Thread: Was it Lucid?

In order for it to be a lucid dream, you have to know you are dreaming while you are dreaming. So that doesnt seem to be the case. And you were only asleep for what, 3 min? that doesnt seem like nearly enough time to go back to sleep and dream. Its a possiblity, but not a very likely one. There leaves only 2 logical options.

1. You were dreaming the whole time. You dreamed that before you were held in bed, and It seemed so life like, that you thought you were awake.

2. You had a bad experience with sleep paralisis. It kinda sounds like the old hag syndrom. The old hag isnt an actual person or spirit or any humbo jumbo like that. Its just your mind making up a bad experience for the paralisis that happens from the onset of REM.

those are the 2 explanations that i can think of. Just make sure you know the difference between a lucid dream and this. A lucid dream is knowing you are dreaming, while you are dreaming. This was just a bad experience.

i had a back problem and was prescribed loritabs(sp?) and had a number of similar experiences. i think it is sleep paralisis, too. i felt like i couldn't breathe and i was being held down. i couldn't scream and that really freaked me out. it took coming here to be able to identify what that was.