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human
I just experienced sleep paralysis for the first time in over a decade. I woke from a mundane dream about work and rolled over onto my back. I heard a loud, strange sound, a kind of low frequency 'bluaurrrr', like it came from a tuba made of meat. I felt a hand gently slide over my right bicep and then lost my ability to move or vocalize. The sensation on my arm then spread to my chest. In my past SP experiences, I never felt the classic weight on my chest. This time, it felt like a cat had walked onto me and laid down. Fear began to creep in when I realized what was happening. SP is frightening to me, but I managed to dial my anxiety down by intellectualizing it and seeing it as an opportunity to explore. That's where it got really trippy.

The darkness of my room dispersed and I was back at a scene from my dream and saw the details of the room I was working in. I was disembodied, floating, with a first person view like a drone camera, but no control over where it went. The camera panned left to capture the rest of the room and the walls, floor, and ceiling all disintegrated, giving way to a deep blue 'space'. The objects were floating around in this space (pic related). I managed to wrest some agency from the dream and found I could turn my head and look around, the scene changing with my perceptual movement. This was very disorienting and challenging, like trying trying to read while drunk. The objects transformed into cubes and I lost my sense of proportion. They could have been the size of planets at this point for all I knew. The blue faded to black as did the objects and I awoke with an uncanny bodily sensation, the closest thing I can compare it to is the body load of LSA.

Share you encounters with sleep paralysis. Have you ever worked with it productively?
How do you manage anxiety in that space?
I need to sleep, but I'll be back in the morning if the thread is still up. Good night, anon.
gpt
i had it 3 times this week and for the first time i hallucinated voices. usually i dream of hitting myself or screaming to try and wake up. i have different kinds. the worst kind is when i hear a loud pulsating tinnitus sound, like an alarm. but its different every time. and i can feel blood rushing through my head and heart. usually this happens when im lying down awake and instantly fall asleep. it feels like cramps
human
>do not open your eyes
I told myself this last night. Im not sure I could have if I wanted to, but I'm always afraid in these situations that there will be aliens hovering over me.


>tinnitus sound
>blood rushing through my head
This was extreme in my first SP encounter as a teenager and became unbearable, like I was under water and pressure was building in my ears. It wasn't so intense last night and I had better control over my fear, perhaps from being older now (32).