New to Lucid Dreams & O. B. E. s Why Waking Sleep Paralysis Is The "Lucid Dream Holy Grail" Because It Puts You In A Subconscious Focus Without Using Visualizations by Nick Newport
If you're new to out of body experiences lucid dreams you're wondering where to get started here it. In this article you're about to find out why sleep paralysis is the holy grail for new OBEers because it's how you can access your subconscious without having to practice using any visualizations at all.
If you've ever woken up in the morning found that you couldn't move or make a sound for a few minutes you've had sleep paralysis. This used to happen to me I had no idea why or what it was. But as it turns out this was the trick that opened the door to frequent O. B. E. s for me after having insomnia for years.
Sleep Paralysis Protects You During Sleep
The question is "what is sleep paralysis how can you use it " Sleep paralysis is protection mechanism your body uses when you fall asleep. If you were to dream you're doing something very active such as running you weren't in sleep paralysis then you would move your limbs when you're asleep you'd wake yourself up. to prevent that from happening your body disconnects your voluntary muscle system from your mind so that you can dream all you like without waking yourself up.
Usually your Mind Falls Asleep Then your Body
Normally you're not aware that of this happening because by the time your body shuts itself down in sleep paralysis your mind is already asleep unaware of what's happening. In other words you enter a state of 'body awake mind asleep' before entering 'body asleep mind asleep'.
Sleep Paralysis Is Actually A Lucky Break
The whole trick to lucid dreaming is to enter a subconscious focus without losing awareness. Here's how sleep paralysis does this for you.
Sleep Paralysis Automatically Puts You In A Subconscious Focus
When you're awake your brain is in what's called a 'beta' state. Beta means your dominant electrical brain waves are oscillating at around 14 to 30 cycles per second.
When you enter sleep paralysis your brain automatically puts itself in "dream mode" which is called a 'theta' state. Theta is slower than beta is around 4 to 7 cycles per second.
Knowing this secret allows you to avoid one of the major mistakes most people make when first starting out in O. B. E. s.
Most Books Say to Do O. B. E. s In One Step. . . This Is A Major Mistake
Most books on O. B. E. s say to simply induce an O. B. E in what is basically a one step process. Going directly from a waking state to an O. B. E is possible but it's difficult so this is not what I recommend you start out with.
Two Transitions to Success Not Just One
Instead you'll progress much faster by making it a two step process. You first use the sleep commands we'll cover later to trick your body into falling asleep enter sleep paralysis.
You then use exit techniques we'll cover later to convert sleep paralysis into an O. B. E separate from your physical body.
Most People Discover Sleep Paralysis By Waking Up In It
Now how do you do that The way you'll usually become aware of sleep paralysis is that you wake up in it find you can't move or make a sound.
Sleep paralysis often feels like there's a heavy lead blanket on you. It's not that there is really anything on you or that your muscles have become weaker. The feeling is because your brain has to send a stronger nerve signal than normal to get the same muscle movement. That makes it feel like you're having to overcome some kind of resistance when you try to move.
This feeling also usually makes it feel like it's harder to breathe but it's actually a natural sleep process. Sleep paralysis happens every single time you fall asleep.
But. . . Isn'T That Dangerous
You may be wondering if sleep paralysis is dangerous if there's a way to break free. Sleep paralysis is not dangerous because it's something your body does every night. Plus here is secret "safety release" trick you can use to free yourself from paralysis so you always have a backup plan.
How to Break Sleep Paralysis 100% Of The Time Use Deep Breathing to Contrast Sleep Breathing
The only way your body knows for sure if your mind is awake is if you move. This is problem when you're in 100% sleep paralysis which is preventing you from moving. Luckily paralysis is limited to your voluntary muscle system like your arms legs. your breathing is semi involuntary so you still have control over it even in deep paralysis.
If you enter sleep paralysis decide you want break free wake up simply change your breathing pattern to something other than the sleep breathing pattern your body is in. The most effective way I have found to do this is to begin breathing deeply slowly.
After 10 or 15 seconds your body will notice the change bring you out of paralysis. Not many things are 100% reliable in lucid dreaming but this has worked for me every single time.
Sleep Apnea
A very few people have reported that they woke up in sleep paralysis noticed that they weren't breathing at all. The problem is not the paralysis itself but that they had an existing health condition called 'sleep apnea'.
Sleep apnea basically means that you stop breathing when you're asleep. So this is one of the side benefits of using sleep paralysis to have OBEs you'll find out whether or not you have sleep apnea.
Keep in mind there's a big difference between the normal "heavy lead blanket" feeling that comes with sleep paralysis versus not breathing at all. If you find you stop breathing entirely then you may have sleep apnea should see a doctor about it. If you only feel the heaviness sensation then everything is normal.
"Accidental" Versus "Deliberate" Sleep Paralysis
So far we've talked about the case where you somehow manage to wake up in sleep paralysis. However that's basically an uncontrolled accidental process. The question is what can you do to make it happen more consistently
Toward Consistency What If The Body Falls Asleep First
The idea is to flip the sleep order around so that instead of entering "body awake mind asleep" you enter of "mind awake body asleep". When this happens you're actually aware of the process your body goes through when it falls asleep. This is our main secret trick for doing visualization free lucid dreams O. B. E. s. This transition is the most important skill to learn in this part of the course.
Why Because when you can put your body to sleep without losing consciousness at any point you have 100% perfectly clear dream recall. This is called a "wake induced lucid dream" or WILD. It's as easy to remember what you did in a WILD as it to remember the last 15 minutes or so of normal waking awareness. With this method you don't have to think back through hazy dream phase like you normally do with most dreams.
If You Actually Succeed. . . What Does It Feel Like
So what does it feel like to actually watch your body falling asleep
Instead of waking up in sleep paralysis with the heavy lead blanket feeling when you induce paralysis consciously you actually have the sensation of the heavy lead blanket being laid on your chest. It often feels like it begins at your feet comes up over your chest ends at your head. When that process is complete you're in sleep paralysis.
So how to get this process to happen consistently Here is the key. & this one fact is so important so critical that I'm giving it a big fancy name. It's called the "Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis".
The Fundamental Theorem Of Sleep Paralysis
The Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis is that if you wake up fall asleep without moving at all sleep paralysis becomes extremely likely.
Sleep Paralysis Is Most Likely When The Body Was Recently Asleep
And when I say without moving I mean you wake up don't move your eyes don't open your eyes don't scratch any itches you don't move at all in any way. The idea is that your body doesn't really know for sure if your mind is actually awake or not. If you don't give it any signals otherwise it will assume that the mind really is still asleep re paralyze itself.
The Next Step The "Stop Drop Roll" Sleep Commands
The foundation skill you need to develop this knowledge into a full blown induction is to fall asleep quickly. So in the next section I'll show you how you can make your body first ask for permission to asleep then I'll show you how you can tell it "yes it's time to fall asleep". This trick is called the "stop drop roll" sleep command once you have it you'll never have a problem with insomnia again you'll dramatically accelerate your O. B. E progress.
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