 Alright, what's up ladies and gentlemen? Today I'm going to be answering our buddy Justin's question. Okay, and this is about the Waking Juicid Dreaming Technique. If you don't know this technique, there's probably a link in the description. If not, you can just google it. I'm usually on the top page for that. Hathalucid.com So, his question is, Justin's question is, that when he tried to wake in Juicid Dreaming Technique, he entered sleep paralysis and then felt, after a few minutes, a really heavy weight on his chest. So, he's trying to breathe normally, and all of a sudden he feels like this crushing weight is just pressing down on his chest and it makes him feel like he needs to open his lungs and breathe more. So, he needs to change his breathing pattern and his question is, he says that this has stopped him entering the dream because he's focused on how he should be breathing. Now, this is an interesting one because when you try and use the Waking Juicid Dreaming Technique, the object of that is to actually keep your mind awake while you go through sleep paralysis and then after sleep paralysis you enter the lucid dream. This is how it's supposed to happen. The problem with that is that sleep paralysis in itself can feel like people have described it as like a lead blanket pressing down on your chest or some sort of heavy wave or liquid that goes... For some people it starts at their toes and works its way up. For other people it just starts all over and just sort of presses you flat to the bed like that. In either of these situations, it's completely normal, okay? There's nothing to be worried about. However, if you're trying to have a particular breathing pattern when you're doing this, like this guy is, it can be a bit distracting, okay? You're trying to regulate your breathing and focus and relax and then all of a sudden you've got this huge weight crashing down on your chest so naturally you're going to think, oh, I need to breathe, you know, I need to change my breathing pattern here because it's going to be quite hard to breathe with this. So my suggestion to you is I would say most of what you're experiencing with this is probably in your mind, okay? So it's, well, it is in your mind. There's not really a probability about it. What you're experiencing is the feeling of your muscles being paralyzed and that can be slightly unusual and it can feel like something is pressing against you. There is nothing pressing against you. I shouldn't really need to explain that, but it feels like there is, okay? So what I would say is to try as hard as you can just to ignore it, okay? Let it happen, let the experience just happen to you and don't worry about your breathing, okay? As long as you're not, you know, getting short of breath and you're not sort of gasping for air, you'll be fine, okay? Your body knows how to breathe. If you just relax and let it happen, easy said and done, of course, it will just carry on happening and eventually this sort of weight that you're feeling on your chest will stop and you'll enter the lucid dream. Either that or you'll fall asleep and then try again the next night, okay? But yeah, it's nothing to be worried about. If you're finding that it is difficult, okay? So much so that you can't actually, you know, it's discouraging you from trying to live the dream, then I would say try a different technique, okay? Every technique works differently for different people. Some people find this really discouraging and actually get uncomfortable, okay? Because especially if you're not used to it, sleep paralysis can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be difficult to have happen to you, okay? So if it's really bothering you, try a different technique, okay? If it's not bothering you that much, just try and ignore it, work through it and then enter the lucid dream that way, okay? So I hope this has been helpful to you guys. I am definitely planning on making a lot more videos in the future. Sometimes things just get in the way. However, I've got a little interesting sort of teaser for you guys here. There's this new product called Lucid Esk from a company called Vividream and I've been lucky enough to sort of become friends with the owner of this company and we're going to be planning some exciting stuff for you guys in the future, okay? So that's all I'm going to say for now. But yeah, there's going to be a review coming of this particular product and also this Dreaming Tea, okay? And yeah, that's some exciting stuff coming up in the future. 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