Why do I keep getting sleep paralysis?

[Sugarcoat]

When I was around 12 years old I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time. That time it was scary.

Then the second time it happened was around 2 years ago, around half a year into my daily meditation practice. (i dont meditate anymore, me stopping meditation has nothing to do with this though) But this time not really scary, and it was coupled with a strong feeling of vibration or sort of like an electric current especially in my upper body, especially in my back, going up my back to my head. Then after that it happened more and more often, sometimes several times in one night.

Note that i didn´t have a particularly bad sleep schedule. It was okay. 

It happened regularly up until about this spring, about 40 times in total, I counted on my phone many of them, then it stopped happening for some reason.

Then two days ago it happend again. Then last night again. I´m wondering why it suddenly came back, I have not changed anything in my life in particular. It does not bother me as it´s not scary.

To describe it more. It can last shortly, a minute or so, or longer episodes. It can vary in intensity, it was most intense in the middle of the night probably becuase I was closer to deeper sleep or something.

I say sleep paralysis becuase I can´t move when it happens. Some hallucinations have occured, but I find that they reflect the emotional state, I´m calm when it happens so I almost never se anything scary. There can be a sense of presence but I guess that´s just good old regular rem sleep activity.

There is always this strong vibrational feeling in the body as I described, sometimes it tickles me so I want to move but ofc I can´t, especially tickling my back. 

I can make the vibrations more intense if I breathe deeply it seems, its like they go in waves, its sort of relaxing. The vibrations can also seem more intense if I focus on a specific area in my body, its like they focus on that area then

My state during them is like rem-sleep but awake, dreamlike but aware. 

Once I managed to astral project I think, I floated up through the roof and out in my neighborhood, but i dont really care that was just some lucid dreaming maybe.

Also I can sense when its about to come and if i move i can prevent it, but sometimes simply by deeply relaxing my body in my bed, (usually after waking up or in the middle of the night) it would happen, or spontaneously. 

So does anyone have any explanation? I´m curios. Maybe its nothing special but its still fun to investigate.

 

[Matthew85]

Have you started or increased any spiritual practices recently? 

[Osaid]

How is your sleeping pattern or sleep quality? Have you been under lots of stress recently? These are big factors

[Vincent S]

Figure out the pattern and find what it is that they want to show you. I have had this for 3-4 years: Happened a lot in the beginning, but as time has passed and the further I have moved a long the path, the easier and clear they get, as to why it happens, and what it is that I need to see, that I am not willing to accept in my "sober" state.

[PurpleTree]

used to have it a lot. so much so much that i learned to snap out of it and even enjoy it a little bit

also the levitation feeling.

one night was crazy had it like 10 times, snapped out of it and then a little bit later it happened again.

but then it just kind of went away, now i have it maybe twice a year or so

[Preety_India]

This could be because of anxiety. 

[Sugarcoat]

22 hours ago, Matthew85 said:

Have you started or increased any spiritual practices recently? 

not at all

[Sugarcoat]

22 hours ago, Osaid said:

How is your sleeping pattern or sleep quality? Have you been under lots of stress recently? These are big factors

My sleep is quite good and regular 7/8/9 hours per night, barely ever tired, not stressed much at all . hehe

[Sugarcoat]

7 hours ago, Preety_India said:

This could be because of anxiety. 

I don´t feel particularly stressed at all 

[Michal__]

Read about the rope method (astral projection) and do it every time you get into sleep paralysis. 

You'll begin to love sleep paralysis.

[hyruga]

Because your room has poor air ventilation. That's why you cannot breathe well. 

Because you are fat.

 

I once had a sleep paralysis because I slept in an army store room with no windows with door closed. My friends also sleep in there and complain of a haunting incidents with something sitting on them. It's just poor air ventilation on our side.

Edited March 3, 2022 by hyruga