| If you’re new to lucid dreams and OBEs and | | | | you from moving. Luckily paralysis is limited to your |
| you’re wondering what to do first, well here it is. | | | | voluntary muscle system like your arms and legs. Your |
| Here is the big secret that I wish I had known when I | | | | breathing is semi-involuntary so you still have control |
| first got started with lucid dreams and OBEs. | | | | over it even in deep paralysis. |
| You’re about to find out why sleep paralysis is the | | | | If you enter sleep paralysis and decide you want |
| holy grail for new OBEers because it’s how you | | | | break free and wake up, simply change your breathing |
| can access your subconscious without having to | | | | pattern to something other than the sleep breathing |
| practice using any visualizations at all. | | | | pattern your body is in. The most effective way I have |
| If you've ever woken up in the morning and found that | | | | found to do this is to begin breathing deeply and slowly. |
| you couldn't move or make a sound for a few | | | | After 10 or 15 seconds your body will notice the |
| minutes, you've had sleep paralysis. This used to | | | | change and bring you out of paralysis. Not many things |
| happen to me and I had no idea why or what it was. | | | | are 100% reliable in lucid dreaming but this has worked |
| But as it turns out, this was the trick that opened the | | | | for me every single time. |
| door to frequent OBEs for me after having insomnia | | | | HOW TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE SLEEP APNEA |
| for years. | | | | A very few people have reported that they woke up |
| SLEEP PARALYSIS PROTECTS YOU DURING | | | | in sleep paralysis and noticed that they weren’t |
| SLEEP | | | | breathing at all. The problem is not the paralysis itself, |
| The question is "what is sleep paralysis and how can | | | | but that they had an existing health condition called |
| you use it?" Sleep paralysis is a protection mechanism | | | | ‘sleep apnea’. |
| your body uses when you fall asleep. If you were to | | | | |
| dream you’re doing something very active, such as | | | | Sleep apnea basically means that you stop breathing |
| running, and you weren’t in sleep paralysis then you | | | | when you’re asleep. So this is one of the side |
| would move your limbs when you’re asleep and | | | | benefits of using sleep paralysis to have OBEs: |
| you’d wake yourself up. To prevent that from | | | | you’ll find out whether or not you have sleep |
| happening, your body disconnects your voluntary | | | | apnea. |
| muscle system from your mind so that you can dream | | | | |
| all you like without waking yourself up. | | | | Keep in mind there’s a big difference between the |
| USUALLY YOU ENTER "MIND ASLEEP, BODY | | | | normal "heavy lead blanket" feeling that comes with |
| ASLEEP" | | | | sleep paralysis versus not breathing at all. If you find |
| Normally you’re not aware that of this happening | | | | you stop breathing entirely then you may have sleep |
| because by the time your body shuts itself down in | | | | apnea and should see a doctor about it. If you only feel |
| sleep paralysis, your mind is already asleep and | | | | the heaviness sensation then everything is normal. |
| unaware of what’s happening. In other words you | | | | "ACCIDENTAL" VERSUS "DELIBERATE" SLEEP |
| enter a state of ‘body awake/mind asleep’ | | | | PARALYSIS |
| before entering ‘body asleep, mind asleep’. | | | | So far we’ve talked about the case where you |
| "MIND AWAKE/BODY ASLEEP" IS WHAT WE | | | | somehow manage to wake up in sleep paralysis. |
| WANT | | | | However that’s basically an uncontrolled and |
| The whole trick to lucid dreaming is to enter a | | | | accidental process. The question is what can you do |
| subconscious focus without losing awareness. | | | | to make it happen more consistently? |
| Here’s how sleep paralysis does this for you. | | | | TOWARD CONSISTENCY: WHAT IF THE BODY |
| SLEEP PARALYSIS PUTS YOU IN A | | | | FALLS ASLEEP FIRST? |
| SUBCONSCIOUS FOCUS AUTOMATICALLY | | | | The idea is to flip the sleep order around so that |
| When you’re awake your brain is in what’s | | | | instead of entering "body awake, mind asleep", you |
| called a ‘beta’ state. Beta means your dominant | | | | enter of "mind awake, body asleep". |
| electrical brain waves are oscillating at around 14 to 30 | | | | When this happens you’re actually aware of the |
| cycles per second. | | | | process your body goes through when it falls asleep. |
| When you enter sleep paralysis, your brain | | | | This is our main secret trick for doing visualization-free |
| automatically puts itself in "dream mode" which is called | | | | lucid dreams and O.B.E.s. This transition is the most |
| a ‘theta’ state. Theta is slower than beta and is | | | | important skill to learn in this part of the course. |
| around 4 to 7 cycles per second. | | | | Why? Because when you can put your body to sleep |
