Thread: I just found out

Well, first of all, welcome to Dreamviews!

Congrats on your lucid dream. It's not that often that people have one just on their first night.

For the sake of clarification, we have around 5-6 dreams on a good night of sleep, some people even more. You dream every night, on a regular basis: you just don't remember it, because it was unconscious.

Now to your question. What might have happened is that, once you realised you were dreaming, you got overexcited and had your dream end. This, then, made you experience Sleep Paralysis, which is a state your body normally goes in every night to prevent involuntary movement. To put it simple, your mind was awake, but your body was still sleeping.

It is actually possible (and really easy) to induce a lucid dream when you find yourself in Sleep Paralysis. Close your eyes, roll out of your bed; open your eyes. You will probably have moved your dream body, instead of your real one.

Guess I covered it all. Any further questions, shoot

Originally Posted by Kromoh

Guess I covered it all.

Guess you did
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ty guys. it was sucha weird felling being paralyzed lol

Originally Posted by buffalosoldr

ty guys. it was sucha weird felling being paralyzed lol

I've never been fully SPed but I've been halfway there. I agree, it's a really weird feeling. Some people enjoy it, they think its relaxing.

Originally Posted by buffalosoldr

ty guys. it was sucha weird felling being paralyzed lol

I've only experienced it once, though I was in a dream when it happened. I wasn't even lucid, but I just couldn't move. I couldn't change what I was looking at and it was soooo annoying! In those cases, just relax and drift deeper into the dream as kromoh said

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Hey there,

I've never experienced the paralysation while awake, but I've had it in my dreams. I call this phenomenon "Dream paralysis".

Basically, I think what happens here is that you get very very close to awakening. Now when we sleep, our body paralyses itself to stop you from acting out your dreams. It happens every night, for almost anyone (not having it is considered a sleep disorder, and can result in such things like sleepwalking).

At the same time, we know that the body continues to emit signals to the mind, even when asleep. Sounds like our alarm clocks, feeling like being too hot, cold, or being thirsty can all end up in our dream. For example we dream that we urgently have to go to the toilet but no matter how we try the feeling doesn't go away. Then when we wake up we find that indeed, we have to go, quite strongly!

So putting those two together, I figure dream paralysis happens when you're sleeping very lightly, almost waking, and your body is sending stimuli to your mind that are picked up and woven in your dream, only this time the stimuli or those of being paralysed. Hence in your dream you end up paralysed and unable to move as well, until you either a) wake up or b) fall back into a deeper state of sleep.

Anyways, that's just my 2 cents,

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