Ever realised you were dreaming but you are paralysed?

[mylucidworld]

This has happened twice on 2 occasions now that i can recall. Last night i am drinking with these people i used to hang out with then i was going to get a drink i think whern i suddenly realised i was dreaming which made me really happy for some reason. I started to walk forward but i was unable to, i tryed really hard but in the end i just woke up. This happened again later on. I don't know why this happens, i'm guessing it has something to do with sleep paralysis. Anyone know why it happens or has it happened to you before?

[Redrivertears]

Hey there, It happens to me too yes. The reason I think is that you're very close to awakening, and your mind is getting stimuli from your body and incorporating them into the dream. Unfortunately you're body is still in sleep paralysis, so the mind incorporates the very stimuli of being paralysed into your dream, and you cannot move there either. I call this dreamparalysis. -Redrivertears-

[mylucidworld]

Hey there, It happens to me too yes. The reason I think is that you're very close to awakening, and your mind is getting stimuli from your body and incorporating them into the dream. Unfortunately you're body is still in sleep paralysis, so the mind incorporates the very stimuli of being paralysed into your dream, and you cannot move there either. I call this dreamparalysis. -Redrivertears- i noticed that i could feel my real body paralysed which wasn't nice. How come both nights this has happened it has occured twice? Whatever this is it is very annoying!

[Serith]

Until recently, this would happen to me a lot in nightmares. Something scary would be approaching me, and I'd often realize I was dreaming, but I'd be unable to do anything at all. It's also happened occasionally in normal lucid dreams, but only once or twice, and if I'm not mistaken, only after false awakenings.

[mylucidworld]

Until recently, this would happen to me a lot in nightmares. Something scary would be approaching me, and I'd often realize I was dreaming, but I'd be unable to do anything at all. It's also happened occasionally in normal lucid dreams, but only once or twice, and if I'm not mistaken, only after false awakenings. That reminds me it happened to me in a nightmare before. This demon was standing over me like it would do in sleep paralysis and i tryed to get up but i couldn't move. It was very scary.

[ninja9578]

I think it has to do with being very close to waking up. When I fight waking up my body starts to be heavy and sometimes I limp. I think it has to do with your mind becoming aware of your body, which is still in sleep paralysis.

[Dream Catcher NYC]

I had a similiar encounter. It’s about 11pm. I’m in my apartment in Lower Manhattan. I’ve been cleaning my house and sort of throwing all stuff that I really don’t need in a spare room next door to my bedroom; ex: spare bed frames, mattresses, stereo system, boxes, books, clothes etc… When I’m about ready to turn in for the night, as I’m laying in bed, I begin to hear jitter jotter come from the next room, sounded like something moving, I assumed it was a mouse moving around the plastic bags looking for food, being that I lived on the ground floor of a building and it was winter, I made my self believe it was a mouse and nothing more. Upon falling asleep I heard it again and wanted to go investigate it but was too tired and fell asleep. Hours later I awoke from sleeping on my facing the west wall of my room. My eyes were already adjusted to the dark and I saw everything clearly though it was pitch black I saw a sort of fade light on the room which helped my eyes see in the pitch black of darkness. And heard the sound even louder, I immediately tried to turn over to face the east wall of my room toward where the door of my room is located, and found that I was paralyzed, couldn’t move my arms and barely jiggled my body and toes around, I was like a dying squirming fish and was stuck on my side facing the wall not able to see what was in my house, it really bothered me that I was stuck in such a vulnerable position at this time, I glanced at my digital clock on my radio and saw it was about 4am. I then felt the presence of an entity in my apartment coming towards my room door from where I heard the sounds. The strange feeling became greater when I then felt someone in my room. Still trying to squirm over to see who it was, the presence was strong and I was sure that an entity or person was in the room walking I heard the footsteps in my room and immediately began sweating profusely and my heart racing. All I could use was my ears to determine where in my room this thing was and this was quite a vulnerable feeling I felt and heard the being walking around my bed coming towards my sight of vision at the west wall of my room, waiting desperately to see what this was I had my eyes fixed on the side where this being would approach me, and went into extreme panic when I saw a silhouette pure black of a person the being then quickly went towards my face and stared at me, no eyes, no features, just a black silhouette, then the being grabbed one of my pillows and smothered me and suffocated me. I moved about to no avail and went unconscious smothered to death by a pillow. Hours later I had a FA, False Awakening, and I saw myself sleeping in bed, I actually woke up from my body and left it and stood beside my bed watching my lay there still, I then saw an Indian figure and it told me to contact someone in the real world to wake me up, I tried calling my girlfriend at the time to tell her to wake me up, what ended up happening was she appeared in my dream and I wasn’t able to contact her in real life. I then felt like I would be stuck in the dream for eternity as the Indian told me I would if no one ever woke me up and I lived alone! Hours later I woke-up soaked in sweat, still thinking for about 5 minutes that a figure would come in a suffocate me with a pillow, I got up and searched the room with a fine toothed comb and found nothing to prove a being was actually there. That was the most vivid recollection I have in SP and I won’t ever forget it, to this day I tell people this and they really get freaked out and scared.

