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Don't know about this... sounds awfully familiar somehow.
Are you sure it isn't safer consulting /x/ on how to construct a mirror box or something?

I'm getting a little bit out of it. Just weird sort of flashback looking things that never happened before. It's kind of neat.

Wait, I'm supposed to use this sitting down. Will I faint on my chair or something? How exactly does it work?

>>7841523
It makes you see things and kind of fall into a pseudo sleep-like state. It doesn't make you fall over or anything. I'm a bit out of it after 15 minutes though.

Last time I did this when I woke up my cat was missing and I had bloody fur in my mouth.

Which is the best frequency and color?

What do you mean "Lucid Dreaming here I come"?

Are lucid dreams hard to achieve now or something? Because I get one or two every single night.

I tried for a couple of minutes, and other than some slight banding of the initial pattern I don't see much effect.
Maybe all that playing touhou with my eyes closed made me immune.

>>7841544
Red at about 20hz has been working the best for me.

Maybe I'm supposed to do it otherwise, but that doesn't seem to work for me.
>The user experiences increasingly bright, complex patterns of color behind their closed eyelids.
Sometimes I'm pressing my hands on my closed eyes, that has the same effect, but will hurt after a time.

This method may work for some people, but I doubt it reaches the same intensity than lucid dreaming.

I experienced shortness of breath so I stopped. This seems really neat though.

Can't see shit. Do you have to be drowsy and about to fall asleep for this to work?

Wait, am I gonna hallucinate in the dark or something? B-Because I'm really prone to get nervous in these situations and such. I, I live alone, and it's gonna be dark and...

>>7841737
You are likely to be eaten by grue.

Shit got really creepy after 5 minutes. It was like something was crawling up the stairs. I'll try it again in the morning.

I've been thinking about picking up one of these:
http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MSBM

Same deal, basically, but more convenient for laying on your bed or whatever.

Whoa, shit. I forgot to turn off the dim screen function on windows, so after two minutes, BAM, everything just wen dark.

I jumped up a meter. My heartbeats got cut in half.

>>7841737
Dont worry anon, i will be there watching over you..

>>7841776
Whohohohoa.

I do not trust anything like this.

I am far to much of a little girl, i cannot turn of that "its going to be a screamer in 2 seconds" feeling.

I am the ultimate coward.jpg

How long does it take for something to happen?

>>7841356
You know, if a Hypnagogic state is basically sleep paralysis, you're tossing a bunch of people into having a terrible experience in the dark, ITT. opening their eyelids to find out that their limbs can't move, and a figure is standing right next to their beds, ready to try and suffocate them.

Hey, I'm just saying. This isn't exactly safe for your sanity of you're someone like >>7841770. Thread thy waters with caution.

>>7841803
>>7841776
>and a figure is standing right next to their beds,
This is exactly what happened the last time i tried to lucid dream.

The thing had no eyes or mouth and just stood there with its "face" close to mine and screamed at me in this really hollow sound.

It took me weeks to get over it.

Try doing this while playing 6 songs you like at the same time in low volume.

I tried it for a bit, I got scared thinking some of the ''mental phenomena'' in OP's post would occur after a few seconds of trying the red one, especially since I was feeling a bit drowsy, though that was probably nervousness.

>>7841822

If this happened to me, I wouldn't be able to live alone anymore. Sounds horrifying.

My eyes started hurting very slightly after 10 seconds, is this normal?

>>7841822
>>7841803

Is it that bad? Like, you can see that "thing" next to you?

>>7841822
Yes. This is a common phenomenon when attempting to lucid dream and such, or sometimes even while just sleeping normally. If you accidentally wake up in the middle of sleep paralysis, there's a pretty good chance you'll hallucinate, since you're on that threshold between sleep and wake.

Since you get the impression it's hard to breathe, and you can't really move your limbs, you'll probably hallucinate with a monster or a person attempting to suffocate you. It's really terrifying.

