Need a bit of assistsance.

[Castles]

As my lucid dreams have been becoming more recent (I've had 3 consecutively on the 5th I believe it was) I have noticed an ongoing pattern. I'll somehow realize I'm dreaming, I'll calm myself down so I won't get too excited and wake myself up, and try to fly or something. However it feels as if I'm stuck in sand. It's really hard for me to move my body and eventually it'll wake me up in sleep paralysis. I'll remember opening my eyes for a brief moment, closing them and then going back into the dream 2-3 times with the same thing happening. I am pretty confident in lucid dreaming and really believe I can control them but this is such a big dilemma for me. Also hi again everyone, I was on vacation for a week. Florida is fun.

[melanieb]

Unusual, though I have seen other people report similar issues over time. I'm not entirely sure how people solve this. I see people report the issue, other people reply and then no one ever reports back how they got past it. Some questions: Has this been more pronounced while on vacation or only happened during vacation? Has your sleep schedule changed? Has your diet or activity level changed recently? Any of those issues could affect this. I might suggest some tea at night, something good for peaceful rest like sleepy-time tea. It might relax your body enough to avoid this.

[SnowyCat]

That happens to me too sometimes. Try to stabilize the dream a little bit more before trying to move around; your brain tends to fabricate the environment around you before it creates your "dream body" (or at least in my experience).

[dms111]

Remember you don't need a dream body to move in a dream. If it feels hard to move try imagining yourself floating in the direction you want to go.

[Castles]

Remember you don't need a dream body to move in a dream. If it feels hard to move try imagining yourself floating in the direction you want to go. Hmm I will try this next time I have a lucid dream. That is very interesting and i have not yet tried that. Thank you. That happens to me too sometimes. Try to stabilize the dream a little bit more before trying to move around; your brain tends to fabricate the environment around you before it creates your "dream body" (or at least in my experience). I will try to work with this, thank you for your input. Unusual, though I have seen other people report similar issues over time. I'm not entirely sure how people solve this. I see people report the issue, other people reply and then no one ever reports back how they got past it. Some questions: Has this been more pronounced while on vacation or only happened during vacation? Has your sleep schedule changed? Has your diet or activity level changed recently? Any of those issues could affect this. I might suggest some tea at night, something good for peaceful rest like sleepy-time tea. It might relax your body enough to avoid this. It has been more pronounced while on vacation, I believe due to me not being in my usual sleeping place. My lucid dreams occur more if I am sleeping in an unusual time. My sleeping pattern has changed during that period from going to bed at 4am-5am to 10-11pm. Diet not so much.

[Ekyu]

I had a problem once that i couldn't change my surroundings. I thought i could do it in my dream at that time, but probably deep inside of me i was thinking "this might not work". And i beleve that is your enemy. My solution was saying to myself "don't try to do this, just do it", and beleve me your mind processes this completely different. Never had problems since then with changing my surroundings! So this might also work for your problem. Just know u can do it if u really want to.