Thread: Hard to move in my dreams?

Read this article on Sleep Paralysis, it will expel any myths that you have. If you are in a dream, then you are not being affected by Sleep Paralysis. Your "dream body" is not affected by it at all. Your dreams work solely off of your expectations, so if you continue to expect that you will wake up in Sleep Paralysis when you enter a dream, then you will continue to do so, and nothing will change.

All you have to do is relax yourself, and remember that this is your dream, you control it, and everything that happens is up to you. Remember and expect that you have total control, and it will happen

Originally Posted by realdealmagic

Read this article on Sleep Paralysis, it will expel any myths that you have. If you are in a dream, then you are not being affected by Sleep Paralysis. Your "dream body" is not affected by it at all. Your dreams work solely off of your expectations, so if you continue to expect that you will wake up in Sleep Paralysis when you enter a dream, then you will continue to do so, and nothing will change.

All you have to do is relax yourself, and remember that this is your dream, you control it, and everything that happens is up to you. Remember and expect that you have total control, and it will happen

That article only talks about the misconceptions of trying to induce SP for a WILD. It doesn't mention anything about sleep paralysis as you wake up. Its my experience (and has been accepted understanding for years!!) that you can experience sleep paralysis in a false awakening - if you are actually near waking.

Why? Simple. Real life can always bleed into the dream. Maybe you're hearing your pet kitty in real life, but your dream interprets it as a crying baby instead. We've all experienced something like that.

When the dreamer is waking up their brain naturally draws the attention back to the physical body - instead of the dreaming body. Normally this makes you feel the dream is "fading out". Maybe you're dreaming of a waterfall and its very vivid - but then suddenly you can't feel the water anymore and it feels as though you're looking through a dimmed glass. Why? Because your waking up and you're physical body isn't experiencing any waterfall, the dream ends.

Waking up is naturally a 'process' - we need alarms to work around that and instantly wake us up instead.

Now imagine the same waking up process is still happening, but your body is still in sleep paralysis. Real life bleeds into the dream and the dreamer is all confused! They confuse their sleeping limp body for their dream body. This usually ends up in a FA where you are stuck on your bed and you can't move. You can't seem to force yourself awake either.

Forcing yourself to wake up only creates more problems too. You can get caught in endless FA after FA. Or terrify yourself and create an even worse nightmare.

But of course the dream body isn't stuck at all, its free to move about! If you remember that. The easiest way to end a waking sleep paralysis - is to fall back into the dream. If you're in a FA - just close your eyes and re-dream. Enjoy your dream and give your body the time it needs to wake up.