Make your body fall asleep before your mind does. Article on it here. Pretty much, at night time the normal process is for your mind (you) to fall asleep then for your system to shut down and your body enter it's sleep state. If you get your body to fall asleep first, however, you get whole bunches of CRAZY SHIT that'll happen and it'll feel almost like a drug trip except for the lack of a lighter wallet and skipping the whole illegality bit.

For you ADD kids, the TL;DR

1. Lie in bed and close your eyes. Wait without falling asleep. DO NOT MOVE AT ALL.
2. After a while (10-20 mins) you will get a VERY powerful urge to move. DO NOT MOVE AT ALL
3. there is no 3

I highly recommend reading the above link if you're at all interested.

I'll share what normally happens with me (almost everyone experiences something different):

1. I lie down and wait. Urge comes and I ignore it.
2. My whole body goes numb and I start getting weird tingling sensations.
3. The vibrations begin. These really vary, sometimes it's very subtle and sometimes it feels like a freaking earthquake.
4. Hypnagogic imagery starts (lots of weird colors and stuff)
5. CRAZY SHIT

I thought it might be interesting to you guys because you guys are all lazy bastards and this thing is the pinnacle of getting something awesome for doing literally nothing =P

Try it tonight. =O

Give yourself the stranger.

I have done it before it is highly fucked up, I was totally paralysed and my bed started vibrating, it then felt like someone was drumming the springs on my bed, an ominous presence filled the room and I felt like I was going to die, I seriously started weeping then woke up the next morning fine.

it was so fucking scary

At 3/23/08 04:37 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: I've done that before, although not on purpose. I was stoned and laid on the bed, and couldn't be bothered moving, so my body fell asleep while my mind was still awake.

lmao

I was think of trying that sleeping technique, but u put me off

is there any side effects that can happen later on if you do this.

At 3/23/08 04:46 PM, XXdarkAssassinzXX wrote: is there any side effects that can happen later on if you do this.

no. it's sleep paralysis. it is a normal occurrence. although I love doing this every night before I go to bed.

although you may shit yourself sometimes. so that my be a negative effect.

Sounds like a cool thing im going to try it tonight

Holy sheet you get to control your own dream?

fucking rock consert and i'm doing a solo.

At 3/23/08 04:37 PM, KingPaulP wrote: I have done it before it is highly fucked up, I was totally paralysed and my bed started vibrating, it then felt like someone was drumming the springs on my bed, an ominous presence filled the room and I felt like I was going to die, I seriously started weeping then woke up the next morning fine.

it was so fucking scary

Okay , now i'm having second thoughts about this.

But still it sounds pretty cool.

You're not supposed to tamper with your body's sleep cycles.

questions: what does tl;dr mean. any pain? screaming? sleep walking?

At 3/23/08 05:18 PM, Thechickensparta wrote:

Okay , now i'm having second thoughts about this.

But still it sounds pretty cool.

I did it totally accidently I wasn't intending for it to happen, it is only afterwards I started looking up what it was all about. I haven't dared try it again, the first time freaked me out too much, but the very fact that you are trying to do it might produce a different experience. Don't let me put you off it may very well be cool for you and even if it is horrible I survived and am alive to tell the tale, no lasting damage.

At 3/23/08 05:22 PM, lilcheeselad wrote: questions: what does tl;dr mean. any pain? screaming? sleep walking?

Too long to read.

At 3/23/08 05:22 PM, lilcheeselad wrote: questions: what does tl;dr mean. any pain? screaming? sleep walking?

tl;dr means "too long, didn't read"

At 3/23/08 05:23 PM, KingPaulP wrote:

I did it totally accidently I wasn't intending for it to happen, it is only afterwards I started looking up what it was all about. I haven't dared try it again, the first time freaked me out too much, but the very fact that you are trying to do it might produce a different experience. Don't let me put you off it may very well be cool for you and even if it is horrible I survived and am alive to tell the tale, no lasting damage.

Ok i want to hear somthing positive now because i don't even think i have the balls to do it anymore.

At 3/23/08 04:35 PM, Gergaloth wrote: Give yourself the stranger.

ahh... the famous sleeper hold (right?) good time... good times indeed...

I think I did this by accident once. I think my mind woke up but my body was asleep or something.
Basically I heard some voice saying "now we must go to <some made up planet name>".
THen I heard a massive WHOOOOSHING sound, like if you were flying really fast, in my ears.
Then I thought "this shit is fucked up" and forced myself to wake properly. THen I didnt sleep all night :(

It sounds kind of like being high. I'll try it tonight.

At 3/23/08 05:44 PM, gibleto wrote: It sounds kind of like being high. I'll try it tonight.

its also a good way to kill brain cells

But i have a question though, so you can control yourself in the ''WILD''?

If so i'm going to be badass.

At 3/23/08 04:33 PM, Arby wrote:
Try it tonight. =O

No thanks. I don't want to risk brain damage or paralization or whatever

At 3/23/08 05:44 PM, MissingNYC wrote:

At 3/23/08 05:44 PM, gibleto wrote: It sounds kind of like being high. I'll try it tonight.

its also a good way to kill brain cells

Wrong. This is completely natural. Its scary, but try to remember nothing can hurt you in any way. Its basicly an intense dream.

well i really can't get it... i mean a little...

you lie on the bed and you can watch T.V but you can't move your body???
or is it that you just sleep but get some weird feelings and dreams?

I'm definitely going to try this tonight. It sounds fucking scary and awesome at the same time. And I just want to know what it feels like.

and what does SP OBE and those things in that forum thread

So this does actually work? Like, it puts your mind in a subconsious state or something like that?

Google lucid dreaming. It will blow your mind.

I'm going to try this. i wonder if doing this will make it so you don't have to ever put your mind to sleep again.

Wikipedia mentions "terrifying hallucinations"...

I want to try it,
But I'm scared!