does anyone have any explaination for this bizzar activity that takes place in my sleeping brain?

**brainz5150** · 12-06-2012 11:07 PM

ive recently made a decision to redirect my life as a result of continuous encounters with law enforcememnt and i have decided just yetserdy that i have actualy become quite content without the aid of chemicaly induced euphoria.
last night however i had an extremely vivid nightmare. their are parts of the dream that i cannot recall but it begins with my boyfriend waking me up in bed. it was pitch black which has allways frightend me. (the idea of not being able to see whats around me is terrifieing to me and always has been.) i asked him if he would mind if i turned the tv on seeing as how he just woke me up for no reason. he told me that he would mind very much.
the next thing i remember is my boyfriend and i walking into the basement of my house which is wher i live. i try to turn on the bathroom light as he walks into my room. non of the lights will work. i see that the lights at the top of the stairs are working so i attempt to ascend but i am either too weak to move or something wont let me. at the top of the stairs my mother is messing with the power supply (my mother has been dead for 8 yrs) i asked her to stop messing with the lights and she looked at me in quite a morose fasion and fliped the breaker back on. i was then allowed to climb the stairs and reach the landing on wich my mother stood. i hugged her and cried and told her, "i dont want to live down ther anymore" she said "ok" in a voice and tone that was not her own. she did not physically feel the same as i remember her. i then said to her "do you promise me this is realy you?" she replied "no". when i pulled away from her i saw that it was something els. it was something trying to assume the apearance of her. she was smaller and skinnier and almost looked sick. it did not seem as if something had inhabited her body but as if something was trying to trick me into beleiving it was my mother. i imediatly begane to choke her and demanding whatever it was to leave. it did not look defeated or in panic but it did look threatend by what i was doing.
i do not recall wether or not the thing ever left but when i woke up my eyes wher extremely dialated which lead me to beleive half heartedly that the thing had inhabited me. before awakening and realizing that it was in fact a dream i found myself back in my bed wiht my boyfriend beside me. i was attempting to sit up and wake him only to experience the same difficulty as i did when trying to climb the stairs. my struggle woke him before i was able to sit up in the dream and wake up myself. in the midst of waking up i asked my boyfriend "are you scott?" (scott isthe name of my previous boyfriend) so when my boyfriend replied "no" in a stern and quite crass tone, i was terrified&askedhim "why?"he replied, " its david" after which i realized that it had only been a dream and that i was awake. (this realization was of far more importants to me at the time than the fact that i had just addressed my boyfrien by someone elses name.)

i am by no means a religious or supersticious person but i truely felt the what i understood to be the presence of something evil around me durring and after my dream. whats going on? please help me if you can with any explaination or common accurances which coincide with the experience ive had.

**gab** · 12-06-2012 11:26 PM

Welcome to Dreamviews!

Best person to interpret a dream is the dreamer, just because different things may mean something different to everybody.

But from what you have described, when you said "i dont want to live down ther anymore" - sounds like you are ready to get out of your not so pleasant dark past and start anew.

Lights not working is common nightmare.

When you could not move and felt evil presence after you woke up, sounds like sleep paralysis. SP is, when REM attonia, which renders us immobile every time we dream starts too early, or as in your case, fails to stop when you wake up. If you didn't have it untill now, you probably will not have it ever again.

**Sensei** · 12-06-2012 11:28 PM

I think that the most common nightmares are the ones that are caused by stress or emotional turmoil. Of course watching scary movies can do it as well.

Since you said that you are getting off drugs (YAY!) I would say that can be quite a stressful and emotionally draining time, so it does not surprise me that you would have a nightmare.

Evil presence, very common in nightmares. I do believe in evil spirits, but most nightmares seem to involve the feeling of an evil presence. This feeling I think is a result of expectation, you think there is something evil, so then it feels like something evil.

After your dreams you can still have the feelings you had in dreams, it is all in the mind, so it can transfer over. I cannot remember the name, but I often wake up when I am hurt and the pain lingers for a while. I once woke up and I could feel someone in the room (not evil, just the presence of another human, not an easy feeling to describe, but everyone knows what that the room feels a bit different when you are alone to when you are with someone (just like the feeling of someone watching you), that is why you are so freaked out when someone is near you when you feel alone). The feeling wouldn't go away so I checked the room and then went to bed.

This is my opinion though. It might be something else like an evil spirit or something, but I do not believe this to be the case. Hope this is of assistance. If not then just ignore me.

EDIT:
Also not being able to move can happen like Gab said^^^ most people have experienced this, and coming out of a nightmare would be the worst time for it to happen. This would contribute with the dream feeling sticking with you when you wake up since you are in between awake and asleep.

**Timothy Paradox** · 12-08-2012 09:18 PM

The evil presence thing reminds me of "the old hag" you sometimes see during WILD sessions.

**Sensei** · 12-09-2012 02:21 AM

I try to forget about that.

**Signet** · 12-09-2012 02:37 AM

Well, if you were to ask me in person about this dream and the "evil presence" I'd be happy to give my two cents, as I have had more than my share of experiences with dreams, nightmares, and spiritual beings.

BUT around here I usually get a bad rap or get into an argument whenever I talk about that sort of thing. Go figure.

**Sensei** · 12-09-2012 02:51 AM

Signet. PM me your ideas about it. I never have nightmares and am very fascinated by them and fears effect on the mind

**brainz5150** · 12-09-2012 06:02 AM

brandon i can only read the right half of your post lol i think i got the main point but yould u mind posting it again so i get get your entire opinion? it seems to be making sense

Signet: can you just talk about it here? i would like to get your opinion and i dont know what the hell it means to PM. If anyone gets rude. i will not hesitate to engage in verbal slaughter. i am realy good at that. LOL i would realy like to hear your thoughts in the matter.

what exactly does it meen to be a lurker? im the only person here who is a lurker. why am i the only lurker around here? how do i fix that?

also, what is a WILD session?

***gab merged your posts.***

**Signet** · 12-09-2012 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by brainz5150

what exactly does it meen to be a lurker? im the only person here who is a lurker. why am i the only lurker around here? how do i fix that?

Congratulations. You just posted so many freaking times in a row that you promoted yourself from "Lurker" to "Member". Cheers.
Oh, and to answer your question: Control Panel > Edit Profile > Custom User Title

Also, PM stands for Private Message (I would have just written it out), and it is a bit nicer for chatting abut stuff like that because most people on Dreamviews are not telepathic Christians who chat with angels and cast demons out of their friend's dreams.

And I'm not usually this jerkish, sorry. I'm a bit hungry.

Edit: forget the posting-in-a-row comment. Or don't. A mod fixed it.
EditII: WILD = Wake Induced Lucid Dream.