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      i was just attacked in my dream

      Tonight was the first night I've ever put effort into inducing a lucid the dream. The dream itself was frustrating, but overall a positive experience. The details are not important, but what happened after the dream is. My original dream was about a girl from high school. That dream ended when I attained lucidity. I told her it was a dream and we want. she then turned into liquid and flowed away and i woke up. I pinched myself and it felt real so i laid in bed and tried to process the experience. As I was laying there a shadow began to appear in my vision. It got closer and more defined until it was about an arms length away. Then it grabbed me and started to wrestle with me. Whenever I stopped struggling it did as well, but still held me down. I finally escaped when I flipped my floor as if it had an axle through it that it spun freely on and I ended up on the figures back.

      I've been taking melatonin, and I believe that I have seen this figure before as I've been falling asleep, but I've always seen it from about 60 feet away with its back turned to me.

      This experience was very troubling. If anyone can help me to interpret it or understand it I would greatly appreciate it

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      Hey there,
      Sounds like you may have woke in Sleep Paralysis, therefore your reality and remnants from a dream get mixed together. You feel awake but your dream is ontop of your waking conscience. Other one may be a Faulse awakening. Both of these could cause the figure you explain and the scare you get with it
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      Im thinking it was more along the lines of a false awakening. If it were just sleep paralysis would I have been able to move? Because I stood up out of my bed and reached out at the figure before it touched me.

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      That does sound a lot like an SP attack but maybe you fell through to a dream again?
      Well done in beating an SP Shadow :boxing:

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      They are called Hypnopompic hallucinations. Hypnogogic are the things you see as your are falling aslepp, hypnopompic are the things you see as you are waking up. That's the official explanation anyways. I'm still not entirely sold in the idea that it's all in your head, mainly because of the consistency of the reports of shadow people.
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      Quote Originally Posted by jak915 View Post
      Im thinking it was more along the lines of a false awakening. If it were just sleep paralysis would I have been able to move? Because I stood up out of my bed and reached out at the figure before it touched me.
      Either in false awakening or in SP you would not have been able to move. Whatever you experienced, was either a dream (FA) or hypnogogic/hypnopompic hallucination (HH) as you were waking up. I'm personally leaning towards HH, as shadows are often reported by people falling asleep or on waking up.

      But in any case, no one was ever harmed by this experience, as the consensus is that these are hallucinations. Just know they exist and next time don't let them bother you.

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      I'm still not entirely sold in the idea that it's all in your head, mainly because of the consistency of the reports of shadow people.
      I'm with you on this one.

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