Thread: New here and need some help.

Your body shakes, and you can't move? That sounds like sleep paralysis. Are you laying in your bed when this happens, or are you in a dream already?

It can be a little scary at first, but once you learn more about it through reading and experience, it'll get easier, even exciting. You'll be able to control your dreams better with more experience as well. Remember while you're dreaming that it's just a dream, and you can do anything in it. Don't think you can fly, you must believe with 100% certainty that you can fly! If you can learn to control these dreams, you'll have a great time. The dream world will bend to your will.

Have you been performing reality checks? If you're having false awakenings, it'd be good if you chose a few reality checks to perform each morning as soon as you wake up. If the reality check fails, you're dreaming. You can then do whatever you want in the dream. If you get used to the false awakenings, you can have a lot of fun in your dreams.

Cheers Caenis for the great post.
Sounds to me like you are experiencing Sleep Paralysis, it's completely normal and it stops us acting out our dreams, you can take advantage of this by relaxing and reentering the dream, which is the DEILD technique.
If anything it's a gift, not many people experience it, even less experience it regularly.
If you need anything else just ask

Also if you truly want to wake yourself up, try centering more and when you can feel your physical body wiggle your fingers and toes, within 10-20 secs you should rouse from SP.

Welcome to DV!

Another way to break from sleep paralysis is to change your breathing. That's how your body notices you are not sleeping anymore and releases you from it.

On the other hand, I agree with previous posts, that you could explore the opportunities SP offers to you, and that's lucid dreaming. You can read about SP in tutorials about WILD type of lucid dreams, here in DV Wiki. Please post any questions you have. Happy dreams

Nice tip, I will try that.