This happened to me by accident once. I woke up in the middle of the night, only to find out I couldn't move my limbs. And before I knew it, I saw a faceless figure standing over by my window, looking outside. Then the figure started to come over to my bed, and I panicked reeeeally fast.

I ended up breaking out of the paralysis by breathing really fast. I realized I was in a cold sweat. One thing I knew though, the person who tried to suffocate me, was myself.

It was really cool.

>>7841838
Yes, you can clearly see it. It'll probably be dark so you can't see the face, but you'll clearly see it coming towards you and attempting to sit on your abdomen, or raising it's hands down to your neck. There's always this pattern.

>>7841822
That happened to me last night! I sleep on a bunk bed and woke up at around 3:23 and was just starting at me. Its head was flaming purple/black and I couldn't move for about 20 sec.

I'm afraid to try this,post your results anon.

From the responses I see, I'm not even going to be opening that link.

>>7841822
That was just sleep paralysis. You were screaming, but your brain fucked up when interpreting the pitch. It's happened to me too, except mine was shadowy and had its "arm" stretched out and pointing towards me.

Let's all escape reality instead of manning up and changing how we live! At least I'll be loved in my fucking dreams!

>>7841838
Yes it is that bad, i am not sure why the human brain is capable of making you see and hear such things.

Its like looking at yourself in a mirror when you sleep walk, the brain cant recognize what you see so it almost makes shit up at random from experiences.

And if you have seen horror movies you know that mirrors= bad so the brain fucks you over by letting you see some sort of monstrosity looking back at you.

And now I got a deju vu while reading these posts... I'm afraid to go to bed now.

Fuck this shit, I stopped, read the posts and now I'm hearing a crawling sound. I won't be able to sleep tonight.

To the people getting interesting effects from this: what frequency are you using?

>>7841843
Hey, fuck you. Look what you did.

How can I avoid dream paralysis? It seems pretty common. Knowing myself, I'll lose consciousness from the shock.

>>7841859
At the default frequency and hertz (white, 10), I keep seeing hexes at the edge of my vision, and sometimes I see something that resembles one of those really old wagon wheels.

Oh, and I noticed the white that flashes in my eyes don't really match up with the frequency on the screen. It's weird. Apart from that, I opened my eyes after some five minutes and nothing happened.

>>7841853
>>7841843
Great thanks guys, now i wont be able to sleep normally again.

You better take responsibility by letting me sleep in your arms at night from now on.

I often dream that I am walking or 'floating' somewhere, like a big mansion that is completely empty or some large garden, and all the time, every turn I make, I have this feeling a monster will show up the next moment. And I keep moving and it doesn't come, and come, and the anxiety gets so bad I wake up from it. Except once, I was in a room, and looking at one door over at the other side. And there it suddenly came... slowly walking out... cookie monster.

It was as large as a human and had those creepy eyes and that blue fur... scary as hell.

Welp, after reading this thread, I'm not going to sleep tonight.
I wish I had a dakimakura so I could feel like my waifu is protecting me.

Did i just click on /x/?
And i was about to go to sleep.

Time to charge my PSP. I'll need something to keep me distracted tonight.

>>7841872
Only if you let me ram my dick into you so hard, you'll faint from exhaustion.

Then you'll have pleasant dreams of me making tender love to you still. What? It's better than sleep paralysis!

>>7841843
>>This happened to me by accident once. I woke up in the middle of the night, only to find out I couldn't move my limbs. And before I knew it, I saw a faceless figure standing over by my window, looking outside. Then the figure started to come over to my bed, and I panicked reeeeally fast.

Stuff like this makes me lol more than anything else.

Unfortunately my optical nerves are pretty much destroyed by a lifetime of video games, so I can't make this work.

Whuh?

I tried on Red with 10hz and after 15 seconds the flickering became undetectable and everything got mixed in, then around 30 seconds later I suddenly start ''seeing'' the flickering again but with VERY high contrast, like, contrast I didn't knew I could detect while having my eyes closed. I freaked out because it was so sudden.

