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On March 30 2011 14:23 k20a wrote:Show nested quote +On March 29 2011 13:22 Coagulation wrote:
just watch out for the sleep paralysis and false awakenings.
This happens so often for me it's crazy. Seriously... like few times a week at minimum. T_T However I find trying to "power through" it and use all your strength and willpower to move eventually works, lol. Still freaky shit.
I have only experienced sleep paralysis once but... wouldnt it be easier on your psyche to tell yourself to just go back to sleep rather than try to start moving. I know all I wanted to do was lift my head because I thought there was something watching me... so easier said than done.
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I know I've experienced lucid dreaming at least twice during high school, but unfortunately, I can't remember anything about it. Just a feeling of amazing euphoria.
I want to try getting into it again but.. I used to experience sleep paralysis (almost always with a recurring dream involving a multicolored wheel surrounded in fake plants) when I was in elementary school, and.. it's fucking terrifying.
Also, watching Paranormal Activity means EHS would make me pee myself.
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Sleep paralisys is annoying as hell, used to have them all the time... it's been a while since the last time I had it, thankfully. I used to have to put so much energy and willpower into waking up whenever I had it, it was just too painful.
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I used to have dreams within dreams like in Inception lol.
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When I was way younger I used to be terrified of alien abduction stories (this was around when they were all the rage on Unsolved Mysteries and such). My first experience with sleep paralysis happened around then, and it just so happened that a cop had pulled someone over outside my house. So here I am, 8 or so years old with an alien abduction phobia, waking up in bed, totally aware and totally unable to move an inch, with crazy blue and red strobe lights filling up my room.... I didn't sleep for days afterwards haha :p
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I had a horrible experience last week. I thought i woke up in the middle of the night, with my body shaking from legs to my left shoulder, couldn't move except for turning my head around. The reason I said I thought I woke up, is because then I woke up again to a really loud human screech coming from behind. After 20 seconds or so it stopped, and I could finally move, drenched in sweat and my body still buzzing a little. I've never experienced something like this before. Very terrifying.
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On March 29 2011 13:16 Displace77 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 29 2011 13:14 Roe wrote:On March 29 2011 12:59 beg wrote:i naturally had lucid dreams throughout my life... i'd say skip lucid dreaming and go for astral projection. i might try too again  ps: when i was trying astral projection, i always would hear people call my name. i totally wanna try it again. isnt that just dreaming? If I'm not mistaken astral projection you become your spirit and leave your body. People sometimes experience out of body experiences while Lucid Dreaming.
I could do that some years ago (not everytime and not everyday), it's damn hard to wake up again...
The training enviroment i had to do this:
A Job whiteout ANYTHING to do.
No Internet/Games on your Work-Computer.
Your own Office-Room.
NOTHING TO DO AT ALL.
It's quite the experience but was scary as hell. Controlled dreaming was cooler (at least "influenced dreaming"... But waking up wehn i quickly had to was, again, DAMN hard).
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Lol i used to remember i lucid dreamed alot and i got lots of EHS its so scary you wake up and your thoughts are just empty and you are scared. Most time its just a bang or boom or loud voice that wakes me up in my dream.
i remember one time i slept for 3days it was just an ordinary friday afternoon i was 17 back then and tired as hell and I woke up at sunday and my mother told my she tried to wake me up but i wouldn't wake up i told her i was dreaming.... for some weird reason i still lived my regular life in my dream so i thought it wasnt a dream altho i did not eat food or sleep in the dream so i knew something fishy was going on.
One time i woke up and was just staring at the roof i was hungry as hell and needed to go pee but for some reason i had no strenght and i couldn't talk i just stood there like this pokerface and told my self dont piss yourself after 5min i could move again most disgusting feeling ever.
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lucid dreaming is cool, i remember trying to get into it a long time ago, and as many have stated, yes, it did come with a side effect of more common sleep paralysis.
as for astral projection? i dont buy into that shit. just a bunch of bs
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Problem witj astral projevtion is that it cant be confirmed thru simple tests. When people are questioned about their o.b.e, they often get facts wrong or about as right as typical psychics taking a guess/hunch.
As for Lucid dreaming, its pretty real. They can test your conciousness while in sleep thru couple of ways. I used to do it for quite some time as well until I couldn't keep the regular sleep pattern I needed to make sure I could recall my dreams consistently. If you can't maintain that, its not gonna work and you'll start losing your 'skill'.
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I've been following this thread for a bit and I've started a dream journal and reality checking myself regularly just to see if it worked. I remember in a dream I had last night I reality checked my hand and it was all blurry, pretty trippy actually. I didn't obtain lucidity though, when I woke up is was like FFUUUUUUUUU
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Alright, so its now liek 12 or 13 days later, and I don't want this thread to die. ;D
Did anyone achieve anything at all?
I've had my dream journal next to my bed, and I've been doing checks a few times a day (activley counting fingers and making sure that my hand makes sense), but nothing. In fact, my dream recall hasn't improved slightly. I only have one entry in the journal. Reading it again is funny, though, cuase it legit makes no fucking sense.
