned over and found that it was just another episode layer... she was not in my bed at all. a very lonely feeling, overwhelming.

i feel it's a function of my experiences and as yet unresolved fears amassed over my life, rather than an external visitation - an internal facing of that which i haven't properly faced in waking life. i think i know what i haven't been brave enough to face. need to get back to the place where i was able to have a complete experience out of body, and know what was happening so as to soar! fear prevents that. mark

[tyclislavaify]

hi,

i'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on how to interpret false awakenings? this happens quite often to me, where i thought i woke up, but it turns out i'm still dreaming. sometimes i would have a dream within a dream within a dream.

here's a funny example of a lucid dream with false awakening:

i'm sitting in my kitchen table eating breakfast with my family. then i said to everyone "we're in a dream right now," and i suddenly became lucid. i throw my food and slammed the table against the wall. i tell my family, "i can do that because i'm dreaming." then i run out to my back yard and fly up to a tree. i'm doing qigong on a tree branch, but i keep floating up. i decide to jump off the tree and do qigong on the ground. as i land, my vision starts to fade and i wake up. i'm now in bed, and i walk out to the kitchen to get breakfast. i see the kitchen table flipped over, and my family is cleaning up the mess. i wonder to myself, "wtf? i thought it was just a dream." then i wake up again.

false awakenings usually happens when i'm in a lucid dream. but i also have many regular dreams where i wake up and write in my dream journal, only to find i'm still dreaming (the words i write keep changing or the journal is different somehow).

speaking of qigong... every time i practice qigong in a lucid dream, i end up floating upwards. i've tried it over 10 times, and every time i can't stay grounded. i told my friend to try, and he reported the same thing. anyone else have this experience? anyone have any explanations?

thanks!

[mArVHDO6]

Hmm, recently I've noticed to my attention that when I close my eyes and attempt to fall asleep, I'd get these random images of people's faces or sometimes animals. It's kind of like a slideshow, faces of random people that I've never met start showing up in my minds eye. From this experience I'm probably suggesting that the pineal gland starts to shoot up and the mind begins seeking through the astral realm to begin contact with the higher self which is dreamwork. Hmm was wondering if anyone else had the same experience?

[wrewsTear]

Yes I've had that experience before. Usually happens when I'm really tired and just lying down to rest, not really intending to sleep. Scenes would flash in my eyes, kinda dream-like but more like a quick slideshow. Sometimes I can see through my closed eyelids and look around the room, and I am aware of everything around me, like people's conversations.

[Affolfembonge]

It can happen, and there are cases of people who go to sleep and just die as they just never wake back up. That probably does not happen that often. What always gets me... is when I have a very vivid dream where waking up is almost like being thrown into a new world as the dream ends. If I have had one, then I can remember it clearly--even as I have woken up.
On the other hand, while sharing a room, I made the mistake of sleeping oddly. What happened was it was hard for anyone to wake me up, probably due to sleeping on a bent leg or sleeping where I wasn't getting enough circulation or something.

I can remember talking in dreams to people and even remember the colors in the dream at times.

[mudozvonf]

Has //this// HappenED tome? Nope.

[Intiltern]

A couple years ago I had a very prophetic lucid dreaming experience. In fact, there have been many times in the last decade when I have gained very good control over my astral body as I slept. Some of these times were so real as to be totally indistinguishable from my waking life. Anyways, the prophetic dream I had concerned my family's move from our old home to where we now reside.

When I realized I was dreaming, I decided to project to a few years into the future. I said a rather arbitrary number, like five years (although it may have been just two). I was also able to decide upon where I wanted to be and being concerned with my personal life at the moment, I decided to appear in my old house. Yet when I got there, the entire place was empty. There was nothing left, only bare carpet, in each room. I think you may see where I'm going with this but a couple years after I had this experience, we moved out of that house. I was seeing my old place as it would look in the relatively near future (even though at the time of the dream, I had no reason at all to believe that we would be moving in 2012). There was no one living there but regardless if that ultimately changes given the dynamic nature of possible futures, the message was very clear. The only other distinct feature of the dream was that my mom was there and I tried to ask her what had happened to the house. She simply looked at me and shrugged.

