I've had a single sleep paralysis episode in my entire life when I was a teenager. I just woke up, realized I couldn't move, freaked out a bit trying to move then went back to sleep. But there were no hallucinations or anything. What, am I not cool enough to get my own sleep paralysis demon?
>>16887487Sounds like you have uncomplicated sleep. If you want to live to an old age with your cognitive abilities intact, having good sleep is one of the best things you can do.
>>16887487i've had a little sleep paralysis and also a little dream bleeding into waking life like right after I wake up luckily not enough to do anything but one time I was on my stomach and I just kinda intentionally freaked myself out like what if there were someone behind me and I can't move. It's a combo of sleep walking kinda but also being paralysed.
>>16887487Sleep Paralysis is literally dreaming with your eyes open. That's what it is. Your body and brain are dreaming and your eyes are open and you are lucid. Lucid dreams and sleep paralysis are two sides of the same coin. The reason why people see demons and other nightmare-like imagery is because people experience a newfound, disorienting state in which they are frozen and can't move their body. They freak out and since they are basically dreaming, these thoughts of fear turn into a nightmare. I've had sleep paralysis a good times before and never seen any overly scary imagery, though I have heard whispering voices. I love sleep paralysis though because it's a fantastic way to go into a lucid dream, if you just focus and try to visualize with your eyes closed you can lucid dream. Fuck I miss lucid dreaming. It takes a lot of effort for shit that lasts so short, and it takes practice. You have to balance yourself between not becoming to aware and alert and waking up but also not being sluggish and unthoughtful and falling back asleep. There is nothing else like it though.
>>16887487>then went back to sleep.You literally had a dream you were having sleep paralysis. Prove that's not what happened, you can't. You also likely "went back to sleep" so easily because you were already asleep. The fact that it never happened again suggests my theory is the correct one.
>>16887487You didn’t have sleep paralysis. The demon is real, he and I are one and the same. I wake up screaming and then laughing out loud when he shows his incompetence for not having been able to murder me in my sleep so far.
>>16887684I've started "lucid" dreaming a lot in recent years. I've had chronic nightmares since I was a child, I mean consistently waking up 4-5 times a night from nightmares. Usually being killed, but sometimes just a scary situation. In my teenage years I began to semi-consciously manifest a "rescue hyena" who would bite my head off to wake me up as an escape from whatever freaky situation I was in. I don't know why that was all I could do. That persisted until my 30s where I began being able to change things up and manipulate the nightmares for longer, but I couldn't change them into positive dreams. I was stuck in horror mode and my thought process was "alright, let's conjure the creepiest looking thing I can muster and stare at it for as long as I can before I wake up". In my mid 30s ish I began to be able to escape into a positive scenario and begin flying, and flight has gradually gotten smoother. Still slow, but actual controllable flight rather than "swimming" through the air or warping to a new point. My mind is still very one track though, it's either "manifest something terrible" or "try to fly", and the awareness that I'm dreaming flickers in and out. So not completely lucid, but also not something I've actively tried to practice. It's just slowly developed due to a life of chronic nightmares. If I ever do try to practice lucid dreaming, by counting then recounting something or by reading text, I immediately wake up.
>>16887487I don't believe you because you post a 10+ year old reddit meme. I don't think you think.
>>16887684Or, get this: there are actual demons which cause the paralysis but your materialist dogma just denies the evidence of your eyes.
>>16887694No I was super awake. I remember it rather clearly, it was morning and I could hear my parents in the kitchen.
>>16887487If you want to trigger sleep paralysis, try sleeping in public.
>>16887487Not all people get visual hallucinations. I had 100+ sleep paralysis episodes and not once did I have a visual distortion. However, I often get audio hallus. Mostly is classical or electronic synth music, sometimes it's people talking in a kind-of coherent manner.
