I found that I could tell which breaths deepened paralysis and which one left it unchanged. It turns out you need two key things:

1.) The breathing rhythm which I spoke about much earlier in the Lucidology 101 video on using sleep breathing to enter sleep paralysis at:

Sleep Commands To Fall Asleep Quickly

2.) The breath ***DEPTH***

I knew that you had to breathe pretty deeply in order to get it to work but I didn’t know how critical it was.

I found that there’s about a half inch of breathing depth between breaths that added to sleep paralysis and breaths that did not.

You need to breathe so you feel like you’re giving your rib cage a bit of a stretch. You can almost feel the endorphins being released when you breathe that deeply.

However if I just decreased the breathing depth ever so slightly, maybe a half inch shallower, then the breathing did not contribute any extra sleep paralysis.

So if you’ve been looking for a consistent way to enter sleep paralysis, use sleep breathing and pay EXTRA ATTENTION to your breathing depth to command your body into paralysis.

Then you can use the methods in Lucidology 102 to turn paralysis into an OBE.

Good luck!
Nick

For instance, sleep paralysis paralyzes your arms and legs but not your heart. Your breathing is semi-involuntary and that’s the trick we can use to escape sleep paralysis every time.

The only way your body knows if you’re asleep is if you act like you’re awake. So to send a signal to your body that your mind is really awake, simply change your breathing pattern to something other than the normal sleep breathing pattern you’re already in.

By the way, you can use sleep breathing as a sleep command to trick your body into falling asleep and enter waking sleep paralysis.

When you change your breathing pattern, such as breathing much more deeply and longer, for about 15 seconds your body will notice the change and automatically exit sleep paralysis.

This is much easier than trying to move a digit or limb which most books recommend. Moving a digit or limb isn’t very effective especially in 100% sleep paralysis where your voluntary muscle system is inaccessible.

In the next post we’ll cover why sleep paralysis is ideal for lucid dreaming and OBEs

When you do it correctly one of two things will happen:

1.) It will seem like it’s not working and then all of a sudden you’ll black out all at once and wake up the next morning, or you’ll become aware in a lucid dream in the middle of the night.

2.) You’ll experience the sleep paralysis wave and feel your body fall asleep. That’s a great starting point for lucid dream and you can use the OBE exit methods in Lucidology 101 to convert sleep paralysis into a lucid dream.

The best way to find out what your exact sleep breathing pattern is to get a digital voice recorder and record yourself sleeping at night.

Alternately you can download an mp3 I made of my own sleep breathing pattern in the free OBE Quickstart. You can listen to that mp3 to get the rhythm correct as you fall asleep.

Sleep breathing is one of the most powerful sleep commands for tricking your body into falling asleep. A few times I’ve been able to enter waking sleep paralysis using nothing more than sleep breathing. I wasn’t especially relaxed and didn’t use any visualizations. I only sleep breathed for a few minutes and induced the sleep paralysis wave.

That is fairly rare and apparently you have to get the rhythm just exactly right in order to fool your body with it alone. However when you use it in combination with other sleep commands it’s much easier to create waking sleep paralysis and have lucid dreams all the time!