This isn't the only lucid dream I have had and nor was it even the most realistic one. A more powerful one happened more recently in which I found myself in the ascended future everyone has been talking about. The energetic atmosphere of the Earth was totally different and it seemed like a magical place to be. I also felt for sure that it was real, as if I had just ascended. The sad thing is is that soon after that "realization" I woke up. The thing that seemed so real just a couple seconds ago faded quickly, leaving me really bummed out and angry at my guidance that it didn't give me a deeper explanation of the dream. To dangle something like this in front of a person who has been trying his hardest to stay optimistic under the current situation was really uncool. I have had this experience at least two other times and the third time it happened, I distinctly remembered not buying into it. The feeling was powerful but I said to the world around me something like, "whatever you may be trying to tell me, I cannot buy into this reality until I know it's real." And then I woke up...

The fact that a couple of these future ascension experiences were so real (in multiple ways) makes a part of me believe that they are reassurance that they are going to occur eventually. I just can't say when although I know I will get there even if it is not in the current form I find myself in. I really don't want to live another 60 or so years in this chaotic world and have to wait until I pass on to ascend... but we'll see what happens.

I See. . . Another SETE
Dream for-Ye.

[Britfunclubs]

hi, i sometimes get a very loud "zap" in my brain when i am falling asleep or asleep. it freaks me right out because it is so shocking and almost violent, and there is a vivid sense of presence inside my head. the presence feels foreign (not me) and i get very scared.

when i read david's work about the pineal gland activating, i thought maybe it could be related, although it doesn't sound like a buzz. definately a zap.

i googled it, and found that people who are getting off anti-depressants experience brain zapping, even during the day!

i thought it was aliens invading my consciousness becasue it was so scary and right inside my head. but since i've started researching it about a month ago, i haven't had it come back. fingers crossed!

anyone else have any similar experiences?

[dHXaE2h9]

I often have dreams of suffocating where upon the moment of my death I wake, but for the period of time I am suffocating I am trying to call for help but can't move from lack of oxygen. I know I tend to forget to breathe when I'm awake so I figure I must have sleep apnea.

However one time I had a very strange experience while reading a book called "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" about a mythical faerie called 'the raven king'. In this dream I dreamed that I woke up and was lying in bed, but I was paralyzed. Meanwhile my front door was wide open and a strange man in black was searching my house for something. The whole time I had this dream I was trying to call for help but I couldn't, and suddenly the man realized I was awake, and left the house (closing the door behind him). As soon as he left I was able to move and got up to check that the door was shut, the weird thing is I never really woke up which leads me to believe I was awake the whole time.
I was convinced that the man who came in was the mythical faerie in the book I was reading (there are real myths about The Raven King in england) and that he had put a paralysis spell on me that faded when he left.

The other dream I had that led to paralysis was this:
I dreamed I was walking down a street lined with houses. I became drawn toward one house in particular, but as I began to approach the house I had a bad feeling about it that I should not go in the house. No matter how much I didn't want to go in the house though, I couldn't stop myself from going forward. Upon entering the house I was forced to walk down the stairs into the basement, even though mentally I was fighting my legs every step of the way. As I reached the bottom of the stairs I felt myself stepping through a black cloud that I knew was some kind of spiritual entity. As I passed through the blackness I felt the creature attach itself to me. I fell to the floor and began suffocating as the entity began feeding off my energy. I tried to call for help but I couldn't speak. I saw the creature hovering over me, it was black tinged with purple and had tentacle like things sticking out all around it which it used to latch onto me. I had the feeling it would suck my energy until not only my physical body died, but my soul as well. At this point my partner actually woke me up because he said I was making gasping sounds in my sleep for some time and it didn't appear to be stopping. Boy am I glad he did.

