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- Llyod0
yeah, sleep paralysis. that's what gates's minions are doing to my mind
- dr_pangloss0
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Kind of love it but always freaks me out (like a horror film).
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- 5timuli0
I once had a dream where I used a pedal operated trash can as a mode of transport. But that wasn't a nightmare it was FUCKING AWESOME!
- elahon0
I had a dream one night that my legs ended at my knees, but I was still able to walk, and I was stumping around aimlessly. I woke up and looked around and found that my 20+ pound cat had been sleeping across my shins and my legs were asleep from the knees down.
- mikotondria20
Once I dreamed that I found some cocaine in a bag, I did it, got terribly fucked up (something I wouldnt do in waking life)...and was running over like some little hills and sand-dunes. It was very cold, and I jumped off one dune, into some shallow water, that had a crust of ice on top - it was a long way, maybe 15 feet down. As I hit the water and landed, I carried on running, and I could feel the crunch and smash as I pounded through the icy crust...
Then I looked down and realised that there wasnt ice on the water at all - the crunching icy sounds and the sloshy feeling were because I'd broken all the bones in my ankles and feet.
It wasnt very nice.- That sounds a lot like the dream story in Koolhaus / Mau S/M/L/XLdr_pangloss
- sea_sea0
As far as I can remember I have had very lucid dreams.
There are places I return to, from time to time. flying and breathing underwater have always been my favorites.I really got into dream interpretation around 15 years ago... I started a journal and realized dreams are all but symbols that can help you on a deeper level.
I looked through many books, all pretty much junk. But I don't think I have ever found a better dream book than "The Dream Book: Symbols for Self Understanding" by Betty Bethards.
I highly recommend it if your serious about working with your dreams. it's awesome!*sweet dreams
- I tried having a journal for my dreams but I don't remember them so I never ended up using it more than 3-4 times.Jaline
- try the Dali method, if you have wood floors, sleep with a walnut in your handdr_pangloss
- dangle of the bed and train yourself (Pavlov style) to wake up and sketchdr_pangloss
- when you fall asleep and the walnut falls from your hand to the floorboards. : )dr_pangloss
- to capture that exact moment between the dream and awakening state. love dali.sea_sea
- Llyod0
then there was my favorite where I wake up during the dream and there's a zombie girl a the foot of my bed walking to me then I wake up again for real. That was a bit of a mind fuck.
or the dentist drilling where it was completely real, drill and all, but I couldn't see. I started shaking my body awake which is how I shake my body awake whenever it happens.
Some have been kind of cool. One involved a zombie attack. I had a shotgun, supplies, a jeep and I had to make through the mountain.
- Llyod0
I'm falling but I don't land. I become lucid and have to wake myself up.
- Jaline0
I used to have the same dreams over and over again when I was younger. They were always about E.T. or vampires. I knew I was dreaming, so it wasn't a big deal. Also, I don't call them nightmares because, since I knew I was dreaming, I knew I had control over what happened and therefore didn't have to worry about dying.
- invisiblechamber0
and creative people seem to be struck by it preferably.
but that probably tantamounts stress, bad sleep schedule, bad nutrition,...
- robco0
oh yeah, and dont excersise right before bed, man i use to see and hear the weirdest crap...
- robco0
you have sleep paralysis... uncommon in people over 25, tends to happen frequently to teenagers and college kids... stress, bad sleep schedule, bad nutrition. i had hypnogogic sleep paralysis with severe auditory hallucinations for years, still get it every now and then but has tapered off as i dont sleep on my back anymore. i use to think i was being abducted by aliens (started when i was like 13), you ever sleepwalk?
- The one or two times it happened I was sleeping on my back. But I usually sleep on my side.Jaline
- i can't sleep on my back because my cat does.invisiblechamber
- flavorful0
On an unrelated note, I have the opposite of sleep paralysis as my legs are always moving when I'm sleeping (or standing, sitting, doing anything basically).
I think it does stop or at least is tamed when I'm in REM though... Someone made a comment about how my legs never stop moving and I said, "Yea, even when I sleep they're kicking around."
To which at the same time two people at the table said:
01. No, they don't.
02. It's not as bad as I remember it.And there were only three people including myself at the table... sha sha shaaa!
- invisiblechamber0
most of the above sounds very familiar to me. happens to me since childhood. i have only german info-links here but i think what jaline posted is about it. sleep paralysis. that paralysis itself is no disorder. its normal function is to prevent you from moving around while sleeping. only when it does not stop freezing your body in sync with waking up it gives you this terrible being-trapped feeling. so it's no nightmare but a brain-awake / body-asleep state - bad dreams just come as a reaction to this. i read stuff about it - remembering some facts: about 20% of all people have it (but most of them don't know and think it's just nightmares), it happens more often in summer, dreams within dreams are explained through this phenomenon. it is the medical reverse of sleepwalking. trying to wake up oneself is a common reaction (i found out that if you don't try this and can manage to become aware of this now being this paralysis thing again and calm down it is much less horrible). and ha!: i read some science article once that claimed that this alien abduction frenzy is caused by sleep paralysis - that was years ago - i'm still waiting...
- BattleAxe0
you know it happened most when I sleep facing up on my back, something about the blood rushing to the back of the head or something, but every nightmare I wake up from I wake up in that position , what gives
- geralddean0
dude! that so happens to me! I hear myself snore sometimes and i'm like wtf I gotta stop snoring! Or there was the time that the cat tried to kill me and i couldn't move even though I know it was sucking the air out of my body. Wierd!
- ninjasavant0
Very common. So is that feeling that you're falling when youre about to fall asleep and you wake up with a start.
- jnnbugg0
oh man i had a similar experience. In my dream I was in my room, sitting on my bed, it was too real looking. Then ghosts were circling around the room, really fast so that there were gusts of wind. I was so freaked out.. tried to scream, nothing came out. tried to stand up..nothing. Then i tried to wake myself up.. and i couldnt. I dunno how i finally woke up but ... scary!
- almost every story about sleep paralysis i've heard involve ghosts swriling around. very intersteing.usrper
- i never saw any entities during paralysis but also often tried to wake myself up unsuccessfully.invisiblechamber