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First I’ll give a little introduction about my lucid experience…
I’ve been reading this site for a few months now but have never posted. I’ve been lucid dreaming for as long as I remember, I’ve been having about 2 or 3 a week since I was a child (I’m 20 yrs old now). As a kid I used to think this was normal and would ask other kids if they did it buy none of them seemed to know what I was talking about. Now I pretty much keep it to myself and don’t tell or ask others if they have the ability.
I can generally keep a lucid dream going for quite a while, it’s like a balancing act, you have be conscious enough to not forget that you are in a dream but if you get overly conscious it’s easy to wake up.
I did a little search on the internet about lucid dreaming and that’s what brought me to this site. I’ve gotten many great ideas from reading people posts on here, last week in a lucid dream I transformed myself into my dog (this was my first time turning myself into an animal). It may seem silly but it seems like I now better understand how my dog thinks and (I would NEVER tell anyone this in the real world for fear of them looking at me like I’m a psycho).
Anyways, I said all that to get to this...
Sometimes when I’m lucid dreaming my eyes start to open and I am still in a lucid dream but I can see a little of the real world (my room).
Three times in the past week I have been in a lucid dream and my eyes have opened ALL the way. The first time really scared me. I was laying in my bed and my eyes opened. It’s really hard to explain but I was still asleep but my eyes were open and I was looking in my roomy. I tried to move my arm but it would not budge, NOTHING would move, my fingers, legs, or head. I can see out of the corner of my eye my roommate in the bathroom and I heard him in there. I tried to yell for him to come wake me up but the works would not come out, it was only a VERY quite whisper. I started to get nervous because this had never happened to me before, I know I was still asleep but my eyes were open and I was conscious of what was going on around me. I kept trying to yell and finally I tried to yell help and it got louder and louder when my roommate walked over andI awoke completely. I told him what happened (that I was asleep but awake at the same time and I could not get control of any part of my body). He told me he thought I should go see a doctor. Well the next 2 ways the exact same thing happened except this time I did not get worried and just laid there. This was definitely the weirdest sensation I have ever experienced.
Has this ever happened to anyone else?
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That's sleep paralysis. Look it up on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
It's normal, but scary :(
Sometimes I dream with my eyes open, but usually if I try to move I can.
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Thanks. That’s exactly what it is.
It was interesting that a lot of the cultures relate it to being possessed by a spirit, it really did feel like how I would imagine being possessed feels like.
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Yeah, sleep paralysis is scarey.
Your story makes me think of an experience I had a while back.
I was in a dream, walking home alone at night. I suddenly felt the need to fall down to my knees, like I was too tired to go on. As I looked down at the snowy cement, I noticed a ceiling was spinning on it. It was sticking up from the ground but it was still spinning like it was hooked up and everything. Then the cement turned into that white bumpy stuff that's on ceilings. I remember thinking "What the hell?", as everything else faded into a ceiling. Then I found myself lying on my living room couch looking up at the ceiling. It was a cool/strange experience.
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Ah yes, good ol' sleep paralysis. I accidently slipped into this twice in one night which not only scared the shit out of me, but also sent me looking for anwsers as to why this strange phenomenon occurs, and what do you know, here I am! :) Sleep Paralysis actually gets fun after awhile, because you can be awake and imagine things in front of you, sort of like willed hullicantions. But be warned if you lose control of your thoughts, things could get freaky. (hag) :D
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I've only had this happen with the help of drugs. lol.
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It happened to me again last night but this time I knew what it was so it was kind of enjoyable... I used the opportunity to go into a lucid dream
