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      Some help please - "Trying to run"

      Gday,

      Ive had this dream about 4 or 5 times in my memory, and I thought it might have meant something, which I had fixed. However, last night I had it again, so I thought someone here might offer me help.

      The context of the dream usually differs - the main feature is that I am trying to run (or sometimes walk) to some place. Last night it was because I was late to class, but another time, I was in a race. The thing is that my legs feel constrained. It takes a huge effort to move one foot in front of the other, and I end up taking huge steps to try and make up for it the slow movement, but it doesn't really work. Very frustrating.

      I am a pretty inflexible person (muscles, that is). And so, I began stretching. Now I can touch my toes . So the dream stopped for a while and I was pretty proud that I had interpreted and fixed my dream. Last night the dream came back.

      Perhaps it's simply saying I need to stretch a bit more? I must admit I have been a bit lax lately.
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      Maybe you have an internal issue or problem that you're not totally aware of. The inability to walk properly may represent something that is preventing you moving forward and how maybe you should stay and sort out that something if you are to progress more easily in life.
      This reality is like a goldfish bowl. The dreamworld is the same, but larger. It's easy to get lost.

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      If you have had these dreams a few times, it is a personal dream symbol of yours, its good to look back at your life and take a look at some things going on in your life at the time of the dreams, associating that with you life now may help you understand what your inner self is showing you and why you are having these episodes in your dreams.
      I would also say it has something to do with your life and where you are headed, perhaps you are being blocked by yourself at such times in your life when you need to be taking chances,"going for it" despite the fact that change can be a hard thing to adjust to, since we become so comfortable where we "stand" in liffe.

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      i don't think anyone can clearly run fast enough in their dreams. I know i can't. When i'm trying to run (especially if i'm running away from someone) i can't run fast, it's like running in water, so i move my arms (like i'm swimming in water) and sometimes it helps me run faster, otherwise i just take off and fly.

      I've had dreams where i get into fights with people, but when i hit them and it's in slow motion,and they laught at me like i'm a weakling because i can't hit them harder.
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      Your on the verge of being lucid or youre losing lucidity so sleep paralysis is taking over, you feel the fact that your real legs are not free to move. Whatever movements you try in this state will be hindered if it is the edge of sleep paralysis.

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      Hi Lewis

      I'm surprised you are all getting this wrong.

      You're legs are not moving SLOWER. What is happening is that your sense of time is being slowed down.

      Do you know how High Speed Filming works -- they take thousands of exposures a second, enough to make a bullet seem to pass slowly by when replayed at the normal 20 frames per second. This is what is happening in you mind -- you are experiencing more moments of perception per second which fills each second with more experience, and thus your sense of the passing of time only seems slower. It feels like your legs are sluggish, but they are actually moving quite normally, or even faster and more efficiently since you have so much more "time" to put your attention into everything you do.

      You can verify this simply by looking around at the other details of the dream the next time it happens. You will see that it is not just your legs, but EVERYTHING is slowed down.

      I had a dream like that once, and used it to my advantage. I had been attacked by five men and realized the slow down could help me. They apparently were in normal time, but with me in the ten to one slow down, I could avoid their weapons quite easily -- ducking or parrying -- while they could not avoid my well planned out tactics, hatched and executed in my quite lengthy fractions of a second.

      yes, it is incovenient for things to seem to move so slowly. It is brought on by some form of adrenaline. The Martial Artist Masters quite know all about this State. I think if you can control it in a Dream, you can have waking access to it also, though at a strange level. I was once very much into sport motorcycling and have had several accidents that were witnessed by bystanders. Several times I have heard stories of myself jumping off motorcycles the moment they were struck, to twist and roll in the air to come down on the ground rolling like a wheel only to jump up and run off the remaining forward velocity when things had slowed down enough. To me, at the time, I would remember the impact and then I would remember running down the road ahead of the accident scene, wondering where my motorcycle had gone. Obviously I had gone into that strange State of slowed down time in which I was able to plan and execute my own survival.

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      I have the same problem. I have dropped many issues and it has gotten to where I can somewhat run. I can't even throw or punch in my dreams. Restraints. Actually I belive it is something you must let go of or finish the tasks that hold you back in life. I have dropped many people I have so called "friends" and this has helped. I also dropped a habit.
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      Originally posted by Darth|Sidious
      I have the same problem. I have dropped many issues and it has gotten to where I can somewhat run. I can't even throw or punch in my dreams. Restraints. Actually I belive it is something you must let go of or finish the tasks that hold you back in life. I have dropped many people I have so called \"friends\" and this has helped. I also dropped a habit.

      I'm surprised everyone is getting this wrong.

      You're legs, your arms, all of that, is not moving SLOWER. What is happening is that your sense of time is being slowed down. You think you are not able to throw, because you did not stay with the action long enough to see the object slowly take off through the air.

      Do you know how High Speed Filming works -- they take thousands of exposures a second, enough to make a bullet seem to pass slowly by when replayed at the normal 20 frames per second. This is what is happening in you mind -- you are experiencing more moments of perception per second which fills each second with more experience, and thus your sense of the passing of time only seems slower. It feels like your legs are sluggish, but they are actually moving quite normally, or even faster and more efficiently since you have so much more "time" to put your attention into everything you do.

      You can verify this simply by looking around at the other details of the dream the next time it happens. You will see that it is not just your legs, but EVERYTHING is slowed down.

