(February 22, 2011 at 2:23 am)8BitAtheist Wrote: During my childhood and teen years I experienced sleep paralysis very often. It would be rare if I went a week without it. Same with horrible nightmares, almost every single night. When I was a kid I use to think there were monsters because of my hallucinations but then I heard about what it actually was.
Strange, I'm now a lucid dreamer. Being an insomniac may contribute to that as I'm also a very LIGHT sleeper when I do get sleep.
I think it occurs like once every 2 months in my adult age.
Sounds like you went through the same exact thing I went through TIMES TEN. I think most who find out what they are suffering from become lucid dreamers. That was the only way the paralysis problems slowed down for me, and became more manageable. I learned how to lucid dream from a book suggesting it was the best way to handle sleep paralysis. Now I spend my nights flying through the sky, tossing fire balls at dragons, walking through walls, and freefalling through the Earth. And yes, the occasional insomnia (just 2 days ago I went 48 hours without any sleep) and every single little noise wakes me up as well...I feel your pain brother, but you definitely suffered more paralysis episodes than I did. Mine were usually once every two or three weeks.