How it made sense during the dream is beyond me.
but yeah, nothing yet 
Progress reports?
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Hmmm, just saw this thread now that you bumped it. I can share some of my thoughts on my attempt to do it, and what helps me remember most, if not multiple dreams per night.
Always keep your pen and paper next to your bed, when you wake up don't just get out of bed. Lay there, tell yourself to remember and close your eyes. Let the dreams come to you and slowly start piecing everything back together.
On topic of EHS or awaking from loud noises and such. I use to get it more when I was stressed or sleep deprived. I'd feel myself start hitting a deep sleep almost immediately, but as soon as my body started relaxing I'd hear my dad yell DAVE like it was right in my ear. Wake up, and be scared shitless. I have also had the thing where it seems like bright lights hit you all of a sudden and wake up startled too.
I think it would be cool if everyone wrote down their dreams and report back, some of them are humorous and just go to show how crazy our imaginations are.
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I have had sleep paralysis so much and seen so much weird shit when im in that state it doesn't even scare me anymore. Well not as bad at least. lol
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On March 30 2011 20:19 Dismantlethethroat wrote:
I used to have dreams within dreams like in Inception lol.
Haha I've had a dream, within a dream, within a dream, my brain went deeper! I dreamed I was looking at something in my hands and then I saw that only 2 of my fingers on each hand were there the other 2 were blurred out and i was like hell ya i'm lucid dreaming, then I woke up the first time. Then I was like damn I should have flown in my dream since it was a lucid dream, then I woke up again and I was like double damn. Then I just sat in my bed and thought about it for 30 mins and wondered if I would wake up again LOL.
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I skipped through this thread a bit but does anyone get hurt or die in their dreams? because I am invincible. i vividly remember a dream that i was shot in the face and it just bounced off me. i have also had dreams when i fall off tall places and just land on the ground, no problem. do the dream professionals here have any insight into this?
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I get EHS every now and then. It's usually if I fall asleep after having kept some unusual sleeping habits (e.g. had to work a mix of all three shifts in one week and finally crash). Every single time it happens I literally think my neighborhood got bombed. Fucking scary.
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I remember waking up one time from a dream, where it felt like the real world. It didn't feel anything like a dream, everything was surreal, realistic, and my senses were very much alive. I remember distinctly falling asleep in this dream, that I had a dream within a dream. It felt a hundred percent exactly like the previous dream, but I was at a totally different place, in what felt like a totally different world. At this point in time, I wondered when I would wake up, when my alarm clock would ring, when I would wake up and go to my marketing class. After wandering around for some time in this vivid yet estranged world, I closed my eyes for a split second, and opened them to what looked like yet another dream, within the dream of the dream within my first dream. As I started to lose touch with my thoughts, and my senses started to numb, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I was shocked to see the Juno girl, asking me if I'd like to return or to stay, as I had actually been planted in a dream within a dream within a dream, such that my first dream was actually the first dream within my dream, and that I had been sleeping for 40 years. I am now 59, homeless and unemployed. I write this in the hopes that one day, someone will hear my story and make it a movie for the world to see.
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a week ago or so i was driving and falling asleep at the wheel. the car was going fast and i couldn't open my eyes for the life of me.. i knew i was about to crash and i knew i had to be getting close to the edge of the road and still my eyelids were too heavy to lift. finally after straining every muscle i could to open my eyes they opened and i was staring at the ceiling of my room
lots of sleep paralysis randomly occurs for me (no crazy noises or visuals so its not really scary), usually starts with me trying to speak in a dream.. when i try to talk in a dream my body actually tries to physically talk and i just start moaning a lot b/c my mouth wont open--usually results in an eventual forced wake-up
not sure if its helpful or not but i definitely seem to be able to overcome the natural sleep paralysis and do forced awakenings
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I was in lucid dream and was going to stop the time and I heard very loud BOOM with flashing light and woke up. It was awesome experience.
The thing about lucid dreams for me is that in dreams I do not know to look out for it to be lucid - like count your fingers - because I don't do that in normal life.
I get mostly lucid dreams only when the dream turns into nightmare - I notice it's a nightmare / dream and then I just stop the horrific things and do whatever I want to.
e: Sleep paralysis, yeah I've had that one too and it's like one of those most terrible experiences I've had in my life ever.
It happened long time ago. I was alone sleeping in room where my brother was supposed to sleep too but he wasn't there (can't remember why).
Anyway suddenly I woke up from my dream which I can't remember and heard screaming noise coming out from the window. Something yellow person with coat flought on stick thru the glass very fast and it did go to the hallway. Same kind of persons flought past me many times and I felt like they were looking for me.
It's funny that I got huge adrenaline burst from that and I was somewhat able to move but it felt like my arm weighted more than a ton.
Couldn't sleep for a while after that... It's 100 times more terrible than it sounds because it's so real and you can't think properly but I know there is worse cases where grim reapers make you cough or zombies try to get in your room.
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