 So a lot of people have been asking about sleep paralysis and I thought I'd make a quick video to explain a bit more about it and What you can do to possibly avoid it if it's something that's bothering you So for those who don't know sleep paralysis is what happens when your body is trying to go to sleep and Your mind is sort of caught up in the middle of it. So usually We're not conscious of this process. So we'll go to sleep our mind and body will fall asleep at the same time And we'll enter a paralysis which is the body's way of stopping you acting out your dreams in the night So if you didn't have sleep paralysis if no one had it then you would When you're dreaming say if you were dreaming about running down the street You'd physically act out that running in waking life. You know it might kick your Covered over or something, you know might injure yourself So the reason the body Paralyzes your muscles when you sleep is so that you can't act out your dreams in the night So it's a very good thing to have enough. We didn't have it. We probably have a lot more injuries, right? So it's not a bad thing. The problem is that Sometimes you can wake up in the middle of the process. So you can actually be trying to go to sleep normally and You'll find that you wake up in the middle of sleep paralysis and it can be very scary You won't be able to move obviously But you'll be very aware of the fact that you can't move. It'll be quite a terrifying experience And it can be you know, it can put you off lucid dreaming so There are two ways that you can stop sleep paralysis when it's happening The first one is to start by slowly moving like your fingers or your eyes or your mouth These are the things that are less the least affected by sleep paralysis because it usually it affects the bigger Muscle groups first and you know most powerfully So it's going to stop your legs your arms and your torso from being able to move But if you really try you can move your fingers or you can move, you know, you can swallow you can look around so do those things and Then slowly move towards moving your hand and then your whole arm and then before you know it You're out of it. You're awake. Okay, because the important thing to remember is that it's sort of in There's a fine line between being awake and being asleep and sleep paralysis is right in the middle of it So you're you are awake in your mind, but you can't move and that means that you're just on the edge of going to sleep So to exit sleep paralysis, you can either go into a lucid dream directly or you can just wake up So to wake up like I said start by moving your fingers or a small part that you can move that isn't gonna Be paralyzed that much or you could enter a lucid dream from sleep paralysis now to do that There are several ways you could do it. You could either do a Wild waking to sleep a dream where you just literally let yourself drift into the dream Okay, and to do that you just visualize things you see the shapes and you let things Materialize in front of you. You might see lines colors Different parts of a dream scene and you just naturally let yourself enter the dream like that or you can just let yourself fall asleep and this is probably the most common and This is what most people do right. This is what most people do without realizing it in sleep paralysis They can't move they just let themselves fall asleep and you can naturally enter a lucid dream like that To do that you just tell yourself as you're in sleep paralysis. I will lose a dream. You just keep telling yourself It's over and over again and eventually you do Okay, so two ways of doing it But just to reiterate the first point sleep paralysis is not a bad thing If you didn't have it you'd be kicking around and you'd hurt yourself in the night So it's not a bad thing. It's a good thing It's nothing to be scared of and you shouldn't worry about it So that's it guys if you haven't subscribed subscribe now, and I'll see you next time