Can you be awake while your body sleeps?
Here’s something we all do – sleep. But have you ever wondered if you could be awake while your body sleeps? After spotting this question: Can you be awake while your body sleeps? on Yahoo! Answers and researching further, it turns out that such a phenomenon does exist.
The following are two versions of this condition:
Sleep paralysis, which according to MedicineNet.com, is “when a person suddenly finds himself or herself unable to move for a few minutes, most often upon falling asleep or waking up.”
And Lucid dreaming, which according to Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article A Study of Dreams, “is a dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming.”
There are pills, sound machines, pillows, mattresses, etc that are supposed to make our sleeps deeper and more restful. We know that sleep is an important part of the body’s natural recovery process and when a person lacks sleep it can affect memory, cognition, concentration, reflexes, and weight.
Sleep has become a precious commodity and more and more people are trying to get by on less. So, what are your night time rituals? What prevents you from falling asleep? Are you one of those lucky people that can fall asleep anywhere? Please leave a comment below.
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of course you can, how else do you sleep-walk?
The closest I have come to this is 2 lucid dreams. I knew in my mind that I was dreaming yet my body stayed asleep. It was wonderful in that I was able to take over my dreams and create fascinating situations.
I have had many times, this, welll, I don’t know what to call it. But I am asleep, but I see myself standing up in the pj’s I am in trying to wake myself up. I see myself lying there is the bed and almost panicking because I can’t wake mysef up. It’s a terrible feeling. Anyone else do that?
usually i just go to sleep. with some tunes from my ipod that i love then it makes me go to sleep faster. without it i just felt like i hear voices in my head out of no where without caution. but at least i have my ipod in handy
Sometime when i wake up I feel like i fall 2 feet.
I feel my bed dent inwards and feel my own body hitting the matress 6% of the time when I wake up.
Can anyoe explain this to me?
Thanks to all who will try.
probably would be one of the worst feelings you ever experienced moving your head around while you cant move any other body parts!
Pills and such, they work for some, just like allergy pills, and beds, and pepsi-cola, because not everything works for everyone.
Wow, that first one happens to me ALL THE TIME! Like it said, when I’m waking up and falling asleep.
I freaked out at first, but then I realized I should just relax and fall all the way assleep.
People are to picky this days just lay down and catch some zzzs isn’t that hard.
yes i will be awake while my body asleep
This can also accure from an astral travel during your sleep and your spirit tring to re enter but the human not recognizing what is going on. I have body rest, but my mind is so active for most of my rest period that i seems that I do not sleep. 3 to 4 hrs actual sleep….the rest is active mind even though i may miss a hr or 2.
yes. its called sleep walking. and most people dont even remember ggetting up and walking around. our mind is telling us to move around but its not saving the memory because the rest of our body is on sleep mode
I have lucid dreams all the time,especially when i was younger.I can’t sleep when i’m stressed or just lay down after walking around,i have to sit down for a while before trying to sleep if i wanna sleep good.
yes, i can sleep anywhere as long as i am tired. but some of my friends can’t do that when stay in a strange place.
Ive had sleep paralysis before. Its no joke, its spiritual in nature.
My body sleeps all day while I`m in front of my computer
When space collapses in on itself will I believe in such nonsense. Despite the scientific evidence
My big ol` body sleeps all day while I sit in front of my computer aka porngenerator
I’ve experienced hypnagogic hallucinations and lucid dreaming. The hallucinations aren’t too much fun but lucid dreaming is ok if you like having awesome dreams but knowing that they aren’t really happening. But then again you can control them and by control them I mean replay the same awesome scene over and over.
Allen, you have it backwards. Sleepwalking is when your mind is asleep but your body is awake. Sleepwalkers aren’t aware that they are walking. As for your body being asleep while your mind is awake, both lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis are real, and I have experienced them both. Lucid dreaming is an incredible experience, whereas sleep paralysis lies on the opposite end of the spectrum as a truly terrifying experience. I would compare the feeling of sleep paralysis to the feeling of drowning, you are trapped in your own body and unable to control it, in my case I am unable to even breathe. It is as though my mind is awake and fully aware and experiencing my own death while I am unable to do anything about it.
ive done both of those things. I can get out of paralysis now though you just have to get up with everything you got. used to not be able too. I know how to fall asleep with your mind still being awake it aint ez though. you got to put your mind in a slightly aware state. and fall asleep like that. closest way i can describe it is a point of consciousness where you feel dizzy. Only slightly though and just hold this until you are dreaming. when you first go into it you will think you are dying but you must go through it and you should be awake in your dream.
i actually had this happen to me i woke up but my body didint move and i felt like i was paralyzed from the neck down so i just dozed off.
yes i think it can
Cool!
I suffer from narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis is one of the many joys of narcolepsy. So I get to experience it regularly. It sucks.
Your sources of information are wholly inadequate. Sleep paralysis is not a situation in which the person is awake. That’s not even the correct term. It’s “hypnopompnia” or “hypnogognia”. The term “Lucid dreamng” has been discredited.
You left out Narcolepsy-You appear awake, function normally, but your brain is in REM-Dreaming! It causes all kinds of problems when you don’t know what is happening to you. Hallucinations, Automatic behavior are just a few symptoms.
I used to be a top contributor in DI because I taught lucid dreaming. Sleep paralysis occurs because when we lucid dream or astral project, we become disassociated with our physical self. Lucid dreams occur on the mental plane, while astral projection occurs on the astral plane.
I have experienced both of these things and it feels so real that it would blow your mind.
Programing The Brow Chakra
Just in between and slightly above your eyebrows is an organic valve or energy center also known as the “brow chakra.” This brow chakra is the seat of your ability to use logic (you can use logic to gain full consciousness within your dream), perception (which is your ability to use insight and also to understand things without the conscious use of logic), and also psychic power, such as clairvoyance, precognition, telepathy, etc.
1.) The Daytime Meditation Technique:
Go and find a comfortable place to sit down and relax. Close your eyes and visualize your thalamus gland inside your brain. Now visualize your thalamus gland glowing very brightly with bioelectric energy. Now see in your imagination a white mental cinema scree/huge white movie screen. Fire your mental laser from your thalamus gland into the upper left hand corner of the mental cinema screen and begin moving your thalamus laser clockwise, slowly. You are now moving your mental laser clockwise from the upper left hand corner of the mental cinema screen and following your mental laser is a wavering blue flame. Continue doing this until your entire mental cinema screen is completely filled with a blue flame. For a little while, visualize this blue flame mental cinema screen. Then visualize the blue flames disappearing and now you simple have a blue cinema screen in front of you. Now see an image of yourself on this mental cinema screen and try to visualize your brow chakra. The color of this brow chakra can be indigo (bluish black) or amethyst purple. Fire your powerful mental laser into your brow chakra with the “intention” of programing it to give you fully conscious lucid dreams and also, flawless logic & perception. Or perhaps you can even program it to also give you psychic powers. Continue with this mental exercise for about 30 minutes. You must do this mental exercise every single day for about one year or eighteen months until your brow chakra is permanently awakened. You may go to http://www.wikkipedia.com and see more about the thalamus gland.
If the above technique doesn’t really appeal to you, then try the below technique.
2.) Nighttime Mediation Technique: When you lie down to go to sleep, begin to visualize your brow chakra, only this time, see your brow chakra glowing very brightly with energy. I prefer to visualize my brow chakra glowing very brightly with deep amethyst purple. Okay, while you’re visualizing this, begin repeating an affirmation like this one, “I WILL NOW HAVE A LONG LASTING, FULLY CONSCIOUS & BLISSFUL OOB LUCID DREAM.” You must repeat this affirmation 100x while doing the visualizing your chakra glowing. Your chakra doesn’t necessarily have to be a purple color, it can be a very bright white glowing color if you like. After about two weeks of repeating the above affirmation, you’ll be able to repeat it without even thinking. After one month of repeating this affirmation, you’ll notice how your dreams will become more and more lucid. Within seven months, you might even master lucid dreaming by then.
In the above affirmation I used the term OOB which means Out Of Body.
I myself prefer to use both of the above techniques.
3.) It might also be a good idea to keep and maintain a dream journal. When you wake up from your dream make sure that you write down with as much grueling detail as possible what you saw in your dreams. This will help entrain you to remember your dreams.
4.) The Nova Dreamer Mask: This breakthrough in lucid dream technology might help you out if you disagree with the above mediational techniques. http://lucidity.com/novadreamer.html
You might also want to check out this truly awesome website to learn about what sort of fantastic things can be achieved through lucid dreaming. http://faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq/lucid-dreaming-faq/
Make sure that you read 2.21 in the above link at Lars Lucid Dream Faq, okay? You’ll love it!
Did you know that if you master lucid dreaming well enough, that you can freeze time in your dream and stay there for long periods of time? You can even use lucid dreaming as a doorway into remote viewing or astral projection.
Its very important that you never use mind altering drugs including marijuana. Don’t drink alcoholic beverages. Don’t use any kind of pharmaceutical tranquilizers or antidepressants while you’re doing this meditational work or you will fail. If you use tobacco, then it would be advisable to stop smoking because the nicotine will hinder your ability to use your thalamus laser. These are things that I know from actual experience.
Very highly recommended books:
1.) Adventures Beyond The Body, by William Buhlman
2.) The Secret Of The Soul, by William Buhlman
3.) Remote Viewing, by Tim Rifat
4.) Energy Medicine, by Donna Eden
Well, first of all, pills DO NOT HELP! I have insomnia, but nothing is being done about it. I’ve tried all that stuff, it doesn’t work! Please, tell me how I can get to sleep!!! <3 <3 XOXO O.O~Brooke~O.O
I used to get up at 3;30AM every morning before going to work.
