Thread: My eyes opened twice.

This is pretty long. Appologies - I love to go on and describe things as opposed to just giving the general idea, it's much more satisfying.

I just woke up from a strange nap. It was quite odd, I couldn't tell which parts of it I was dreaming and which parts I wasn't. I love it when this happens, last time was at night, and i kept drifting in and out of consciousness, unaware of whether or not I was asleep or awake. I think I made a post about that before, but this nap was a fair bit different - I shall explain what happened.

I was really tired and stressed out so I just went into my room, turned my light off and flopped down onto my bed. My door was left open and the light from the next room was peeking in - not enough for me to notice while my eyes were closed. Soon enough I was dreaming. The first thing I dreamt was actually typing on the forums here! Which was strange. I wasn't sitting at the computer, there was no keyboard, all that existed was the browser, and I was having conversations and reading conversations (making posts) all within the page. I don't remember what I was talking about, but I remember that they were actual conversations that were going on. A few times I became aware of this and found it sort of amusing, just going back to it... an odd kind of lucid dream, I didn't attempt to change it or do anything else, I just relaxed and let things happen.

Then my cousin made some noises in the next room and woke me up. I still laid there with my eyes closed, but I sort of groaned. He was saying some things but I really wasn't listening to him. There was some silence and then I felt him come in to my room and stand beside my bed. I opened my eyes and he was standing there, it kind of startled me at first but I knew it was him so it wasn't like those creepy old hag visits I've read about. I could only see up to about his chest from the angle I was lying. I tried to move and found out that I was paralyzed. I got fairly creeped out by this and told him not to mess around with me cuz I was all vulnerable. He said ok, and was pretty nice about it.. But then I realized that my mouth didn't move when I spoke to him, and neither did his, we were communicating in silence. Then I also realized... my cousin's in victoria . Haha oh gee so I dreamed that. Realizing this I managed to open my eyes again (even though my eyes were already "opened".. so this time they opened into the real room). And he disappeared. I was stilll paralyzed, but I didn't really attempt to move, I was tired anyway and was just enjoying the rest. I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.

After a while I sort of woke up again, and I opened my eyes, I was paralyzed still, I tested it.. I felt like if I tried to move really hard I'd be able to get out of it, but I was enjoying it, and like I said, just wanted to relax. I was looking around the room, and I realized that all the lights were turned off (even the lights in the next room. Everything had a slightly blueish tint to it from the moonlight. This confused me and I realized that I must be dreaming this. As soon as I realized that, my eyes opened a second time. And I was looking at the real room. I quickly realized "what if that was my 'dream body'(as people call it)". I don't really believe in out of body experiences to be honest, I think they're just dreams (this, I dont think was one anyway, perhaps something similar, but less vivid). Anyway so I closed my eyes really quickly, and was amused to find that when I closed them, they were still opened, but in this bluish nighttime room with all the lights out. I tried to get out of bed, but the angle I was lying at was weird (a bit on my side and stomach) so for some reason instead of just rolling out of bed, I tried to bend at that weird angle. I managed to get about halfway and the top half of my body got up. I doubt this was an OBE because I didnt look down to see my other body, it coulda just been a dream of me getting out of bed. But it felt like I was connected and I was being peeled away from the bed. It was interesting nonetheless. I sort of forget what happened next but I think I forgot that it was a dream and just drifted back into a regular dream.

After that I woke up, got out of bed and went into the computer room and started talking on msn. I was telling a couple of friends about the neat dream... and then I realized. The lights were out. It was then that I realized that this was a dream! But unfortunately I wasn't able to do anything because right at that moment my mom called down from upstairs and told me to come up and help her with something.

I got up really quickly for some reason and I shut the door to my room, and just stood in front of it for a while. I felt like I was hiding something (perhaps the fact that I was napping... I didnt intend on it, I was just planning on laying down for a minute but I dozed off) in it, and I wanted to keep it from my mom, who was downstairs as well (just in another room). Then I woke up again and she was just walking into my room, this time it was real, and she turned on the light on and I realized that that one before was a dream.

This was all so confusing. But it was quite a bit of fun, haha. I love taht feeling of opening your eyes twice. It's really weird. There was one point I think where I opened them three times in a row. Now I'm curious, did I ever ACTUALLY open them??????

Just felt like sharing that. You guys experienced this or anything similar to it? I love when I get into these weird states of constant false awakenings. Does anyone know of tricks to be able to get myself into one of these on purpose?

Cheers,
Dylan