Thread: Not able to speak in LDs?

I had that problem a few times, and I found some unique ways of getting around it. In one, I was sitting on the couch in my living room and my mom was vacuuming. I saw the digital clock on the cable box and realized it was a dream, so I started trying to tell my mom that it was a lucid dream. No matter how hard I yelled, it would not come out. So I told myself to work around it, and I was able to say "Hey mom, can you turn off the vacuum?" as soon as she did, and I believed it was a good enough excuse, I was able to say "I'm in a lucid dream!"

Try to remember that in dreams, it isn't really air and your vocal chords and your teeth and tongue that are making words... words don't even really exist, so other forms of communication should be just as legitimate, and you can just "think" words at people if you are having trouble 'saying' them.

Yeah I've had this problem many times. The words just won't come out. I have to really believe that I can talk. Or like Shift said many DC's can pick up what your thinking.

Same for me, except when I force words out, thay come out demonic, and I get really really really freaked out and try to wake up!

Originally Posted by magical mike

Same for me, except when I force words out, thay come out demonic, and I get really really really freaked out and try to wake up!

I get that too, but I'm not freaked out by it. I've always just assumed that it sounded demonic because I was talking out loud in my sleep and things from the real world tend to sound weird when I'm sleeping.

However if you are simply not able to communicate VIA any means this is quite strange.

I've gotten this quite a few times actually. It seems only to happen in this one reoccurring non-lucid dream of mine. In the dream I walk bravely into some sort of place feared by many and am consumed by an invisible force. As loud as I try to yell "HELP!" or something within that category, nothing comes out. Mentally verbally or otherwise. It's not the lack of someone to be saying it to though, considering a friend is always in the previous room. Does anyone know how I could perhaps implement some sort of method to defeat this dream force when it is overwhelming me? I have tried to convince myself that it doesn't exist and I'm dreaming. That doesn't work though because theres nothing there in the first place. BAH! PREDICAMENT!

something even worse than this is when you have sleep paralysis while your blanket happens to hang over your entire face, causing a semi-suffocation effect, and you are unable to yell for help because of the S.P., and you just accept your impending death right then and there, thinking you'll actually suffocate....then you wake up in the morning, and it's all fine.

but no matter how many times this happens, you can't convince yourself you'll be OK at the end of it all (while it's happening); you just think you're gonna die everytime, lol.

a very annoying thing that happens to me from time to time.

Aw, AirRick, that sounds scary. lol. When I was little, I used to not be able to speak in my LDs unless it "went with the script." My dreams had scripts and I wasnt allowed to go off of it. I remember being able to think of what I wanted to say but couldnt.

Originally Posted by John11

I get that too, but I'm not freaked out by it. I've always just assumed that it sounded demonic because I was talking out loud in my sleep and things from the real world tend to sound weird when I'm sleeping.

Yeah that makes sences! I sleep talk ALOT, and maybe when I am talking in my dreams, and it happens that I am sleep talking in real life, In my dreams, I hear myself talking also, which makes it sound demonic!