Reminds me of that time at band camp.

Stuff you see while in sleep paralysis is real. You just can't see all of them while you're awake.

They're already there, waiting for you.

Can you at least screem during sleep paralysis?
How long does it last?
Can you just close your eyes shut so that you can't see anything?
Is there a way to stop/prevent it?

>>7841895
This is what I'm afraid about...

>>7841893
>.gif

>>7841900
Well, why don't you exterminate them then? Go get some spiritually important item to act as your weapon and get those damn ghosts out of your house.

>>7841899
For me,I'm completely frozen...I can move my eyes though,but can't shut them.

>>7841899
No, to anyone asking, there's no way to prevent sleep paralysis. It's a normal reaction, your body just "shot down" for the night. If you're attempting to lucid dream on purpose, you'll come across it whether you like it or not. If you're just sleeping normally and end up waking on it, tough luck. Just bear it out and pee on your bed while you try to scream in horror, having no results.

>>7841868

Don't sleep on your back.
Don't have too much covering your upper body.

It didn't really do anything for me, honestly. I gave it about two minutes on red at 20, and it was just "oh hey, my eyes are closed and red light is flickering. Neato?"

Maybe I did it wrong? All the lights were off in my room, save for a little sun coming through the window..

>>7841899
I remember having it once during a day nap, could only move my eyes and thought I was suffocating (I wasn't), moved my eyes around the room until my door starting becoming misty and distorted, I closed my eyes in fear and the next thing I remember is waking up on the floor.

>>7841899
If that is all it takes sure thing, i will be on my way to your place right away..

>>7841899

When I've had it I wasn't able to hear myself scream, even though I felt like I was. It usually feels like it lasts for a while, once it seemed to last a really long time, I kept half waking up, and tried to keep my eyes open as long as possible until I fell asleep and it started again. You can't close your eyes, they're already closed, and you're completely paralysed anyway.

Tried it again at Red 20 hz. I started to see eyes in the middle of the screen.

Bad news is, I'm now terrified of sleeping.
Good news is, it will be morning in some hours and I can go buy a large quantity of energy drinks once the stores open.

>>7841922
Likewise.

Never trying this shit again.

>This thread
I do love living alone out in the forest in a old house.

Fuck you all with a rusty steel rake.

Wow, that must be bad, being haunted by your own mind, like in this sleep paralysis. I really wanted to be able to lucid dream, but after I read that, I'm not so sure anymore.
I mean, shit, that would take weeks before I could sleep normally again if I would see some faceless creature standing next to my bed and screaming.
I knew a thing like sleep paralysis exists, but I only thought you couldn't move during this time, without the scary side effects. Shit, I can't sleep tonight.

>>7841932
You'll be visited by something unspeakable scary tonight. In fact, it's probably already nearby.

>>7841920
>>7841919
>>7841912
>>7841909

Thank you for the information guys. I hope this won't trigger the sleep paralysis. Well, I'm not sleeping anyways.

>>7841935
There are already bears lurking outside my house at night, if anything bigger or scarier then that shows up i thankfully have a gun next to my bed.

..To shoot myself with, except i cant because sleep paralysis.

>>7841935
Fuck you.
No, seriously.
I'm not the guy you replied to, but I'm still terrified.

What troubles me is the fact I lucid dream just about every night. I can't really help it or do anything against it, just at some point in dreams I always realize I'm dreaming (lately I've also been thinking I'm 'time traveling', especially when I see old relatives who have since passed away). And I do have been waking up screaming from SOMETHING that terrifies me at that time but I cannot remember at all just a moment after it happens. Doctors concluded it was epilepsy (after several tests naturally) and gave me medicines and it is now finally starting to disappear completely.

Experimenting with stuff like this is never, ever worth it. Having done various drugs, the possibility of experiencing the vivid horrors and disgust of a really bad trip doesn't justify those good moments. I assume the same applies to these dream shenanigans.

