A dream of laying in my bed

Here is how it goes. This has happened more that once but not often at all. It scares the ever living crap out of me. What may be relavent to it is I am into paranormal investigation.

Now. This is what happens.
I fall asleep in my bed. When I go into this specific dream I am laying in my bed always laying on my right side. This is where it gets creepy. In my dream I know I am laying on my bed in my room. The thing is. I am paralyzed. I can't talk, I can't move at all. I can't wake up and I sometimes can't tell the difference if I am asleep or awake. While this is all going on, I can feel something walking on my bed. I dont know what it is but I can literally feel movement like something is walking on my bed. I try to scream, I try to move, I try to yell at whatever it is to go away but I can't do any of it. I feel like something is with me, not threatening but still it scares me. I feel a presence with me through all of it but don't hear anything.

At this point I try to wake myself up can't. Sometimes it feels like I wake up but am still paralyzed. The thing that really freaks me out is I feel something is with me and like something is walking on my bed.

There is not a lot else to discribe. Eventually I wake up. Then that is that.
I just can't get over how I can physically feel something walking on my bed.

Sometimes I connect it with childhood
expierences with being scratched at night. I used to wake up very often when I was a kid with 3 scratches on either my arms it back or legs. Priests think it is the marking of the trinity which is demonic related but I am not sure if what happened to me as a kid has anything to do with this dream I have now.

As far as I can recall I have only had this dream maybe 3 times but every time it happens I feel scared intimidated and I am literally paralyzed. Yet I don't feel like I am in harms way at all. It doesn't feel threatening.

I know I have repeated my self like 20 times but it is a relatively short dream that lasts all night of being paralized but feeling my bed move like something is walking on it. By short I mean not much happens. :/ no sounds at all. I can hear but it is silent otherwise.

What you've experienced is a very common thing called sleep paralysis. It;s nothing to be afraid of, in fact we're actually literally paralyzed every time we dream in REM sleep - it's called REM Atonia and is nature's way of making sure we dont hurt outselves by acting out our dreams. The muscles of the body become very slack resulting in paralysis - you can move your eyes and slightly move your fingers - just wiggle them a bit if you really try, but that's about it. Normally when we're in REM atonia we're asleep of course, so we don't notice it, but occasionally a person wakes up while in it, and then it's called sleep paralysis. It's generally accompanied by diffculty breathing, some people report they feel a weight on their chest. I think this is because the slack muslces make breathing difficult.

A presence is also a very common feature of these experiences. Usually an evil presence, sometimes a figue that's trying to hurt the sleeper in some way. It's often reported as an old hag or a cloaked and hooded figure, but has been seen in many other forms.

The interesting thing about sleep paralysis (SP as we call it) is that you're simultaneously awake and dreaming. You can see your actual room and at the same time you can see dream forms, such as the figure. If you google for info about it you'll find a lot of information - some of it scientific and obviously a lot of religious and superstitious stuff about it as well.

+1 for sleep paralysis. This is exactly what it is like, quite a common ailment.

The good news is that is is not really dangerous, now that you know the name "sleep paralysis" you can research it further and there are some suggested treatments including lifestyle changes that may make it less likely, and in other news news it is luckily not dangerous to your health.

The bad news is that it is very scary and also extremely realistic. I think what makes it even scarier is that sleep paralysis happens during the half asleep and half awake stage, and thus you may experience part reality (seeing your actual room) and part dream/hallucinations (the presence you describe). I think any time dream and reality are blended like that it is scarier for us because then we have trouble figuring out what is real and what is part of a dram, and our mind cannot help but fear that the scariest parts are real. Also who wouldn't be scared of being paralyzed?

I think you have come to the right place. Lucid Dreaming is an excellent tool in fighting nightmares, and one of the biggest advantages is that Lucid Dreaming is all about differentiating reality from dream. While sleep paralysis is in some ways different from most nightmares because of the elements that are real, it can still be recognized while it is happening, and hopefully if it happens to you again, realizing what it is will make the experience at least slightly less scary.

On personal notes: I wonder whether the reason why so many of my nightmares as a kid featured my body or part of my body in a cast had something to do with part of my brain being aware of my body's paralyzed state? My son who is in elementary school has described nightmares to me that had certain sleep paralysis components as well: he is paralyzed and an evil presence of some sort is approaching him and he is unable to stop it - I found it hard to reassure him because of how scary it was, and how young he is. For a while he was afraid of going to sleep as a result. I believe he has overcome this, and has not had an experience like it for a whole now. I hope you will too.

The good news is that as adults we have more tools and knowledge available to fight this. We are not powerless against nightmares and sleep paralysis: while you cannot move while it is happening but you can work at the very least on altering your perception of it, and making it hopefully less scary by making it better understood. All the best!

That is good new :)

Very happy to hear that is all and that it is common. I don't know why I didn't think to Google it. I normally Google everything including this site lol. Now that I know what it is hopefully I can attempt to do something about it when it happens again.

That is exactly it now that you mention it, the fear seems to be because I am unable to determine between dream and reality.

I used to be able to lucid dream. Some dreams I can control every aspect of, kinda like I am the god of my dream. I have also been told that if you can look at the palm of your hands in your dream you then have true power to go anywhere and do anything. I think the only thing you can't do is effect real world stuff such as money in your dream. Which if I could do that I would. Lol. I think we all would.

Otherwise I am pretty happy with my dreams. They usually take place in the same setting under the same circumstances. Minus normally my gf cheats or says she will and doesn't seem to care. But I understand that is just because of my real life fears. Thanks for your replies.