I'm sorry but sleep paralysis is terrifying, happens when I abuse too many SERT releasers. SP may be 'fun' for you but it's not something the majority of people will enjoy. What's really frustrating is when it happens back to back nonstop for the whole night leaving you exhausted but scared to go back to sleep because you know it's just gonna happen again.
Can you give some examples of "SERT releasers" that cause sleep paralysis for you. I'm looking for a reliable method of inducing sleep paralysis, so far all I've got are things that work for me, and a small percentage of people. Something I should mention is that how scary sleep paralysis is often depends on what substances you're on. The same way opiates cause nightmares, they make my SP darker. Its also way deeper/more intense, it gives me a shock when I go into it even though i can feel it coming well before. On opiates, I get scared much easier than usual, and its usually a shock cuz my emotions while awake are positive, then as soon as sleep paralysis hits me, they turn negative but what I've observed is thats temporary, the negative emotions and blasts of fear pass pretty quickly if you just lay there and observe them. If you're getting it repeatedly over and over again, then its the deep/intense kind of sleep paralysis you're getting. Thats scarier than the mild kind. I bet you can feel this pulsation thing in your head which lets you know in advance that you're gonna get sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is a lot like psychedelics, if you resist it and try to control it, it tends to turn into a bad trip, and when you stop resisting and just go with it, then you can have a good time. With the intense kind of SP, its much heavier so its harder to pull yourself out of it (and when you do get out of it, just relaxing for a second will make you sink right back in) and the hallucinations are more hardcore, it feels like they're dangerous and can injure you. For example, sometimes I get the sensation of being punched in the head or the nose just as I go into it, and I'm thinking "what the fuck, did that really happen" so I pull myself out of paralysis to assess the situation, and every time, I don't have a scratch, it was all in my head. The hallucinations can't actually hurt you, they can only mess with your head, and they can only do that if you react to them.
The only real dangers I think with SP would be suffocation or a heart attack. Sometimes I fall asleep with a blanket covering my face, and if I go into sleep paralysis like that, its pretty horrible cuz its hard enough to breath in SP without anything covering your face. But since you're bodies paralysed and immobile, it uses much less oxygen so you don't need to breath deeply, as long as you don't fall asleep face down in a pillow, I don't think theres much risk of suffociation. As for a heart attack, I suppose thats a valid concern, in SP I can hear/feel my heart beat clearly, and when I get a fright I feel my heart rate raise massively. Again, this can only happen if you're reacting, if you're not reacting, then you don't go into panic mode, when the automatic fight or flight response kicks in, you remember that you're just observing so it abruptly stops. Sleep paralysis is a blessing, if you get it then consider this: would you have the opportunity to observe the whole process of going from wake to sleep if you were immune to sleep paralysis? I've experienced some exceptions to this I have to admit, sometimes, especially on benzos, I instantly go from being awake to being in a lucid dream. Whats interesting is that whenever I start dreaming, I'm no longer paralysed, I can wake myself up at any time and never once have I woken up paralysed. Its like the body switches off the paralysis as soon as it detects you waking up, but why then doesn't it switch off the paralysis when your mind is 100% awake in SP. Lots of people do wake up paralysed though, they call them hypnopompic hallucinations as opposed to hypnogogic, I've never had this happen myself, and it seems the people who get hypnopompic SP, don't get the hypnogogic kind.
Sleep paralysis is some fascinating shit, its as interesting as lucid dreaming, although its usually a whole lot less pleasant. If you can get sleep paralysis, then you're almost guaranteed to be able to lucid dream. Sometimes when I just lay there and wait for a dream to start, its frustrating cuz it doesn't happen, but I can trick my brain into starting a dream by pretending I can leave my body. My brain then creates a scenario to coincide with that idea. Thats a tricky one though, because you're brain knows if you're pretending in some half assed attempt to trick it, you have to actually somewhat believe it, to do that just remember that you don't know shit about this reality thing, and maybe out of body experiences are possible.
