 Okay, what's up guys? Today is a question from our buddy Israel and he is saying to us he has a problem in that he experiences sleep paralysis and he finds it really scary so this is obviously when you're unable to move so when you're trying to have a weak induced lucid dream or a way back to bed it's where you're sort of laying there usually on your back in the middle of the night and you can't move any of your muscles you're completely stuck to the bed okay and this can be really scary this can be actually a really traumatic experience well not traumatic but it can be a really difficult thing to do to experience if you're not used to it and if you're you know if you feel helpless as most people can when they experience sleep paralysis so I am going to offer you some tricks little little tips that can help you not have sleep paralysis or at least not be aware of it and not be as scared of it as you might be so the first one is to realize that you should be sleeping enough so if you are sleep deprived it can happen it can be worse it can be more scary it can be more difficult to experience so sleep enough you know sleep maybe eight to nine hours a night depending on how old you are the older you are the less sleep you tend to need within reason but yeah just try to sleep about eight or nine hours a night try and get in tune with your circadian rhythm okay so this means going to sleep or starting to wind down when it gets dark and starting to wake up when it gets light this is the most basic form of sleep rhythm this is how you can get more in tune with your body with the world and with your sleep patterns and everything like that so get in tune with that start going to sleep or at least start winding down and stop being active when it gets dark okay obviously this can't be helped if you have like a job where you work nights that's understandable but as much as you can try and get in tune with your circadian rhythm that will sort of reduce your sleep paralysis or at least make it happen less so the next one is to sleep on your side now most times when you have sleep paralysis it happens when you're either when you're trying to have a lucid dream so when you're doing a wake back to bed and you're laying on your back or when you haven't been getting enough sleep so a quick way to sort of reduce it is to sleep on your side so you can either just do this consciously and just sort of go to sleep on your side or not sleep on your back if that's what you're doing or you can put a tennis ball inside your if you wear pajamas you can put a tennis ball inside your pocket and I would sort of stop you accidentally rolling over in the night another thing that is really helpful is to not eat as much before you go to bed so if you usually sort of snack and have really heavy meals late in the night and by late I mean everything after nine to ten then try and stop doing that because that can also help you with not experiencing sleep paralysis as much okay another really useful thing you can do is say if you're having sleep paralysis and it's sort of becoming a bit scary you want to stop it okay if you just sort of lay there and wiggle your toe or your finger this will sort of restore movement to your body and your your feel like maybe I can move my whole leg maybe I can move my whole arm and so just starting by wiggling like a toe or something or a finger this can make it seem less scary for you what you if you can't do that if you're completely stuck then what you can also do is to focus on your breathing and to also sort of imagine that you're moving so imagine what it would feel like to lift your arm up for example and then after a while of imagining that you'll find that actually you've sort of broken out of the sleep paralysis and you can move so hopefully this video has been helpful to you if it has please go ahead and subscribe we're about to pass 900 subscribers I'm hoping to get to a thousand by the end of this year that would be really nice so yeah go ahead and subscribe and I'll see you next video