Thread: Explain this to me...

Ok, here is what happened:
I didn't have any dreams last night, and I woke up at 8am, so I went back to sleep,
I closed my eyes awake, and opened them, and my room was exactly the way it was before. I tried to move my arm, but I couldn't. I thought it was just SP, but I was finally able to move it. I got my arm to where I felt it would be right in front of my eyes, but it just wasn't there, like it disappeared. So I realized that this was a dream.
Then I woke up right there
Can anyone explain this? How can I stay in a dream like that when I can't rub my hands together cause I only have one, and can't spin arround because I am lying down.

You had a strong emotional sense or something. That often wakes you up.

Notice the vividness of the dream, feel the blankets, rub your hand against the wall. Use your senses in general

Well what you explained felt very confusing so that emotion alone could have woke you up. Of course when you get more LDs, the feeling is not that weird anymore so you don "shock yourself awake"

but sometimes dreams just end. Usually, it's because you became lucid at the very end of your REM-period.

but for your question, I have had only one dream where I was somewhat paralyzed or "unwhole" so to say. I couldn't rub my hands or spin, so I tried to concentrate on what I see and what I hear. I thought for example : "I will hear birds singing" Then I tried to focus on the sound I heard in order to keep me in dreamworld

Try to remember that you don't need a body in a dream, and that there's no reason for you to be paralyzed since you don't even actually have one. Just DO things, believe you can DO them. Imagine your head floating up and growing a new body, or that you are pulling your 'dream body' from your real body.

Staying calm helps. Try looking around, speaking 'out loud', and try not to think of your body as lying in the bed, but just being wherever you want it to be. Thinking about my body in bed almost always wakes me up

Thinking about my body in bed almost always wakes me up

Same here. Sometimes leading to odd in-two-places-at-once imagery that my brain can't seem to handle so I wake up.

Try the old plugging your nose and trying to breath. That always seems to work for a lot of people!