Scary Lucid Dreams: No light, inability to move, and no control. SOS!

**cecile** · 06-15-2012 03:08 PM

These days I only become lucid by false awakenings. They plague me, and for whatever reason, I can barely even move in them. It's always dark in my room, but I know it's a dream. My heart beats a little faster and I get kind of scared. I know it's a dream and I get up. But my body feels unbelievably heavy and I struggle to move. I can't even locate my dream body in my dream. I somehow manage to move, but barely. I usually try to float out of my room because my feet are too heavy and nonexistent to carry me out of my room. I can't react as if I was in real life, and my dream techniques just BARELY work. In any case, if I'm lucky enough to make it out of the room before I'm thrown into a second false awakening, I just find myself in my hallway in the dark and I can't move or control anything. I try my best to turn on a light, to walk into a light room, to think of a nice place to be, but instead I'm stuck, and usually fading by this point. I wish I could control anything, or even spin, but my dreambody is too damn heavy. I wish I could look at my hands to increase my lucidity, but it's too dark. And if anyone here has had sleep paralysis, in my lucid dreams, that's kind of how my body feels. Pressure and heavy and floating. I can't do anything and my lucid dreams are kind of well... scary.

Now, this is illogical, isn't it? I create my dreams. But I can't control them even a little. At least not false awakenings. If you think I'm a new lucid dreamer, I'm not. I taught myself to lucid dream when I was 12, and I'm now 21. The problem is that I've digressed. When I was younger I had great and interesting and amazing lucid dreams, and they weren't all false awakenings either. What is happening to me? Is there any hope for me to regain the amazing experience of having lucid dreams that aren't creepy as hell?

I'm so passionate about dreaming! But I'm getting so discouraged that I've been letting go of LDs so I can at least enjoy the richness of my regular dreams. They aren't as scary. Please, please, please help me!

**Robot_Butler** · 06-15-2012 10:39 PM

I know the feeling you are describing. It is horribly frustrating. This happens to me a lot when I'm trying to wake up from a lucid dream. I will get a chain of false awakenings. They only last a few seconds, and I am sluggish and half-paralyzed in them. I've always assumed it was a symptom of waking prematurely.

Has anything in your routine changed, recently?

**cecile** · 06-16-2012 12:24 AM

Glad someone can relate! (99 views and one response, come on dreamers!) Maybe you're right, it could be like I'm half waking up? I'm not sure though... these were pretty real lucid dreams. I don't know how to stop it!

**TwoCrystalCups** · 06-16-2012 03:29 AM

Yes it's premature awaking. Remember the terms spiritually, when you wake up faster than your spirit going back to your body, because there is times when spirits wander during dream time. And i believe that!

**melanieb** · 06-16-2012 04:44 AM

So...have you ever tried placing yourself in a bird or bat body? Both are light and can fly, and the bat can echolocate so no problem with darkness.

I ask since you mention having experience with lucid dreaming...perhaps shifting your mind to another body could help.

Or perhaps a "rescue pill" or thought of some kind, a dream element that allows you to leave your situation and be safe somewhere else once activated. Perhaps a magic word.

Update us on your progress within a week or two.

**Jakro** · 06-16-2012 11:37 AM

I don't know how to solve it, but I've experienced it too. What I've tried in the past is to take care to calm down and if I can do anything, do that. Like if I can speak, I can reach out for some dream characters to help me out, etc. Then again, whatever I want to do I always just ask the DCs to get me handled.

Sometimes I just try to move my force, ending up waking up because I move in the bed.

**Misticulx** · 02-16-2014 07:25 AM

i have also had this problem it feels like your on a set path your trying to fight with your dream trying to create but have forgotten how i have been unlucky with lucid dreaming i cant create dreams i can only barely control what i do but i feel heavy i cant speak and when i do i feel like iv stopped breathing though iv noticed one thing theres always a door open that waits for me when i see the door i realize im dreaming but when i try to go to the door i fear what happens if i try to stray from my dream i run into all sorts of nightmarish horrors horrors that would make anyone beg to wake up iv seen this door many times in my nightmares when i try to go to the door i feel heavy slow i feel like im being pulled back just last night i finally made it through the door i hope tonight i wont have another nightmare and i can dream word of warning there are things your mind can conjure up that you would wish you hadn't seen and i that there in that darkness this problubly has nothing to do with this im sorry but i hope what iv said somewhat sounds like what your running into