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- From: dbsbanka@solomon.technet.sg (Teo Pit Koon)
- Subject: BODY POSITION and SLEEP PARALYSIS
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:38:15 GMT
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- [ Article crossposted from alt.dreams ]
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- [ Posted on Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:34:05 GMT ]
-
- L.A. Melloy (alix@iastate.edu) wrote:
- : There has been several times in the last 5 or 6 years where a strange lethargy
- : spread over me. I have felt no desire to move (in fact, I don't think I COULD)
- : and I SWEAR my heart beat slowed immensely, but I wasn't falling asleep. I
- : felt light-headed. I never let it go very far, because I was scared to death
- : it was something more serious (I've heard stories of people willing themselves
- : dead, and darn it, if it didn't feel that way to me). It took an incredible
- : amount of will to force myself to move, and my heart to speed up again. Is
- : this what sleep paralysis is, or the beginning of an OBE? I don't know much
- : about either, so any help would be appreciated.
-
- Greetings :-)- (tongue-in-cheek Polynesian Maori-style)
-
- Guess I could contribute to this thread, so here goes ...
-
- For the sake of discussion/arguments, let us consider that there
- are two types of "paralysis" condition (goodness knows how many more types
- there may be :-)).
-
- The first type, known as type A paralysis, is a condition encountered
- when approaching a deeper layer of consciousness from a light trance state,
- in the performance of magick, OOBE, LD etc.
-
- The second, type B paralysis, is the reverse of type A, in that it
- happens during the return home to physical reality, assuming, of course,
- the experient has a physical body to return to in the first place :-).
-
- The first type A "paralysis" goes something like this:-
-
- "Mmmmmm.... I know I am awake; I can think .....Mmmmmmm but my body is
- asleep ... (Robert Monroe labelled it Focus 10 consciousness)
-
- "Wait a minute here, there is something going on here, I just can't seem
- to....
-
- "Yes, I can't seem to move my limbs; they seemed to be laden with lead,
- why can't I move at all? Hey, what's happening here! (Panic!)"
-
- A typical type B "paralysis" goes something like this:-
-
- "Mmmmm... I am feeling groggy, absolutely. What was that just now,
- oh, it must be some dream...
-
- "Mmmm.... hang on a minute, was that a noise I heard? It must have
- come from the door... I need to check it out, could be a burglar....
- but I am so tired... and sleepy...
-
- "I need to wake up, it could be important... Hey, I can't seem to wake
- up, why are my legs not waking up, why can't my hands respond?
-
- "PANICK!!! I need to wake up! I don't want to die... I need to exert
- more will on this... Hey, body, wake up, eyes open, ... WAKE UP!
-
- "Gosh, NOW, I can move my limbs, I am awake now, body covered with
- perspiration, sitting at the edge of the bed, wondering why just now I
- simply couldn't wake up...
-
- "Phew--Thank goodness, it is finally over. Am I glad to be back to the
- familiar physical environment."
-
- Your question seemed to relate to type B paralysis. It would appear
- that type B paralysis did not serve much purpose except to scare the s___
- out of the experient. Anyway, if there are people who could not wake up
- from sleep, they wouldn't be writing to this net and nobody would be wiser
- about it, isn't it :-). Type B paralysis is rarely, if ever mentioned, in the
- literature, (at least not those that I could get hold of).
-
- However, type A paralysis is the type that should not be resisted;
- (I wished somebody told me this earlier) if the experient can allow himself
- to "go with the flow", then some kind of altered state of consciousness is
- bound to happen, which is what the experient is hoping to achieve anyway.
- BTW, type A paralysis is the one mentioned by Robert Monroe, Sylvia Muldoon
- et al.
-
- The star gazer ***
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