Quote Originally Posted by amandals View Post
I can't move in my LDs. I have false awakenings and then I plug my nose and breathe. It's dark and my body feels like lead. It feels like sleep paralysis, but I know it's not. It doesn't go away and I can stay there and progress, but only a tiny bit. First I move my fingers, then arms, and lately I can kind of float out of my bed, but I can't sit up and walk.
I think this problem stems from a sort of disconnect between your conscious presence in the dream and the unconscious engine driving the dream (your dreaming mind). In a sense, you want to move, or change the dream, but you're not properly communicating that desire to your dreaming mind.

The first step toward improving that communication is remembering that there is no need to move anything in a dream; that none of this is real. Doing this with sincerity helps to unlock your awareness and allows it to wander better into the realms of your dreaming mind.

The next step is to forget about this dream body you're trapped inside, and focus rather on the places you wanted to visit, the dream goals you wanted to achieve. Usually just thinking about what you want to do, without any concern for the DC body you are stuck inside, is enough to reconnect you to your dreaming mind, and disconnect you from the little prison your miscommunication initially formed.