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
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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.
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. 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'.
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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.
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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.
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 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.
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