very strange.

hi all. i had this feeling the other week that someone was in the living room with me, my wife & son were in bed, so i was alone. i lay on the sofa and fell asleep. then this "person" appeared and put their arm accross my chest, not putting pressure on my chest or hurting in any way, but i could not speak, i was dreaming i was trying to shout out loud but no words came from my mouth. i then woke up feeling really cold and scared, although this "person" did not hurt me in any way. can any one explain??? thanks brian :?

Maybe you were just thinking about this overwhelming presence in your living room enough, that when you went to sleep you dreamt about it. Whenever I think about something a lot, often I dream about it...

Sounds like typical sleep paralysis. Or at the very least, aspects of sleep paralysis bled into your dream. It's hard to tell really, but the fact is that feeling a presence, hallucinating it in some form, not being able to speak or move is what usually happens in SP. Whatever it was, if it happens again, you now know not to worry and try to calm down. SP is usually self perpetrated - you suddenly can't move or talk, you feel a pressure on your body, you feel a presence, you are afraid, because of that the brain tries to look for the threat and in the process, being in a dreamlike state, manages to create an answer to all the effects you're feeling - usually a humanoid that's doing something that made you paralyzed (witches and demons in the middle ages and alien abductions for the modern era). Use such an event, if it happens again, to be pulled into a lucid dream. At least in my experience, if you can remember what's really going on, you can easily make the presence transform into a friend or just teleport yourself away into the lucid dream.

thank you very much daydreamer14 and bonsay, if i have any more wired dreams you will be the 1st to know, i usually do av strange dreams.

No problem.

I had an interesting experience with Sleep Paralysis this morning too actually. I couldn't move and my head was half tucked under my blankets, but through them I could see a very tall person in a black cloak leaning over my bed... I couldn't move or scream. Then I heard mum yelling from another room, but I couldn't tell her to help me. I then figured that I must be dreaming, so I just completely relaxed and ignored the figure... After that I sort of drifted out of the dream.