In this short lucid dream I had there was a window that looked similar to my window of my bedroom, so I approached it. When I approached it I opened my real eyes and my mind woke up. The only things I could control when I woke up were my eyes.

In my effort to squirm, yell, and move my limbs I also kept hallucinating that I was falling out of my bed, and kept seeing a dark figure at the foot of my bed. I kept trying to lift my head up to see the figure, but it felt as though my body weighed a million lbs, so all I could see is the top of its head. I began to panic a bit and the feeling of being clastrophobic set in after around 5 minutes of this.

Thats when I remembered reading about wiggling your toes, and it worked! It felt like an electric shock was being put into my legs as I kept wiggling my toes around. After about another minute I got out of bed finally and washed my face to make sure I wasnt dreaming.

Why did this happen? Why did I have my first paralysis so late in life, and does it have anything to do with the fact I have started really putting effort into lucid dreaming?