Thread: Recurring Sleep Paralysis in Dreams Within Dreams

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

To be honest, it sounds like SP to me. I'd think if you fell out of bed for real it would wake you up, or at least you'd have bruises or be able to feel the residual pain after waking up.

1st question - when you're sleeping, how dark is your room? Is there enough light that you'd be able to see the ceiling?


2nd question - when you wake up for real, are your sheets all tangled around you or placed weird, as if you re-arranged them while asleep or half-asleep? Or are they still neatly placed?


You could try putting something on the wall or ceiling where you'd be able to see it (if this happens frequently) like a piece of masking tape or something, and see if it's there next time this happens.

I agree I don't think I'm really falling out of bed. In answer to your first question it's kind of embaressing but I sleep with more light than probably anyone you or I know. I like to be able to see, I also have a real bad sleep schedule where it's light out side most of the time I'm asleep. So its deffinitely possible for me to see clearly during sleep hours.

I don't recall the sheets ever actually being tangled around me. I don't actually use a sheet and lately have only been under one blanket. Now that I think about it in the dreams when I'm tangled up I must be under more covers than the single one I actually use.

I agree there is some SP going on. I think probably when my eyes open enough to see the room but I'm still asleep, maybe that triggers me going into SP that is still more dreamlike since I haven't officialy woken up.

Sometimes I wake up in stages where the first stage is I see my ceiling and wall but my mental coherence is still that of dreaming, I can't hear sound, there is some hallucination like a person or my door opening/closing back and forth, then the hallucinatory aspects go back to normal/dissapear, I recognize I have just woke up, and a second or two after that I hear outside noises I was deaf to. It's like waking up from a dream but with no break in vision, the change is mainly mental. I think I'm paralyzed during the first part but it only lasts a couple seconds so I don't notice it.

Is this uncommon?