Now, it’d 22 years later.
I’m now retired, but I still wake up at about 4AM, but would like to sleep to 6.
I retired about four months ago, and I still get up too early.
Do you have any answers?
I’m familiar with lucid dreaming. In some dreams I am aware I’m dreaming and trying to get out of it, some times it actually works. I also had it once in a nightmare, I knew someting was going to happen but luckily I snapped out of it..
so the lucid dreaming is true for sure.
I can’t…..but I have three guys working for me who can!
I completely agree. I have times where I cannot move right before I wake up. Letting you mind and body relax before you sleep will help a lot. So not watching tv, or being on the computer before you sleep. Reading helps to relax and ease the mind.
“is a dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming.”
What about a dream where one dreams they are awake, like dreaming that your alarm clock goes off that you get out of bed only to realise it is all a dream and you are still asleep.
Bed time routines for a good nights sleep. Firstly logging out of Answers and coming off the internet at least an hour before bed time.
Not eating a heavy meal at least 3 hours before, having a bath, a hot drink like chamomile tea or hot milk, and light snack such as a banana. Bananas contain serotonin which has a calming effect on the brain aiding to a more restful sleep
So for a good nights sleep log out of Answer early
I’ve had that happen before. I hate “waking up” but my body’s still sleep. I just lay there and can’t move my body; it’s actually kind of scary. The worse is when you have a pillow on your face, and can’t move it.
Oh my God, Yeah. I had sleep paralysis one time while I was about to fall asleep in school. I was there before anyone actually arrived, when the hallways were dark, and i just laid my head on my backpack. I thought I was being possessed! It was so scary! I couldn’t move and I tried my hardest to get up but all I could move were my eye lids– which were blinking like mad! Probably looked like a seizure…
You are sleeping when sleep walking, LOL
That’s why people sleep walk?
i have never had this, i wonder if anyone has…
I already knew about lucid dreaming, and have been trying to do it for several weeks. All the stories i’ve heard seem quite amazing because you can do virtually anything you want while in a lucid dream, and it will seem real. FLying, teleporting, walking through walls, creating your own world (like inception), etc. I have bad sleep habits so mmaybe that’s why i can’t do it, but it also has to do with training your subconscious (which i haven’t kept up with either) so if i give more effort, maybe i will able to do it.
Well this is something I already knew but very interesting to read ^^ Lucid dreaming is something I’ve done before and a very unique experience.
of course because our minds worki while we sleep because our minds do not need rest. this is also the same for our cells-muscles-organs. we sleep to rest our eyes and joints and muscles, but they still work because they do move when u sleep if u have ever noticed
I wouldn’t say so. There’s such a thing as sleep paralysis, but that’s not a case of the body being asleep, it’s a case of the part of the brain that controls motor functions being turned off.
Your body doesn’t actually sleep. It can’t. Sleep is entirely a function of the brain. While your brain sleeps, your body rests. The motor area of your brain is off while you’re asleep because otherwise you would act out all your dreams which could result in injury or death. That’s a bit different than sleepwalking.
Sleep paralysis occurs when your body transitions into REM sleep but your mind doesn’t–which sets off a panic attack. Very few times should it happen in your life, that is to say, if you aren’t stressed enough (on average, people experience sleep paralysis a few instances in their life). I’ve been in that rut more than a couple–and it’s scary. Lucid dreaming is a product of your body shutting down with an alert mind–classical artists have always depicted this phenomenon as “possession” (go on, Wiki it).
it is called sleep paralysis
every now and then i will wake up and i feel paralyzed and i cant move even though i want to. i see my room but i dont know if thats real….sometimes even, i will feel “hands” on my arms!
Long ago (20 yrs) I kept having a recurring weird dream…yet I was wide awake and aware I was lying in my bed and looking around my room. I could see everything in the room clearly. During the dream, a man in a snowmobile suit would walk into the room. My back was turned and I couldn’t see him but I could hear the swoosh-swoosh sound of the suit. I was always terrified because I was convinced he was there to kill me. I’d close my eyes and open them and he’d be gone. But it would be 2 or 3 hours later when it felt like 5 minutes. I was going through a lot of marital stress at the time and am now divorced from the abusive man I was married to. In a way I think the guy in the snowmobile suit represented him.
I think so… What if your being hypnotised?
I Think so yes, evidence has proved the evidence of lucid dreamers and what not. Sleep is just your body shutting down, your mind is still active and awake so you can sort it out so it works for you when you want not what its want to do.
I always have lucid dreams and i can literally fall asleep Anywher! haha i have also had moments where i would wake up and not be able to move for a minute.
It’s one’s mind that sleeps, not the body though both benefit. In certain animals, dolphins and birds for example, can preform unit hemispheric sleep, which literally means sleeping with one eye open. They can preform certain tasks with one half of their brain sleeping while the other half is completely awake. You can only imagine the benefits this can have as far as being able to protect itself, or hunting while getting full sleep in one half of the brain, and then switching over. I’d love to be able to accomplish U.H.S.
I don’t know. When your body falls into REM sleep, you fall in to a paralysis-like state with no muscle control. Also, when you sleep your mind is still active, if not more active when you’re asleep. I’ve had it happen once to me before. I was asleep with no control over my body but still herd people talking. It’s all in the mind.
Yes, sleep is very important to your physical health, and your mental health, more that you could ever know.
I envy those who have the time to sleep, yet they choose not to. I have a form of Narcolepsy (a sleep disorder by the way) that affects my memory big time, because my body can’t heal itself properly every night. You see, it takes the average person about 90 minutes to go from wakefulness to Rapid Eye Movement (aka REM) sleep, and those 90 minutes are very crucial to your body’s healing process. My form of Narcolepsy causes my body to completely skip that phase, and I go straight to REM sleep, sometimes even before i’m asleep, which causes hallucinations. I’ve only experienced a lucid dream once and I never want to do so again, but it is something unavoidable because Narcolepsy is a progressive…… something. Most call it a disease, because it might be genetic. Back to lucid dreams, most of them are based on your worst fears, or something just completely ridiculous. Just look at me type on and on and on…… sad thing is, its like I’m nocturnal or something because its hard for me to fall asleep at night, and I can’t stay awake in the daytime unless i’m active. :/ I’ll just leave who ever reads this hanging so they can look up more about sleep disorders.
I actually suffer from sleep paralysis. The first time it happened was last year…I woke up and couldn’t move. I have never been more scared in my life. It’s like when you have those dreams when you try to scream but you can’t, I knew I couldn’t move but couldn’t do anything about it. I also hallucinated and saw my blanket just fly off me. I actually believed there was a ghost in there and that it wouldn’t let me move. When it was over, my blanket was back in place and I was able to move again, I was so scared and shocked I tried to convince myself it was a dream. 2 weeks later it happened again in the middle of the night, that’s when I stopped denying it and realized I needed help. I researched it on the internet, and found something describing what I went through, and that it’s just that your brain is awake but not your body. I was relieved and now when I go through it, I’m not as scared, still a little freaky, but not scary. Last time I went through this was about a month ago, I try to avoid it bu not sleeping on my back since I read it mostly happens when you sleep on your back. Hopefully more people read about this and realize what they’re going through is not some crazy paranormal stuff. =D
yeah its true it happens to me all the time when I wake up and I cant move at all but i can look around then of course you start to panic because you don’t know what’s going on and it becomes hard to breath because you are still breathing like you do when you sleep
No, if you’re sleep-walking that implies you’re unconscious=not awake. At any rate “Ashu”, if that is your real name, I suppose my answers to your questions are as follows: No;Apparently;Don’t have one;Nothing;No
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allen that would be your body being awake while your mind sleeps, sleep walkers dont know that they even do it unless they wake up some place different or someone tells them.
he is talking about your mind being aware while your body is in a deep sleep.
which would be pretty interesting to wake up and not be able to move your body for a short time because its still in the sleep state.
i for one cant ever sleep doesnt matter what i do or how tired i am it will take a good 4 hours. lol
Definitely when someone has too much going on in his/her mind. Good stress and bad stress can keep the mind awaks while the body falls asleep.
For me the best thing to do is to make sure, 3 hours before to go to bed, that everything is cleared up and have an evironment without any stressors. People, music, tv, radio, portable phones, etc can contribute with these stressors.
What a silly answer
The fact of the matter is that our bodies need to REST. We can be either awake or asleep for this process to occure. If you are unable to sleep, place your mind in a place where it’s no thinking about anything. Relax your body and even if you’re awake, you will find that your body and mind would have had enough of a REST to do a full day at work the next day.
Hope this helps….speaking from someone who has been in this sitaution many a time
I work nights, then I go home, just lay down for 2 hours, then I go to my other job, I go back home for about 4, then I lay down for another 2 hours, and then I am back to work. I don’t do this everytime since my schedule goes monday, tuesday, friday, saturday, sunday, wednesday and thursday, but I work every now and then to my other job. I really don’t have any special rituals, but fill a day upp correctly, you will get your rest anytime you can
Yup, I experienced this phenom before.
I believe it is also one of the problems people experience when having bad dreams. They are aware and awake but just can’t seem to get out of their dream phase. I just call on Jesus’ name when that happens always works.
allen, sleepwalking is the opposite. your body is awake while your conscious mind is asleep
i wish i could fall asleep easily… definitely feeling the effects of having less rest and i’m only 19 =(
iv actually had that first one, sleep paralysis, i had woken up on a saturday morning, and i couldnt move.. every time i tryed to move just about anything you would normally move when you wake up, i had a really intense pain in those muscles, however i could talk and use my eyes… but that was about it, i was taken to the emergency room at the hospital and was told that doctors had no clue lol. (that was nice to hear comming from a doctor) now i finally relize what is is..
