Thread: Why cant I MOVE !!!!

What is most likely happening is becoming lucid is putting you into the upper end of dream consciousness, very close to waking. When this happens, you become more conscious of your physical body which is asleep and unable to move and you identify with it and so feel as though you can't move. Attempting to move will further the connection with your physical body which will make it move and wake you up. The best way to avoid this is when you become lucid, instead of trying to move around right away, just calm yourself; relax and look around. You might even try to close your eyes and make a new dream world appear from behind your eyelids. Think of your consciousness like a ball floating in the ocean. Dreaming is the ball in deep water, being lucid is the ball in shallow water and waking up is the ball floating to the surface. When you become lucid, this ball will shoot up from the deep to the shallow, but if you do not take the time to relax and gain control it will keep going right on to the surface and you will wake up. In order to stay in the lucid dream state you have to learn how to hover in the shallow water.