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      This morning I've been doing some research on lucid dreaming online after another false awakening, paralyzed, intruder dream in which I know I'm dreaming. I almost always have these dreams after my husband says goodbye to me before leaving for work and if I have waken up to brush my teeth before I go back to bed. I have Pure-O OCD, which often makes me think of the worst scenario, so as I'm trying to fall back to sleep I keep thinking about the possibility of an intruder. I remind myself to stop thinking about this because then I'll dream it, and try to think of positive thoughts, though they are few in between because I've just got myself scared. So I fall asleep and have a dream in which I know I'm dreaming, in bed half paralyzed, trying to wake myself up. I'm so afraid to not wake up because many times these dreams lead to an intruder or a dream of my husband coming home but it not really being him. I finally wake up when I've gotten myself onto the floor off my bed, or something of the sort. At that moment, I can audibly hear a tune I've never heard before that's not coming from anywhere in real life (like an alarm), and a few seconds later I wake up. I could remember the tune for a little while after waking up, but now I don't remember it. I just don't like being stuck in my dream. But the problem is is that I cannot go back to sleep if I'm woken up in the morning because I'll most often have these kinds of dreams. So I think the solution is to learn how to face them and control them so that I can rest. So I decided to join this website to learn from other people's experiences and post my own.

      Ever since I was a pre-teen I've had hypnagogic hallucinations--hallucinations that occur upon waking up but still being in a dream state. I am awake and not paralyzed, as I jump out of bed and point at the hallucination, and my husband witnesses me reacting to it. Turning on a light will make it fade after a few seconds. I mostly hallucinate spiders, sometimes other bugs such as centipedes, on two occasions of animals and very rarely a human figure. At first, they were extremely frightening. But now I actually like to observe them. Unless they jump right at me and I have no time for logical thinking, I end up realizing that they are just hallucinations, and watch them for a moment until they fade. My most recent was last week, when I saw a creature in the shape of a ball with thousands of spidery legs between me and my husband, and then it teleported to the corner of the wall and faded. Wasn't scared. First time it had been of something that's not a real creature. If I could gain my level of confidence with these hallucinations in my own dreams, that would be great. I'm wondering if any of you also have these kinds of hallucinations.

      I'm also taking an online anthropology course on dreaming right now. It's so fascinating.
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      Welcome to Dreamviews!

      Seems like you already have bunch of experience with HH, Lucid dreaming and false awakenings.

      As you correctly assume, "what you think is what you get". Maybe you can approach your falling asleep fears same way as you approaching the HH of spiders. By learning to like them. By realizing, that they ar harmless and they can even be amuzing.

      I know it's not easy to reorient your thinking from intruders to something nice, but you can try in small steps. For example, if yu can't directly switch from thinking "intruder" to "happy pink bunnies", then do it gradually. For example, there would still be intruders, but they would bring you breakfast to bed. Or it would be your favorite actor and he would be nice to you.

      If you can, you could also try and calm your mind. We use mantras to keep stray, even scary thoughts at bay, when lucid dreaming. Mantra is a phrase we repeat. Like "i'm dreaming". You could adapt it to "I'm dreaming about... [something pleasant for you]. This thought is suppose to not allow any other thoughts to surface.

      If you find yourself on the floor (and later you wake up for real on the bed), that is likely you being in a dream. You can get up and go have fun in a lucid dream, since you say you always know you are dreaming. Same goes for when you see HH, including the intruders or spiders.

      Hearing music or any sounds is also HH.

      Next time, try and have fun changing spiders or intruders into something else. Something funny or pleasant.

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      One thing that I might suggest is every mornining that he gets up and leaves do a reality check. You should eventually be use to doing a reality check when you wake up in yoru bed and paralized and with one reality check you can realize yoru dreaming and begin to take control of the dream or the HH what ever you want to call it

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      Thanks for the replies!

      Oh, actually, I think I've been using the wrong term! I mean hypnapompic hallucinations, not hypnagognic. Hypnagognic happens when falling asleep, while hynapompic happens when waking up. It doesn't happen when I'm falling asleep. I wake up suddenly and it happens, then I just go back to bed.

      gab Yeah, I don't know how I transitioned from being terrified of the HH to liking them and wanting to observe them.

      I used to take naps and would become paralyzed. It terrified me because I couldn't wake up. But then I eventually realized that I would eventually wake up and I just had to wait and work a little by trying to move part of my body. Then, the next time I become paralyzed in a nap, I wouldn't be scared anymore. Thinking rationally really helps get rid of that fear.

      Using a mantra is kind of what I've been doing to help myself fall to sleep easily lately. Sometimes I just keep thinking about everything, such as things that I want to do and problems I want to solve and then I can't fall asleep. So lately I've been writing things down and telling myself, "Don't think about it until tomorrow. Just move on." So mantras seem to really help. I will try using a mantra.

      GenFalcon Oh, that's a really good point, since it mimics the scenario in my dream it's the perfect time for doing a RC in real life.

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      Lumiina I know its a little bit different of a topic but one article thing i think you should read is this which kind of goes along with what you were talking about with writing stuff down. It talks about writing down your tasks for the day or the next day before sleeping to get them out of your head so you can rest and sleep easier

      http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-sign...ep-temple.html

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      Thank you for sharing!

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