Thread: Newbie and wondering

I've been lurking in the backgrounds reading the various stories about lucid dreaming. It made me think about the kind of dreams I experienced as a teenager, except, I'm not quite sure if it is lucid dreaming or perhaps a quirk in my awareness/sleep stage?

Let me begin by telling you what I remember. I would wake up around 2-3 am in the morning. With my eyes wide open, I realize I cannot move.... but I am awake. Shortly, I feel a pressing felling come over my entire body as if it was pushing me into the mattress. I cannot breathe. My first thought was a spirit or ghost sitting ontop of me. I try to scream, but I cannot move my mouth (or even twitch my toes). About 15 minutes later, I slowly am able to move and the pressing feeling dissappears.

This frightens me for several nights as the same dream/incident occrus repeatedly over a few months (not nightly, whew). I'm almost terrified to wake up during the middle of my sleep.

One night, during this time, I realized it wasn't a ghost at all. While I feel the pressing feeling come over my body, I loose my breath again. I struggle with all my might to lift my arms and legs, hopefully to go and tell my mother something is wrong. All the sudden the pressing feeling disappears and I notice the ceiling is getting closer to my face. I realize I am levitating! I trun my head to look at the bed I was sleeping on and I see my own body!!!

All the sudden I fall quickly back into bed and I can breathe .... rapidly.

I haven't told much people about this dream because it was met with skepticism and/or disbelief.

Maybe it doesn't mean anything, however, if anyone else had experienced the same thing, perhaps I wouldn't feel quite strange about it.