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New To Lucid Dreams And OBEs? 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 lucid dreams and OBEs and you're wondering what to do first, well here it is. Here is the big secret that I wish I had known when I first got started with lucid dreams and OBEs. 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 and 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 and I had no idea why or what it was. But as it turns out, this was the trick that opened the door to frequent OBEs for me after having insomnia for years.
SLEEP PARALYSIS PROTECTS YOU DURING SLEEP
The question is "what is sleep paralysis and how can you use it?" Sleep paralysis is a protection mechanism your body uses when you fall asleep. If you were to dream you're doing something very active, such as running, and you weren't in sleep paralysis then you would move your limbs when you're asleep and 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 YOU ENTER "MIND ASLEEP, BODY ASLEEP"
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 and unaware of what's happening. In other words you enter a state of body awake/mind asleep' before entering body asleep, mind asleep'.
"MIND AWAKE/BODY ASLEEP" IS WHAT WE WANT
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 PUTS YOU IN A SUBCONSCIOUS FOCUS AUTOMATICALLY
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 and 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 OBEs,- Underneath the anger you are likely to encounter tears.
MOST BOOKS SAY TO DO OBES IN ONE STEP... THIS IS A MAJOR MISTAKE!
Most books on OBEs say to simply induce an OBE in what is basically a one step process. Going directly from a waking state to an OBE is possible but it's difficult so this is not what I recommend you start out with.
THE TRICK IS TO USE 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 and enter sleep paralysis.
You then use exit techniques we'll cover later to convert sleep paralysis into an OBE and 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 and 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.
IS SLEEP PARALYSIS DANGEROUS?
You may be wondering if sleep paralysis is dangerous and 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 a 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,5815 Ugg Classic Tall Black Boots. This is a 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 and legs. Your breathing is semi-involuntary so you still have control over it even in deep paralysis.
If you enter sleep paralysis and decide you want break free and 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 and slowly.
After 10 or 15 seconds your body will notice the change and bring you out of paralysis. Not many things are 100% reliable in lucid dreaming but this has worked for me every single time.
HOW TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA
A very few people have reported that they woke up in sleep paralysis and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 is to remember the last 15 minutes or so of normal waking awareness. With this method, you don't have to think back through and hazy dream phase like you normally do with most dreams,Take this riddle for example.
IF YOU ACTUALLY SUCCEED,whether it is in business... 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 and 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 and 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. And this one fact is so important and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and then I'll show you how you can tell it "yes it's time to fall asleep". This trick is called the "stop drop and roll" sleep command and once you have it you'll never have a problem with insomnia again and you'll dramatically accelerate your OBE progress.