OBE-paralysis


(ASP - Awareness of Sleep Paralysis)
 
 
 

Awareness of Sleep Paralysis (ASP)

ASP - means awareness of sleep paralysis. You have an unaware sleep paralysis every night while you are dreaming (= SP). In OBEs or in IBEs it may happen that you get aware of that fact (= ASP). This very often is frightening to persons who are not used to it. Nevertheless this kind of sleep paralysis is quite natural.
The sleep paralysis is a body mechanism of security - it has to prevent body actions while dreaming and you have it every night without being aware of it.

A way to stop your sleep paralysis (ASP) is to move your eyes or to take a deep breath. For both, eye movement and breathing, sleep paralysis is of no influence. For that reason you can control eye movement and breathing and you can use them to break the state. Especially deep breathing helps very well.







Feeling very heavy

One very often has this feeling in the late morning in the short awake phases while still lying in bed. It is the same feeling as you try to produce by will in hypnosis or autohypnosis. As I suppose it is a kind of semi-sleep-paralysis.



Nightmare (HHE)

HHE = Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experience

Nightmares are neither OBEs nor OBE-pre-states. Because nightmares are experienced as real people are confused and take them for OBEs. Such confusion discredits OBEs.


 


 

"People frequently report feeling a "presence" that is often described as malevolent, threatening, or evil. An intense sense of dread and terror is very common. The presence is likely to be vaguely felt or sensed just out of sight but thought to be watching or monitoring, often with intense interest, sometimes standing by, or sitting on, the bed. On some occasions the presence may attack, strangling and exerting crushing pressure on the chest. People also report auditory, visual, proprioceptive, and tactile hallucinations, ..."
Citation from: hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences (HHEs)


 

Unpublished letter:
"the strangest thing happend to me a few nites ago... while i was sleeping i heard somebody calling me when i woke up there was nobody. It happend twice...

the third time someone sat on my bed i could feel him/her... i tried to open my eyes to see who it was and i tried to call someone to help me but i was paralized... the next morning i told my friend and she told me that i might me astro travelling... i have no idea what it is...

2 nites ago it happend again... it felt like someone was trying to suffocate me... i could not open my eyes of move eventhough i was wide awake... "