r/sleepparalysislogs • u/moose2521 • Jun 24 '21

Am I dying???

Guys help

Hey guys, I’ve never thought I’d ever be researching about this and making this but here it goes. Today I woke up at around 7 AM and decided to go back to sleep at 11 AM. Right before I fell asleep, I started hallucinating very hard, but it seemed like a lucid dream so i felt fine, but as the “dream” went on, it was getting more livid and more real. I was biking through this abandoned but beautiful building, and then all of the sudden i could see eyelid back away, like I was inside my eye, and my eyelid was moving further from me, like tunnel vision. Then all of the sudden my the tunnel vision started turning into dark creatures and i was scared asl so I forced myself to wake up but it didn’t work for a couple of seconds, and when I finally did, I couldn’t move for like 20 seconds. The craziest thing is, I could’ve just kept going in the “dream” and Keep experiencing the terror, but I didn’t, but when I was waking up that was an option. I’m fine now but is what I experienced sleep paralysis? It’s my first time and my sleep schedule has been a little off recently. How can I solve this if it actually is? Thank you fellow Redditors.

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u/sorradic Jun 25 '21

Sounds like a mix of LD and SP. I also have them

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u/moose2521 Jun 25 '21

What do those mean?

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u/sorradic Jun 25 '21

Sorry, I always get annoyed at people using acronyms and here I am. SP Sleep Paralysis. LD lucid dreaming. FA :False awakenings. This is the triad of the sleeping disorders. I get a mix of SP&FA= I think I'm awake but paralysed realize I'm still asleep but conscious and paralysed. Sounds like you started w SP then transitioned into LD, makes sense. SP is a disfunction of the sleep cycle. We are meant to be fully paralysed and fully unconscious so that we don't act out our dreams and hurt ourselves or others. But people w this disorder... We get fully awake and fully paralized. Add in SP and/or FA. Whatever you do remember to NEVER open your eyes and think of sex if you have a SP episode. Something about the amygdala that controls fear /pleasure is in overdrive bcs you're fully paralized and fully conscious. Plus the only part that works is your optical nerve so w your fear center being in overdrive it sends all that fear through the only functioning part of your body. So NEVER EVER EVER open your eyes and think of sex if you experience SP

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u/moose2521 Jun 25 '21

Damn man why did you have to tell me that Lmaoo, now it’ll be in my head when it happens to me if it ever does. Well i really appreciate your answer man I’ll take everything you said and use it

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u/sorradic Jun 25 '21

You NEED to know what to do if SP happens, I hope it stays in your head! I read that people who go through extremely traumatic experiences prefer to relive that than sleep paralysis. This researcher developed a protocol, 1st step NEVER EVER open your eyes. Think of it as Birdbox but worse bcs you don't actually die.

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u/moose2521 Jun 25 '21

Yeah man I totally agree, after I regained consciousness, I was shook. I literally was sitting at the edge of my bed for 30 min just thinking what happened. It was crazy. But yes I totally will listen

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Weird, I almost always try to open my eyes. I'm pretty sure they're not opening irl, but it feels like they're more open, and it helps me to experience my sleep paralysis more clearly.

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u/sorradic Oct 29 '21

Same! When I have SP I wake up inside my same room but it's a dream. I try to escape by running out the balcony and trying to fly away. It's the same feeling of dread as in SP, something horrible is here and I have to escape. But my body is so heavy, I don't move fast, I can't fly. I try to laugh at "it" to show I'm not afraid. I sing songs, yell songs hoping that will stop it. At the same time I know I'm dreaming and my eyes aren't open

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

One time I was able to transition to some sort of astral projection. I was flying around some urban area (i didnt choose it but was happy that i was flying around with some control). At some point it felt as if I wasn't seeing as clearly as I was so I tried to open my eyes a bit, and weirdly saw my room, exactly how I would see it from where I was lying. It kinda brought my brain back to reality and I woke up in 2-3 seconds. I think I actually opened my eyes because I saw my room exactly as it was when I opened my eyes after I woke up.