Thread: Hi all can you help with a headache?

Welcome to DV.

It sounds like you went through an exciting, conscious bout of Sleep Paralysis (SP). During the night, especially during our REM cycle (Rapid-Eye-Movement, the stage of sleep when we dream most vividly), our brain paralyzes our body to prevent it from acting out our dreams. It's a natural process that we go through every night without realizing it.
However, many of us here strive to go through this paralysis consciously, so that we may enter a dream also conscious. This is called a lucid dream, the main topic on these forums. A lucid dream is a dream in which you know you're dreaming. You can control the dream and do whatever you wish; go flying around the world or go on a spiritual journey, fight dragons, travel through space, go back in time, etc.

As for the headache, I'm not sure. I never get headaches from sleep paralysis and no one else I know does either. It could just be because it was a somewhat stressful and very exciting thing for you to experience, so your brain is a little exhausted.