Terrifying Chills during waking/dreaming transition

**distancewolf** · 11-10-2010 03:20 PM

I am new to lucid dreaming and have been doing reality checks the last few days to prep myself for a lucid dream. I know i am getting close because each night my dreams are becoming more frequent, more vivid, and easily remembered. I have had 2 similar experiences the past two nights.

I usually have 3 part dreams, broken up by the times i awake in the middle of the night. The last two nights the same thing has happened. Right before falling back asleep for the third dream, i consciously ask myself over and over, "am i awake or am i dreaming"? Almost immediately after I begin I feel this strange rushing feeling to my face and body and I get intense wave of chills throughout my body (im not physically cold, its strange, like the feeling you get right when you get goosebumps but continuous).

The first night I dreamed that I woke up in my bed. There was different people in my room and i kinda floated down onto the floor and talked to them briefly before waking up in my bed again (for real) and getting extremely frustrated because of the opportunity i had just missed.

Last night I had the rushing chills more intensely. The interesting thing is, it lasted the entirety of the dream and not just during my transition from wake to sleep. With it, comes fear because of the bizarreness and uncomfortableness of the feeling. In my dream I awoke in my bed and my room was normal. The only cues were there was a strange football game on TV (the colts were losing 45-5 to the giants, shoulda known right there it was a dream) and there was just a bizarre feeling to the world as something was just not right. I did my wake up routine and even looked straight in the mirror for a few moments (i looked completely normal). After getting on my facebook for some reason I had a different email and somehow this told me I was dreaming. I awoke immediately, scared and still experiencing the chills for a good 30 seconds.

Somebody please tell me what I am experiencing with the chills, and the best way to become lucid in my current situation.

**distancewolf** · 11-10-2010 03:27 PM

also, I remember consciously asking myself if i was dreaming in the second dream and even going out in the hallway to try affirm my suspicions. Obviously i either didn't think about it too hard or didn't notice anything unusual to cue my lucidity.

help with this would also be appreciated

**fatcatcog** · 11-12-2010 01:44 PM

It sounds like you are having a really vivid false awekening. You could use this to your advantage though. Here is an idea: Place something in your room that stands out alot and when ever you look at it do reality checks thoughrouly. If in your dream its not there or you do see it and reality check you will realise its a dream and then you could become lucid.

**elucid** · 11-12-2010 06:12 PM

I think the chills are from Sleep Paralysis, look it up, it is very common for those things to happen during sleep paralysis.

**distancewolf** · 11-12-2010 06:39 PM

I experimented again last night. I'm trying to WILD and I can kinda induce sleep paralysis. Ill stay still for a long time and kinda wander inside my head and then the rushing chills come (I'm assuming sleep paralysis) but they will only last a moment. I usually persist and stay laying down for another 20 or 30 minutes experiencing several more of the rushing chills (also some ringing in the ears) but after about 40 minutes i get sick of it and just get up where i come to the realization i never fully experienced SP.

The two times Ive experienced false awakenings Ive woken up at about 4 am and then laid back down where i experienced these rushing chills and then the false awakening right after. Every time i consciously try to induce it, however, I fail.

I think with the rushing I'm experiencing the beginning of SP but for some reason it never fully happens. Any help?

**OwlDreamz** · 01-19-2011 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by distancewolf

I experimented again last night. I'm trying to WILD and I can kinda induce sleep paralysis. Ill stay still for a long time and kinda wander inside my head and then the rushing chills come (I'm assuming sleep paralysis) but they will only last a moment. I usually persist and stay laying down for another 20 or 30 minutes experiencing several more of the rushing chills (also some ringing in the ears) but after about 40 minutes i get sick of it and just get up where i come to the realization i never fully experienced SP.

The two times Ive experienced false awakenings Ive woken up at about 4 am and then laid back down where i experienced these rushing chills and then the false awakening right after. Every time i consciously try to induce it, however, I fail.

I think with the rushing I'm experiencing the beginning of SP but for some reason it never fully happens. Any help?

I wish I could help you, but I am just as clueless as you, and going through the EXACT same feeling! It's SO annoying and so distracting, and I find it completely derails my SP, leaving me wondering what the hell? Was I in SP or not? The way you describe it is just exactly how it feels to me. elucid said it is very common for SP, so I am going to go research that a bit.
Ugh, and I thought the fuzzy vibrations where bad for distraction, but they are nothing compared to the chills!
By the way, at least you get some FAs in there, I got nothing but an annoying floaty feeling that leads to nothing. *sigh*

**atkins513** · 01-19-2011 11:14 PM

To all of the above posters:

Usually once you have felt the vibrations, fuzziness, ect of sleep paralysis and think the attempt has failed, you are infact in a false awakening. Be sure to do reality checks every single time you think an attempt may have failed. Chances are you're lucid and could take advantage of it.

**OwlDreamz** · 01-20-2011 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by atkins513

To all of the above posters:
Usually once you have felt the vibrations, fuzziness, ect of sleep paralysis and think the attempt has failed, you are infact in a false awakening. Be sure to do reality checks every single time you think an attempt may have failed. Chances are you're lucid and could take advantage of it.

Speaking for me, I will do so for sure the next time this happens, but it wasn't a FA this time. A RC confirmed it was just a failed attempt. For sure I will RC next time though too... if I get those nasty chills again.

Edited to add:
It was even your new RC I used, Atkins!

**atkins513** · 01-20-2011 09:05 AM

Yay.. That is awesome.. So the new RC works for you? Go post on my thread then lol.. I need feedback

**MasterYocheese** · 06-10-2016 03:23 PM

ME TOO!!! I had exactly the same experience and it was just TERRIFYING!!!! OMG! After those chills, I feel someone lift me and then I start to feel incredibly sudden chills! But unfortunetly when this happens and get THAT CLOSE to lucid dream, I start to get sleep paralyze... And thats why I abandoned lucid dreaming...

**gab** · 06-26-2016 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by MasterYocheese

ME TOO!!! I had exactly the same experience and it was just TERRIFYING!!!! OMG! After those chills, I feel someone lift me and then I start to feel incredibly sudden chills! But unfortunetly when this happens and get THAT CLOSE to lucid dream, I start to get sleep paralyze... And thats why I abandoned lucid dreaming...

This is a very old thread, so it will be locked after this reply. If you want to talk about this some more, please feel free to make a new thread.

That's unfortunate that you abandoned lucid dreaming so close to having a LD.

When you feel strange sensations (which are most likely not sleep paralysis), you are transitioning from being awake into a dream. And you feel those sensations because you kept your awareness.

If in fact you notice you are paralyzed, that means you are already dreaming and in REM, so you are already there, lucid dreaming. All you have to do is realize it. Maybe a reality check would help you cross the thresh hold. Or just standing up/rolling out from your bed and into a dream. Remember, that only definition of SP is not being able to move. All those sensations, which indeed can get so wonderfully intense are signs of our body falling asleep. It happens every time we are falling asleep, but we only notice it when we are still aware at that point.