Lucid dreaming is an interesting phenomena, ive only managed it a few times in my life, but its pretty amazing
i have a lot of sleep paralysis , and damn , is it freaky
I think that sleep walking is the mind being asleep whilst the body is awake, not the other way around.
yup, i get sleep paralysis pretty often
Well right now i am awake but I’m soo relaxed and tired my body is currently asleep even tho I can read and type. Soon my mind will sleep too. I like my silk pillow case and a cool room.
Occasionally, not sometimes or rarely, just after I lay down to sleep, I will begin dreaming while I am still awake. I’ve always called these my awake dreams. I can even talk about what I’m seeing while this is happening… It’s really neat. I’ve often wondered if this is common, yet not spoken of…
I’m also one of those people who can fall asleep anywhere and quickly. I dream most nights and very vividly. My average sleep lasts around 8 to 9 hrs and is seldom interupted.
One more neat thing I wanted to mention,, While asleep, if a new presense comes within a certain distance from me, I wake instantly. I always found that to be odd considering I wake up even when I am in REM…
Cool read. Thx.
i think i have both of those conditions but they’re mild soo…
Hmm, how about sleep and dreaming, in which i constantly know and realise this is just a dream. And u actually dream, or realize (as far as this word can go with subconcious dream) you dream, and you try and focus on remembering the dream. Goes further, when you actually analize the dream in your own dream (I try to do some dreams analisys, mainly based on Fromm)! Could this be part of the above phenomenon, or is it just obsession, or a thought, striking thought you had before sleeping, to remember what ud be dreaming of?
I often experience sleep paralysis
Yes this has happen to me a few time always during a nightmare and forcing myself to wake up. My eyes open but I cant move. its very scary the first time it happens to you. you cant do a thing. It only lasts a few seconds well with me anyway.
Yes certainly, The you who is always awake is the who that tells you after you wake up, that you were sleeping before you woke up. The You who is awake when the body is asleep is called the consciousness, the witness, the Soul, the divine presence in each of us. Soul never sleeps. Meditation is a conscious sleep and sleep is an unconscious meditation. Both acquire energy for the day to day living and for further spiritual journeys. Afterall sleep is only a name given to a phenomena. Even when one does meditation and astral project the Soul within, the body is asleep but awake and aware of the surroundings. The quantum particle of awareness or consciousness is within every cell as its subtlest constitution. A flood light has a source and also lighten every particle in its footprints whereas cosmic consciousness is a self effulgent source as well as omnipresence within(inside) and without(and outside).
Yea you can. One you SLEEP WALK DUH! Also, have you ever gotten that tingly feeling when you don’t move your body when you are awake? That happens when your parts of your body go to sleep.
I have heard of astril projection and would love to experience it at least once. I have experienced Lucid Dreaming on a few occasions but not Sleep paralysis which is supposed to be very frightening so im pleased i havent.
sleep walking is not the same thing. I used to suffer from sleep paralysis when I was a lot younger. Back then it was referred to as “the devil riding your back”. I decided to research that because I knew it was a medical reason for it and found sleep paralysis. It’s when you can’t mood and you can barely even talk. Once I managed to call for my little sister to shake my body so that I may wake up. I would ‘always’ happen when I sleep on my back. I also would go to sleep late and vice versa. A few years later, I suffered from insomnia. Now, but not as much, I find myself not being able to breath in my sleep. It would happen in a dream or something. Sometimes I would even wake up from trying to catch my breath. That is the absolute worst. I think it has something to do with my sinus or sleeping “under” a pillow.
As for sleep walking, you are not aware at what you may do. I researched something a while back that said a normal person enters REM sleep moments after falling asleep. Stands for rapid something lol. Anyway, this give dreams that “real” feeling. REM led to keeping you from ‘acting out’ in your sleep. Such as running, fighting or blah blah blah.
Follow up answer to my previous comment. Yes i am one of those lucky people who can sleep on demand and also stay awake when needed too, like traveling on a motorway for 12 hours.
My guess is most likely. Yes
I was prescribed bedtime medications along with Ambien and I had several episodes of doing things while asleep and suddenly waking up thinking where am I and why am I doing this. One time I actually got under the bed where I keep many boxes for storing items. When I woke up I thought I was in a machine and I battled to get out. Like an airplane at twilight over the sea, I had no sense of up, down, forward, or backward. I was going deeper into the maze. When I woke up I was able to extricate myself, again thinking about how strange that was, but I managed to get back into bed and went right to sleep. I had little control of my body and my arms and legs were extremely weak.
My girlfriend used Ambien and would eat at night and find the evidence in the morning.
Drugs that are prescribed these days contribute to a lot of sleep walking. A man killed his wife and claimed he was sleep walking. I believe such a thing is highly possible, depending on where your self conscience is lurking.
yes. sleep paralysis and keeping your body asleep and mind awake is one way to have an OBE. but you’re not awake when you sleep walk, isn’t that why people are all zombie like when they do sleep walk? and I don’t think you’re awake when you lucid dream either or else you wouldn’t be dreaming. you’re just aware that you’re dreaming.
I think that and its reverse happened several times in USMC boot camp.
I actually had sleep paralysis 3 days ago at night! I heard my cellphone start ringing and managed to open my eyes, but could not move, nod even my head! I’m guessing it is caused by the brain forcing the body to shut down to minimum funtions because of the urgent need of rest. I did not sleep 48 hours beforehand, so that could’ve caused it!
I once had sleep paralysis…it is NOT fun, it honestly feels like your body is paralyzed and I started to panic. Creepy.
i was just reading abot this!
I experienced both of above before….
its quite scary when you’re awake…but whole surrounding is dark…can’t move…scream..but no sound….
as for the other one…if i’m aware of i’m dreaming, i’ll tend to do things that shouldn’t/can’t be done is real life….hahaha
it happens to me a few times a month i wake up cant move my body or talk.
I’ve had that happen before where I felt paralyzed when I was awake, as if my body was not yet awake. After a few seconds I was able to “burst out” of that state, like waking up from a nightmare, breathing hard. I’m glad it hasn’t happened too often.
I believe so, I think thats why people sleep walk and I think it happened to me once. It was pretty creepy it was like I was awake but I couldn’t move my body and my eyes wouldn’t open…or maybe I was dreaming?
^ Isn’t that the other way around?
And why did the question change at the end of the paragraph…?
It could be possible to do that, but it would mean you won’t be able to move your entire body, like your paralyzed. I had woken up once and I couldn’t move any part of my body nor could I talk; it was so weird, but it felt like it was a dream, maybe that was it “Awake while my body sleeps”.
Sleep paralysis can be scary! Ive gotten that a handful of times & no matter how hard I try to move or talk, I cant lol. Also if I fall asleep with my tv on, sometimes what Im hearing ends up in my dreams. Im not sure if thats part of lucid dreaming since the brain never fully shuts down anyway.
To comment 1, that is the opposite situation. Sleepwalking is when the body is awake when your mind is still sleeping.
I have this awake mind situation often and it is horrible. Sometimes I awake to find my arm is flung across my nose and mouth and I can barely get any air. I use all my concentration to try to move my arm, or turn my body or move anything and I am completely paralyzed. Very rarely I will suddenly get success and my arm will fling away…but more often than not I have to manage to get back to sleep in this situation and then awake normally.
sleep paralysis happened to me I think thrice when I was young (around 10yrs. old). My mind was fully awake but I could hardly move and I was trying to call my mom but no voice was coming out… I could hardly fall asleep in other places unless I am very tired and when I did I am not usually happy upon waking up. I do not have night time rituals but since childhood I love to sleep in the place where there is tv.
I can’t fall asleep anywhere, but I have a unique ability to control when I wake up. I look at the clock, decide when I need to wake up the next morning, and say, “OK, that gives me [X] hours to sleep…” and then I just sort of put it in a certain place in my mind and fall asleep. Then the next morning, I wake up about 15 minutes or so before I intended to get up, and I’m usually feeling fairly well-rested.
Definitely have been in a state where i am asleep and completely aware of my surroundings before. Once. It was the weirdest feeling i have ever experienced, as my mind simply reskinned the my surrounding in a wacky dream-like fashion. But when somebody tried to touch me (i guess my eyes were open or i was acting weird) i swiftly and accurately grabbed their wrist and redirected it away from my face. FYI, i have never taken drugs, though i suppose that is what some might do.
yes, this is very interconnected with lucid dreaming. Actually the objective of a WILD (Wake initiated lucid dream) is to allow your body to fall asleep while keeping your mind awake. Basically, if you sit completely still long enough your body will be tricked into sleep paralysis and your mind can remain awake, although it requires time/patience/technique to learn how to do this. This sleep paralysis is often considered very scary by many people and while attempting a WILD, many people will often ruin their attempt by being so scared and trying to get out of this sleep paralysis. Although, having experienced it myself, it is not exactly like being awake, you are not clear headed and often experience alot of hypnagogic imagery. But thats a discussion for another day
To the above poster, during sleep walking you are not exactly sleeping. youre half awake and just dont remember the experience the next day
yes you can there are different modes of sleep
Sometimes i have lucid dreams. Like, in the dream, when something is happening, i know that i’m in a dream. I’m aware that it is just a dream. Also if something too good is happening, then usually i know that i am dreaming, because it’s a bit too good to be true. XD
To Allen, usually, you’re not actually awake when you sleep walk.
You can go directly from wakefulness to being asleep (Your body, that is) It’s a technique called WILD(Wake Induced Lucid Dream) It’s for lucid dreams, but you can make your body fall asleep without your mind falling asleep also
At night, I HAVE to fall asleep at 11:30. I can’t fall asleep before it or after it. If I do, I feel terrible the next day. I don’t know why this happens lol!
