Thread: I can't move, but it's not SP I swear!

Welcome to DreamViews Amandals

I've heard many reports of some kind of "paralysis" while in a lucid, and I also felt this myself once or twice. This may be a simple incorporation of REM atonia in your dream, a rare and more complex type of occurrence when compared to events like feeling pain in your arm while you're sleeping on top of it.

What methods have you tried to solve this? Some people suggest letting yourself sink into the bed and hopefully changing the dream scene, or you can always ignore your own dream body and just float outside of it.

Originally Posted by Zoth

Welcome to DreamViews Amandals

I've heard many reports of some kind of "paralysis" while in a lucid, and I also felt this myself once or twice. This may be a simple incorporation of REM atonia in your dream, a rare and more complex type of occurrence when compared to events like feeling pain in your arm while you're sleeping on top of it.

What methods have you tried to solve this? Some people suggest letting yourself sink into the bed and hopefully changing the dream scene, or you can always ignore your own dream body and just float outside of it.

Hey thanks for the reply!

Methods I've tried:

1. Relaxing in the dream, kind of becoming passive in hopes that i'll lose my inhibition
2. Mental encouragement "I can move! I have the power!"
3. Trying to focus on moving my limbs one by one
4. Floating... which I can kind of do but only a little. Once I managed to "float" out of the door but not much happened.
5. Commands, like telling myself to move
6. willing changes in the room, in order to make it more dream-like and less false awakening-like

Is it possible this is just some sort of mental block? In the past i've had a strange love/fear relationship with the dream world.

Also I feel like maybe it would be helpful to tell the story of the dream that marked the beginning of this problem:

I awoke in my room, it was a false awakening but it was light and I could see everything in detail in my room, as it was in real life. In the lying position, I had a strange thought: what if, when I sit up, my mind can't think of how to fill in the room? So I sat up and it was quite difficult. My body felt heavy but not as bad as nowadays. As I look around the room, I notice that the spots of the room that were missing when I was lying down now are simply spaces filled with materials... like jean and other prints. It was like my mind literally patched up the room. After that, the heavy body thing turned into paralysis.

Thoughts?