crazy nightmare/sleep paralysis experience

I just had absolutely the most terrifying nightmare I've had in a long time, enough to make me slightly scared to sleep tonight.

Background: I live in a house with a couple friends, but they're home for winter break right now, so I'm alone in the house. I'm going home soon, and then my parents are coming back with me and staying for a bit.

Around 5 pm tonight I decided that I was exhausted, set my alarm for 6:30 pm and decided to take a nap. Proceeded to pass out on the couch.

The entire dream took place in the exact room and place where I fell asleep. In the dream, I thought my parents had for some reason just arrived. I heard them talking outside, and panicked because I haven't had a chance to put the bong and that kind of stuff away yet. Then, for some reason, I think because subconsciously I know they won't be here for several weeks, I realized that I was dreaming. I panicked and desperately tried to wake up. Woke up and found myself in the same room. I'm not sure if I actually woke up at this point or not. If I did, I definitely fell back asleep, because at this point some of my friends that left already came over (I was still laying on the couch half passed out when they came in).

I explained to my friends that I had just had a nightmare, and gave them some theory about sleeping position affecting whether your dreams are good are bad. We then decided to smoke some weed, and someone started rolling a joint. At this point I fell asleep again, and woke up once again in the same room, with my friends gone (definitely still asleep at this point). Completely panicked once again, I had no way of distinguishing reality from dream at this point. Desperately tried to move whatever muscles I could, even tried to slap myself a few times but my muscles would not move at all.

When I finally woke up, still exhausted and now terrified, it was only 5:40 pm.

And to make matters worse, about 5 minutes after I woke up, one of the friends who had come over in the dream (the only one who's actually still in the area) actually came over to chill. I do love a good coincidence.

I'm thinking parts of this experience can be attributed to sleep paralysis, and that I was actually awake during parts where I thought I was asleep, but there's no way of knowing.

 

It's definitely sleep paralysis, and while unscheduled sleeping arrangements are documented causes of triggering hypnagogia, I'm also convinced that sleeping positions can be a contributor as well, as I've never had sleep paralysis once while not sleeping on my back.

Great story, made me laugh. I know how it feels man. If I may offer some advice - don't panic. It doesn't do anything but put you in a struggle and make the whole experience worse. You're also robbing yourself of some lucid dreaming opportunities.

 

Sound like a cool experience. I wish I had some dank so smoke these days, I enjoy exploring states of mind.

 

Sorry, I wasn't very clear on part of that. Never actually smoked weed at any point, while I was asleep at some point in this whole dream/paralysis scenario, I dreamed that my friends came over and we were gonna toke, which just added to the confusion.

I wish I was less busy and had the liberty of sleeping on a regular schedule so I could explore lucid dreaming properly. I'll occasionally become lucid on my own, but usually what happens is I immediately forget again that I'm dreaming, and go on doing whatever I was just before I realized I was asleep.

 

I sometimes realize I'm dreaming, when I realize how surreal things are and how I live only in the moment when dreaming... not that I have no memory, but it isn't the same feeling as while awake. For some reason, I never go lucid, though... I can sometimes affect things, but not proper lucidity. But all the dreaming about falling asleep and waking up in your situation is just a mindfuck....

I'll report back shortly with an appropriately disturbing copypasta on dreaming... or if I can't find it, try to recreate it to the best of my ability.

 

Both my mother and my brother suffer from sleep paralysis and it has always sounded really terrifying to me. They know what is happening but apparently it is really hard to keep from panicking.

 

Studies have shown that victims of tragic or traumatic events, particularly rape, can subconsciously choose to enter a dream state, the only difference from reality being that they are not being raped at the time they begin dreaming. However, from that point onwards, as the dream continues, they are unresponsive and can sleep for hours, days, months, or even years, while not all of them even wake up. Those that have returned to wakefulness have all reported that they only did so after realizing, and telling themselves that they where dreaming, usually by reading a note that told them of their own predicament, and telling themselves to please WAKE UP!

 

Like it? I felt it deserved it's own isolated post... It's not the original, I re-created it from memory.