Oh and every morning (on the weekends) I wake up at 6:30am, then 7:00am, then 8:45 and finally 9:30 or 9:45am.
If it’s Monday to Friday, I wake up at 6:30am, then 7:00am. It’s awesome as I have to get up at 7:00am anyway, and I don’t need an alarm clock!
In a dream, i am often aware that i am dreaming. what prevents me from falling asleep? to be honest, it is the large community on the internet that keeps me busy. my rythm has changed slowly so i can stay up longer at night. It is very hard to fall back into a normal rythm for me.
wouldnt the be the opposite though. you body awake but you mind sleeping?
Of course, I do all the time. It’s called Lucid Dreaming. Where your mind becomes aware whilst asleep. You can think of anything and change your dream or you could wake yourself up. It’s simple to do, there are many tutorials/guides on it
For me, sleep paralysis is elduding me. But I have lucid dreams quite often. I didn’t know they were out of the ordinary. I know I’m dreaming and I can control maybe some parts of the dream sometimes, but it isn’t like I’m creating it at all. I’m just aware I’m awake. And that’s why I talk in my sleep.
For sure. Google “Astral Projection”. It happens when our bodies fall asleep but our mind is awake and free to move throughout the spirit world.
I had a lucid dream last night. All I know is that I kept repeating “This is a dream, imagine something good so you won’t die” in my dream while I was falling off a cliff. Oh and sleep paralysis sucks.
Whoa, I’ve totally not been able to get up. Err nvm mine’s just called lazyness
allen that is being asleep while your body is awake because of a rem sleep disorder
THAT HAPPENED TO ME!!!
IT WAS REALLY SCARY BECAUSE I WAS HAVING A NIGHTMARE!!
To Allen: That is when you are asleep, yet ambulatory. Sleepwalking occurs only when you are completely asleep.
This has happend to me. Scariest stuff ever. I was in my bed on the phone with my friend and I was incredibly sleepy. Then, I realized she kept saying my name and my brain was responding cause I could hear my thoughts saying hello, but my body would NOT move.
Iknew that
Yeah!! I’m the lucky guy can sleep in anywhere.
thanks yahoo, for yet again telling me something that’s common knowledge as if it was supposed to be some kind of surprise
I already knew that u can be awake while asleep so it really wasnt relevant 4 me to come her :/
I’m on of those lucky few who can fall asleep anywhere
Even while behind the wheel
A difficult one. What is sleep? When sleeping obviously your heart still beats and your lungs work and apparently the heart/breathing can speed up just like when you are awake. In some people the muscles even work. Like in a dream your muscles react to your movement in the dream.
umm.my leg fell asleep.. i should probably wake her up…
Deep sleep is needed for sound health where the mind is in full rest with no Activity.
Due several factors of irregularities in body, some people do walk while they are still in sleep.
Many will not go for sound sleep they have dreams in talking, shouting, crying this is happening without their knowledge but still they can recollect just after they are awake.
Yes, both the terms, “Sleep paralysis and Lucid Dreaming” exist and I have experienced both on quite a few occasions.
Now that doesn’t mean that I am a bad sleeper. I can sleep whenever I want to. But even if I sleep for 5 minutes, I do have dreams. I have also experienced Sleep Paralysis in a short nap.
Lucid dreaming is fine, but sleep paralysis is really bad. When It used to happen to me earlier, when I did not know about the term sleep paralysis, I used to always think that some ghost is haunting me from time to time. But after some repeated occurrences, I got tired of it and thought to search on internet and came to know about Sleep Paralysis.
And now after knowing about sleep paralysis, my subconscious mind works in such a way that when I am going though the sleep-paralysis phase in my sleep, I know that it is sleep paralysis, and I keep telling myself, that “calm down, it will be over in a few minutes” and that works. I just wait for it to settle down. So I am very much aware that it is going on.
Now I would like to call that “Lucid Sleep Paralysis”
Sleep walkers have no knowledge of doing so. They really are asleep. I don’t think that counts. Sleep paralysis happens to everybody at some point. It is often accompanied by feelings of a presence and a hallucination of another person or being. Hence, aliens and dark figures, ghosts, standing at the end of the bed when a person can’t move.
Aye, we humans must sleep to keep going. If we don´t our “very long day” is going to be a bad one so we sleep and wake up either very sleepy or energized and full of energy, and of course our immune system works best when the mind and body is sleeping so the brain can check for anything that´s not supposed to be in our system and deals with it accordingly, if we don´t sleep, our immune system will fails, we have a higher chance of contracting diseases.
yes you can, it’s called sleep-paralysis.
you are awake yourself but your brain is telling your body that you’re still in REM-sleep
Any tricks for helping a restless sleeper go under? And the first person that says counting sheep deserves to be punched with a Saguro Cactus
But when you sleep walk you aren’t awake. Your body is =/
Of course your body can be awake while you sleep, and lucid dreaming is nothing new, there was a new wave of people experimenting with it when the movie Inception came out, I have been lucid dreaming for years with no problems.
Interesting.
hmm i think all of us have had lucid dreaming once in a while. I sleep at around 2 or 3 and wake up at 6 or 7. before sleep: movies, anime, video games, football matches, music and books.
It’s strange, sometimes i don’t sleep for a whole night and in the morning i feel fine and full of energy, is that a sleep condition?
I can fall asleep literally anywhere possible, I even fell asleep while leaning against a wall once in school xD
But an easy way to stay awake is through caffeine. There are lots of drinks for it, mainly energy drinks with makes you hyper active for 10 minutes then you might as well fall asleep once it’s over instead. So don’t drink energy drinks, they’re bad!
Drink Coca-Cola instead, it contains caffeine but it won’t make you tired once it’s over. =)
I think the answer more relates to the different kinds of brain waves you may be in while sleeping. The deeper the sleep the more the brainwave will change.
I do however believe that sleeping is still sleeping , meaning that your mind is resting. The deeper the sleep the more the mind will rest. The more you dream the more tired your mind will be when you wake up. Doesnt change the fact that you are sleeping , just changes the level of rest you are getting in relation to how busy your mind is.
This Sleep Paralysis is one of the four main symptoms of narcolepsy, and, as in my case, is one in particular that can help identify that something is wrong in the first place. The experience is often accompanied by vivid sensory hallucinations (visual, aural, and tactile) that are very different from dreams and range from terrifying to mundane.
For reasons which I’ve never seen addressed in research/literature, the supine position (sleeping on one’s back) is likely to cause this experience (while falling asleep) to be much more common in narcoleptics (personally if I go to sleep on my back it will happen every time).
@Allen, sleep walking is actually the opposite phenomenon — your mind is asleep, your body is “awake.” Both experiences can be seen to involve a malfunctioning of the paralysis mechanism which prevents us from acting out our dreams.
@Ashu, some of us who can fall asleep anywhere aren’t so lucky
you know when your foot falls asleep your awake
Look up REM intrusion. It’s also an example of this symptom. Some think this is the reason for near-death experiences, saying the body is dead, but the brain is awake.
i think you can be awake because how else would be people see or hear their alarm clocks in their sleep. Idk just guessing
The true answer is yes. Sleep is simply a deep relaxation of the body. This can be done through meditation. I have done it. Dreaming however is harder. You can have dreams while awake if you have an increase in a chamical in the brain called DMT. This is released through a very deep relaxation and control.
Sleep Paralysis is some freaky crap. I’ve had this happen to me about three or four times, and each time I’ve had very vivid hallucinations. One I remember very clearly. I woke up but I couldn’t move my body. I tried to scream but I couldn’t. Eventually, I was about get up – my movements were extremely slow and lethargic, which was horrifying since I was frightened out of my mind and wanted to get out of my bedroom as fast as possible. I got dressed (it took forever, due to the slowness) then I left my room and headed through the kitchen. As I passed the kitchen, I saw my grandfather sitting at his usual place at the table, watching TV. Crazy thing is, is that my grandfather had just passed away (a few months to a year before, I can’t remember). Anyways, I said hello and good morning, before going into the living room to sit down. Next thing I know, I’m back in my bedroom, repeating the same struggle to wake up and dress and escape my room. This happened three times, repeatedly. Finally I ended up waking up for good, and for real. I knew, throughout the whole process, that it wasn’t real, I was quite aware of myself. It was super creepy! Especially seeing my grandfather, so vividly.
One other time – my very first time – I had sleep paralysis, I woke up, and started panicking when I couldn’t move. I struggled, and felt hands on my forearms, pressing me into my mattress, holding me down. They were hot, like fire, and I was screaming but nothing was coming out. Eventually I woke up, or snapped out of it – for real, I knew I was awake, so it felt like ‘coming too awareness’ instead of waking up. I freaked out and for weeks I thought I had feared that something supernatural was in my bedroom. Especially because my sister, Amber, was always going on about demons and how she swore she was visited frequently by an incubus (we shared the same room at the time).
Its terrifying! I haven’t had another ‘episode’ since I knew what was really going one, so I don’t know if knowing what you are going through helps with the experience. Like, since you know you’re ina sleep paralysis, you’ll calm yourself down before you freak out. I hope I never have another episode again. Nobody else in my family has had a similar experience so they all think I’m nuts, lol.
I have had sleep paralasys but never with my whole body. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night full with energy and I notice that I can’t move my arm or leg so I move those parts with my other hand until they wake up. Also I know it’s not numbness. I cant feel or move those parts. Also, sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I’m talking to someone like I’m having a normal conversation but then I either fall asleep again or after a coupe minutes I notice how stupid I was. Other times I am talking on the phone then it falls out of my hand. I look for the phone until I realize that there is no way I was actually talking on the phone. But I have trouble believing it because I remember my hand feeling the weight of the phone and hearing the other person’s voice coming from it.