| Knowing this secret allows you to avoid one of the | | | | without losing consciousness at any point, you have |
| major mistakes most people make when first starting | | | | 100% perfectly clear dream recall. This is called a |
| out in OBEs. | | | | "wake induced lucid dream" or WILD. It’s as easy |
| MOST BOOKS SAY TO DO OBES IN ONE STEP... | | | | to remember what you did in a WILD as it is to |
| THIS IS A MAJOR MISTAKE! | | | | remember the last 15 minutes or so of normal waking |
| Most books on OBEs say to simply induce an OBE in | | | | awareness. With this method, you don’t have to |
| what is basically a one step process. Going directly | | | | think back through and hazy dream phase like you |
| from a waking state to an OBE is possible but it’s | | | | normally do with most dreams. |
| difficult so this is not what I recommend you start out | | | | IF YOU ACTUALLY SUCCEED... WHAT DOES IT |
| with. | | | | FEEL LIKE? |
| THE TRICK IS TO USE TWO TRANSITIONS TO | | | | So what does it feel like to actually watch your body |
| SUCCESS, NOT JUST ONE! | | | | falling asleep? |
| Instead, you’ll progress much faster by making it a | | | | Instead of waking up in sleep paralysis and with the |
| two step process. You first use the sleep commands | | | | heavy lead blanket feeling, when you induce paralysis |
| we’ll cover later to trick your body into falling | | | | consciously you actually have the sensation of the |
| asleep and enter sleep paralysis. | | | | heavy lead blanket being laid on your chest. It often |
| You then use exit techniques we’ll cover later to | | | | feels like it begins at your feet, comes up over your |
| convert sleep paralysis into an OBE and separate | | | | chest and ends at your head. When that process is |
| from your physical body. | | | | complete you’re in sleep paralysis. |
| MOST PEOPLE DISCOVER SLEEP PARALYSIS BY | | | | So how to get this process to happen consistently? |
| WAKING UP IN IT! | | | | Here is the key. And this one fact is so important and |
| Now, how do you do that? The way you’ll usually | | | | so critical that I'm giving it a big fancy name. It's called |
| become aware of sleep paralysis is that you wake up | | | | the "Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis". |
| in it and find you can’t move or make a sound. | | | | THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF SLEEP |
| Sleep paralysis often feels like there’s a heavy | | | | PARALYSIS |
| lead blanket on you. It’s not that there is really | | | | The Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis is that if |
| anything on you or that your muscles have become | | | | you wake up and fall asleep without moving at all, |
| weaker. The feeling is because your brain has to send | | | | sleep paralysis becomes extremely likely. |
| a stronger nerve signal than normal to get the same | | | | SLEEP PARALYSIS IS MOST LIKELY WHEN THE |
| muscle movement. That makes it feel like you’re | | | | BODY WAS RECENTLY ASLEEP |
| having to overcome some kind of resistance when | | | | And when I say, without moving I mean you wake up |
| you try to move. | | | | and don't move your eyes, don't open your eyes, don't |
| This feeling also usually makes it feel like it’s harder | | | | scratch any itches, you don't move at all in any way. |
| to breathe but it’s actually a natural sleep process. | | | | The idea is that your body doesn't really know for sure |
| Sleep paralysis happens every single time you fall | | | | if your mind is actually awake or not. If you don't give it |
| asleep. | | | | any signals otherwise, it will assume that the mind really |
| IS SLEEP PARALYSIS DANGEROUS? | | | | is still asleep and re-paralyze itself. |
| You may be wondering if sleep paralysis is dangerous | | | | THE NEXT STEP: THE "STOP, DROP & ROLL" |
| and if there’s a way to break free. Sleep paralysis | | | | SLEEP COMMANDS |
| is not dangerous because it’s something your body | | | | The foundation skill you need to develop this |
| does every night. Plus, here is a secret "safety | | | | knowledge into a full-blown induction is to fall asleep |
| release" trick you can use to free yourself from | | | | quickly. So in the next section I'll show you how you |
| paralysis so you always have a backup plan. | | | | can make your body first ask for permission to asleep |
| HOW TO BREAK SLEEP PARALYSIS 100% OF | | | | and then I’ll show you how you can tell it "yes it's |
| THE TIME: USE DEEP BREATHING TO CONTRAST | | | | time to fall asleep". This trick is called the "stop drop |
| SLEEP BREATHING | | | | and roll" sleep command and once you have it you'll |
| The only way your body knows for sure if your mind | | | | never have a problem with insomnia again and |
| is awake is if you move. This is a problem when | | | | you’ll dramatically accelerate your OBE progress. |
| you’re in 100% sleep paralysis which is preventing | | | | |