While falling asleep or waking up, your brain sends signals that relax muscles in your arms and legs. The result â muscle atonia â helps you remain still during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. With sleep paralysis, you regain awareness but canât move.
What does sleep paralysis feel like?
During a sleep paralysis episode, you're aware of your surroundings but cannot move or speak. But you can still move your eyes and breathe. Many people hear or see things that arenât there (hallucinations), making episodes even more frightening.
How long do sleep paralysis episodes last?
They last anywhere between a few seconds and a few minutes
how to induce sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis occurs just as we're transitioning to REM. It can occur at any time, but the chance of having it whilst in REM is MUCH MUCH higher than at any regular moment.
There are quite a few methods that can be used to induce SP
(Disclaimer: none of them are mine. I've listed the creators that I do know, but I'm not sure about the origins of the other methods).
(Involves waking up in REM sleep)
1. Lay down for an afternoon or night sleep
(method works better in the afternoon because we're mostly in non-REM sleep during the night [makes us harder to wake up], but whatever is most comfortable for you)
2. Set an intention or an alarm to wake up roughly 85-90 minutes after you sleep
(REM occurs between this timeframe).
3. After you've woken up, try not to move much. Stay still, keep your eyes closed, and try to remember why you woke up (as you might forget) before you make any necessary adjustments or movements to your position.
SP occurs in any position, but if you feel it necessary and want to ensure you don't fall asleep, move into a position you don't usually sleep in (can be any).
However, like I said, it's not necessary.
If you're worried about falling back asleep, a simple intention to not fall asleep during the method works just as great!
4. Then, just stay still while trying to occupy your mind someway (maybe affirmations for a good SP experience, counting, visualizing whatever you want, etc.).
This is so you don't doze off or get impatient during the attempt.
5. Since you'll be transitioning into REM, your body should very quickly enter SP (especially if you didn't move a lot; your body will be relaxed so an easier transition to SP) so as to prevent bodily harm that could come your way if you were to act out your dreams.
All you have to do is stay patient and resist urges to move.
Some parts of your body might move on their own. These are involuntary muscle movements and are normal during sleep.
Don't feel it's ruined or messed up if your body moves on it's own. But if you give in to urges, then it'll be harder to reattempt to enter SP as your body will now fully wake.
5.5. The more relaxed you are, the faster you'll enter SP, so make sure you're not tense.
You can also trick your body into thinking you're asleep by changing to shallow breaths (as happens in SP).
Again, depending on how relaxed you are, you can enter SP in a few minutes or something close to 30 minutes. So try to relax your body.
6. You might get a roll-over signal that'll trigger sleep paralysis. Your job: don't roll over/switch positions/listen to what your brain wants
If your mind doesn't think the body is asleep yet, this is the last test it'll send to the body. Essentially what happens is your brain will tell you to move someway. You might be very uncomfortable, so you'll really want to move. Just know this is a TRICK! Tell yourself this is the last part of the process to motivate yourself and resist the urge. Instead occupy your mind with something else. Think of how great it'd be to finally shift and live your fantasies. It could all be yours if you persist against the urge a little longer. So do so, and you'll enter SP from there.
7. Eventually your body kind of "shuts down." You'll know when this happens. You'll be in SP when this happens.
Second method (credit to Explore Lucid Dreaming for this method)
(Involves messing up your sleep schedule.)
1. Wake up an hour or two earlier than you usually do.
2. Sleep during the afternoon for an hour.
3. Stay active during the day
(this is to tire your body)
4. When it's night, set an alarm for 4-6 hours. Sleep and wake up.
5. Stay wake for 30 minutes.
6. Go back to bed, on your back with your limbs apart
(higher chances of inducing SP on your back)
7. Stay still for some time. Involuntary movements are okay, but if you move on your own, then you might mess up the attempt.
It's also important to very relaxed so you can trick your body into thinking you're sleeping.
8. You might get the roll-over signal soon. Ignore this. You'll enter SP soon after.
You might start seeing hypnogogic imagery (colors and swirls behind your eyes). This is normal. Just focus on your breath and don't interact with the imagery.