This was the scariest shit I ever witnessed. There was a time I woke up, but my body just wouldn’t move. Thought I was paralyzed or dead, or something. Yelled out to my mom and brother, but nobody heard me.
Omg, this is the most terrifying thing thats ever happened to me I think, where you can’t move, you just involuntarily blink and breathe, its soo scary I thought I was dead! Then there was another time when I was laying in bed and my body fell asleep while my mind was still awake, and that wasn’t scary, it was just weird.
I fall asleep easily while studying… but its really difficult to sleep while watching tv or using internet. Is there any relation between this?
It’s called astral projection!
Hey you all, try this one out: “Can you be asleep while your body is awake?”
I was reading comics in the Sunday newspaper and the comic called “Ripleys Believe it or not”. It said this man delivered I think around 50 sermons in his sleep. I know it’s possible. I have walked in my sleep alllll the time. I once went down the stairs! No, I didn’t fall. I’ve talked in my sleep to my Dad or something, but he thought I was awake! Then he talked to me about it the next morning and I’m like “Huh?”. In fact, last night, I was controlling my sleep. I was having this awesome dream (can’t remember now) and I woke up. I thought to myself as I was waking up “No no! Don’t wake up! Go back to sleep!!” I said those very things in my mind. Guess what? I did go back the sleep and the dream continued! and I said “Yes!!” in my mind as the dream went on again. In the years past, I’ve been able to control my dream. Rarely though. Sometimes I say “THIS is a DREAM. THIS is a DREAM. Okay? You’re going to wake up!” Or sometimes I can control what happens, like if the person does this or that. It’s fun! I read the one above me where he couldn’t move and everything. I’ve had similar dreams, but it’s usually when it’s a bad dream, like something trying to kill me or something.
Well, there’s my sleeping!
Sleep well!
isn’t that a stroke? where you cant move your body but your awake?
I experiences both! Lucid dreaming is exciting! The ability to know im dreaming has benefited me a lot. I have the ability to change my whole dream around. Especially those so call nightmares where I know im dreaming, so instead panicking I’m able to think and change it before I die or something.
Sleep paralysis is the one I truly HATE!….. HATE! HATE! HATE!!!! Most terrifying experiences ever! I’d suffer from this for years. Where I am awake, but my entire body is paralyzed! I can only move my eyes . After several incidents I tried to not panic and just relax, but its not that easy for me. Not only am I paralyzed but there’s a loud, painful , banging sound going on inside my head. This is what urges me to try to wake myself ASAP! I do this usually by trying to shake my head. When I do wake, im petrified and afraid of going back to sleep again. On numerous occasions, I’ll instantly get stuck again when I close my eyes. Generally I’ll have to stand up, walk around for a while, wet my face then try to go back to sleep which I’m usually succeed at this point. One incident, I awake but paralyze and my head was in faced in my pillow and I could barely breathe. When I finally woke, I was tears ( a complete mess)! One of the most horrifying experience I ever experienced. For years I could not determine if I was truly awake or dreaming inside a dream. One event i was able to observe everything my sister was doing, and when I finally woke up she confirmed I was right!… (spooky).. A few relatives witness me shaking my head trying desperately to wake myself up on several incidents, they thought I was having a seizure or something. And Every time I tried to tell someone about this, they would look at me crazy. So Im glad to hear that is people are becoming more aware of this and im not just the crazy possessed one. I still experience sleep paralysis every so often , but mainly when im sleep deprived…So sleep is very essential!
I have found that drinking chamomile tea before bed helps me to sleep, keeping my sleeping environment quiet but having a small sound like a fan or a white noise machine is good too.
Oh yeah it happens to me often and its annoying! It scares me and I try to move or say something and can’t. Many people say its “the witches riding you” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Paralysis.
Some attribute it to sleep apnea and your brain is simply trying to wake you up so it can get oxygen (somn like that). Most of the time its annoying, but there have been a couple of times where it sorta felt good, usually when I tell myself to calm down and don’t fight it.
Oh yeah, it happens sometimes if something scares me in my sleep (like a noise from the tv, or if someone knocks on the door).
Until the day when man accepts the fact that he is a God and as a God is a spirit and therefore governed by both the forces of nature .Light and darkness . Will man then shun religion to embrace himself as the true finder of the truth. And all religion and Gods will flee his presence on the earth . And before that time he will be sought after to be killed. This so for fear of the double edged sword of light and darkness. for both spirit and man will be as one. The very books that spoke the truth they dare want to know, and sought not to be made understood. that is the religion and that is the image of their God they have portrayed. Just as the Gods will betray each other for power so will man. and they will seal this fate with blasphemy. And you will not know or speak of these things or be put to death . With this was sealed this creation. the fear of the night . And the spirit wakes in that hour you sleep and watches over you till the morning light. But did you wake unto the day and watch over the spirit in its slumber .By this you must know by now . But you wandered away in search of the pleasures of the day . Little do you know that you have only lived half your life and death comes sooner and you wonder why we must die. For knowing both the spirit and the self is the life everlasting .And the Gods don’t need that of you. but your purpose to serve them as slaves do, and die for them as you will. So you ask yourself then who wakes you and who puts you to sleep . but sadly you do not know. even when you know, for that will amount to Blasphemy, And death awaits.
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Thank you to everyone on Yahoo! Answers who has ever helped spread the word about Sleep Paralysis!
Sleep Paralysis awareness is important!
Parents who don’t know about Sleep Paralysis can’t help the children suffering from them.
I spent 15+ years being told by most people I was suffering from a repeating nightmare that just felt real. 5-6 years ago, I met a very intelligent man who said I was getting “Night Visits” from ET’s/aliens. I got to a computer, Googled “night visits”, and within minutes I was able to locate a more rational explanation. An actual medical term: Sleep Paralysis.
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When I was a kid I sleep walked, my parents had to watch me close because I was usually headed for the front door.
I also was awake sometimes when sleeping, not scary just frustrating that you wanted to get out of bed and couldn’t move for a few minutes.
You don’t mention anything about Sleep Apnea. Sleep Apnea is when you stop breathing for very short periods of time while you sleep, which prevents you from going into REM sleep (dream state)
I’ve experienced lucid dreaming, but only in the dreams that are about to become nightmares. If a dream is starting to become nightmarish, then I realize that I’m dreaming, and in my dream, I end up doing something that will eliminate the threat (whether it be by getting rid of it somehow, running away, looking away), or I make myself wake up. When a dream is outlandishly silly, I also realize I’m dreaming, but I usually don’t do anything to affect the outcome of the dream. I usually play it out, knowing that I’m dreaming, and I can usually tell myself to stay asleep.
I can’t fall asleep anywhere. I have to be in a comfortable bed, with no light in the room, and no sound. Things that can prevent me from falling asleep are other people snoring, my partner tossing and turning, the TV being on, the cat pouncing on me, people in the next room talking loudly… pretty much noise stuff. But if the light or the TV is on, I have to duck my head under a blanket or pillow before I can fall asleep. Having said that, once I do fall asleep, I am a very sound sleeper, and I can sleep through pretty much anything (except for maybe the cat pouncing on my head). I once slept through a shootout in Mexico! lol
I have sleep paralysis quite often. No matter how many times it happens it is equally terrifying at the time and although it only lasts a short while, feels like an eternity.
Yes! I was dreaming and all of a sudden I was awake! I knew what I was dreaming and I knew everything that was going on. however, I was not able to move. I couldn’t even open my eyes. Then I just tried to relax and open my eyes, Finally I was able to move again and wake up my body.
Well. Normally, I am a very lucky person, just considering that I can easily sleep on the comfort condition. However, there is something I cannot understand. If the location of sleep is changed, I can barely sleep. It is too interesting to me.
“Awake” and “Asleep” are mental states, not bodily states. When you’re sleepwalking, your body is moving, but you are STILL asleep. The only time this isnt true is with sleep paralysis/hag myth. But in that case, the difference is imaginary, being exaggerated because it was over before you realised it.
I don’t know If I’d consider lucid dreaming a condition when you are awake but your body isn’t. Lucid dreaming is just like regular dreaming but you realize your dreaming…I’ve had this a few times. I heard somewhere you always dream, just dont’ remember is.So your mind is ALWAYS going..you just remember it sometimes and are more aware of. So really your mind is always awake when you’re sleeping.
I’ve heard of sleep paralyisis, but it doesn’t quite fit either in my opinion.
And to the poster who mentioned the falling feeling-I’ve had this happen a few times. I don’t remember where I read what it was, but I heard it is the body’s way of expelling excess energy before sleeping.
I was almost never woke up from a nightmare. ever since I grew up, I always knew it’s just a dream when the dream turned bitter or horrible, then I told myself, change it now, or wake up yourself. it worked basically all the time. quite weird. although I still don’t prefer not to be horrified by nightmares.
In many cases this could be dangerous. Some people fold their pillow and place it on their neck causing their head to hand over it. This puts too much pressure on the back of the neck. This can cut off blood circulation to the brain and cause temporary paralysis and sometimes dark visions. Don’t fold your pillow and put it underneath your neck.
Sleep paralysis is TERRIFYING.
My bedtime ritual is to wash face, brush teeth & put on pjs.
What can prevent me from falling asleep is too much noise and a cold room!
Nevertheless, I am one of the few lucky ones that can sleep during anytime of the day. I love and cherish my sleep. I make sure to get at least 8 hours of sleep. I don’t care if I have an important exam the next day, I don’t pull all nighters!
i wouldn’t know… i’m an insomniac.
Sometimes I have dreams where I know I’m dreaming and I tell myself to wake up but there always nightmares.
