Weird sleeping ocurrence!

[crudemood]

So this wasn't the first time this has happened to me when sleeping. Its actually quite freaky.

So I'm sleeping, taking a nap, its been a LONG yesterday so I'm a bit beat. I'm napping I have pleasant dreams and all of a sudden I'm awake my MIND is awake, I can see whats in front of me but kind of double vision, I feel like my eyes are still in REM but At this point my body is STILL asleep. I'm very aware of what I'm looking at but I'm willing my body to wake up but it won't wake up and its gets scary because I WANT my body to move but it won't because my mind is still asleep.

i even told myself to slap myself awake took all my will but still my hands wouldnt move.

There was this other incident where I have been sleeping dreaming even that at random points of the dream the thing thats right in front of me, if i were to open my eyes the alarm clock and my lamp, would flash at random points in the dream. At one point I'd still be dream and at the same time I'm seeing the alarm clock and the lamp because my eyes are open so still dreaming all i was seeing in the dream was the alarm clock and lamp so I felt blind the entire dream! So basically the dream is still occurring but all i'm seeing is a lamp and alarm clock.

What is this? Its actually really scary, does anyone else know what it is? :S. I think its called Sleep Paralysis can anyone confirm that?

Has this ever happened to anyone else?

crudemood Reviewed by crudemood on 09-22-2007. Weird sleeping ocurrence! So this wasn't the first time this has happened to me when sleeping. Its actually quite freaky. So I'm sleeping, taking a nap, its been a LONG yesterday so I'm a bit beat. I'm napping I have pleasant dreams and all of a sudden I'm awake my MIND is awake, I can see whats in front of me but kind of double vision, I feel like my eyes are still in REM but At this point my body is STILL asleep. I'm very aware of what I'm looking at but I'm willing my body to wake up but it won't wake up and Rating: 5

[Blitzed]

I believe its called lucid dreaming, Ive never experienced it, but I know there are quite a few people on this site who are really interested in it, and could prolly give you more than just the name.. lol

[Jake420]

Yeah i believe its lucid dreaming i have done quiet a bit of research on it, and i have taken various drugs i am not allowed to mention that will induce very lucid dreams, which can sometimes be very scary, if i were going to give you any advice i would say try to deal with it yourself, if you go to the hospital the doc is going to send you straight to a shrink and you won't get any meds, and i dont think shirnks do anything to help anyone but thats just my opinion

[geonagual]

Man, I havent had those kind of dreams in awhile..those are the ones I try and make last as long as possible.

[sm0k3w33d]

i used to have these crazy dream type things where the same thing would happen to me. only i would feel like my body turning over but i wasnt moving it. and i couldn't say anything or move so i would try to scream and i would normally wake up to myself trying to scream. i think it was just a dream though

[crudemood]

haha no guys lucid dreaming is a part of it, but i found what it actually was
Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia check it out its pretty damn cool.

[Krishwag]

are you talking about false awakenings? that shit has happened to me several times before.

[sm0k3w33d]

quite possibly...

[Metaphor]

Sleep Paralysis is fucked up. It sounds like that what you were having, its happened to me a couple times but not in a while.
Last time i got sleep paralysis i was lying in my bed staring at the wall and i started to get a bright light moving closer to me, kinda like a train in the distance then when it got to the edge of the wall a hand came out. at this point i was breathing very hard and trying to move my eyes but i couldnt. I remembered my friend saying that if i ever got shadow lock (sleep paralysis) to just try to scream as hard as you can and eventually youll snap out of it. so i tried that and right before i came out of it i got a bright flash of light. It was so surreal.
I was talking to my girl about it and she said that used to happen to her when she was younger and she would see snakes comming in her room. Sleep paralysis is so fucked up, especially when its accompanied by hallucinations.

[Ganja Dude]

Ah, I was too late to answer this one. I got very curious about this stuff a while back.