Sounds like sleep paralysis. It's pretty normal. I know about a douzen people who experience it regularly. Some people just interpret it as a dream (like you are).
No one knows why it happends for sure, but there's speculation that it's caused by stress, insomnia and drugs (like sleeping pills).
Or you could listen to ms.Cleo's assistant here and sprinkle your bed with fairy dust
Oct-09-2006 17:10
kadomony
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i dunno but ive had some really baaaaad insomnia these past 2 weeks.
even though i seem to be handling it well.
i did have a sleep terror once.
was a normal dream til i felt some horrible, horrible prescence.
i fell on the floor (in my dream) completely unable to move with fear.
i try to remember what it felt like when im awake sometimes but i cant get close to the amount of fear in that dream.
Originally posted by Aquarian
Sounds like sleep paralysis. It's pretty normal. I know about a douzen people who experience it regularly. Some people just interpret it as a dream (like you are).
No one knows why it happends for sure, but there's speculation that it's caused by stress, insomnia and drugs (like sleeping pills).
Or you could listen to ms.Cleo's assistant here and sprinkle your bed with fairy dust
lol
yea but during sleep paralysis, i'm pretty sure you are completely awake. it happened to me before. it has to do with your mind being abruptly awakened before your body is able to get out of "sleep mode" which is basically like paralysis (otherwise we would wake up and act out our dreams, if this part of sleep didn't happen to us). i'm actually dreaming this though...when i'm sleeping. but you're right, i'm also experiencing these little short episodes of sleep paralysis too.
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Oct-09-2006 17:16
Aquarian
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Of the people I know who have this, about half of them describe it as a dream. It's not like you go from being asleep to waking up in a split second. Those things usually occur during the hypnopompic state, which explains the confusion between dreaming and consciousness that people describe. It's more like an hallucination than an actual dream - but most can't really tell the difference anyways.
Oct-09-2006 17:22
itsamemario
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Location: Mushroom Kingdom
i had a dream last night.. i was in düsseldorf (never been there before), i had just jumped on a plane, cus i heard some of my friends where going to this cheese trance frekin festival... i came there.. hm where r my friends? i couldnt find them.. but everyone i saw there were aqcuintances of me.. and somee ppl breought their computers and where setting up a LAN lol.... i was waken by the phone just as the first dj was gonna spin.. thankfully :P they even had like a countdown, that was the freakiest part.. "5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.." *cue phone alarm*
edit: og and yeah, during my afternoon nap, i dreamt that i met david hasselhof
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Oct-09-2006 17:22
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If your mind wakes up, you think you're awake but you're not fully awake 'cause your body's sleeping, it's called astral projection. Is this the time when you feel it's presence? Along with when you're dreaming?
Oct-09-2006 18:23
StanVoid
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Originally posted by celestialmind
If your mind wakes up, you think you're awake but you're not fully awake 'cause your body's sleeping, it's called astral projection. Is this the time when you feel it's presence? Along with when you're dreaming?
wow that makes perfect sense then, Astral Project - People Can Fly
love that track
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Oct-09-2006 18:24
bananas
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OBE! Lucid dreaming ftw!
Oct-09-2006 18:27
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quote:
Originally posted by bananas
OBE! Lucid dreaming ftw!
Astral Projection is an OBE but Lucid dreaming isn't, as I said before Lucid Dreaming is when you can control your dreams.
P.S. Did you know that if you're having an OBE and all you have is your astral body, you can infact have intercourse with other people that are having an OBE?
Oct-09-2006 18:30
Danny Ocean
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pray to god for no bad dreams.
Oct-09-2006 18:31
bananas
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Mordor
quote:
Originally posted by celestialmind
Astral Projection is an OBE but Lucid dreaming isn't, as I said before Lucid Dreaming is when you can control your dreams.
P.S. Did you know that if you're having an OBE and all you have is your astral body, you can infact have intercourse with other people that are having an OBE?
yeah, neat shit, imma learn that someday :>> lucid dreaming firstly :d
Oct-09-2006 18:36
Slylee
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood, FL
I know the difference between dreaming and having sleep paralysis. I’m telling u right now that sleep paralysis is strictly about the mind waking up (usually very abruptly) before the body “waking up”. It’s usually accompanied by the whole evil spirit/presence being on top of you and other creepy similar feelings. It’s called the HAG phenonmenon and it has nothing to do with evil spirits despite the experience. I did TONS of obsessive research on the topic about 3 years ago when I had my first “night terror” experience. I even looked at countless “ghost chaser” websites of all these nerds who look for spirits and hauntings, and even they dismiss sleep paralysis, saying that it’s not about ghosts and all of that. It’s strictly a hallucination of the mind due to the physical and mental circumstances going on during this experience.
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