Thread: My legs are paralyse when I try to run in a dream

It happens to me frequently. Not the pain, but the inability to run. When this happens, i can only run backwards.
I believe this had something to do with the position i was sleeping. Next time, when you wake up, take notice on how your body is at the moment: your sleeping position, if your legs are crossed, etc. Then try to sleep in a different position next time.

I can assure you that every single person will at some point come across a movement related problem in some point in there dreams. It makes sense too since it's one of the only aspects that every single dream of almost every animal no matter what age has in common.

However the actual reason you go paralyzed is likely a mental block (perhaps induced by the way you sleep like DreamHighlander said). The key to getting over this is having confidence in your conscious actions, in dreams your insecurities will often manifest themselves as challenges in the dream world. Through understanding of the dream world you can overcome this.

Think about it like this, the dream world is entirely your creation, you have full control over every single aspect if you wish to exert such control, you can't die and no one can hurt your real body, the moment you wake up the entire world will collapse into nothing. The entire dream rests upon your mind, and you have the conscious ability to mold the dream to your will.
Next time you are in a lucid dream think these thoughts, and repeat to yourself "this is my dream I can walk forward", say it out loud with great assertion and mean it. Reason it out in the dream "there is no reason why I shouldn't be able to walk, my legs should as soon as I command them".

The beauty of this is that once you conquer this method, you have essentially learned the method for the most complex of dream control. There's really nothing to it, every time you can't do something you repeat this lines and it almost always works.

My curent sleeping position is fetal, but I change my positions once or twice per year. Also, during the sleep I move frequently, so I never wake up in same position that I fall asleep. Every time I woke up with my legs hurting they was in different position like crossed, bonded, opened and more, so I don't think is about the position. The pain is real and intense. I feel it both in bones and muscles.

I had so far only one accidental lucid dream and I was started my exercices one week ago, so I didn't learn to control my dreams yet.