Has this happened to anyone else? I've experienced various types of sleep paralysis and REM atonia before, but nothing like this. This happened in the middle of a dream. I was dreaming that I was laying on my bed, going to sleep. I must have lost awareness for a while, as next thing I knew I was bombarded with these sensations, located right around the diaphragm area. It seemed like they had been going on for a while without me being aware of it. A certain muscle right around that area was expanding and contracting at an alarming rate, probably something around 20-30 times per second, it's hard to say! Breathing was semi-painful/annoying because of it, and it was hard to relax. I didn't really try to escape it, so it's hard to say if it was sleep paralysis for sure or what. Whenever I find myself in sleep paralysis or the vibration stage of a WILD I tend to try to relax as much as possible in hopes of it leading me to a deeper dream state.

Has anyone experienced this before? During the experience I heard a voice say to me "This happens to you every night". The whole thing is weirding me out. I have no recollection of ever experiencing this before, and I've never heard of anyone else mentioning this either. The voice weirds me out too but that's a whole 'nother topic entirely!

What do you guys think?