I have only had a few lucid dreams, best time of your life! Each dream felt like forever, and very real. Anyways, it can be hard for me to get to sleep. It’s VERY easy for me to fall asleep if it is a cold room, and the blanket isn’t too thin. I love the cold, and it helps me sleep (especially because the blanket is extra comfy!).
Also, sometimes I’ll just be falling asleep, and it will feel like I dropped 10 feet onto my bed, kinda creepy…
i once had both combine the problem is i was having a nightmare…..
happens to me all the time. i was sleeping one night and i woke up, but when i woke up i couldnt move my body. i panicked i thought i was paralyzed. but nothing i tried would make my body move so i calmed myself down and fell back to sleep. i eoke up the next morning completely ok. and it happens quite pften now but iv tought myself how to wake my body. i just focus on one limb like a leg or an arm and try my hardest to miove it and eventualy my body wakes up. very very very wierd
i know im dreaming but i cant change my dream. how do you do that.
YES YOU CAN! Studies show that many narcoleptics have that exact problem. According to Dr. Obiybo, one of the leading scientists on the subject, some narcolepitcs (people who fall asleep at random) can complete a task they are woroking on during actual sleep and it has been proven in many studies. They might be working on something and then randomly their body begins to literally sleep when they finish a task and wake up maybe an hour later, many of them become confused and wonder if they ever met there goals for the day but most of the time they actually do. This was mistaken for short term memory loss until expiriments were carried out.
If i got the definition of Lucid dreams right, then i’ve had a tonn of ‘em. Most of my nightmares are Lucid dreams. In the nightmares when something bad happens i’m like <>. And after that feeling i try to close my eyes, then open ‘em and i’m up, but sometimes it’s harder than that, but i’m getting off the topic
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So what I ment was the there definetly are Lucid dreams. And i belive i’ve had some sleep paralysis. IT’S TERRIBLE! I’ts like falling off a trampoline – you get a thousent toughts of what could happen with you now or what could have happend befor you woke, why did it happen, are you still alive and who is holding you
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yes,then how can you sleep walk!!!
Sleep paralysis is the scariest experience ever! It happens a few times a year for me, especially when I’m stressed or when I go to sleep really late. It sucks so much, I know I’m about to be scared through the freakiest hallucinations, and I’m aware of what is going on, but my body is stuck. Inside, my heart is beating so fast and I panic, but my breathing stays slow, despite my efforts to breath faster so I can wake up. It makes me feel like I’m suffocating. And once I escape from the grasp sleep paralysis has on me, I fall back asleep into the nightmare. I can see my room, but I see hallucinations as well and I can’t move my body. If I close my eyes, I hear scary hallucinations. I hate it!
Deep meditation allows consciousness while the body is barely still. The heart rate can drop to wear it cannot be easily found by palpating the pulse, and is very slow. Fasting for long periods is possible in this state. Hibernation is possible as in bears. Hibernation is a survival mechanism in cold weather as is estivation in hot weather.
Penny, what you are experiencing is an Out of Body experience, which is in the same realm as a lucid dream. I wish i could have OBEs or Lucid dreams, I’ve always wanted to experience one
I’m a lucid dreamer, not all of the time, vut some. I have sleep paralysis as well and always believed the 2 are linked. Sleep paralysis can be scary though, even when you’ve always had it. Can’t move or speak (some times i can wiggle my hand with much work and pain), it’s hard to breath at times, and sometimes dreams ‘bleed’ through into reality, generally people see something or someone physically holding them down. It only last a few moments but it feels like hours, and drains your energy at times.
Sleep-walking etc different, you are still asleep, unaware of whats happening, but your body is awake, normally acting out dreams or responding to outside stimuli.
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“Sometime when i wake up I feel like i fall 2 feet.
I feel my bed dent inwards and feel my own body hitting the matress 6% of the time when I wake up.
Can anyoe explain this to me?
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It’s a natural reflex that derived from millions of years ago when humans (or something we evolved from) used to sleep in trees, This reflex would occur every now and then if the person (or primate) had not fallen from a tree in a while just to make sure they could support themself if they did fall, becomes we don’t sleep in trees anymore we now get it on an un-often but regular basis. It happens to everyone usually right about before they fall asleep or sometimes once they wake up, I have no idea why we still have this useless reflex after all this time though.
To fall asleep I just lay out totally still and focus on the idea of energy transferring through out my body. I know this true as to what occurs, but it is relaxing and keeps my mind focusing so my thoughts don’t race.
This has happened to me!
Mm I regularly experience lucid dreaming although I had no idea it was a specific phenomenon until recently.I’ve also had sleep paralysis several times.The first time was incredibly frightening as I hadn’t the slightest idea what was going on.I fell asleep on the couch and woke up but couldnt move a single muscle,open my eyes or anything although I could clearly hear my girlfriend and dad chatting away normally.I tried to scream but couldnt make a sound,had to fight the rising panic that was beginning to take a hold.Once I’d got myself under control I figured if I could just waggle my finger or move something then perhaps I could regain control of my body so I concentrated all my willpower into moving a finger.It took all my willpower and concentration but eventually my finger began to move then all of a sudden my whole body woke up,
The next time was a couple of years later,the same thing feeling completely paralysed on waking,body totally usless unable to even open my eyes except this time I had the sound of ‘snow’ or static like you get from an untuned TV roaring in my ears.Having experienced it before I knew it wasnt permanant but it was frightening still.
The one thing though I’ve never had the feeling of ‘presence’ or anything paranormal in my room with me ~ thank f**k !!!
I have had extremely lucid dreams where an evil presence has tried to drag me down into the abyss but I wasnt paralysed,in fact I wasnt just aware I was dreaming I was able to fight with every inch of my strength fully aware that if I couldnt fight my way out of the dream and wake then I was lost !!!
That’s happened to me before I went to sleep and woke up downstairs in my house and I walked up the stairs into my room and I seen myself sleeping there and I freaked out and I looked at myself for a second then i lid down inside my body and I woke up again it was the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to me.
I lucid dream about once a week its so amazing, especially when the dream is completely sexual and I get to control who pops out of nowhere and what happens. Oh man, its sweet.
I’ve had lucid dreams where I’m sailing on a ship in the pirates of the caribbean film, to being in a jungle in jurassic park and escaping danger from philosoraptors etc, to all of a sudden being in a peaceful native tribe 1500 years ago. ITS SICK!!!!! I learned that you can lucid dream if you tell yourself to lucid dream before you sleep, be like “i’m going to remember this dream tonight” It may not work right away, but you can train yourself.
First one has happened to me before.
Quite a scary experience.
Seriously. :l
Looking at the title I thought it refered to sleepwalking, which I do, but it doesn’t. I need to show my husband this, as one night he fell asleep on the sofa and he said he woke up but could not move a muscle, he was paralysed and it terrified him. After what seemed an eternity (but was probably 10 or 20 seconds) he threw himself of the sofa and landed on the floor! He doesn’t believe in ghosts or anything but the experience was so unsettling that he never let himself fall asleep on the sofa again.
Yep, I’ve had this many times. Usually when I have a nap in the afternoon. I wake up (well my brain does) yet my body is still dead to the world-its like my brain and body haven’t connected yet after napping and i have to try and force my body to move/wake up. If anything its a pain in the backside when this happens cause when you wake up, you want to get up but ya body ain’t listening. I hate to be someone paralised from the neck down unable to do anything-scarey!
It obvious people imagination can be a great part of being awake while being a sleep. You get that odd feeling that you had to wait a long period of time jsut to snap from your buble dream
I’ve been trying to lucid dream with no success
However, I have had sleep paralysis on multiple occasions. The first time, I thought I had been dreaming about being in a coma or something, because in the dream I could hear everything around me but I couldn’t move, talk, or open my eyes. I often dream about the places I’m napping, so I figured it was some weird location-based dream. However, after it happened multiple times (spread throughout years), I did some research and discovered it was SP!
Yes you can be awake whilst your body sleeps; sort of. There is a condition called Sleeping Paralysis when a person wakes i.e. becomes concious yet is unable to move. Basically, the concious part of the brain has become active whilst parts of the brain which control other functions such as movement of the body remain in a sleep state. Something I’ve suffered from before and it can be quite scary. It’s nothing to be alarmed about though; it’s triggered by stress.
Yes lucid dreaming is definitely real. I have experienced it only twice in my life, but looking forward to more experiences like this!
It’s funny that I find this article. I have lately been suffering from sleeping problems. I can lay in bed for hours without falling asleep. I find myself dreaming and then waking, dreaming a bit and then waking. I’m usually aware of my surroundings. I’m still trying to figure this issue out!
It is possible, it does happen but the question is are you scared if it? dun dun
Yes is possible i have done it 2 times its very hard to do it… I did it while i played MW2 all day and night just take your mind and don’t think about anything just rest and don’t move any muscle and you will do it.
I actually experienced being awake while body asleep several times. I can see and think, but I can’t move any part of my body for very short time may minute more or less.
I’ve actually had what I consider the opposite of a Lucid Dream. I’ve convinced myself that my dream was real life, and when I convinced myself of that, I fell from the sky and lost all the power I had earlier in the dream.
I have experianced the first two as well as sleepwalking/talking. Yet even when these things occure I still feel rested. 99 percent of the time I don’t know when I have sleptwalked. If someone doesn’t tell me, chances are I won’t know. However, I do know when the above happen and most of the time I talk when I am half asleep.
None of these occur often enough to require meds, except talking which I do almost every night but that isn’t life threatning. For me, if I can get to bed between 8 and 10 I will get enough rest when I get up at 5 the next morning. Anything beyond 10 and I wake up feeling like I just ran a marathon.