This method might be a little confusing but there's a reason why it works:
When our sleep cycles are messed up, our mind has no clue when we're sleeping and when we're awake. It's essentially going to be extremely confused about when to execute SP since we're sleeping in different times than usual. This often leads to more SP instances, for a lot of people, unintentional SP, because the mind is not coordinated well with the body. It's hard to explain but it's kind of the gist of it.
(Involves deep relaxation and mimicking REM sleep)
1. Set an intention to enter SP
(Intentions are powerful and your reality will work towards helping you reach your goal)
2. Lay down on your back...
(...or side, but back is better for inducing SP).
3. Take very deep breaths. Fill all of your lungs and then exhale deeply.
4. Tense your muscles for 10 seconds, then let them go limp. Repeat this step for as many cycles necessary for you to feel a little tired.
(If you're awake and ready to take on the world, your mind will definitely know you're not sleeping lol. This is also to reduce tension in your body so you can relax easily as you would in sleep, thus makes tricking your brain easier.)
5. After you're tired and relaxed, you want to stay completely still.
6. Move your eyes up, down, left right, in all directions to mimic rapid eye movement.
(Of course, don't be very aggressive with it. It'll tire you that way. Just be gentle with yourself.)
7. After doing this for some time, your body will think you're in REM. And what's the brain's natural response to an immobile body and rapid eye movement? SLEEP PARALYSIS~
8. Again the roll-over signal will appear, so just ignore it and boom, SP!
So these are three of the general methods for SP. These three methods work very well for a lot of people and there are other methods, but they're more unique to their creators.
Just remember, the main key to inducing SP is REM! (I say this especially if you're a beginner)
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1. Paralyzed (can't move at all)
2. Strong feeling of heaviness/lightness
3. Feeling like you're sinking in your mattress
4. Feeling like you can't breathe (just calm down and remember it's because of the way your diaphragm's limited during SP)
5. Feeling something on your chest
7. Hallucinating (visual and audio)
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Fear will be natural in a situation where it's a new experience and moreover, you can't move. However, know that anything you see during SP is all the creation of your mind. You can control what you get to see during SP.
If you manage to see or hear something bad, try to think of something really funny. Or make fun of your demons. Humor is a great coping mechanism for fear from what I've experienced. Make fun of the figures. Imagine them with silly clothing and make up (which you'll begin to see as you continue to hallucinate). Have an insult battle with them. Seriously, anything that'll take the fear away and will make you happy.
If that doesn't work and you continue seeing a scary figure, imagine someone you consider a protector fighting them off.
Since you're hallucinating, it'll happen before your eyes lol.
(Or you could simply tell them to leave you alone and they will since your mind is listening to you very closely during SP.)
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Shifting/manifesting with SP
There's SO MANY ways to use SP for shifting and manifesting. Some people manage to get into this state often but they don't utilize it to it's highest powers, so I'll be teaching you some life hacks that you can obtain with JUST ONE SP experience.
For a quick way to shift:
1. Affirm that you're in your dr that instant
"I am in my [insert reality name] reality right now"
(The "right now" will make it instantaneous, tho it would've been so anyways)
'Jailbreaking' your CR with just one SP experience:
"I am in the God-state permanently"
[Mind state: where you're aware in your waking reality that you're the creator of your reality. This leads to instant manifestations]
"I enter the void state whenever I intend to"
[Mind state: when you're pure consciousness in the void with no identity, and can then assume whatever identity (desired self with desired manifestation) you want and achieve it in an instant]
"I have the LIFA app in my CR"
[App that'll instantly manifest what you want for you]
"I achieve instant desired subliminal results"
[Desired subliminal results will come to you in an instant, even if you have doubts, blockages, etc.]
"I manifest my desires instantly"
[Just a simple intention will manifest what you want instantly]
2. After you've affirmed, you'll exit out of SP and into a reality where you have whatever affirmation you said to yourself.
From there on, you can manifest whatever you want in your CR, go to your DRs instantly, and just be limitless! All it needs is just one SP period which you can definitely achieve!
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