Lucid Dreaming every day

**morningterrors08** · 12-05-2008 03:08 AM

I have this real issue with Lucid dreaming. I had quite a few when I was younger, and they scared the crap out of me. I could almost compare them to night terrors, but I was awake in them and when I tried to wake up my whole body would be paralyzed and if I didn't force a part of me to move, I would drop back into the dream as if I had never woke up. My dreams are often very frightning and others are very erotic. As of this month I have had lucid dreams everyday. This morning I had a fight with a guy that i had no clue who he was and he dumped me out of the bed. I actually felt like I had hit the floor, only to bounce on my bed?????? HOW do I BOUNCE on the bed?? I have had dreams where I was falling and I hit the bed and bounce.......HELP?????

**The Prodigy** · 12-05-2008 03:10 AM

Don't fear it. Embrace it.

**morningterrors08** · 12-05-2008 03:12 AM

How?......If you can tell me, you will make me feel much better

**The Prodigy** · 12-05-2008 03:32 AM

What you are experiencing is sleep paralysis. SP happens when your body shuts its self off during sleep. This prevents you from acting out your dreams with your physical body while you are asleep. Your experiences are from a half sleep half awake state that you get from brief awakenings. You could be entering dream states before SP because you are already in your REM cycle, which could cause physical movement (in the real world) while you are dreaming causing it to seem more real.

I wake up many times acting out the motions of my last dream action because sleep paralysis was wearing off and i was waking up.

**Placebo** · 12-05-2008 02:45 PM

Dunno about the bouncing (congrats, you can fly?), but the night terror thing is as prodigy says - sleep paralysis.
I find it to be quite a pleasant feeling (unless I can't get up after some woman slaps my arse)

I get it more often because of my polyphasic sleep, but my sleep paralysis is normally not absolute. If I force myself to move, I can.