false awakening strangeness

[sogart]

I have had some LDs but most/all of them were a continuation of a normal dream in which I realized I was dreaming. My favourite check is looking at my fingers. Last night I had a really strange experience: I woke up in my bed and could only half sit up, move only my left arm and half-open my left eye. After a few seconds of trying to move I realise it may be a dream and I look at my hand that had no fingers at all. So now I know I am in a dream and I am trying to stand up but its impossible. I close my eye thinking I will open them somewhere else but nothing happens. So I decide to move the bed with my mind, through the wall and go out. And this worked!!! I go through the wall but the bed can't pass so I am free. any thoughts? was it the paralysis of my sleeping body I was feeling? ps: it was the best LD i've had up to now. pps: that was very soon after I got back to sleep in the morning after 6-7 hours of solid sleep

[Shady]

Sometimes during LD's and especially during WILDs/FA's I can still feel my body asleep/paralyzed. The intensity varies alot; sometimes can barely feel it, and others I just feel like a brick. It could be you were experiencing that.. usually it goes away after a few minutes and its more or less just a brick wall in your mind. I know this sounds weird but just get out of the mindset that your bodies missing fingers, or that you cannot move. Your in a dream.. who needs to move limbs? Who needs fingers? You can just will whatever you need to happen. This might seem silly, but if you can get used to this you'll often forget about your limbs and body, and in turn the SP. Usually what happens is I will try to imagine myself rolling of out bed or whatever, not physically but just try to put yourself in the perspective of a rolling log down a mountain or something. After a bit I fall off or float away from my bed, ground myself and start doing stuff. Before I know it naturally I think I require the use of my arms to open a door, and I reach out to get it and everything fine. Its hard to explain but its like your subconscious forgets about the problem, ignores the symptoms.. then 'reality' kicks in and you just preform things as you would normally. Like everything else in dreams its only there because you think it is.

[Robot_Butler]

I hate this. I get it all the time. I'm going to have to try some of those tricks, Shady. I like to visualize myself somewhere totally different. I stop trying to get out of bed, or out of my body. I just relax, and then imagine a new body in a new place doing something very interactive. I imagine the texture of something I'm touching, or the feeling of running, flying, or falling.

[Shady]

I hate this. I get it all the time. I'm going to have to try some of those tricks, Shady. I like to visualize myself somewhere totally different. I stop trying to get out of bed, or out of my body. I just relax, and then imagine a new body in a new place doing something very interactive. I imagine the texture of something I'm touching, or the feeling of running, flying, or falling. Yeah defiantly, at the end of the day you just need to get away from that "I cant do x because of y." mindset. Nothing like that exists in dreams. And simply finding a way to distract yourself so you forget that is the best and easiest way imo .