Can you dream of having sleep paralysis?

**Ethan23** · 04-13-2012 06:51 AM

so i went to sleep last night and beforei knew it i was paralyised, i was in sleep paralysis, i remember keeping my eyes shut to try to build a dream world but when i woke up in the morning i easnt sure if it was sleep paralysis or a dream....sooooo

can you dream about sleep paralysis? it felt real?

**nina** · 04-13-2012 07:08 AM

You can dream about anything. But to me it sounds like you were in sleep paralysis. Why complicate matters by assuming it could have just been a dream? It's more likely to be SP.

**Ethan23** · 04-13-2012 07:11 AM

yea i know but i just have a hard time beliving it hahaha, ive been trying to induce sleep paralysis for weeks and this time i wasnt even trying and bam!

**faceonmars** · 04-13-2012 02:03 PM

Dreams are made up of tiny bits of our waking reality. Memories of the previous day are parsed, thrown away or stored in our permanent recall during sleep. Thinking about sleep paralysis certainly can lead to dreaming about it. One thought - you say you have been trying to induce sleep paralysis for weeks. SP is a natural state that you experience with every sleep session. What a lucid dreamer tries to do is remain aware when it is happening. Anyhoo, you might have been in SP or you might have been dreaming about it... only you know for sure!

**Ichorid** · 04-13-2012 03:49 PM

Occasionally I try to WILD in my dreams, unintentionally. What happens is that I feel buzzing sounds etc. and the awareness built makes it a DILD, because by then I know that I'm dreaming. It's hard to explain but you can dream about sleep paralysis and not have the same effects as the real one, because it's in the dream.

**Triad** · 04-13-2012 03:52 PM

You certainly can. There was a period where I had repeated false awakenings of being paralyzed and freeing myself only to wake up to reality being paralyzed again at square one. If I had only realized I was dreaming I could have taken advantage of the lucidity, but the paralysis felt so real and it was the norm at the time.

**Ethan23** · 04-13-2012 05:33 PM

okay thanks guys

**cuindreamland1** · 12-26-2013 07:18 PM

i have dreamt about being in sleep paralysis many times. the reason i can tell it is a dream and not real sp is because it then drifts into another dream or i actually wake up and can conciously remember which parts were dreams and which were waking life. dreams about sp are often less frightening because you werent awake. I think if you are questioning it then it was a dream bcuz most of the time sp is very definite and you will know for sure you are awake while its happening.

**Laurelindo** · 12-27-2013 09:08 PM

In my opinion, you can dream about anything that you can imagine during a daydream.
For example, you understand what Sleep Paralysis is - the physical paralysis that occurs during REM, and that you can sometimes become aware of since you wake up before it has ended - and therefore you can also dream about it, since you are able to imagine it.
You can also dream about "impossible" things as long as you can combine several intuitive factors, for example you can dream about flying since it is pretty similar to swimming, or being in the air for a short time when you jump off a trampoline.

Similarly, it's very hard to dream about things that you have no intuitive understanding for, like how it feels to be a rainstorm or what the fourth spatial dimension looks like.