Feeling Like I am awake but cannot move

[Rachael309]

Hello , I am new to this board. I found it by mistake or by design not mine. Anyway, I have had this dream only 3 times, but I suppose I am sleeping, though I never feel as if I am asleep nor do I ever having the feel of waking. I hear a loud rushing sound and tremble of what sounds very much like a on comming train. I know that I am not afraid but unsure of letting myself get caught up in the back draft of the feeling and dream.. I think to myself if I let go and go with it, there may be no comming back, and I may see things I do not want to see or know. I feel almost paralized. and I am very aware of not being asleep..but I must be, yet when I am released from this feeling its nothing like waking up..its as I have never been asleep and my heart is racing madly. Does anyone know what this is.Please I would like any kind of decent answer. Thank you very much for letting me bend your ears, or rather eyes.

[TygrHawk]

Yes, this is Sleep Paralysis, or as we say around here, SP. It's a perfectly natural phenomenon. Normally, you are asleep before SP sets in, so you are unaware of it. This is what prevents you from sleepwalking or otherwise "acting out" your dreams. If you can enter SP, it can be used to achieve a lucid dreaming state. This is known as WILD.