Help Me To Understand This

I am only after advice from those that have a general concern for me. If you want to make fun, be sarcastic or skeptic please don't answer...

One of my scariest dreams I have ever had well it was a bit of everything....I knew I was dreaming but it was also real and everything in it was as is so you'll know what I am talking about in a minute....

In the dream I was asleep in my room with my 7 month old baby girl next to me...How I was sleeping how she was sleeping and all the things in my bedroom were as exactly how it was in real life...So in my dream I was projecting or seeing everything as it was in real life at that very moment every detail blankets, clothes doors everything was as is and yes I was sleeping and dreaming. Anyway during the dream a really dark figure spirit no body features just a black shadow if you like was trying to grab my soul out of my body from my hips as I was laying on my tummy trying to take it away as this was happening my soul was wrapping my arms and legs around my physical bodies arms and legs in other words my soul arms were wrapping itself around my physical arms to not let this dark shadow take it....All I remember telling my self and feeling was wake yourself up wake yourself up wake yourself up...I almost felt like I was dying in the physical world and I knew I was dreaming because of me telling myself to wake up...I eventually woke myself up by the touch of my baby's hand on mine she reeled my soul back into my body...As I awoke in real life thats how I woke up with her hand on mine....

Help me to understand this experience please!

i have had a similar experience to this where by a "spirit" was attemping to destroy my soul as it left my physical body. I could feel its cold grip around my physical neck. everything was real as well as you have described it in your dream. All of a sudden the spirits hands literally slipped dwon my neck like a loose chain......

i awoke with my neckchain resting on my chest, covered in sweat and after a close inspection in the mirror a very faint red line where it had been slighty resting on my neck whilst i was sleeping.

I believe that what i drew from this situation that i was drifting off to sleep but at a certain level of awareness that kept my surroundings the same. Because i was going into sleep, my logic centre was beginning to shutdown. so instead of having a dream about a chain slipping down my neck... my brain made this simple act into a big "ordeal" involving a dark menacing spirit choking me.

I understand that although you are asleep, your brain dedicates a certain amount of activity to keeping the external senses active which is why we wake up when confronted with the sound of an alarm.

I think that by following "occam's razor", simplest theory is usually the correct one is that you were having a simple nightmare about a menacing spirit attacking you and trying to take your "soul", but because of your baby daughter providing an external stimuli, you awoke from this believeing that your daughter saved your soul as such because of the realness of the dream when instead it was your brain reacting to a simple external stimuli.

i hope this helped. Just my thoughts. but if anyone else thinks anything else to do with belief im open to interpreation =)

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Originally Posted by ctaingahue

In the dream I was asleep in my room with my 7 month old baby girl next to me...How I was sleeping how she was sleeping and all the things in my bedroom were as exactly how it was in real life...So in my dream I was projecting or seeing everything as it was in real life at that very moment every detail blankets, clothes doors everything was as is and yes I was sleeping and dreaming.

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It could have been a false awakening. Sure sounds like it. I get them every now and then. I'll be lying on my bed, and everything looks like it does in real life, but then I realize I am dreaming. Of coarse, a little part of my brain still thinks "This could be real, maybe I am awake..."

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Anyway during the dream a really dark figure spirit no body features just a black shadow if you like was trying to grab my soul out of my body from my hips as I was laying on my tummy trying to take it away as this was happening my soul was wrapping my arms and legs around my physical bodies arms and legs in other words my soul arms were wrapping itself around my physical arms to not let this dark shadow take it....All I remember telling my self and feeling was wake yourself up wake yourself up wake yourself up...I almost felt like I was dying in the physical world and I knew I was dreaming because of me telling myself to wake up...I eventually woke myself up by the touch of my baby's hand on mine she reeled my soul back into my body...As I awoke in real life thats how I woke up with her hand on mine....
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Sleep paralysis?
I used to experience really creepy SP before I started being able to not be so afraid. Every now and then, I still do, if SP catches me by surprise.

I had something similar happen the other night. I entered SP, and it felt like someone was trying to drag me by my feet out of my bed. It felt like I was slipping out of my body, and I was trying really hard to grab onto my shoulders so I wouldn't be taken out. I don't remember how, but I eventually woke up.

Anyway, if you find this happening to you again, I would try to relax. I know how scary it can be.:hug:

The best advice I can give you is to forget all about it. It was just a bad dream and nothing more. a hallucination.

I have also had similar experiences with "Sleep Paralysis" where I am trapped in a dreamlike state, but seemingly wide awake. In this instance I was looking at my bed covers and it looked like a spider crawling towards my face. Being paralyzed I couldn't wake myself up, but eventually it came into focus as just being the vines in the flower design, which was out of focus because my eyes were blurry- but it lasted for like 30 seconds. So see. Don't dwell on it!:)

if this was SP then its nothing to worry about, but i can understand your fear, ive had this kind of thing happen before, but before i answer anymore can you tell me if you woke up at all paralyzed,

As terrifying as such an experience is (and I've had a similar one, so I think I can understand), I believe it was a harmless one.

To me, it sounds like you had a false awakening, meaning you had a dream where you 'woke up' in your bedroom, but were actually simply dreaming it. Then (or maybe you started out, you didn't say) you realized it was a dream, and became lucid. It sounds like after that you started to wake up, as most people do after their first lucids, and started to experience sleep paralysis because your body was not yet awake but your mind was panicking and telling your body to move. Many people have similar experiences of seeing spirits, ghosts, ghouls, anything that embodies evil or scariness when going to sleep or waking up and having their body shut down on them. What you think of in a lucid dream usually appears, and you probably started to panick and your mind found a way to present that fear to you in a way that could be understood.

You can read more about sleep paralysis here, you may find these threads very helpful:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...leep+paralysis
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...=wake+yourself
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=62796
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ht=wiggle+toes