Dreams and TheWayWeSleep

[santhosh]

Hi, I had these experiences When I put my hands/ or any weight on chest or stomach and sleep in an hour I wake up dreaming of being pressed hard on chest/stomach. I absolutely have no control on it and somebody is pressing it damn hard. To the extent I am frightened and I wake up. I discovered this after sever recurrences of the same kind of dream when I was 16. Another Discovery in the same year, Had these recurrent dreams of floating in the air. It starts with my legs first. They rise in the air and then the whole body. I stay afloat in the rooms and experience this weird uneasy fealing of sitting in a giant wheel at the circus. This is the kind of feeling you experience during a free fall, elevator going down fastly, etc.. After several recurrences I found out that, all this while, I was sleeping with my feet put in the bars at the other end of the bed. My feet just fit in the bars causing numbness after few minutes. The physical condition of numbness is manifested as floating in the dreams. Sad thing is, even if all this is a dream, our body and mind experience the trauma believing its true. Post your similar experiences if you have some

[Seeker]

Welome to the forum! Kind of strange. Any theories on why this happens?

[santhosh]

In my case (for the above two instances) I believe our mind which runs the show incorporates the current sleeping posture information into dream simulation. Physical State mapped to manifestations Weight on Chest ----> Somebody trying to suffocate you/ hitting / pressing you hard Numbness in Feet ----> A sense of light weighness in legs ---> floatation Then on I conciously avoid such postures, lest I suffer their affects in dreams.

[nerve]

hmm...odd. never experienced anything like that. welcome to the board.

[santhosh]

Thanks to Seeker, Paperdoll EP Yeah, I've had hell of time with sleeps and dreams. Thats how I ended up with this site. I strongly believe this is uncommon. May be, the extent to which I experience is a bit odd. It is time I start a dreams-blog to learn from these experiences. Also, in a curiosity to learn more about dreams, I got used to sleep more. Typically 10-11hrs a day and more if I've no commitments for the day. As a graduate student, this is a plain suicide. A shocking news for people around. Any suggestions to control excessive sleep? Yet another incident, (In the dream) Its like somekind of lab and I was sleeping on a table. Then a doctor comes up with a test-tube in his hand. Drop by drop the liquid is spilled on my eyes. It was irritating and I could not do anything about it. I tried hard to shout like hell. When it was no more bearable, I opened my eyes. Only to discover my brother trying to wake me up with a glass of water in his hand. Damn it, this time I permitted him to use better tactics to wake me. I felt sad the moment after, though it was all in a dream. Still, I suffered mentally as if it all happened.

[Lowercase Society]

yah, i've expirianced stuff like that before...one distinct one i can recall is: in my dream i had been shot in my side, right near the last two ribs on my side...i actually felt the pain when i woke up but to my supprise there was some kind of metal bar or something poking into my side with alot of pressure! the mind is a curious thing, although it has no tangable, physical construct and is very confusing, it is still amazing... cheers, Two weeks without my lover, I am in this boat all alone, Floating down a river named emotion Will i make it back to shore? Or drift into the unknown?[/b]

[evangel]

Originally posted by santhosh In my case (for the above two instances) I believe our mind which runs the show incorporates the current sleeping posture information into dream simulation. ...Then on I conciously avoid such postures, lest I suffer their affects in dreams. I often experience something similar I think... During some dreams, I notice that certain parts of my body feel numb -like my feet, legs, or arms/hands. When I look at them (in the dream), the numb parts appear to be blue or dark purple, which indicates to me a lack of circulation in my physical body. What I do then is concentrate on my breathing technique. Using either deep breaths or short quick breaths (short quick ones seem to do the trick of getting my limbs un-numbed and able to move again) Somehow this gets needed oxygen/blood to the areas that are affected and I can then control and move my "dream body." Problem for me is many times this only works temporarily, then I have to do it again (If I do it too much, I start to hyperventilate, so I've found it's important to be aware and focus on what effects this breathing has).