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Re: snapping out of Sleep Paralysis

Posted by Greg on December 04, 2000 at 22:10:10:

In Reply to: snapping out of Sleep Paralysis posted by ulysses on December 02, 2000 at 19:08:09:

I believe my greatest challenge is actually realizing that I am pseudo-asleep and safe. The preponderance of my angst is born of the Incubus nightmare or some equally tortuous derivation. The typical scenario is that I either sense someone coming at me who means me harm or that I am being watched from a very close distance and my only course of action is to leap from the bed and run (this is an appropriate time for laughter).

My typical course of action is to focus on one finger and try to move it, thereafter another until I actually move a limb – limbs just don’t move until I’m “awake.” Unfortunately, on the rare occasions where I have succeeded in moving my entire body I succumb to gravity and that wake cousin to SP, cataplexy, and crash to the floor. No, please don’t reach out to comfort me because that is guaranteed to superimpose on that wake (or is it sleep) dream/reality state and really freak me out.

Ironically, once I am fully asleep I enjoy dream control. From the earliest age I would set a course for a star, soar around the neighborhood or pal up with other dream folks. My only device to maintain a semblance of sanity during the SP is to remember that, “They aren’t really there, they aren’t really there. Are they really there? They are really there!” Yep, that is the way it usually goes.

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