Hi Mrs Lightning,

No, we don't have them very often. In fact, we can't control them either. They just happen once, or twice a year. This is why I was so sad . My dog interrupted something I love and enjoy but only get -a one second -chance at making it work.

Ana

Hi Rudi

The tingly feeling is when you are drifting off in to REM. Isn't that the first stage of sleep. Any way, just as you are falling to sleep you can feel a few different things.

1) a sensation that your body is lifting upwards

2) you can feel your blood pulsing through the body

3) Your ears feel like they are covered, they become muffled.

4) you can feel tingling at the same time your body as the drifting upward sensation.

Hay, some times you start to leave the body, but get scared and jerk awake. This is how I knew that is was going to have an OBE. Just as soon as you start to drift off to sleep, it starts all over again. You can't top it. Well, I can't stop it, or control it

Ana

5 Easy Steps

It's one thing to hear about someone else's weird experiences and a totally different thing to have one of your own. After almost a decade of experience with this, I've found a fairly reliable method of inducing an episode of sleep paralysis. The details of your experience may differ from what my own, but you'll surely get something bizarre.

1. Drink Some Coffee
Stay up late the night before you plan on having the experience. If your usual bedtime is 11:00 PM, plan on some late-night television and go to bed at around 2:00 AM.

2. Early to Rise
Start your day a couple of hours early. It's a good chance to catch a bright sunrise. It's important that you get about half the sleep your normally get during a night's rest. Feel free to complain, but the reward can be well worth the effort.

3. Life As Usual
Go about your day in your regular way. If you need to pep yourself with caffeine, feel free to do so. Just do whatever you do.

4. Setting is Everything
Sometime after lunch (or after work), go find a comfortable chair or couch and plan on spending and hour or so in a deep nap. After a night of only four hours of sleep, such a nap should be well invited. It's best you not choose your bed for this nap because this setting is much more conducive to a typical "long night's rest." A chair, on the other hand, is just uncomfortable enough that you won't sleep for very long.

5. Have Nap, Will Travel
Close your eyes, relax, and empty your mind. Bottom line – take a nap. If all goes well, about 30 minutes to an hour later, you'll be in for the ride of your life. Usually, you'll awaken to a loud buzzing beginning in your head and quickly moving to the rest of your body. When this happens, stay calm and stay alert. Don't fight it and don't freak out. Ride the wave. If you feel yourself beginning to lose consciousness, just listen to the sound. Imagine the buzzing getting more and more intense and it will.

At this point, almost anything can happen. The hallucinations vary greatly but almost always involve the feeling of not being alone.

Granted, the above description seems very simple and almost unlikely, but I have about an 80% success rate. Even if you don't see a little munchkin, I suspect you'll get a unique insight on an age-old riddle

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