Thread: Interesting Experience...

Last night I was drifting off to sleep and became unconscious. I was starting to dream about work when it hit me that I learned a manager's password recently. (they know I'm not stupid enough to use it or tell other people) At this point I became lucid and decided to test it out. I used my thumb to hit a button on the computer, and felt my real life thumb jerk. Then the image faded and SP started up soon after. I started hearing strange noises and almost backed out, but I kept still and listened to them hoping to return to the dream. Then the noises stopped and my body wasn't numb anymore. I don't understand how I could have moved my real life thumb while dreaming and be aware of it. I would've been in SP, right? Has this ever happened to anyone?

Sleep paralysis only exists during the hypnogogic(just before sleep) and hypnopompic(just after sleep) stages. Once you are asleep and dreaming there is no paralysis, which is why it is possible to sleep walk.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

Sleep paralysis only exists during the hypnogogic(just before sleep) and hypnopompic(just after sleep) stages. Once you are asleep and dreaming there is no paralysis, which is why it is possible to sleep walk.

I'm 90% sure that you are incorrect. I learned in psychology that there is a a part in the brain that basically switches off the movement nerves that go throughout your body and it stays like that until you wake up. Sleep walking is completely different. It's when you enter a very very very deep sleep and sleep paralysis malfunctions.


Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Originally Posted by Phalangees

I'm 90% sure that you are incorrect. I learned in psychology that there is a a part in the brain that basically switches off the movement nerves that go throughout your body and it stays like that until you wake up. Sleep walking is completely different. It's when you enter a very very very deep sleep and sleep paralysis malfunctions.


Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd say you were right. From the very little I know about SP, I believe it is in effect from sleep to waking, to prevent you acting out your dreams. I believe you are right that sleepwalking is effectively a malfunction in SP, but I am in no way an authority on this...

if your in SP the entire time you are sleeping, then how do you explain people that toss and turn at night, and hit and kick things in their sleep, or hell, even talk in their sleep

me being a frequent sleep walker, talker, kicker and toss and turner, will tell you that if all this is because SP is malfunctioning than I have had malfunctioning SP every single night that I have been on gods green earth

Typically when i toss and turn im not really asleep... because i only ever move if im uncomfortable (ie cold) enough that i need to wake up and move... if you dont open your eyes you dont even realize you're doing it but i believe you are actually awake.

Sleep walking can also occur if you are extremely tired and you pass directly from consciousness into sleep without time for your body to go into SP, or if you wake up and go back to sleep immediately, such as people that sleepwalk and wake up at work in their pjs.

Always...

I remember (Before years) i was in my grandma's house (for real) and i was sleeping there. But in my dream i was sleeping at my real home. Than i tried to touch the walls but i felt like i cant touch so far cuz something is stoping me and when i got awake i saw i was toching the walls that was at my grandma's house. And i am pretty sure that this thing happend like at least 2-3 times, and i felt like i am seing my home through my dream and i move in both real life and dream. I am not sure if i had these recently.