[Nmoitmzr]

i was just thinking about the pineal gland yesterday kind of in relation to this and because of me having a lot of weird hallucinations and stuff over the year.

this has probably been mentioned somewhere before many times but i was thinking that probably the reason for being able to connect with spirits or other entities from different dimensions when its dark is because thats when the pineal gland is more likely to be activated and obviously meditating or similar bodily experiences can increase this and of course if some people dont have their pineal gland able to be activated for whatever reason then you would expect this to explain why some people can connect with entities from other densities and some cant and also by the same token as david mentions in the source field investigations that people with their pineal gland stuck on would probably end up experiencing hallucinations in daytime as well as night because of this or maybe those hallucinations are just them connecting with other entities from other densities and also allow negative entities to take hold probably because someone with schizophrenia would maybe be so freaked out by this that it may further allow negative entities to take hold resulting in them maybe hearing voices telling them to do things to harm themselves or others and also bascially be constantly tapped into other densiteis. i would imagine this would be pretty traumatic in itself and basically create a vicious cycle. of course if medication stopped the persons pineal gland from being activated by doping them up then this may halt the hallucinations!!

i was thinking about this because i have had many experiences over the years that when i think back now do seem very much like possible visions or connecting to other densities! i have had audio hallucinations which are like someone shouting really loud in my ear but i cant ever tell when it is and i also hear sounds like someone talking in the background but again not voices as in anybody telling me to do anything just more like someone trying to get my attention, then i have had visual hallucinations, mostly spiders and shadows occasionally, feeling things as if someone is touching me or sitting down beside me and also smells of things that arent there. i have been on a lot of pain medication the last couple of years which may well account for an increase in this but it goes way way back before i was ever on any kind of pain medication or any triptans etc also they all happen when i am falling asleep or in an altered state like meditating and its always when i am in a dark room or all light is shielded from my eyes which may mean that my pineal gland is activated and is picking up on something that is there trying to communicate.

sort of also makes you think that yeah maybe it would be more possible for people to be able to connect with spirits or other entities if they were in a dark room or at night when it is dark which is when you are most likely to have your pineal gland activated making it possible to connect with other entities

just some stuff i was thnking about it, feel free to move to a more appropriate thread it was just when i seen the last post on here i thought it seemed somewhat more relevant here!??

[lammaredder]

~

If you ever experienced 'sleep paralysis', you can easily get out of your body from here and have an Out Of Body Experience:
This has worked for me: Calm yourself, have no fear, feel a strong desire to move out of your body, and visualise a 'light copy of your body' (astral body) rising out/ rolling out, and simply allow it.


All these methods: Lucid Dreaming, Out Of Body Experiences and Phasing
enables you to experience other realities, dimensions, parallel universes (whatever metaphor you want to use here)
which feel just as real as your present 'awake physical reality', except your thoughts are manifested instantly.
You never cease to be because we all exist in a continuum of consciousness.


The experienced astral explorer will tell you that you are not really in your body in any reality, be it physical or semi-physical.
There is no real solidity in any reality. Reality is a perceptual construct; maya, an illusion.

During your awake physical reality, you are really projecting your consciousness into your 'perceived' body.
This illusion that you are in your body is dissolved during 'phasing'.

I usually suggest people try OOBE because after a few times, there will be no doubts in one's mind that you just did not 'fall asleep'
and imagined it.
The 'frame of reference' before you felt you got 'out of your body' continued from exactly what and where you were doing/being/located
in physical reality; sense of continuity. In the OOBE state, you can be just as aware as you are sitting in front of your computer reading my post;
some people aren't because they lack practise.