I always have lucid dreams. it comes naturally to me
When I lay down at night and close my eyes. I usually see faces first they are either small and as they come closer to my eyes they are bigger. Some of the faces I know and some I have never seen before in my life. Or, they are big and close and move out while growing smaller. I concentrate sometimes on the faces to see what they are saying or if they are saying anything. Other times when I close my eyes to sleep, I can hear someone talking. And, it’s always hard to remember what they said. But, it is as clear as if someone was sitting next to me. And there are nights were I relax my body to sleep I close my eyes and I start to dream right away but, none of it is of my life or anyone that I know. The last one I had that I can remember, There was man sitting in a wingbacked chair, he had older clothes on and a little girl sat his lap. He was reading her a book in front of the fireplace. Another man came into the room with one of those white wigs that they wore way back when. And, he had a long red coat on and it was unbuttoned and he reached down to pick up the little girl. The girl said, “Daddy’s reading me a book.” And the older man who was getting the girl said, “There was once a prince who stood on a fence and all the —– (not sure) and the little girl giggled. The oddest part of the dream was in was in a dark yellow color, kinda like the setting on a camera Sepia. And just as soon as I dreamnt it I was awake giggling. I, aslo sometimes have dreams that have came true, only in those dreams it is I who is part of what is to come or I’m the role of the dream. Example: I dreamnt that my brother in law was having an affair, but in my dream it was I he was seeing behind his wife’s back. I thought eww that was weird. Two days later his wife told us that he had been cheating on her. I’ve had dreams like that my whole life, the list of all the dreams that had come true with a few days would go on and on forever. I know what I’m saying is kinda off topic. My wonder is who’s faces am I seeing, Who’s voices do I hear, Who’s past am I reliving and even though I dream of what’s to come why am I the role of each one and it’s unclear. Course, they never make sense until it happens. Are they spirits..I’m unsure but it does happen to me nearly every night as I go to sleep. Anyone have any answers?
People are JUST now discovering this? When I was in my Sophomore and Junior years of high school literally ALL of my dreams were lucid. It gets old kind of fast, trust me.
Yeah I Had That Before,
It Felt So Crazy,
I Was Trying To Sleep, When My Eyes were Close,
i Was Thinking About Mortal Kombat Lol, But Yea
and then Music Started Playing, And A Second Later The Music Was Like Skipping, Playing The Same Part Over And Over Again, So I opened My Eyes and The Skipping Of The Music Was Still Going On, So I Tried To Move But I Could Only Slightly Move My Head, But I Could Still Move My Eyes, It Lasted Like 15 Seconds, I Was So Freaking Out, So I Thought It Wasn’t Gonna Happen So I Went Back To Sleep And it Basically Just Continued Again, So I Decided Not To Go To Sleep Lmao, But It Was a Crazy Experience.
u can its possible
This phenomena, lucid wakefulness, is a very common experience in the first stages of developing enlightenment. One not need have a spiritual technique but they are helpful. A clear focus on that part of you that never changes, no matter what, is a good place to start.
Sleep paralysis is somthing you do not want to have. feels like your soul is fading away from your body and about to die and you feel a dark pressence around you. like having “death’s figure” over your shoulder just watching you sleep
Sleep paralysis happens to me all the time. I find myself awake sometimes but I cannot move any part of my body except my eyes a little. It’s a very horrific feeling that scares the crap out of me, but doing some research I found out that it’s not a serious condition and that many people experience it. Luckily it only lasts for a few minutes. It usually happens when I sleep on my back.
Yeah, I have bad sleep paralysis. When i get it, usually in the mornings, my neck twitches a lot when i try to move and it’s really hard to breathe. Scary, what if it were permanent?
I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime. For example I came home at 10pm today and fell asleep on the floor. It is now 2:35am and I just woke up. I feel pretty well rested for now, so I’m going to get some work done and probably end up falling asleep on the floor for an hour or two before I have to get up for class. (my bed is right beside me but when I am tired I was to sleep instantly and don;t feel like taking the time to get into bed)
i’v had the same dream some times… And aftr thd first time i dreamd it….i was aware that this was a dream..and then i was able to do finish the stuf i wantd…n then i i knew i wld awake sonn like befor..so i cld hury 2wrdz the part that i wantd n thn do wat i wantd..
i went to school where the teacher told us how her body was sleeping but she was awake and unable to move. she was completely aware of what was going on around but couldn’t wake her body up. A trick she used, to waker herself up, was to place her hand on the wall, and if she woke up she would focus on the hand and try to move it. When it fell, it would jerk her body enough to wake up. She said it was a very scary thing to her.
I have had sleep paralysis usually upon relaxing and falling asleep. I would feel this loud noise like whirring and I would be awake and terrified so I would force myself to wake up. The last couple of times this happened to me, I didn’t get scared and make myself wake up, instead I went with it and thought of something or somewhere I wanted to go and I was astrally travelling. All I had to do was think about the moon and I was zooming fast, and inan instant I was looking right at it. I was able to ask the universe questions, I have done this a few times now, and so has my sister. We totally believe in Lucid Dreaming and OOB experiences.
It’s impossible for me .
Sleep paralysis has happened to me twice. I was sleeping in my living room, heard something outside of the window but I could not move or open my eyes. It was disturbing at the time because if someone where breaking into my house, I had no way to defend myself since I could not move. Pretty creepy.
I have encounter two types of this. The First one is when you are dreaming and you later realize it is a dream because of the weird things you encounter in your dream ( I only encounter this about 4 times and it is really cool.). My first time experiencing this is when i noticed in my dream that our house is next to my school (this is very weird because you need to travel 20 mins from our house just to go to school) & another is I encounter people from the past and People in the present( I mean I encounter friends in that dream in their child state and some in the adult state (which is also very weird.). After that, I asked myself, “Panaginip ba to?”(which means in english, “Am I dreaming?”) I punch my self in that dream just to clarify that I’m dreaming ( *Some says when your dreaming you will feel nothing even you punch yourself.* but I tell you the punch really hurts me in my dream.). So another thing that I did is to try to fly in the corridor in our school , And yeah it works. But about a few mins later I woke up, I feel really bad and as if I’m very tired .(but It also feels very nice because you feel how to fly even if it is just a dream, maybe because I’m conscious in my dream)
The Second type, is the One I usually encounter, mostly I encounter this when I want to wake up. I tell you it is very creepy and really frightening. In here, you are aware that you are awake, You can feel your body. You can feel yourself lying in your bed. And You want to wake up, but as if your body is still sleeping. As if your body is very unreactive to your commands. My first experience of this is when I was 14 years old, It is summer that time,about after lunch. I fell asleep in the living room in our sofa. ( I didn’t remember any dream during that sleep) Then I woke up,(I mean I regain my consciousness) but something is weird, My eyes is still closed. I can feel my body, I can feel myself lying in my bed. I can hear footsteps, I can hear the television.(But the sounds are not that clear.) I tried to open my eyes, but it won’t. I tried to sit , but it won’t. That time I already feel very nervous. I tried to talk and to shout, but as if my throat is very dry that it won’t give out any words even a tiny sound. *I can still hear the television. I also felt that I’m already losing air. (I just realized that my respiratory becoming slower and as if it stops doing its breathing mechanism involuntarily.) So what i do is to breath voluntarily and forcely.That time I started crying, really,but just tears. I can feel my tears flow in my face. the tears are so warm. I can’t make any crying sound. I’m already very scared, very nervous, my heart pumps very fast. I thought that I will Die. I feel every part of my body, that time the thing I can only control or use is my respiratory, my lacrimal glands, I also can move my fingers, but very little movements.But in all of my fingers my Big toes are the most moveable. (I’m still crying that time. I can still hear the TV. I’m breathing forcely. My heart pumping very fast.) I flex my Big toes up and down. Forcely moving them . Then later, Doing this movement, as if it “awakens” atleast some of my muscles. Until I tried many times to forcely sit down. And fortunately I made it, I made an obviously forced movement to sit down. I’m glad wake up my body. I admit, I am still crying that time, my heart is still beating very fast. I can feel heartpain. I’m still breathing deeply. The first thing I saw that time is our TV. I’m alone in the living room. I rushed to my mother that time, I told her what happened to me. I’m very afraid that time. I’m afraid to sleep. I don’t want to encounter that experience again.
Many months have pasted and I haven’t experienced it again. But When I’m about 16 y/o, I again experience it, unfortunately , I experienced it frequently. (Ofcourse I’m always very nervous, because what if I can’t wake up my body? I don’t want to die.) I experienced it very frequently and I later find ways to deal with it.(yet I can’t still remove the frightening and nervous feeling) First, be calm!(even I still feel nervous every time I experienced it, I am trying to calm myself, not like when it was my first time.I am always trying not increase the beating of my heart. I tell you when you feel very tense and nervous, it is harder to wake up.) Second, make sure that you are still breathing (Don’t forget to breath, really! In my case my involuntary breathing every time I experience this is impaired) Thirdly, Try to move any part of your body (In my case I can mostly move my Big toes). Fourthly, try to sit or stand up together with opening your eyes.( in my case I always try this forcely several times.).
When I turned 17, the events of experiencing this is reduced. I’m 17 y/o in the present.My last time experiencing this is in the morning of Nov. 26, 2011. I live in the Philippines.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who experienced it and experiencing it. I’m glad that I’ve seen this article.
I hope some Doctors or scientists out there have some further studies about this condition.
By the way, sorry for my English. I’m not very good in it.
This happens a lot to me when I have a cat nap. Basically, I have a dream, and then when I stop dreaming I just can’t wake up– either I’d go back to dreaming or after a short while I manage to wake up. Has anyone else experienced this?
sleep paralysis happened to me once when i was a kid and it realy scared me. It only lasted a few seconds though, and the scare quickly woke me or my body up (the difference is more a phylosophical problem then a biological one i guess). Now when it would happen again (although it didn’t for decades) i wouldn’t be worried unless it would last longer then a few seconds. And if one wouldn’t be scared focussing once conscience would gain control over ones body quickly i think.