I'm already horrified, I want to forget everything about this shit. Curious thing is, I can't help refreshing this thread.

What a bunch of bunk.

I've experienced sleep paralysis a couple times before because of medication I was taking. it was basically like I woke up from sleeping, only I couldn't open my eyes or move my body. I could hear people talking to me, but I couldn't respond. I didn't see any monsters though.

I see things that's not supposed to exist all the time.
Sleep does nothing to stop them, only aggravates.
No thank you.

>>7841947
>I can't help refreshing this thread.
Me neither, I've already posted like 3 times in it.
I wanted to try lucid dreaming so I could be together with my waifu. But then I read about all the possible horrors I might encounter.
But then again, if I am not willing to risk experiencing the nightmares then I do not deserve her.

This seems like the perfect thread to ask this question:

Has anyone looked into a mirror in a dream? Was so scary that your concious mind can't even comprehend it or was it something nice that makes you feel happy when you think about it?

Might as well give it a try when it gets dark.

Blue at 10hz is really soothing. Almost like riding a boat in a gentle current.

>>7841964
Also a warning, never do this if you don't know what to expect. Seriously.

>>7841957
Thankfully my "waifu" is Saya, so even if i see monsters i can just pretend they are her and kiss/hug the horrors away untill they turn pretty.

>>7841964
>>7841853
That is what happens.

>>7841964
I can only remember one time. I was pretty much normal except either my skin or hair, can't remember which, was some odd color like blue or green.

>>7841964
I saw a younger version of myself one time. Mostly though, it's like I'm looking through a window to an alien landscape.

>>7841964

Probably the same as on drugs, not a good idea.

I got dream paralysis once. It was the most horrifying thing I experienced in my life. At first, I grew conscious of my surroundings, I was staring at the ceiling. I heard a sound like heavy rain pouring. Then, I saw a shadow take form in front of my eyes, it was taking the shape of a face, with nothing on it. Then, some face features started appearing and dissapearing fast in the face, in weird places, like a mouth in a cheek, an eye in the chin, three noses, etc. The sound changed into a horrifying and bizarre cacophony, and I tried to screem or at least close my eyes. but couldn't. Eventually, more shadows appeared. it lasted about 10 minutes.
I visited the doctor next day, and he explained what probably happened. I wasn't able to sleep normally for three months.
I thought I had forgotten about it, fuck this thread.

>>7841964
I saw a blonde little girl with no eyes before in a mirror. I think it varies depending on your mindset.

>>7841957
>I wanted to try lucid dreaming so I could be together with my waifu. But then I read about all the possible horrors I might encounter.
But then again, if I am not willing to risk experiencing the nightmares then I do not deserve her.

This. I will go through any hell just for a chance to see her. My resolve is not weakened by these horror stories.

Quite a tranquil OP image for such a terrifying thread.

>>7841988

Mother of God, you hear voices too?

>>7841955
What do you mean, you see them all the time?

How come /jp/ is so easily scared? Some scary empty face that is floating around? That sounds hilariously funny rather than scary.

>>7842007
All the time..They just stand there..Watching me..

The dreamachine didn't do shit.
Fuck this thread, I'm outta here.

>>7842011

Say that in your dreams not online and see what happens.

>>7842011
Ever had dreams when ill? Even the most friendly things can become horror entities, subtle and custom made by your mind, and horrible only to your mind.

>>7842022
Some Anon did come to say that he had some pretty erotic and masochistic (but not terrifying) dreams while he had a fever, so maybe that's not the best example, Anon.

>>7842011
We are wizards. We know what lurks in the world that can't normally be seen.

>>7842026
Of course, fever dreams being nightmares isn't a given. I once dreamt I was Aragorns sword when my stomach was in bad shape. They are usually uniquely strange in some way.

If I try to sleep today, I might suffer sleep paralysis.
If I don't, I will be fine today, but not getting enough sleep and irregular sleep schedules trigger sleep paralysis, so I have higher chances of suffering it tomorrow.
What the hell should I do?

>>7842049
Just go to sleep.

Seriously, the thread indeed invokes fear, but don't worry. Sure, you're all on edge now, but the chance of you waking up on sleep paralysis is so small, you might as well expect a real threat to show up on your room to try and kill you. And unless you live in the slums or something, that's pretty dang insignificant too.

>>7842042
Why the hell can't I have dreams like that. It sounds so cool.
Instead it's always running away from something wanting to kill me or seeing everyone else around me being killed or me going into some creepy place and being killed by some monster.

>>7842049
Stay awake today and buy sleeping pills for tomorrow.
You will need them from now on.

I want to experience all this scary shit. How do I lucid dream?

>>7842069
Using my expert psychoanalysis skills, I have deduced that you probably need to take it easier.

>>7842069
Kill the monster you faggot.

>>7842067

That happened to me once. I woke up and there was a guy there stealing all the valuable objects, including my keys. I shouted at him and rapidly woke up, but he punched me in the face, broke my nose and escaped. I've been really paranoid since then. This sleep paralysis shit is just like all my nightmares come true.

>>7842067
Well, actually... the chance of you getting robbed outside the slums is actually bigger than if you were living in a slum. You see, and this is just a guess, but if I was a robber, I would actually think about stealing from some posh house on a fancy residential area than some loser in the slums.

I'm sure common sense applies from here.

>>7842086
Your heart must be one with your waifu's. Once this condition is fulfilled, it will happen one night. You will have to look for her in the dream if you want to see her...or not, if you just want to find monsters.

Fuck, I'm going to sleep. I'M DOING IT. And if I see someone besides my bed, I'm going to imagine it's the fucking idiot who started this thread, AND I'M GONNA DRAG HIM DOWN AND RAPE HIM.

Fuck. Just fuck. Fuck you.

I remember once when i was a kid and i had a friend sleeping over.
He had a crazy stroke of sleep paralysis and some nightmare in the middle of the night.

I woke up to him screaming like a little girl with tears all over his face.

Turns out my dog had decided to sleep on his chest and he thought it was a monster and he had been stuck staring at this beast for a good 10 minutes.

I now understand his horrible experience a little.

This thread has me smiling.

I can just imagine Anons screaming at their dakimakura for a good 10 minutes.

I had the sleep paralysis once. I woke up but was unable to open my eyes or move at all. I could hear clicking and see bright flashes as though someone was standing beside my bed taking photos. It didn't so much scare me as fill me with rage, but no matter how much I struggled I could only twitch a little.

I can't do it. I tried to sleep but couldn't even close my eyes. Guess I'll be staying awake for the night. Curse this thread and the guy who started the sleep paralysis shit.

I sleep like a rock, and I've never been able to lucid dream. Hell, it's rare that I can remember a dream even immediately after waking.
Feels bad, actually, knowing I'll probably never get to experience anything like lucid dreaming.

>>7842142
If I had one, I would feel no fear.
With my waifu next to me, I could punch shoggoths.

in my dreams i am yukari

its me

>>7842142
You just put a hilarious thought into my mind.

I imagine an anon hugging his dakimakura before he tries to lucid dream, saying out loud how he will meet her in his dreams.
Then he falls asleep with his dakimakura on top of him and thinks it's some unspeakable nightmare when he enters sleep paralyisis.

Poor anon is frozen in fear and screaming his lungs out in his mind while his waifu pillow just lays on top of him with a lewd smile on her face.

>>7842176
Perhaps his waifu pillow is a trickster and likes to scare anon out of mind before using her body to soothe him, pressing his head against her flat chest and feeling his rapid heartbeats against her while smiling impishly and berating the anon for being such a coward.

>>7842195
Fufufu~
He will never be able to sleep without me in his arms now, and no one is ever going to take him away from me~

>>7842200
>Yandere waifu dakimakura
Time to learn how to lucid dream! horrors be damned this will be worth it.

This is even more bullshit than the NovaDreamer.

...it just gave me a strong headache.

>>7842195
>>7842200
This is my fetish.

>>7841776
>>7841803
>>7841822
tell me how to achieve a horrendous nightmare please. it's the only thing that replenish my willpower apart psychotic rage, amd also I'd like to see again some of the abominatons that hauted my sleep in the past.

Seeing even /jp/ freak out like /x/ makes me feel like less of a normalfag. I have such control over my dreams that even sleep paralysis is nothing. I literally feel nothing. I try to move my arms, can't, go to sleep, and lucid dream up some kick ass stuff like becoming the little girl.

>>7842293
If you really wish to experience hell..So be it..

First you should watch as many horror movies as possible, +points if they have mirrors as themes.

Next you need a big ass mirror next to your bed that you can look into without having to do more than open your eyes.

Third, buy a cat or any other creature that is awake at night that can make creepy noises.

The rest is just learning how to lucid dream and get yourself into a sleep paralysis state.

>>7842299
You are small time. I can move while in sleep paralysis, cum buckets with no physical contact, and have lucid dreams while remaining awake and doing other tasks.

I can quote Wikipedia too.

>>7842307
suck my cock dude

I'll try this later, but all that flashing can't be good for you monitor.

>>7842302
I see. but horrors doesn't affect me, and I'm already full of animals...and my senses are far too keen. I tried many times to confound them, but without success. the mirror part its interesting, thought. I remember, when I was teenage mostly, to easily autohypnotize myself in the eyes for looking too long in a reflecting surface. gotta try it.

>>7842302
My closet had a sliding mirror door, shit's creepy at night

I never have nightmares anymore though, I do wonder why.

>>7842320
that's because at some point you get used to it.
try something new, like putting a jacket on the back of a chair between your bed and your window.
if its humanoid looking enough, sooner or later it will have a mannequin effect.

>>7842318
The horrors may not be scary but they are there to add information to your subconscious, the brain needs to pull pictures and images and so on to create the monster from.

And i would imagine new info has a priority in a way, especially if it involves horrors+mirrors.

As the brain cannot understand that the thing in the mirror is you, it creates images and looks that fits in from previous experiences to the current situation.

Or something like that..

>>7842328
>Or something like that...
yes, I understand what are you trying to say.
gotta sleep now, I hope to see something interesting.

>>7841964
I've looked into mirrors a few time. Once I looked like another person. The rest of the times I had funny facial hair.

oh god this topic made me remember one of these i had. i guess thinking back now it was a sleep paralysis nightmare thing. i was about 12 years old or so, and i shared a bedroom with my 10 year old bro. one night i woke up maybe around 2 AM or so and way lying on my side facing my bros bed. i swear my little sister (6 at the time) was just standing there at the foot of my bros bed staring at me. after about 10 minutes i got really freaked out, she wasn't moving or nothing. so i start shouting at her to do something but still nothing. i eventually work up the courage to get out of bed, go over there, and it turns out to have been the sheets of my bro's bed fell in a certain way that it looked like her. how that added up to an extremely realistic version of my sister i dont know.

then onetime when i finally had my own room, i had a dream i was at my grandfathers house and it was totally empty. i was wondering around abit when suddenly a giant mosquito appears and bit me on the neck. i started scratching at it screaming for it to get off and then i woke up. i ran to the bathroom and i was bleeding exactly where the mosquito bit me. i also had blood under my fingernails so i was scratching so hard IRL i started bleeding.

also not a nightmare but one night i swear i was a female version of me. my name was the same, i lived in same house same family. i was just eating dinner (pasta with mushrooms). nothing to indicate i was a girl, i just was for some reason. (really weird, why couldn't i do something cool...)

Why does everyone in this thread insist on dreaming scary /x/ things or failing at lucid dreaming?

I just sleep. If I lucid dream I just imagine all kinds of interesting or pleasant scenarios. When you imagine something behaving in a certain way in a dream, it behaves in that way. If you "will" that you go no-clip out of your house, and fly over some mountain range, then have a fairy pop up in front of you (random, but perfectly possible example,), you will have that situation. The hard part is NOT waking up if you get overly excited.
As for sleep paralysis? I think I had it a few times, but it's usually when too much of my senses/brain is active/awake and I'm unable to fall into proper REM sleep. It's a bit annoying as your brain functions slower and you're aware of faster subjective time passing, which also means a lot more stimuli from the environment are happening faster than you can process, which is a weird subjective experience, but then all you have to do is go with the flow, like you do in most dreams.
Damn, people, dreams are to be enjoyed!

>>7842396
I usually dream that I own a bar/inn in Gensokyo and that certain characters visit every day. The only downside is that when there is a party, I miss it because I'm too busy.

>>7841964
A half dog creature, kind of like Nina, but a little more deformed and slightly moldy. There was absence of presence in the eye area, not even sockets or light.
The image itself didn't scare me, but the perception of something else than myself shot me jolts that something was wrong which freaked me the fuck out.
That's how it normally works for me.

Damn.

I keep trying to do this, but when I feel that I'm getting into it, I keep imagining that a horrifying face is looking at me, right in front of me every time I try. I always end up opening my eyes before it solidifies.

>>7842559
Let it solidify. And let it consume you.

Glasses on or off?

>>7842632
Shouldn't matter. I'd take em off just to relax, since that's the main thing to do.

>>7842615
Why would I want to do that?

It's not like I'm opening the Ninth Gate or something.

After staring at it for about 15 minutes, seeing a bunch of eyes in a forest, I realized I was supposed to press the start button.

Whoops.

>>7842669
Because it's genuinely amusing to have that happen. Your mind races and you just want it gone as fast as possible, so when it is gone it feels amazing.
Also, going through that shit makes dreams down the line seem more amusing and less evil.

I get sleep paralysis at least once a week, if not more. Usually it's because I took a nap during the day. I found that it doesn't happen if I leave the TV on when I go to sleep.
When I was a sophomore in high school, I became obsessed with trying to have out of body experiences, and would go into a hypnagogic state 5 to 10 times a night. I wasn't scared of it, but I've reverted to terror for the last 5 years.
I never see a figure, probably because I can hardly open my eyes. I have difficulty breathing and I think I'm going to suffocate. I struggle to move and become incredibly tired, physically. The scariest part is that I get the sense that someone is watching me and I have to leave the room for a while after I awake.

>>7843072
Worst that's happened to me was a deep but girly growl, like a small child trying to sound tough or scary, and indeed succeeding at both. Never actually saw anything, only heard.
>The scariest part is that I get the sense that someone is watching me and I have to leave the room for a while after I awake
Ditto. Though that happens almost every time I sleep, not just with lucid/paralysis.

I get sleep paralysis every now and then but I've never hallucinated and after reading about it I'm not very scared of it before.
I hear though that it's related to genetics and some have more severe cases than others which makes sense since just about everyone I know in my family has had it in some form.
Used to be terrified as a kid of the creepy shit they'd tell they've seen, monsters, demons, old ladies sitting on them, that kind of thing.

Now though I just try to get up and it's more of an inconvenience than anything and I'm not really aware I'm sleep paralysis anyway.
I have a hard time realizing I'm still asleep and if did realize it I'd probably try to capitalize on the chance to lucid dream and summon some shrine maidens or something.

Tried it for a few minutes. It caused rapid eye movement and a headache, so I stopped.

>>7843361
>rapid eye movement Good.
>headache Reasonable, seeing as there's lights flashing at you. Relaxing a bit more helped that for me.

>>7843072
to get out from sleep paralysis you need to change your breathing pattern.

>dream machine
Wait, I thought that was something made up for that terrible James Bond movie with the North Koreans and the space laser made of diamonds