Like with all abilities, with more practise and intention,
you can improve your degree of awareness, control, clarity and recall of experiences in:
Lucid Dreaming, Out Of Body Experiences and Phasing


What is a Dream?
Many civilisations describe life being a dream, 'Maya' an illusion.
* The Australian Aboriginal people believe in 'Dream-Time Creation'
* The Hindu God 'Brahma' dreamed up the creation of the universe.

There is currently an evolutionary move where the understanding between Science & Spirutulism are complementary.
Quantum Physics is proposing the theory of Holographic 'dreaming' multiverses upon discovering that there is no solid stuff
and no real separation between anything in physical reality (Double-Slit Experiment - Observer chooses the outcome).
Everything is entangled in nergy fields of information. ALL IS ONE.
Plant Primary Perceptions (Cleve Backster), Water Crystals and consciousness (Dr Masaru Emoto),
Epigenetics - Biology of Beliefs & energy healing (Bruce Lipton)
and more areas are supporting the discovery that 'ALL IS ENERGY. ALL IS CONSCIOUSNESS.'


Dreams can be grouped into 2 main categories:
1- Lucid Dream: vivid experiences, engagement of all, most, or more of your senses, feels real.
2- Non-Lucid Dream: dull experience, little engagement of your senses, does not feel so real.

However, lucid dreaming is similar to OOBE, but has no frame of reference.
We all experience different realities, dimensions because we are consciousness, another metaphor, spiritual beings.
When we are not focused on this 'perceived' waking physical reality, we allow ourselves to experience other realities in our sleep,
or in meditative states of consciousness. Some people just don't have good recall of their dreams, or they dismiss the significance of dreams.


Phasing, is a method that while fully awake, you can just withdraw your senses,
and let your attention be drawn into your own mindscape.
You do not need to achieve the 'Mind Awake, Body Asleep' state of OOBE ; some people find this easier to do.
After sucessfully achieving phasing, you know that you are indeed not in your body, because upon allowing your attention to be drawn into another reality,
you will be experiencing it, with real body sensations. Here, the physical rules may be less limiting eg. you can fly and teleport yourself at will etc.
You can meet people, have discusiions etc just like physical reality. Perhaps you experience another body expression with different abilities.

* To learn more about Frank Kepple PHASING & Model Of The WIDER REALITY MODEL
http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

[Binuilienzync]

Hi all. This is my first post here on a subject which is close to my heart. I've suffered with sleep paralysis for a number of years and seems to crop up when I'm at my most stressed. When it first happened I woke up and couldn't breathe. I went into fall blown panic mode and tried to move but I couldn't. I was lying on my front and found I had to roll out of bed to try and get a full breath. It scared the living daylights out of me. I had about four or five intense family and work stressors around that time and just couldn't cope anymore. I thought I was managing well with all that had gone on but my mind and body had other ideas. I would not wish sleep paralysis on my worst enemy and reading some other peoples experiences brings those memories back but not in a negative way. I came through a very stressful period in my life a stronger person and have mechanisms in place for me to be able to deal with anything similar in future.

During the last 6 - 8 months I've also been having THE most intense dreams. Really vivid and have full recall of everything I saw and felt but the last two weeks especially I keep waking up at 2.40am every morning. I'm not regimented in the times I go to bed. Sometimes it's early, sometimes it may be after midnight. What's different for me and I would really love some input from fellow DC members on this. I wake up suddenly but when I blink it feels to me like I'm taking a picture with my eyes (strange I know and hard to put in words) i.e. it's like a flash on a camera but the last two nights I've had an aurora borealis effect (light wave????) across my vision. It's not scary, just not expected. Thoughts please?

Thanks

[hrthwhr]

Hello BothanSpy
I've had a similar experience with Sleep Paraylsis like yours. It was during last year where I probably endured most stress from school that I suddenly had sleep paralysis and vivid dreams. It was during these times that I started recording these dreams to interpret what issues my subconscious mind was giving me. At first I was very scared of sleep paralysis and never knew what it was. It was only until now, I'm stress-free and recently begun lucid dreaming through this method [please PM vilst for name]. This method required me to go through sleep paralysis which I encountered alot last year but this time I find it very hard to get into sleep paraylsis for lucid dreaming . And about the aurora borealis effect, I'm not sure about what it really is but I encountered that during waking times I usually see like this flashing speck of light that travels through my peripheral vision and who knows what that could be.

