While dreaming last night, I became aware of the paralysis of my actual body. In the dream, I started shaking my hands vigorously. I could feel the hands of my actual body trying to move along with the dream body. I was fighting against the paralysis and felt an intense prickly vibration in my hands. It felt like the prickles when a limb goes numb from lack of circulation and the blood starts to flow back into it. I guess my body was trying to work against the sleep paralyssi by increasing blood flow to the hands and I could feel them losing their numbness. Pretty cool.

I've been aware of sleep paralysis many times before, usually in the morning before waking up, I'll try to move and eventually force myself to break out of the paralysis. I've also been aware of the transition into paralysis a few times, which feels pretty indistinguishable from the feeling of getting numbed by novocaine, but without the shot.