Sleep Paralysis? Dream?

[Vance]

Okay, most of you who have read my posts before know I do no like the idea of SP. That being said, I will describe last night's experiences in as much detail as I can. (This all occured during REM) I went to bed as normal. I always wake up during REM, so I planned on doing FILD then. When I woke up, I needed to go to the bathroom, and reluctantly went, knowing it was disrupting my sleepiness. After again trying FILD, I really felt like LDing was not going to give me the rest that I wanted... So I tried to go back to sleep. When I couldn't, I tried FILD again. I tried to sleep again. I kept on doing reality checks and the like. Finally I just plugged in a humidifier (I was recovering from a cold) and turned on my podcasts before trying to go to sleep AGAIN. This is where it gets interesting. I was listening to the conversations going on on my iPod (Trying to fall asleep with my eyes closed) when I literally thought I was in another place in my room doing the same thing. I was drawing on a small whiteboard that was on my wall, and listening to the cast word by word. After about 1 second of this, I felt my tinnitus sound like a knife in my ear, and my eyes were closed (as they were when I was trying to go to sleep) and my humidifier sounded like an gurgling, idling engine... I was more or less vibrating, but not in an "orgasmic" way. I thought to myself "Great, SP..." but I did not freak out... I do not remember how fast my heart was going, though. I just prepared for HI and other weird things. I remembered the actual induction tech, so I tried to go into a Dreamland... I was pushing and making progress, but it didn't seem like I was ever going to break through with my Tinnitus screaming at my efforts. I gave up, and saw dull white flashes in my eyelids, and I was nervous. I then woke up. I immediately felt like it didn't just happen, it was just a dream, somehow it was fake... It happened a year ago... So I tried to go to sleep again. (My cast was still on) This time it was a lot wilder: I woke up seeing my wall (Which is correct), hearing my Tinnitus ringing loud as ever and the vibration. "Not, again, please..., Im just so tired, please, let me sleep..." this time, I felt pushing at my side, rolling up and down, up and down, and then I was pulled out... I was "dreaming?" I was in a rollercoaster, but I may have built that to try and control the SP motion... anyway, I tossed up and down, sometimes in a 3d persom view. This is where it gets weirder... I could move my actual body even though I was in my dream, my lips were veeery tingly when I touched them and I gently set my hand down. Then my spirit was back in my room again and I floated back into my body like a flickering lightbulb. Um, anyone make sense of this? Thanks!

[Vex Kitten]

A very confusing yet interesting experience. It sounds to me like you were verging on a lucid dream, then perhaps had a false awakening and then started dreaming again. Sometimes one can feel their real body while in a dream. It's a very strange feeling, knowing you're in 'two places at once'. Once I couldn't speak in the dream and struggled so hard to talk that I could feel my real lips struggling to part as I lay in bed. Do you have tinnitus bad? Sounds like it's really messing with your attempts to lucid dream.

[Vance]

My Tinnitus is normal, I can hear it when I want to (when it is silent). I don't pay it mind usually, but seriously, my head was dizzy from how loud it was this night. I thought my ears were damaged. If it helps, I forgot to mention one thing: I could speak while in my roller-coaster dream. I wanted to see if I could get up, so I said the first thing that came to mind: "Chaos Incarnate". Yes, I could hear myself, and it was very strange. Also, kind of weird as well (As if my night was not weird enough) When I woke up, I could swear I was in a dream. My head was buzzing, like when you drink a glass of wine, and I was jumpy and relaxed at the same time. Reality check, after reality check, after reality check, nothing. What is strange is that the time on my iPod was 7:38, which I knew wasn't right, but I thought it might be broken. I did know jumbled clocks are a dream sign, so I did about another dozen reality checks, but my room was too real. When you are awake, you know you are awake, and that is how I felt, just very dreamy. The time is correct on my iPod now, and I didn't do anything to it. Strangely, when I woke up, the time was the same. Maybe I had some sort of "vision" I tried almost every reality check in the book, and there was nothing strange about the night except for the clock, but that may be broken or something (Never was very reliable) Please, please, please help me to make sense of this... It was just strange, I want to know what happened, as whenever I concentrate on trying lucid I get fake SP's, weird things happen, I can never get to sleep... And thanks as always to posters and all future ones

[cassia]

i think u might have had an out of body experince

[Vance]

/bump

[AlexLou]

Well, as for your tinnitus: I often experience very loud noises during SP, so loud that sometimes it almost hurts. Maybe your mind simply created the illusion that your tinnitus was much louder than it actually was? As for the clock: I quite often misread clocks when I first wake up. This happens simply because I'm not fully awake yet. I'll read the numbers in the wrong order, or like today read 13 instead of 12 (and I wasn't awake enough to realize that this was illogical). But you sounded pretty sure about the time you read, so I won't say you were wrong. You're really the only one who's gonna be able to figure out what happened, because none of us can really tell what your experience was like from a description.