The most frightening "dream" ever

[Frodolives4242]

this probably happened months ago but i still remember it... I am in my bed, and everything appears to be entirely real... except for one thing.... i cannot move. i cannot move at all, not one inch, just laying there for what seems like hours, trying everything to get myself to wake up thinking really hard that its just a dream, thinking of real things....i know its a dream... its full on lucid. and every time i try to move, i getr this strange burning sensation, you know.. like you get when you move around sometimes.... the more i try to move the more intense the burning becomes.i can strangley look around though... the room is a dark blue hue... and somehow i know someone else is in the house a tall homeless-looking man is walking around the front door, i can see him go into other rooms... but i cannot do anything about it.... it is so horrifying to have that feeling... hearing heavy boots scrape on the carpet without any other sound at all. and i am trying so hard to move... then i am suddenly transported into the hallway... and i stare at him... blankly, i cannot see any details of his face, justa black outline and his beard. then the dream stops and i wake up sweaty as hell. i dont know wtf that is... but i know for certain i dont want it again. o and i geuss im a natural "lucid" dreamer. just about every dream i have is lucid... but its like i know its a dream, but i just let it "control" itself. strangley my dreams fell like movies, or flashes of them... but i cant do anything to change them and from what ive read mine dont seem vivid at all compared to yours. someone please explain, thanks!!!

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welcome to Dream Views

[Placebo]

Hey Welcome frodo It seems like you might have partially felt your real body while in the dream, causing you to have half in/half out aware dreams about the paralysis. You need to find a dream body and ignore your real body. So you need to learn to 'leave' your real body in the dream - and find a dream body. You may find it becomes an out of body experience at that point. Anyone have tips on how to move into your dream body in a situation like that ?

[Frodolives4242]

thanks guys, i tried to lucid dream last night intentionally, i cant remember anything... jeez i hear you guys talk about your in the matrix or something and its alll like real and you can do whatever you want... i know im lucid, i just usually dont have any control over my "character". does anyone know how to deal with that?

[DaRkLoRd]

Frodo, welcome to forums.

[Placebo]

Well, once you have a body in your dream, theres various ways to increase your control. But it all has to do with belief. If you believe you can do it, then you can. I assume you can do 'normal' things, right? like walk, etc? What might help you in that case, is to use shortcuts For example - if you want to fly, but cant: dig in your pocket and find some magic anti-grav pills. Then swallow some. This makes it easy to believe that you can fly. Or try a jetpack perhaps... Then once you're flying, think to yourself - These pills don't do anything. Its all in my head - its a dream anyway. So I'm flying all by myself! You get the idea. Its a shortcut to doing something you cannot bring yourself to believe is possible...

[RebirthofQ]

Dude, you astral travelled. What you felt initially was the half-way point between this world and the spirit world. You were frozen because you were trying to move your physical body when your soul and spirit (higher mind) were just outside your body...confusion. Your mentally projected your soul to the hallway (?) where you could see (hear) the other soul/spirit. It was no dream...trust me. Q.

[Human]

Originally posted by Frodolives4242 this probably happened months ago but i still remember it... I am in my bed, and everything appears to be entirely real... except for one thing.... i cannot move. i cannot move at all, not one inch, just laying there for what seems like hours, trying everything to get myself to wake up It sounds like your body was paralysed to me. (The body is mainly paralysed during the REM sleep to avoid the dreamer to perform the same tasks in real life as he/she does in the dream.) Relevant links: http://www.trionica.com/asp/defined.htm http://www.trionica.com/asp/conditions/nig...ightterrors.htm And, what you may do to avoid it: http://www.trionica.com/asp/techniques/index.htm

[dream-scape]

Hi. I've had 3 somewhat similar occurrences with the first being I woke up paralyzed in bed, could hardly move, and with something in the house & my room. The second two I woke up paralyzed in some other room of my house, once on the living room floor and once in the bathroom. Both times I struggled to wake up and would not, so I quite literally dragged myself to my bedroom, only to find myself looking at myself in bed. The shock of this woke me up on both occasions. Now, going back over and examining each event and the aftermath, so to speak, I have found that on all 3 occasions on waking up I found one of my arms to be entirely "dead". I first starting thinking about this when upon waking the 3rd time I was still laying on top of my arm. Apparently during the night I had twisted myself around and all the weight of my body was put onto my arm. Anyways I think possibly the quite literal and intense deadening and paralysis of my arm led to either paralysis in the dream or paralysis on some plane between here and there. Since I've become aware of this as a likely cause, I've been careful how I fall asleep as not to accidentally twist on top of my entire arm, and it has not happened again. My point here is, take note of upon immediately waking, anything unusual (like a completely dead arm in my case). And if it happens again, take note of any similarities upon waking to the first time. I think with careful examination, you can figure out on your own what the cause may be; the answer is then quite simple.