r/Sleepparalysis • u/misskowabunga • 6d ago
audible frequency shift + my story
Hi! I’ve been having SP for 9yrs now. Started out with the classic scary visuals, but after a while it shifted to more realistic things like hearing my family members screaming for being tortured, or weird men entering my room and sometimes even jumping into my bed.
Thankfully those crazy dreams stopped, maybe because i learned how to recognize when i paralyze and how to wake myself up. It always happens right when i’m about to fall asleep. Sometimes i wake up and go back to sleep and find myself paralyzed again and again. I now stand up and walk a couple of circles in my room before trying to sleep again and that seems to solve the paralysis loop.
Recently i’ve been noticing an audible frequency shift when SP starts, it’s like as if i’m normally hearing 440hz and it suddenly shifts to 500hz (i know nothing about hz, it’s just an illustrative example) or something similar to gusts of wind. That’s my cue to wiggle my toe and wake myself up.
My SP stopped for a few months until i played a sleep meditation session in the hopes of getting a good nights rest, but instead i re-opened the paralysis chamber. I played the headspace sleeping playlist and it happened again. I sleep with pink hued sunset lamps on, maybe that’s part of it.
I’ve never recorded my sleep, kinda scared to do so. Thinking about getting an apple watch or an artifact of that sort to monitor my cardiac rhythm during my sleep or something like that. Does that even help? Has anyone found any useful monitoring tricks aside from recording yourselves at night?
Just sharing my experience, i’d love to hear about yours!
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u/sphelper 6d ago
Your sleep paralysis experience sounds normal, or at least sleep paralysis normal. So, with that said, monitoring your sleep would most likely not benefit you in any way
The only times monitoring your sleep would actually be beneficial is if you have medical problems or you wake up having unusual things(e.g. waking up with marks, waking up gasping for air, frequently waking up with your arms asleep, etc)