So it's 5:47 right now... 17 minutes after having the experience and I'm a little confused, so I thought i would create a new thread =).

since about 4 in the morning I have been playing around with my consciousness (LOL) and basically I have been phasing in and out of dreams / day dreams. I'm on vacation with some friends in a hotel room and slept a lot during the day, plus I was feeling in the zone when I woke up at 2 am, so that is why.

So here is how it begins:

After some time I find myself laying on my back in my bed with my arm dangling off. I feel very weird like lots of energy flowing threw me--I don't know how to describe it. Also, at this point i believe I am awake. all of a sudden i start to get intense brain freezes at least 3-5 times. They are very severe, and basically my thoughts in the moment is "wow! something is happening!" (like I'm on the verge of a wild etc.) What's interesting to note is 2 of my last 5 Ld's basically it was these same brain freezes that turned me lucid while I was in the dream. Anyways, shortly after the brain freezes my whole body turned numb and my body, fully paralyzed basically falls back a bit onto the bed. my eyes are closed the whole time and during this I believe I can feel my friend moving around in the same bed. At this time I think my heart starts to pound slightly which is a good indicator I'm NOT dreaming, and during this time I feel like my mind is basically confined to my head. Thinking I'm still awake, I try and imagine stuff because basically behind my eyes it is all 'black'. After a while of it being unsuccessful I finally move and break the paralysis because I can hear my friends talking from across the bed. this part I don't remember very clearly but basically after some time one of my friends gets up and goes to lie on the floor. Shortly after I wake up 'for real' except I don't really remember waking up--probably lost consciousness for a bit--and as it turns out everyone is asleep and no one is on the floor . I look at the clock and 15 minutes have past since I last checked. then I write it down, try to go back to sleep and then go to type this up cause yeeah I'm confused, was I dreaming or awake?


clearly I know the latter part with my friends moving around was dream. I am having trouble figuring out when I went into a dream though. I am starting to think the whole thing may have been a dream now, but I'm not sure... i think at one point--i didn't write this--I am pretty sure I questioned the probability of me being in a dream hence the *(lucid)* in the title...

I've never really had trouble defining awake or asleep, anyone have stuff that works possibly?

Any comments are welcome, thanks