Sleep Paralysis Experiement Options

Last year I had what is known in psychology as Sleep Paralysis

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

It was a terrifying experience, I awoke at about 4 or 5am, everything was fine at first, I opend my eyes as you do when you first rouse in a morning. Then I went to scratch my head and found that I could not move. I can not explain the awful horror and terror that hit me in that moment, to wake up and find that no matter how hard you try, no matter how much force you hurl at your finger to move, and find that it wont even move a millimeter; I thought I was a cripple. My mind went overtime, everything happening so fast, the stress and strain of trying to move limbs, and finding that you can do nothing, your whole body is dead weight, it is just so scary.
Then, to make everything even worse I then found that I was finding it difficult to breathe, my chest became like lead, I felt as though I was on Jupiter, every part of me was being crushed. I felt as though I would suffocate. Panic and the animal fear of death set in, I thought I was going to die. Then to tip the whole thing off a tower of black approached me from behind. I was lying on my back, with a lot of space behind me. This tower of blackness surrounded my peripheral vision, it came right up to me and strangled me, as black shapes began flashing in front of my eyes I thought it was finally over. Death at the hands of a ghost. I fought to the end and eventually passed out. The whole incident must have lasted no longer than ten or twenty seconds.
I woke up an hour later and sat bolt upright for several minutes, confused at the fact that I was still alive! I checked to see if I wasn’t just hovering over my body or something. I ran to my mates room and told him that I'd just been attacked by some nasty ass ghost. He was shocked, and understanding, but as we have both studied psychology, the more we thought things through the more it seemed to us that this was a case of sleep paralysis, something we'd learned about not all that long ago.

I think I was changed by this experience, and I have never felt such fear of death ever since. I left it though, and have only thought about it occasionally since, although at the time it did take some time for me to forget about it, and it was topic No.1 for daydreaming. However, it happened again two weeks ago, but it was nothing like the first time, I simply woke in the night and couldn’t move, after a few minutes I found that I could move again. The way I managed this was to recognise what was happening and think of something else.

As well as this bringing back some memories, my girlfriend has night terrors every night, most frequently as she is in the transitional period between a sleep state and a conscious state. It used to be insects in her face or spiders falling on her, but since we moved into the flat (and she invented some quite colourful ghost entities) she started seeing them. Most notably a little girl that would stand next to the bed and stare at her. There was also a man in the corner, an old woman in a rocking chair downstairs and a teenage boy that had hung himself over the stairs.
I had cleaned out the house when we moved in and found no ghosts or other nastiness, and I banished and cleansed ever room and charged her Kenny doll with protective banishing power. (She's had this Kenny doll (from SouthPark) for years and it always faces her door and protects her, childish, yet from a magical perspective, quite effective. So there was already a weak entity inhabiting it, I just strengthened it.)
She has just created these things and feeds them with her fear. I've told her about this, but she thinks magic is all a bunch of "voodoo hoodoo".
So for months now I've been woken sharply as she screams something about a girl next to the bed, or how, "They're in the rooooooom!" or, "They're stood around the bed Mat!" Which is quite disconcerting really.

So the other day, while being lazy and reading through my copy of Frater U:.D:.'s High Magic, I fell asleep. As I was drifting I noticed the point where everything started getting 'fuzzy', you know, the lucid dreaming bit where your mind goes off on a weird non logical and random path of thoughts and things that you have recently been exposed to. In my case, the events that had taken place in the last episode of Star Trek Voyager, the pasta I'd just eaten, and the party at my mates house the night before.
The minute I noticed I was at this point I seemed to somehow retain a small amount of consciousness, and decided (most likely as I'd just been reading about magic) that it would be cool to see if I could contact the little girl my girlfriend is always going on about because my psychic censor would be completly shut down. My mind was so liquid and free, and I almost felt the part of my brain responsible for what was about to happen activate. In the space of about ten seconds I felt a sudden rush of superbly intense fear, my heart pounded, and I suddenly found that I was in a sleep paralysis state. At this moment I felt her, she was breathing on my face right next to me, if my bowls could have moved I'd have shat myself! I opened my eyes, which was such an awful strain, and attempted to look her in the face. All I saw was a mass of black and silver white, the same white you see in your peripheral vision when you close your eyes and rub your knuckles into them. It was a mass, all there in one place and it was scary as Hell, then I think I passed out. I think I went into Sleep Paralysis because I was still in the 'sleep' mode where your motor functions are turned off, and when I was suddenly jolted with the flight mechanism to escape the fear my brain comploded and fudged up on me.
When I came too again I was still unable to move, but after calming down and letting my mind wander I found that my brain had time to reset itself and I began to be able to move again.
It was the speed of it all that got me, it was like it all happened not even a second after the thought to do it came into my head and then in the blink of an eye it was over. All I know now is that the little girl is real and is made of nothing but fear. To say this was just a dream is just wrong, I was too aware of everything, and had time to remember it and prevent it being blocked by my censor when I woke. My girlfriend hardly ever remembers her night terrors, sometimes even seconds after she has woken up. The night before last I just opened my eyes randomly, her face was quite asleep, I gazed at her for just an instant and then suddenly her eyes were WIDE open, pupils were monstrous, I watched her as she looked over my shoulder and followed something with her eyes, it moved around the room and she looked at me as if she was shocked that I couldn’t see anything. All she said was, "The red dots". I said, "Whaa?!" And she just looked at me totally confused as to what had happened, and had no memories of anything.
I hope to continue working with this technique to see if I can use the fear to fire sigils, or even learn more from my fear responses and fear entities within my psyche. My question is, has anyone here done or even heard of this technique before?

I have experienced this a couple of times when I was still practicing the occult and in fact, I had never ever experienced it before then.

Here is an article in Science News with pictures of a demon sitting on a woman.

Whilst I believe that science breaks things down to what is going on in the brain, I have to ask myself what caused the scientifically provable bit in the first place!

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050709/bob9.asp

I experienced that once, and at the time I had no idea what happened, except that I could not move body, and I felt another presence there. As my fear grew to screaming my face off levels, my body felt like it began to burn from the inside out, only for about 2 seconds, than done. I didn't sleep in my room for almost 2 weeks, until I consulted my mentor about it.

Apparently I woke up in the middle of an OBE, and the fear from both of us was being amplified constantly, neither knew we where there. After understanding what had happened, I became obsessed with Astral travel. Oh yeah, lol.

Hi,

I'm new here, but I wanted to reply because I experience sleep paralysis. It started after the birth of my first son (I was 16) and I still get it. It hasn't been as bad since I moved to this house a year ago, but I've still had some episodes here. I was getting them at my old house almost every night. It was bad. I didn't sleep very well.
After experiencing them for so long, I no longer fear this state at all. It had become more of an annoyance to me. I have learned how to snap myself out of it fairly fast, but sometimes, I like to see what I'm capable of in this state.
While concentrating on my third eye, I am able to OBE instantly. If I don't OBE, and just lay in this state, then I get that heavy presence feeling. I can literally feel it next to me.
The only time (besides in the beginning!) where I was actually scared, was when I stopped breathing. I knew I stopped because I couldn't move to breathe. I didn't feel like there was someone on me, but I just couldn't breathe. There was a woman who was telling me in my ear to open my mouth and breathe. She was saying this over and over and I was trying so hard to!! I was panicking at this point. I did get my mouth open and took a good breath in, but I was dizzy, etc at that point.
I know science has their explaination for sleep paralysis, but I don't buy it. I think there is more to it from the experiences that I've had.

Heather