Seriously?

[therealorangejuice]

[Only Registered Users Can See Links.]. Sheer awesomeness.

[geowashlaw]

maybe I should try that. I have some serious lucid dreams, especially when I'm stressed. They drive my wife nuts. I once hit her in the nose because I was dreaming there was a big spider on her face. I am constantly ripping the covers off of her and stuff. She would love it if I would learn to control it...

[AABatteries]

That's cool. I'm going to try to learn it. (:

[invadertoast]

Never experienced a lucid dream, but I have experienced sleep paralysis twice and the second time I was so terrified I hope it never happens again! Now I can feel it coming on (weird, I know) and can generally wake myself by making a noise, it's hard to do though.

"Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious, but unable to move. In addition, the state may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.[3] Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual due to the vividness of such hallucinations.[4] The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful, or dream-like, objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision."

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First time I was maybe 7 or 8, it was right after my cat died and I was laying on my stomach, when I felt something standing on my back. I couldn't move or do anything but it felt like the cat walking on my back (he used to sleep on my back) I assumed it was his ghost, but now I think it was sleep paralysis, now that I know what it is.

Second time, I couldn't sleep because it was hot and humid. I went downstairs to our spare bedroom which was slightly cooler. I was laying on my stomach with my face close to the edge of the bed and felt hot breathing on my face, and heard panting. I assumed it was my sister's dog and I went to pick up my arm and move him away, but I couldn't move. I remember thinking "wow, I can't beleive I'm too tired to move my arm," then this giant disembodied dog thing started to strangle me... there was no dog in the room... yeah. I'm nuts!! Thankfully I haven't had this happen again in several years... It's scary

[lobsternoob]

Quite often I have lucid dreams. Lots of dreams of being able to fly and actually control it in the dream at times. They are really fun, and I know I sound like a total psycho saying that, but they are one of the real reasons I enjoy sleeping. More often than not I will only remember small pieces of the dream, but i usually wake up being dissapointed I can't fly and don't have an amazing mansion full of tanks. Don't even get my started on strange animals and fish that are kept in those tanks, in the mansion, none of which exists.

I learned to realize that I was dreaming when I was in a dream when i was really young. When I had nightmares as a kid my parents told me, "don't be scared, know your ok, and call for us when your in the dream and we will be there to help you." Always worked really well for me.

[cocoa_pleco]

i totally get weird ones usually, ones where i die like being chased by a psycho in a car or something, i can go to a pause menu like in a video game and scroll to quit and i wake up before i die, im not kidding. worked good for the one where i had a T-rex coming after me

i still hate the fact that all of mine come true, every predicted death has happened so far.

[DragonWatch]

cocoa_pleco : Pause menu? That's just slightly geeky :hmm3grin2orange:

I've also had the lucid flying dream, and it's awesome thumbs2:

I have lucid dreams at random times, 90% of the time I can't even remember that I dreamed. I've had good ones and bad ones, but this one kinda stands out : I can't remember how, but I'm trapped under water. I panic, I struggle...eventually I breathe in water and it hurts! I feel my chest fo cold as the water fills my lungs. Suddenly I'm not panicked anymore, I know I'm going to die, and I feel peaceful, so serene. I smile my vision darkens from the edges slowly to the middle...and then it's all black.

I woke up from that dream still in that serene state, and about 2 minutes later I realised that I had just experienced drowning. I read up about it afterwards from people who have been saved, and that is EXACTLY how most of them describe it!

[Mvjnz]

Have heard of it before, but haven't seen that site before.

I found the site extremely frustrating and annoying. The first page explains what it is perfectly fine, so on the next page I expected it to start explaining how to get started and actually do it, but no, it goes on for another 3-4 pages about what they REALLY mean and what sleep is etc. I ended up just closing it cuz it obviously wasn't gonna tell me anything.

I considered doing it a few years ago, but it seemed like a lot of effort for no real gain, so I never did.

[Glub]

Whenever I'm falling asleep I start 'seeing' things when my eyes have been closed for a bit. Sort of like my brain has started watching a movie. I can go in and out of it, I think it might be sleep paralysis since I used to have that for a couple year waking up with the jolting, and this feels pretty much the same, except more controlled now and easy to make the transition into full sleep. There's not much jolting anymore either (once in a blue moon), but I kinda like watching it, it gets really vivid and lifelike at times, but the colours are always weird...

[unleashed]

I had sleep paralysis several years ago. It was the scariest thing I have ever experienced and thankfully have never had it since.

I remember waking up and seeing a strange, dark hooded figure in the doorway to my room. I couldn't move a muscle, I tried screaming for help but no words came out. I just hope that I don't get it again.................................................

[Mvjnz]

Yeah, I usually start dreaming as soon as I close my eyes, I have no control over them tho, they are like normal dreams.

I get sleep paralysis occasionally, and have for the last few years, but I'm so used to it now it doesn't really bother me. I'm aware of what's happening now and now it will pass shortly.

[invadertoast]

I had sleep paralysis several years ago. It was the scariest thing I have ever experienced and thankfully have never had it since.

I remember waking up and seeing a strange, dark hooded figure in the doorway to my room. I couldn't move a muscle, I tried screaming for help but no words came out. I just hope that I don't get it again.................................................

If I feel it coming on, I just keep trying to scream at the top of my lungs. It sounds silly, but eventually a tiny grunt will come out and wake me up. It's so weird to be trying so hard to scream and nothing happens, lol

[Wild Turkey]

When i was younger i had dreams where i would get up and walk around, and could still see myself lying there. Those are a little freaky, especially when you are floating down the hall and the steps, not walking.

Stopped having OOB's when i was around 13 or 14 and sleep paralysis soon after, never really freaked me out much though as its a phenomenon im familiar with, and had researched a ton when i was kid (remember, the ghost junk)

Now that im older, i have a lot more of what i would call vivid dreams, rather than OOBs or paralysis. For example just doing normal things in everyday life, but thinking it is real until i wake up with nothing accomplished:hmm3grin2orange:

[Lady Hobbs]

maybe I should try that. I have some serious lucid dreams, especially when I'm stressed. They drive my wife nuts. I once hit her in the nose because I was dreaming there was a big spider on her face. I am constantly ripping the covers off of her and stuff. She would love it if I would learn to control it...

:hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: Really cracking up here.

[cocoa_pleco]

the stress ones hit me too, if im really stressed i for some reason get up like 5 hours before i have to and get ready. i remember last summer one time it was like 2am and i was almost at my car and i looked at my phone and just thought wtf am i doing up this early?

[jb300m01]

Now that im older, i have a lot more of what i would call vivid dreams, rather than OOBs or paralysis. For example just doing normal things in everyday life, but thinking it is real until i wake up with nothing accomplished:hmm3grin2orange:

lol, I have those dreams. In the dream I'm like "wow, I got a lot accomplished" then I wake up and realize I did nothing.

I also have the "whole body twitch feel like I'm falling off of a cliff to my doom" thing every night, right before I fall asleep. :cat: I don't think I've ever had sleep paralysis though. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with a weight on my chest or back... but it's always the cat trying to suffocate me. :hmm3grin2orange: