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Does anyone else have the ability to halt a sleep paralysis episode? If I recognize the onset of symptoms (tingling paresthesia in hands and feet), I can consciously stop it from progressing to the Terror stage. I don’t know how to describe exactly how to do it though. If I hold it in this pre-paralysis, half-dream state for a while, it goes away.
I don’t get sleep paralysis thankfully, but I wonder if practicing lucid dreaming techniques might help to recognize it? Reality checks, dream journaling etc. may be useful?
I used to have both. I suspect it was a result of working night shifts and regularly changing my sleep patterns. The fact that I would regularly lucid dream helped me in no way when I experienced sleep paralyses. I knew it was happening, but that didn’t help me stop it. Really freaky experience, and I’m glad it stopped once I went back to a stable sleep pattern.
I’ve thought about that. I think that what I did was a form of a reality check, and being aware of it allowed me to stop it from progressing further.
Oddly, I can tell when physical parts of my body have gone to sleep even if the brain part hasn’t yet done so. It’s a pleasant feeling so it sucks when I have to disturb it to go to the bathroom.
