Thread: consistent problem while dreaming

Hey

From already some time, when I started getting interested in LD, OOBE and all of that, I started to have fake wake ups. Sometimes even 4 at night or more. Later on I meet with a very strange phenomenon and to this day I don't know how to solve this...

Many times I wake up in a dream, thinking its realit cause I'm in same position as I was sleeping, same perspective and obbjects I'm looking at. The problem is when I try to move, I can't! When I try it's very hard and after a moment I'm back to the initial position I was in. I try to move a hand and it's like a gum it always come back to the start position. It's very annoying, cause it can take 5-10min or more and I litelly am like in a prison...

It happened to me many times already. What I'm surprised of, is that I can't wake up in this 'block state'. In normal dream I can wake up anytime I want, it's nor a problem for me. But when I'm in this state, I just can't, I have totally no control whatsaever...

One time I thoguht I'm in some kind of coma or something.... lol

Anyway, I hope I can find some answer in this forum, I hope someone did experience similar things and can help me. I know it's all in my mind, but I don't know how to 'unblock it'.

Few times i was able to unblock and then ?I had a lucid dream were I was pretty awake, so if I could solve this I will be able to lucid dream more.

Thanks for any help!

Can you do reality checks every time that you wake up? This will help you become lucid during all of your false awakenings, and try to turn the inability to move in bed into a dreamsign. Try to remember that in a dream, you don't really have a body, there's no bed or gravity, so you should be able to move since there's no reason for you not to be able to move. Does that make sense? This is a very important concept in dream control, once you've mastered thinking this way controlling your dreams should become significantly easier.

Lucas!
Don't worry about being unable to move. It is very common, and there are lots of ways around it. That gummy feeling of being unable to separate your dream body from your real body can be broken by rolling out of your body. Try rocking back and forth, feeling the rhythm of your body swaying. Then, when you feel good and loose, just roll to the side, and away from your sleeping body. The important thing is to imagine a feeling of motion, so you separate your awareness from the false perception that it is still in bed. Rolling works well, because it is a little disorienting. The disorientation helps you reset your point of view. Does that make sense?

If you wake up and really do find yourself paralyzed, try either relaxing back into a dream, or wiggling your big toe to wake up fully. Read up on Sleep Paralysis to see how that works.

Keep in mind that many of your supposed "sleep paralysis" episodes are probably false awakenings. You are probably dreaming you are paralyzed, as opposed to actually being awake and paralyzed.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Lucas!
Don't worry about being unable to move. It is very common, and there are lots of ways around it. That gummy feeling of being unable to separate your dream body from your real body can be broken by rolling out of your body. Try rocking back and forth, feeling the rhythm of your body swaying. Then, when you feel good and loose, just roll to the side, and away from your sleeping body. The important thing is to imagine a feeling of motion, so you separate your awareness from the false perception that it is still in bed. Rolling works well, because it is a little disorienting. The disorientation helps you reset your point of view. Does that make sense?

If you wake up and really do find yourself paralyzed, try either relaxing back into a dream, or wiggling your big toe to wake up fully. Read up on Sleep Paralysis to see how that works.

Keep in mind that many of your supposed "sleep paralysis" episodes are probably false awakenings. You are probably dreaming you are paralyzed, as opposed to actually being awake and paralyzed.

Thank you very much, that's what I was looking for. I will try this next time