Look up the term “Sleep Paralysis.” It’s where a person knows that they’re awake (mentally they are anyway) but their body is stuck in sleep mode. The mind and body haven’t synchronized with each other yet, and the condition can last from a few seconds to a few hours.
It’s very common, but the experience itself is frightening because people always feel anxious, like there is something or someone else in the room with them, watching them or “sitting” on them. If it’s a common occurrence (like on a daily basis), one should see a doctor soon.
i get a dropping sensation when i am lying down on the bed, but i know that i was still awake.
E.G. riding on a bike, up the hill, hit something invisible and was falling, falling, falling…
Woke Up suddenly with heart in throat.
One night a couple years ago, I somehow slowly awakend from a dream and it must have been a crazy one because my mouth was dry to the throat and I tried get up for some water but my body was motionless. I scared me at the time and made me panic because I needed a drink of water bad and then I felt my body awaken starting from my upper body to my arms and legs. That was an expeirence I didn’t want to be in. Then I drank my water a went back to bed
Sleep paralysis is the most awful feeling ever. It happens to me a lot, and I’m claustrophobic. It feels like someone is holding me down to the bed.
*shudder*
It has happened to me a couple of times, when I know I’m sleeping but I can’t wake up. It’s really terrifying, I feel like I’m trapped in my own body. And when I finally open my eyes I sometimes can’t hold them open for long and it happens again. I sometimes finally wake my self up crying or screaming this very low scream. I no longer go to sleep in the day because it only happens to me then. It’s like I sleep so light I’m not really asleep but still not alive. Sometimes I imagine this is what it feels like to be paralyzed, though of course I cant be sure. But I can think but just cant move or make a sound.
Also it’s very difficult for me to fall asleep, I’m lucky if it only takes an hour. I’ve tried all kinds of sleeping pills that I’ve gotten from my doctor but nothing works. By now I’ve just gotten used to only 2 to 6 hours of sleep.
i didn’t know any of those things. i always blame epilepsy. thanks for telling me.
this happens to me aaallll the time. i hate hate hate it. it mostly happens when i fall asleep on my back, so now i know to always sleep on my stomach. but even then i have a problem with it. sometimes i find i get stuck in between because i fall asleep when i did not mean to and i know i have to get up and do something very important b4 bed. then i will spend what seems like an eternity laying there unable to wake myself. sometimes i find that i can control one part of my body, such as my jaw, so i will start trying to open and close my jaw to try to bite my tongue to wake myself up. many, many times i drift in and out and i dream that i woke up and did stuff when i actually didn’t and i’m still stuck there. yeah it’s pretty annoying.
I had this experience before, my heart rate was extremely fast… I was afraid that I’m gonna die
good to learn the explanation
Lucid dreaming is an awesome thing.
In lucid dreams you are conscious and therefore have better control of your actions and the dreamworld.
I’ve had this happen to me. I knew I was dreaming but I couldn’t wake up. But I’ve also been able to move consiously as I sleep. Is that normal? Curious.
I can pretty much fall asleep in any situation. I have once been able to notice myself dreaming and it was pretty freaky.
you can be awake while your body is asleep. its happened to me a lot
i used to dream i could float, it went on every night for a long time , it was so much fun ,when people in my dream were chasing me i use to just float away .
Yes you can because everyone has a heart that beats. Your body sleeps but your heart is still doing work, to provide oxygen for your body. However I don’t get the concept of your whole body being asleep, if this is, then how can oxygen go to the cells? I’m assuming the process is slower because of this.
Sleep paralysis is not a good feeling… I had it a lot when waking up when I was younger. I just had to tell myself to relax and wait a little. But then it gets out of control and i can’t talk or move so then I try as hard as I can then I could move….. Its a pretty hard situation to get out of.
yes it is possible. i have photosensitive epilepsy. and exactly before and right after a seizure, people who are around me say i talk and move normally, but i have no recollection of it.
Sleep paralysis isnt nice. I suffer from it whenever i sleep on my back or sides so i have to sleep on my front. I once saw somethings hand over my face chocking me. I reckon a lot of people wont believe me when i say i know its an evil spirit that has attached itself to my mum but thats exactly what it is, when she was with her husband, he invited a friend over and she felt something bad walk in with him and since then theres been problems… since moving from home ive had no problems with any spiritual activity aside from a scratch i heard behind me the other day but i was getting sleep paralysis, OBE’s and bad dreams every night as well as seeing things in the hallway and hearing things. I also saw something bad in my room and i mean, bad but i wont speak about that on here, lets just say a few people have seen this and any comments ridden online have been removed so i dont know what it is but it didnt look nice, put it that way.
*sorry, “written” online
Ive had lucid dreams before a couple times.Also,last summer I fell asleep on the couch and then heard myself snoring(quietly and unusual cuz I dont snore).
I can only liken sleep paralysis to some one undergoing an operation under general anesthetic and being aware of every incission being made. I used to suffer with this condition virtually every night, so much so that I was afraid of going to sleep. I was told by my doctor extreme stress can induce sleep paralysis. After suffering for several years, I was diagnosed with a very major illness which resulted from the severe stress I had been suffering and the symptons subsided. I can only imagine that during my recouperation period my stress levels had diminished significantly enough to cause the night paralysis also to wane. I have not had another episode now for thirteen years but the memory of those dreadful nights never totally leaves me. This is my story. I am by no means suggesting that stress is the catylst in every person, however, if anyone suffers this condition to the point of it disrupting their quailty of life, it is worth just to rule it out.
yes you can
sleep paralysis??!!!
well instead of using this method, u could just do the method of astreal projestion.. astreal projecting will supposingly work, if u could do it.. -___-
Interesting. I suffer from sleep paralysis if I get very stressed/anxious, and I have to say it’s a rather unpleasant and frightening experience. To all you people who have never had it, think yourselves lucky, because it is truly horrible. I didn’t sleep for a whole week pretty much because of it.
Lucid Dreams are Typical for me… My Doctor says it’s probably my brains reaction to not being in control, affected by extreme paranoia and depression… Usually when I dream I almost instantly recognize it as departure from the real world…. If I think hard enough I can control this dream but it is incredibly difficult… Usually my dreams aren’t so good and I find my self unable to awake or change it, I know it’s not real but my emotions are hard to control within this sphere and fighting it usually changes my dream from one situation to another… Usually if I am trapped in my dream I kill myself to wake up… it leaves me wondering if God will punish me for this? I mean I intentionally kill myself but it’s not real, is it??
There’s Lucid Dreaming, it’s where you train yourself to reconize your dreaming, and then you can control your dream and do ANYTHING you want. It’s amazing and can add some very vivid colour to your life. If you want to learn how look up the book “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming” by Stephen La’Berge, or go on youtube and look up “reece Jones”, he has some good tutorials. Seriousely, I once flew in my dream, and it was so vivid and realistic, that I felt amazingly happy for a week! One of the major things with Lucid dreaming is that you can use it to improve your waking life. You can do thins like praticing (even tests and exams, they have proven real results) talking to people you have trouble talking to, giving you courage. Also, dreams steriotypicly are fuzzy, but that’s just when you try to remember after you’ve woken up. The truth is, all dreams are vivid and realistic. Also, you spend more than 1/3 of your life sleeping, why waist that time when you can not only be getting a good night’s sleep, but also enjoying yourself and enriching your waking life.
No drugs, no voodoo crap, Just a few minuets every morning to write down your dream, and some effort to become more aware of your surroundings. (I would personally suggest reading the book before finding the “reece jones” guy on youtube, he isn’t as detailed as the book, and you could miss something important.
the thing is, your brain is awake, not your body. we were taught that in Health! (I have an awesome health teacher!)
I’ve had this happen to me and it is SCARY!!!!! I’ve heard the term used to describe the feeling as the “devil sitting on you”. It’s weird. It always feels like there is another presence in the room with you. My ears start buzzing and I can’t move no matter what!!! I’m sure I’m twitching from trying with all my might to move my arm or open my eyes, but nothing helps. I just lay there and pray that it will end soon! That usually works. Since I’ve found out that it’s sleep paralysis, I’ve been able to somewhat “control” it when it happens to me, knowing that it will pass.
If I nap for 20 or 30 minutes in the late afternoon, I have an awful time sleeping through the night. I might sleep soundly for 2-3 hours and then it’s up for the last 2-3. I hate that! Another thing that keeps me awake is worrying about the “kids” (who are adults but cause more worry than they did as 10 year olds!) Why do things always seem so much more troubling at 3:00 AM than they do in light of day?! Prayer helps.
Reading through these I’d recommend none of you watch nightmare on elm street haha
I suffer from sleep paralysis. It is one of the worst experiences of my life. It’s like there is a man or a spirit with me and no matter how hard I try to scream for help I cannot move nor make a sound. Other times I can only exhale and not inhale so I have to pray that I wake up after passing out. :\
I have lucid dreams all the times and always wake up exhausted or in a cold sweat whenever I have them.
I never knew it was just my body sleeping. Sometimes when I wake up, I can’t move at all. I find this scary because I’m not in control of my body. Especially when I get itchy or am in an uncomfortable position and can’t do anything about it. One time this happened to my cousin and he tried to call his mom for help but she couldn’t hear him… lol XD
Its called , ” Astral Traveling” Your body can be completely at rest and you can seem to be asleep, but are also awake while going to beautiful places, or going into your past or going forward into your future. But then one has to believe in such a thing and there are plenty of scientists who can tell you that this is very true!