Trapped In a Dream Void

I have had this happen twice. While falling asleep, I seem to find my "self" in between being in my body and in the dream realm. It is a black void where there is nothing, I am only a spec of existence and am trying desperately to either move my body which I can somewhat still feel or scream for help to my room mate who is in the room sleeping next to me. It is very frightening. The first time there was a figure there electrocuting me and screaming obscenities. However, last night, there was no one and I was simply terrified to death I would be there forever!

Any ideas on what might be happening? Thank you!

Your description sounds quite similar to sleep paralysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_p...haracteristics

In a lucid dreamer's view on what sleep paralysis is, check this out:
http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=65007

Uh man, I forgot all about that tutorial page. That has a lot more information that the Wikipedia page i linked to.

Thank you! That answered all my questions :)

No problem. Grateful it helped :)

yeh sounds like sp. i used to have these but i always try to get out of it and force my self out of sleep parylisis and i always do.

Dont "Force" Your way out, Use it to get into a LD.