Quote Originally Posted by Matte87 View Post
Hi and welcome to DV! What you're describing is called Sleep Paralysis and is completely safe. It can however be very frightening, because once you're in SP, you're basicly on the border of sleep. You start to hallucinate and can get all kinds of weird sensations, often threatening ones. What you did by relaxing is that you made yourself go to sleep and your fear started a nightmare.

If you ever get into SP again, you should do one of them following things. 1) Start breathing unnaturally. Either fast or slow, it'll make you wake up. Also try to move your body as you do this. 2) Relax and induce a lucid dream by imagining a scene or just let your mind do the cooking and you'll end up in one. This is a very easy way of ending up lucid in a dream, so don't be scared next time.

If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask
Hi, Thanks for the advice, i do recall feeling my body at one point as i said limp as i could not move at all. It really did freak me out and everyone i ask gives me a odd look. I obviously googled this and found all sorts from poltergeists to dreams. This is kinda the big thing thats happened. On the run up to this there has been a few small things from being in a dream where i see the room and myself asleep, then all my doors start swinging opening and it turns nasty making me awake rather confused but scared. That time happened my girlfriend had just come in so i just let it go but was always on my mind when i went to bed what if this happens again.

Only question i have - Is there anyway i can try stop everything going so bad?