Weird Experience, what was it?

**LDDreamer1994** · 01-16-2011 02:24 AM

ive been trying to attain lucidity for about a month now, keeping a dream journal ect. but last night something weird happened in my dream. In part of my dream , I remember me,my stepdad and other strangers were in our house doing a seance (sp ?) I remeber we all had to close our eyes and then I remember the spirit or something touch me, I then felt this extremly weird feeling and woke up paralyzed, after a moment I was able to move again and then went back to bed, I can distinguish this part from a dream because I woke up in my room and everything was in its place (unlike a dream) , was this an obe?

**Arra** · 01-16-2011 09:45 AM

That was sleep paralysis. You had a dream in which you experienced something intense (fear?), and woke up prematurely. Your brain releases a chemicals while you're dreaming to paralyze your muscles, so you don't act out your dreams. You were awake, but the chemical was still in effect.

As I understand it, an OBE is when you have a sensation of floating up out of your body in your room.

It's rare, but some people hallucinate when they get sleep paralysis. So if you ever get it again and see something, don't be afraid. It's also common to feel a pressure on your chest.

I used to get sleep paralysis several times a night when I was 15-16. I'd try to make myself move, succeed, try to fall back asleep, and go back into paralysis. It was so bad, it was difficult to fall asleep sometimes. I also used to get OBEs often, every night or two, around the same time. (Oddly, my mom has told me that she used to get sleep paralysis when she was about 15, so I've wondered that it might be genetic.)