Thread: Difficulty moving while lucid dreaming?

I've had about 6 or 7 lucid dreams so far so I guess I'm still pretty new to it, however it's getting easier to attain lucidity each time.
Basically all of my lucid dreams are WBTBs and most of them begin with false awakenings or with being in my room.
During a couple of these false awakenings, though, I know that I am lucid through RCing, but I find it very hard to move, almost as if I have sleep paralysis in my dream. This is really annoying because my dream will often end soon after a handful of attempts to get out of bed.

Is this normal? Does anyone experience anything similar?

This happens to me. I always kind of thought to myself the dream was trying to regain control or whatever. What usually happens to me is either I can't move or can't talk. I think the key is stabilization, but I have not tried it in those situations.

Yeah, you need to stabilize and really immerse yourself within the dream state. Perform several consecutive RCs to really plant that, "I am dreaming thought." If you find yourself stuck to the bed, try to imagine yourself lifting up off the bed on its own. Use your mind to get out of the bed, as opposed to brute force. Stay calm and take things easy.

You could also just try changing the whole scene altogether, that might work

This happens to me within the first few seconds of a WILD (think I have only had those 5-6 times) as well as the first time I ever had a lucid. Think I actually became lucid because I got snapped back to bed while trying to claw my way across the floor (that and one of the walls of my room was missing and there was a ghost staring at me =P). Not that I am expecting this to happen now, but how I carry on is by engaging the senses and demand dream stabilisation and detail. It normally stops after a little while and allow me to carry on.

It's normal to have sp in the dream firm lucidty commands like"higher lucidity" now helps break down the sp. sometimes the sp may be localized to your mouth too in this case think about the lucid commands confidently. namaste. p.s you can also dislove your dream body totally by thinkng about being formless or accesing your subtle enegy bodies like mental causal etc. which are formless vehicles in nature.

Originally Posted by dreamcatcher81

sp may be localized to your mouth too in this case think about the lucid commands confidently

I get this a lot, the first couple of times I command stuff it comes out blurry and I have to exert an unusual amount of effort in my throat to say stuff. I have noticed time and time again though that it pass after 1-3 commands

Originally Posted by Gspot

I've had about 6 or 7 lucid dreams so far so I guess I'm still pretty new to it, however it's getting easier to attain lucidity each time.
Basically all of my lucid dreams are WBTBs and most of them begin with false awakenings or with being in my room.
During a couple of these false awakenings, though, I know that I am lucid through RCing, but I find it very hard to move, almost as if I have sleep paralysis in my dream. This is really annoying because my dream will often end soon after a handful of attempts to get out of bed.

Is this normal? Does anyone experience anything similar?

Yeah same thing happened to me, It will stop after you've had more experience.