Thread: Strage sensation before falling asleep.

Mmmm I've had something similar a few times, though not when I was falling asleep. It was when I woke up, and I was lying in the dark and I very honestly thought I was laying backwards in my bed exactly like you said. Well, actually before that, I thought I was sitting on the corner of the coffee table downstairs in the living room - in absolute darkness. I believe at this time I was asleep or half awake, probably in SP. I sat frozen in fear for a while, wondering how I got there. Then it slowly dawned on me that I wasn't sitting, I was laying down and could feel covers, so I knew I was in my bed. But I thought I was laying the wrong way. I was still afraid to move, thought I might hurt myself because I would hit the wall or something. Then as I slowly gained awareness and the ability to move, I realized it was a lot more likely I was laying the right way and just confused.

As I recall this happened during a very stressful time of my life. I believe the stress caused it. Could be unconnected though. I think this is what I';d call a sort of "false OBE", or the idea that you're somewhere else when you wake up. Possibly you actually did fall asleep and didn't realize it. This is very common in SP - and you don't always realize your body is paralyzed... you might have been asleep through the actual paralysis part.

I'm convinced you did have SP.

My body wasnt paralysed at all.

... How do you know? Did you try to move? That's the only way you'd know if you were paralyzed... it isn't like your muscles are rigid... they're relaxed. It's just that if you try to move you can't. And I was afraid to move until I realized I really was in my bed and facing the right way!