      I had a dream like that once, and used it to my advantage. I had been attacked by five men and realized the slow down could help me. They apparently were in normal time, but with me in the ten to one slow down, I could avoid their weapons quite easily -- ducking or parrying -- while they could not avoid my well planned out tactics, hatched and executed in my quite lengthy fractions of a second.

      yes, it is incovenient for things to seem to move so slowly. It is brought on by some form of adrenaline. The Martial Artist Masters quite know all about this State. I think if you can control it in a Dream, you can have waking access to it also, though at a strange level. I was once very much into sport motorcycling and have had several accidents that were witnessed by bystanders. Several times I have heard stories of myself jumping off motorcycles the moment they were struck, to twist and roll in the air to come down on the ground rolling like a wheel only to jump up and run off the remaining forward velocity when things had slowed down enough. To me, at the time, I would remember the impact and then I would remember running down the road ahead of the accident scene, wondering where my motorcycle had gone. Obviously I had gone into that strange State of slowed down time in which I was able to plan and execute my own survival.

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      I have taken Taekwondoe for 5 years and I can NOT control the state while sleeping but I can trigger it while waking and put it back to rest. I can contorl most emotions and all. but not grammar lmao
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      Leo volont. I can relate to your experience when you talked about the five men attacking you. you could dodge their attacks, but they couldn't yours. Last night i had a dream that i was fighting off three girls, and i was MEAN. And i could handle all of them. lol
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      I have read that when you are unable to move in your dreams it's because you are living in a conflict of your own making. My guess is that you are afraid to achieve the goals you set for yourself.

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      Originally posted by Inspirer
      I have read that when you are unable to move in your dreams it's because you are living in a conflict of your own making. *My guess is that you are afraid to achieve the goals you set for yourself.
      You've read it. And so you take the responsibility for repeating such mindless new age platitudes. "conflict of his own making". We are talking about a dream motif that is universal. EVERYONE has that dream, if you haven't noticed. so I guess your pious little tea leave explanation that you read somewhere and think that you must share with us must mean that we are all in conflicts of our own making. I suppose that means that we must all commit suicide or something, since the only conflict that each of us our engaged in which would cause a universal Dream Motif would be being alive.

      Then you guess that we are all afraid of achieving our goals. Again, I need to point out the universality of this Dream Motif. What!? Are you so young or so new to dreaming that you have not had such a dream yet. Until you have remembered more than a few dreams ... until you have dreamed... maybe you should hold off on the critical and patronizing advice until you know something.

      AND, besides, the legs are not really moving slower. Time has slowed down. This Dream Motif is showing us how our mind works in moments of stress, when the adrenaline kicks in. To maximize our abilities in Fight or Flight our powers of observation, perception and action are sped up significantly. Our Dreams reflect this by making the action seem very much slowed down, but it is an effect much like High Speed Photography in which many more frame exposures are made per second in order for, at normal playback speed, the action to seem so much slower. The next time you, or anybody, has this Universal Dream, simply remember to look around and you will see that it is not just your legs which are moving slowly. It will be everything. When you realize what is actually happening, it is a benefit which can be put to good use, as you will have so much more time to apply a conscious will to maximize the output of each muscle and movement. it may seem as though it is taking a very long time, but the worst that can happen is that you will be very bored.

      Indeed, many people are not comfortable with real life Adrenaline. They get Adrenaline surges before taking tests or before Public Speaking and they are flustered by it, in the same way that they are flustered by Slow Motion Dreaming. They should learn to appreciate the feeling. Those who learn to love the Adrenaline Rush would never trade it for anything as it puts one on one's performance peek. Why I once knew a rather famous Guru-type who would stab himself with a pin before taking a microphone because he realized how much more glib he was if once he could bring on the adrenaline rush.

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      Originally posted by catrina
      Leo volont. *I can relate to your experience when you talked about the five men attacking you. *you could dodge their attacks, but they couldn't yours. *Last night i had a dream that i was fighting off three girls, and i was MEAN. *And i could handle all of them. lol
      The problem would arise when one meets one's match -- when both parties are experiencing this adrenaline induced time slowdown, which is the effect of a significant perceptual speedup (again like High Speed Photography appearing to slow things down, like Matrix bullets). In such a dream, I was fighting off a girl that had become something of a monster. Our perceptions were even, and so we were effectively fighting to a draw. I had a bit more strength and so my tactic was to rip her arms off. But she had the strange magic of being able to grow back arms. Well, I decided she could simply not keep that up forever... that her energies would eventually have to give out. And they did. Suddenly she backed off from battle and became a normal girl again... in fact, more than normal. She seemed all at once to be a rather sympathetic sixteen year old pregnant girl. The same dream characters who moments before had been terrified of her (she had murdered half the town) now wanted to invite her into our car so that we could go to a local icecream parlor to give her a nutritious treat. I've yet to meet a group of Dream Characters who could hold a significant grudge.

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      Actually (and I know this will bring an onslaught of denial by Leo, but here goes.

      During REM sleep your body goes into temporary muscle paralysis. Ever have dreams where you heard a song that was really playing on the radio? You hear it while you sleep and your mind incorperates it into your dream. It is the same with the REM paralysis. Your mind knows your muscles are paralyzed and incorperates that knowledge into your dream, thus you cannot move. Another example, but sort of a reversed effect, is breathing under water in a dream. You are underwater, but your mind knows that you are still breathing regularly in real life so you continue to act out breathing in your dream.
      It is your brain taking external stimuli and acting it out in your dreams.
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      actually i can't breathe under water, i hold my breath...i wonder if i really hold my breath in reality. that would be scary.
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      Really?
      I've always been able to breathe underwater in dreams. It usually takes me a minute to realize that I can though. I've only had a dream two or three times that I can remember where I was underwater but I could breathe both times.
      All great things are simple and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope -Sir Winston Churchill

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      i guess my unconsciousness is so great that i won't even allow myself to breath underwater. even though i'm dreaming.
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