 Today's question comes from our buddy Rick and he says it's quite a long question So bear with me here He says recently in the last two years I've been experiencing the beauty of lucid dreaming the infinite powers of the mind in this state Me and my brother have been experiencing what is called sleep paralysis for some time now I'm familiar with it, and I'm starting to get over the fearful aspect of it It can be quite scary for some people to be paralyzed and unable to move You can also experience some sort of hallucinations in this state as well So I can understand why it's scary. I'm curious as to what exactly the purpose of sleep paralysis is I have many theories. I've heard a lot of people are going through this as well. Some say it's a demonic presence This happens almost every time I go to sleep or when I'm waking up I'm still too fearful to completely let go of what is happening I would just like some honest information about the subject as lucid dreaming is a major part of my life I would like some information about interpreting dreams as well as I have many interesting dreams involving wormholes having a conversation With a forearmed levitating human talking dogs flying and very other interesting and many other interesting life-changing experiences I'm also curious as to what type of person I could talk to locally so that I can figure out the purpose of these dreams I hope to speed up this process with your help and advice, right? Well, just to sort of clear up those first few things locally I obviously don't know where you live. So that is something that you would need to look May just go do a Google search, you know and dream interpretation Maybe even mediumship in your in your local area and that will Hopefully give you some ideas as to what is in your local area regarding that so Regarding dream interpretation, this isn't really something I do because in my opinion dreaming is very subjective So what might mean one thing for you will likely mean something completely different for me So if I said oh you dreamed about a dog that means such and such It's likely gonna have a completely different meaning for you because we both have a different experience of dogs and what they represent So therefore our unconscious and subconscious mind will have a different Representation of a dog so it will mean something different for everyone So there are people who claim the dream interpretation can be Generalised and you can have like a rough idea of what certain symbols mean and that probably is true But it's not really something I deal with I dream with ideal deal with more of the lucid dreaming side of things As opposed to the interpretation so on to your main question sleep paralysis This is something I can offer you some information on sleep paralysis is a natural phenomenon It is what happens when your body paralyzes your muscles in the preparation for your dreams and the reason it does this Usually just before REM sleep is when sleep paralysis will set in so that's why the waking juice lucid dream technique Can be quite difficult for beginners to master because you need to keep your mind awake and aware Throughout the first three stages of your sleep in order that you can be Awake in your mind for the REM sleep while the sleep paralysis happens and this usually takes about 60 to 90 minutes So sleep paralysis happens in preparation for your dreams in order that you can have a dream about for example running Without physically acting it out and risking damage to your body and others around you And it's just a natural sort of safeguard mechanism that your body and mind have but the reason Some people naturally experience sleep paralysis without even trying to lucid dream is that there's a disconnect between their body and their mind So their body thinks that they're ready to fall asleep Whereas their mind is still awake And that's why they are aware during the sleep paralysis process and it can be quite scary Especially if you don't plan it if you're just trying to go to sleep normally without even thinking about lucid dreaming You can still experience sleep paralysis and it can appear very scary for you because imagine if you didn't even plan To try and lose a dream or you didn't even know what sleep paralysis was you go to sleep and then suddenly you find yourself laying They're unable to move possibly even hallucinating but being completely self-aware and awake in your mind So it can be scary. Yeah, but it's nothing to worry about there are no real dangers from sleep paralysis and You will wake up eventually as long as you keep that thought in your mind. You shouldn't have anything to worry about really So I hope this has Helped you in some way I would just like to explain a little bit about sleep paralysis and how you can Induce it if this is something you would like to do for example if you're trying to do a waking juice lucid dream sleep paralysis is a A benchmark a sign that you're Basically almost there. So let's assume you're trying to do a waking juice lucid dream I will try and link to the video where I explain the technique in full but you keep your mind awake throughout the first stages of sleep and then when you get to sleep paralysis you Continue to keep your mind awake. So you just keep yourself aware and this is quite difficult to stop yourself drifting off at this point But you keep yourself conscious and aware of what you're doing and then you drift into a lucid dream And the idea is that you can do this naturally from the moment you lay down although it is a lot easier to do at the Early stages of the morning just before you wake up because this is when your REM sleep is The longest and you're most likely to have a lucid dream So I hope this has helped if you have any questions, please email and send a message to the channel I try and answer everyone with a video If you would like to support me, please go ahead and go to my patreon link patreon.com forward slash how to lucid and this is where you can donate maybe one or two dollars a month Whatever you can afford really to help me keep these videos going keep them free and keep Me motivated to do them for you because I realized that if you're giving back to me Then it's obviously an indication that I'm giving you some value and I'm helping you in some way So please go ahead and do that I'll put the link in the description as always and don't forget to subscribe to this channel so that you can get more of videos And you can be updated soon as they're put out. 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