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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[ 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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