Raucous Cotton Feeling

This happened to me when I was around 7 or so. The whole experience is hard to grasp, and even harder to explain, but I'll do my best.

I was staying at my dad's place, sleeping in bed. All of a sudden I wake up, with this REALLY wierd feeling going on. I can't explain what it felt like, or even where it felt, all I know is that it was REALLY uncomfortable. The best two words I can give it is the Swedish word "skrovlig", which translates to either one of these: "rough, rugged, raucous, harsh, abrasive", and a feeling of uncomfortable softness, like cotton! These two combined, and maybe some sort of "buzzing" to it; a horrible feeling, trust me. I remember going into my dad's bedroom screaming: "can't you see, can't you see it?!" But they (he and my plastic mom) couldn't see anything, and when I think of it, neither did I. I think "seeing" was my way of trying to translate the feeling into an existing physichal sense; e.g. sight.

The worst thing about it was that in whichever way I tried to make it go away, it really wouldn't. It was so intence, horrific and untouchable that it amazes me still today. I can still remember the feeling of it, although luckily not as intense as that one time...

Anyway, I find it really hard describing this, and even understanding it myself. Has ANYONE had this or a similar experience? What the hell was it?!

Haha, I think I'm gonna start a rock band and give it the name in this post's title, so original...

I too used to get this very awkward feeling, not only in dreams, of a very bloated feeling. It always felt very weird and I hated how uncomfortable it was because I simply could not tell what it was.

It wasn't necessarily "bloated" as in the stomach or feeling full, more like the sensation of something big.

It took me a long time to figure out that this sensation was the feeling of trying to hug a large box or bloack and the sensation was the feeling of holding this block against me.

Disregarding the analysis, the symbolism of the sensation is typically boiled down to a certain situation or feeling that you must think about first before you have this sensation (or things that remind you of this incident which creates this sensation). Is there any empathic sensation along with the dream?

What do you think of what I have said..? Is it similar to what is happening to you..?

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A night terror maybe? I used to have those and to this day cant describe how it felt. ALl I know is it felt horrible and bizzaree and I was in conplete terror.

Thanks for the answers! I didn't think anyone would have much to say about this...

gameover: Well, about night terror, I don't know much about those so it's really hard for me to relate. I didn't find myself in complete terror, but describing it as horrible and bizarre would be accurate.

O'nus: I don't think there's any empathic feelings related to this, I can't really think of anything out of the ordinary. But the sensation did feel big, kinda like a box. But I still don't know if we hade the same experience. Pretty hard to deescribe it; it's like two blind people having eye vision for five seconds and then trying to describe and compare the color "green" to one another...

I remember lying in my bed wishing the feeling to go away. Maybe the feeling felt like hugging a huge, blunt, raucous, yet soft box, and it felt inside your head and all around in the room. It really felt like a really aggressive force fieldfilling the whole room, but it wouldn't go away even if I left the room... Strange. Somehow I think of walnuts, hmm...

You think we're on the same level here?