Thread: sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming

hi and im new

and need some help just lately i have been terriefied to go sleep as i wake up in the night first all looks normal as i can open my eyes and look around but then i try to move and i feel as tho there is something really heavy on me pinning me down and when i screamed no one seemed to here me what made this even more scary was it looked as tho there was a small shadowy think come past my head and move on past me ... i forced my self to shut my eyes it was so scary ... i did google what had happened to me and now im rather intriged to find out more and more about lucid dreams so if anyone here has expierenced this id be really intrested to no more...xxx

HOW FAR AFTER GETTIN TO THIS STAGE IS IT CLASSED AS LUCID DREAMING....????

Hi,
I've experienced exactly what you've gone through. Sleep paralysis is frightening, as are most things, when you don't understand what is happening. In fact, many people who think they've been abducted by aliens are simply people who have experienced sleep paralysis. You can obviously research this on the internet and find out the facts, so I will relate my personal experience to you.
I have experienced sleep paralysis around 10 times in the past 5 years, all while napping, and mostly on my back (I never knowingly sleep on my back). I've read that what happens is, you dream with your eyes open and in the most basic terms, your vision mixes with your subconscious thoughts and you get wacky dreams. I don't know where the paralysis fits in, but that's how it works for me.
In my paralysis episodes, I've seen mice on my walls, I've had the same nightmare over and over again, woken up, been unable to move and fallen asleep again to have the nightmare again.

What I've found to work have been 2 things - 1. When you recognize you are experiencing sleep paralysis, just close your eyes and try to sleep, try to stay asleep and not wake up. This sounds dumb but it works for me. A more practical solution, 2. If you have a clock near your bed, when you wake up, stare at it and focus on it and try to say the time to yourself in your head. You may not be able to move your body or even open your mouth, but using your eyes and getting your brain to quit dreaming and think about numbers and time helps.