[mylucidworld]

I had a similiar encounter. It’s about 11pm. I’m in my apartment in Lower Manhattan. I’ve been cleaning my house and sort of throwing all stuff that I really don’t need in a spare room next door to my bedroom; ex: spare bed frames, mattresses, stereo system, boxes, books, clothes etc… When I’m about ready to turn in for the night, as I’m laying in bed, I begin to hear jitter jotter come from the next room, sounded like something moving, I assumed it was a mouse moving around the plastic bags looking for food, being that I lived on the ground floor of a building and it was winter, I made my self believe it was a mouse and nothing more. Upon falling asleep I heard it again and wanted to go investigate it but was too tired and fell asleep. Hours later I awoke from sleeping on my facing the west wall of my room. My eyes were already adjusted to the dark and I saw everything clearly though it was pitch black I saw a sort of fade light on the room which helped my eyes see in the pitch black of darkness. And heard the sound even louder, I immediately tried to turn over to face the east wall of my room toward where the door of my room is located, and found that I was paralyzed, couldn’t move my arms and barely jiggled my body and toes around, I was like a dying squirming fish and was stuck on my side facing the wall not able to see what was in my house, it really bothered me that I was stuck in such a vulnerable position at this time, I glanced at my digital clock on my radio and saw it was about 4am. I then felt the presence of an entity in my apartment coming towards my room door from where I heard the sounds. The strange feeling became greater when I then felt someone in my room. Still trying to squirm over to see who it was, the presence was strong and I was sure that an entity or person was in the room walking I heard the footsteps in my room and immediately began sweating profusely and my heart racing. All I could use was my ears to determine where in my room this thing was and this was quite a vulnerable feeling I felt and heard the being walking around my bed coming towards my sight of vision at the west wall of my room, waiting desperately to see what this was I had my eyes fixed on the side where this being would approach me, and went into extreme panic when I saw a silhouette pure black of a person the being then quickly went towards my face and stared at me, no eyes, no features, just a black silhouette, then the being grabbed one of my pillows and smothered me and suffocated me. I moved about to no avail and went unconscious smothered to death by a pillow. Hours later I had a FA, False Awakening, and I saw myself sleeping in bed, I actually woke up from my body and left it and stood beside my bed watching my lay there still, I then saw an Indian figure and it told me to contact someone in the real world to wake me up, I tried calling my girlfriend at the time to tell her to wake me up, what ended up happening was she appeared in my dream and I wasn’t able to contact her in real life. I then felt like I would be stuck in the dream for eternity as the Indian told me I would if no one ever woke me up and I lived alone! Hours later I woke-up soaked in sweat, still thinking for about 5 minutes that a figure would come in a suffocate me with a pillow, I got up and searched the room with a fine toothed comb and found nothing to prove a being was actually there. That was the most vivid recollection I have in SP and I won’t ever forget it, to this day I tell people this and they really get freaked out and scared. Thats the scariest sp experience i have ever heard. Indians seem to appear in everyone's dreams lately. Am i right in assuming you were aware you were dreaming when you were talking to the indian?

[Dream Catcher NYC]

Yes I was a FA and a LD and I was freaking out cuz he (the indian) convinced me that I was gonna stay in the dream forever, he even further convinced me by suggesting to call someone in the real world to wake me up, as if he diabolically knew I wasn't able to come in contact no matter what. Thats how vivid the Luicdity was that I accepted it , dreaming that I was dreaming in the dream=defines Lucidity. I was trying to use the phone to call the outside world to have someone come to my house to wake me up, but when I did that I actually summoned the person I was trying to call and you know how the phones dont ever work in dreams, it's too hard to dial and you always dial the wrong number.

[mylucidworld]

Yes I was a FA and a LD and I was freaking out cuz he (the indian) convinced me that I was gonna stay in the dream forever, he even further convinced me by suggesting to call someone in the real world to wake me up, as if he diabolically knew I wasn't able to come in contact no matter what. Thats how vivid the Luicdity was that I accepted it , dreaming that I was dreaming in the dream=defines Lucidity. I was trying to use the phone to call the outside world to have someone come to my house to wake me up, but when I did that I actually summoned the person I was trying to call and you know how the phones dont ever work in dreams, it's too hard to dial and you always dial the wrong number. Thats kinda funny. Normally it's people messing with dream characters but the tables were turned in this situation (i bet the indian found it hilarious ). I don't think that indian will be showing his face in your lucids again because i bet you will want revenge.

[Dream Catcher NYC]

The indian probably did seeing that I was beside myself in bed and he was taunting me smoking his pipe in my room and me pacing in my room freaking out watching myself sleep on the bed trying to use a phone, he must of had a field day...!!lol.