sleep paralysis/weird series of dreams

**blushing_angels** · 01-10-2004 07:10 AM

hi

ive been reading the posts on this forum for awhile, but i've never actually posted before..well the thing is, a few days ago, i don't know what really happened but i'm guessing it was sleep paralysis from what other users have been posting and all on the topic. i had a short nap, 3 hours, from 7 to ten...and then i went to bed at 3am...i couldnt fall asleep. a while later, im like, awake but i cant move or anything, my body felt as if my temperature was rising, and my eyes are closed, but i keep seeing flashing lights, glimpses of my wall (which i face when i sleep) and strange symbols appearing when the flashing lights would subside...i was trying very hard to move a limb or something, i was really really scared, like i thought i was going to die, because a short while later i started hearing an odd voice coming from outside my window (in addition to all the regular everyday noises in my room, like the ticking of the clock, etc)..eventually i snapped out of it and sat up in bed. i looked at the clock and it was 3:37...i was still really scared from the experience and tried to go to sleep again. a few minutes later, i start seeing the flashing lights once more and my body heats up again and so i get really scared and run to my moms room and sleep there for the rest of the night, where i have a regular dream. the next night, i have a nap (7 to 12) and go to sleep at 330 am. i dotn normally take these naps, ive just been particularly tired this week. so this time around, i fall asleep right away...and then i think i woke up within a dream, because, all of the sudden its like im conscious...like in this dream, i didnt get up from my laying position, my eyes were still closed and i felt something pulling me across my bed by my hair...i open my eyes and i see only my dark room, and watever it is taht is pulling me, is still pulling me but very gently. i dont see anything pulling me though. i was just..in shock because i thought it was real. normally when i have nightmares..i dont get scared because im always like a bit aware, and i remember almost all of them (i have very vivid dream recall). this time i was so sure that it was a real dream, i had to check where my head was when i REALLY woke up to make sure it was in the same place and not to where it was "dragged". i try to go back to sleep again...and this same horrible "dream" happens again. now after this time when i go back to sleep, i have a regular dream, in the middle of which i attain lucidity for like a very short moment...i lose control again for the most part.

im just really freaked out with the sleep paralysis and all/ and the dragging thing..i have no idea wat that was...