 

Yes but the regular consumption of weed will make lucid dreaming more likely, even if you didn't smoke any that night.

I have had practically fuck all to smoke all this year and I intend to do something about that next year, even if it involves incepting the dream of the scum in the government and planting the idea to legalise all drugs in their shallow minds.

 

It can be very difficult to do, and once you start doing it it is very easy to slip back into a non-lucid state of mind.

One of my most vivid lucid dreams I had was once time when I was living in Holland and I started walking through walls in the building I was sleeping. It got to the point where I forgot that I was dreaming and got really scared that I might not be able to stop moving through solid objects. I could push my hand into walls and I was able to feel the inertia of it as I forced my hand into it. Then I was looking out my window at the flats across the road and there were faces looking out all the windows at me. It wasn't scary, but I think it might have been my sleeping mind connecting with the minds of people sleeping around me.

 

Hmm that's interesting - I've always read/heard that smoking a lot of weed (as I do) generally stops dreams from even happening.

Of course, I haven't found that to be at all true, some of my craziest dreams have been after going to bed really baked. It definitely seems to make it harder to remember them in the morning though.

I just gotta get off my ass and start a dream journal, because usually within 15 minutes to an hour of waking up, I'll have no idea what I dreamed about the night before, unless I make a conscious effort to remember.

 

herb interrupts your REM stages and affects the way/if you remember your dreams.

my best lucids occur if i smoke not immediately before bed, but maybe an hour or so before i lay down.

 

this happens to me all the time. it doesn't really matter what position I'm in. I always sense an evil spirit in the room with me when I have sleep paralysis so I've tried falling asleep in different positions to avoid it, but the spirit comes either way. its some weird shit. Once I figured out what was going on, I began lucid dreaming during it but it didn't really make it any less terrifying.

 

I had a really vivid one the other week where I suddenly woke up/came round standing in the kitchen. It totally freaked me out and was so vivid, I fumbled around trying to get back to bed and all the lights in the room were flashing on and off. It was really weird, I woke up after lying in bed and I looked up to see if the kitchen door was open, which it wasn't. I have no idea whether I was sleep walking or astral projecting or what.

 

Earthling it sounds like a common abduction experience to me :alien:


Hotwater

 

Wot they abducted me and took me away to my kitchen?

 

Lost time followed by confusion is a quite common in most abduction experiences :2thumbsup:



Hotwater

 

So what are you saying, aliens use rohypnol too?

 

Rohypnol? No our women are generally submissive :2thumbsup:

We don't have to knock them out before engaging in sex



Hotwater

 

Since this incident I've had some awesome lucid dreams, by chance.

in one, for some reason one of the people in the dream told me i was dreaming.

in one last night, i recognized that i was floating a few feet above the ground and that i was able to fly, and was able to maintain lucidity for the entire rest of the dream, and even had a conversation with a character in the dream about how hard it was to remain aware that it was a dream.

i still wasn't able to utilize the full potential of the dream state, for some reason i still saw limitations even though they really weren't there at all. basically i immediately started thinking of things that i would want to do. since i'm a guy, of course i seized upon the idea of having sex, and found a really attractive girl (haha don't judge me, you'd do the same). at this point i failed miserably though, because i then asked her if she wanted to, and she said no. although i think this was for the best, because the rest of the dream was equally amazing. she agreed to adventure around with me after i told her we were in a dream. most of the time was spent holding her in my arms and flying her around an amusement park.

but even then i didn't realize fully that i could affect my world however i wanted. we flew to the top of a giant rollercoaster/water slide kind of thing, but for some reason there was a huge mass of water. i was planning to go to the top and then slide down it, but because of the water and the massive height of the drop ended up deciding it would be too dangerous.

i think the reason this lucid dream occurred was because of the timing of my sleep cycle. i had just woken up in the morning after about 6 hours of sleep and an equally crazy, non lucid dream involving a bunch of malevolent ghosts killing people. woke up, and decided to go back to sleep. from this point, each time i went to sleep (i kept waking up randomly) i immediately knew i was dreaming. i'm pretty sure this is a common lucid dreaming technique, called wake back to sleep or something like that.