Hi guys,

I want to share with you a weird experience I had last night/this morning. I've experienced sleep paralysis once in my life, and found it to be a terrifying experience. I didn't try to have a lucid dream at the time, but believe it was a result of lack of sleep and possible sleeping during the day beforehand. Anyway, that's not exactly what I was going to talk about. I want to share with you my 'nightmare' (if you will), and see if anyone else has experienced this type of thing.

I went to sleep at roughly 1 o'clock this morning, and experienced something terrifying. I don't remember how it all started, but within my dream, I dreamed I was experiencing sleep paralysis and kept waking up and going back to sleep within my dream. Every time I went back to sleep I would 'continue' the sleep paralysis and physically could not keep my eyes open and therefore I experienced this three times consecutively before waking up fully in my dream (I was still sleeping). I'll tell you now these sleep paralysis episodes within my dream were far more terrifying than the 'real' sleep paralysis episode I encountered just a month or two ago. Anyway - once I was awake in my dream, I proceeded my dream as a younger version of me, crying because of these sleep paralysis episodes. I won't continue telling you the minor details of the dream, but once I was awake in real life, it was only 3 am which implied I was only asleep for 2 hours, whereas it felt like it was longer than any other dream I had experienced.

I have noticed my dreams are becoming much more vivid to me than normal, which is great, but I was really dissatisfied with this experience due to how terrifying it was. I had absolutely no control over my body, so I guess you could call it a nightmare?

Long story short: I had several sleep paralysis episodes within my dream.

Has anyone ever experienced something like this??