[orbidewa]

A couple years ago I had a very prophetic lucid dreaming experience. In fact, there have been many times in the last decade when I have gained very good control over my astral body as I slept. Some of these times were so real as to be totally indistinguishable from my waking life. Anyways, the prophetic dream I had concerned my family's move from our old home to where we now reside.

When I realized I was dreaming, I decided to project to a few years into the future. I said a rather arbitrary number, like five years (although it may have been just two). I was also able to decide upon where I wanted to be and being concerned with my personal life at the moment, I decided to appear in my old house. Yet when I got there, the entire place was empty. There was nothing left, only bare carpet, in each room. I think you may see where I'm going with this but a couple years after I had this experience, we moved out of that house. I was seeing my old place as it would look in the relatively near future (even though at the time of the dream, I had no reason at all to believe that we would be moving in 2012). There was no one living there but regardless if that ultimately changes given the dynamic nature of possible futures, the message was very clear. The only other distinct feature of the dream was that my mom was there and I tried to ask her what had happened to the house. She simply looked at me and shrugged.

This isn't the only lucid dream I have had and nor was it even the most realistic one. A more powerful one happened more recently in which I found myself in the ascended future everyone has been talking about. The energetic atmosphere of the Earth was totally different and it seemed like a magical place to be. I also felt for sure that it was real, as if I had just ascended. The sad thing is is that soon after that "realization" I woke up. The thing that seemed so real just a couple seconds ago faded quickly, leaving me really bummed out and angry at my guidance that it didn't give me a deeper explanation of the dream. To dangle something like this in front of a person who has been trying his hardest to stay optimistic under the current situation was really uncool. I have had this experience at least two other times and the third time it happened, I distinctly remembered not buying into it. The feeling was powerful but I said to the world around me something like, "whatever you may be trying to tell me, I cannot buy into this reality until I know it's real." And then I woke up...

The fact that a couple of these future ascension experiences were so real (in multiple ways) makes a part of me believe that they are reassurance that they are going to occur eventually. I just can't say when although I know I will get there even if it is not in the current form I find myself in. I really don't want to live another 60 or so years in this chaotic world and have to wait until I pass on to ascend... but we'll see what happens.

[Emapymosy]

I had an experience like this about 3 years ago. I went to sleep on two or three pillows so I was sitting up a little. When I woke up in the middle of the night, my room was pretty dark as usual. However, there was something directly in front of me maybe about 6 feet away just hovering. My room was dark, but this thing was really dark! It was like a little cloud or something. I tried to move, but I couldn't. I didn't feel like anything was holding me, I just couldn't move. I couldn't feel any limbs. I was just reduced to my eyes. I'm not even sure if I was breathing. I don't scare easily and I know I wasn't afraid when this happened, just confused. The cloud started moving toward me and it appeared to take on the shape of a face similar to a jack-o-lantern, but black. It moved faster the closer it got. Then it either went into me or through me. After that, I could move. I laid to the side off the pillows and went back to sleep.

I think the return from out of body experience explanation makes the most sense to me. I used to have the same one when I was a kid, maybe about 6. I'd be floating or flying a few blocks from my house. Stop at a stop sign that was at the intersection, turn right and go down about 3 blocks. I'd always end up at the door to a garage in the back of one of the houses just before one of the city's main streets. Every time without fail a German Shepard would jump up barking in my face through the glass of the door. Then the experience would be over. I always had this experience while asleep at night and it was always dark/night during the "dream." All the streets and everything were as they would have been if I were awake so I always viewed that as more than just a dream. When I moved to a different side of the city, I stopped having those experiences.