RE: Sleep Paralysis: An Unpleasant Side Effect of Lucid Dreaming
Thanks for sharing your experience with us @leaky20.
I don't know if you have been following the multiple article series I am writing on the subject of lucid dreaming, but our article sure touches on some of it thus find many crossovers.
The sleep paralysis occurs in the intermediary state between full sleep and all the way till your have fully regained body awakening. The practice of Dream Yoga and the such helps one to realize that it is your spirit that is in limbo at this point and not fully aware of the state it is in while being in the "in-betweens", a.k.a. bardo, in Tibetan, or barzakh, for the Sufi. IT is a place one can visit during a certain depth of meditation or as one either falls asleep or comes back from their oneiric travels.
When in that state, your eye are not open, though you sure feel like they are as you can see the exact same things you would, if you were in your body, behind your eyes! At this point, you are still floating above the body and, not being fully awake yet, one can come across all the dream planes and spiritual planes...
With little practice, one can very easily get in and out of this sleep paralysis. I personally practice being in the in-betweens, they offer the key, a doorway so to speak, to the ultimate connection between all worlds.
Thanks a lot, again for an excellent quality article. It was much appreciated on this end.
Namaste :)
That's very interesting. You sound very knowledgeable on the subject, well beyond my experience. I have never heard that explanation before - "in between states" and such. I find that all very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. I'll have to check out your blog.
It has been a while and I have yet to write a new article about Dream Yoga, which followed the Lucid Dreaming articles, about 7 or 8 of them so far. They underline techniques, experiences and philosophical mind-sets to practice becoming aware that one is dreaming, then becoming fully conscious within the dream, then practice using one's will to dissolve the illusions created by the everyday living within the confines of the body and it moves towards opening one's eye of awareness to all of consciousness realms... I hope you'll enjoy.
Here's a link to the first few articles:
1- https://steemit.com/life/@eric-boucher/life-will-seem-like-a-dream
2- https://steemit.com/life/@eric-boucher/turning-dreams-on-off-like-your-iphone-to-becoming-oceanic
3- https://steemit.com/life/@eric-boucher/7tuanr-lucid-dreaming-the-art-of-summoning-dreams-to-the-surface-of-one-s-mind-and-know-that-you-are-dreaming-part-1
After that, it is very easy to find them within the blog... I still can't wait till the moment Steemit will separate the actual resteeming from our own writings.
Namaste :)
Very cool. Its such an interesting topic. The power of the mind and the mystery of consciousness makes it very fascinating.