I wasn't exactly sure of where to put this. I didn't think it belonged in the dream journal section b/c frankly, I have trouble keeping up with a regular journal with my life schedule as it is. Also, I could not think of really any other people to tell this too except for fellow dreamers. This isn't a Lucid dream, this is just a weird and probably one of the most frightening regular dreams (not a nightmare) that I've had in a while.

Ok, so everybody here has most likely been in the passenger seat of a LONG car ride. You've also probably had it happen a good amount of times in your life where you sleep in an awkward position and you wake up and maybe part of your body is numb and you can't really move it or it tingles a bit for a minute or two. Well this combination gave me one weird experience today.

I was riding back home from college. I dozed off from time to time and then we get to a rest stop and I remember my dad saying that he had to go to the bathroom so we stopped. Now I'm not quite sure when I feel asleep, I just know that I didn't realize it was a dream until I had actually woken up (which I guess is technically the case for all non LD's). So anyway, here goes. Before this occurred, and at the point I think I fell asleep, I was sitting in the front passenger seat facing the middle of the car.

So my dad got out of the car and said he'll be right back to which I replied ok. So he gets out of the car and I lay there for a little while in that same position. I later try to move to which I sort of fail. I wasn't "paralyzed" but I had trouble moving certain parts of my body. In particular, I couldn't turn my head and back, I could lift my legs but not very high. My arms were slightly numb so I just decided to give my body a few seconds to reboot. However it wasn't really rebooting and while I eventually got some more feeling back into my arms, I was unable to remove the seat belt. I panicked eventually and tried calling for help. Eventually my dad got back to the car and after I tried explaining to him what was going on, he opened my door and tried to get me out. I tried lifting my arm up a little more and I was able to succeed better than before but still not 100%.

It was then that I shot up out of my seat, from the same position before the dream, and during the dream, to see my dad walking toward the car from the other side. I wasn't still fully aware of what had just happened so I asked how long he was gone, and he said only like 5 minutes even though the dream I remember wondering what was taking him so long. He said he did tell me he would be right back and I did reply but honestly, the atmosphere during the whole thing felt exactly the same.