Sleep Paralysis

**gilberto_eire** · 27/02/2008, 5:49 PM

Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

I've had similar experiences for a good few years now. not so much the paralysis(although I don't recall trying to move so maybe I do be paralysed) what I tend to get are what feel like waking dreams, were in the Dream I feel as though I'm awake and sometimes actually realise that I'm dreaming and can actually control the Dreams to go in what ever direction I chose them to, I usually wake up during these dreams feeling really uneasy and sometime physically sick for the rest of the day, as- while not quite being nightmares- they usually concern my insecurities ie. dreaming of my partner with someone else etc.

The topic situation seldom happens to me, although the highlighted part applies to me!!

If i have a nightmare i can wake myself out of them now, in my dream i close my eyes and try to force them open but holding them down(if ya get me?) and ill actually wake up, the main problem then is to keep me eyes open for about 10-15secs to avoid going straight back into the same nightmare again!!

I know im dreaming most of them time, but i can't just say to myself ''ill rob a car'' but id still agree with the statement

One time i met my now deceased(6yrs) grandad(this was about a yr ago) and i was chatting to him as we walked, got to a point where i could'nt pass(since he had died and i had not) and he was just about to disappear and i remember saying ''Tell me something i can say to someone to prove this is real'' and he told me ''Tell your mother its ok/im not mad'' something similiar to that. One night i was drinking with all the family and at the end of the night it popped into my head, so i decided to just tell her, she started roaring crying, i asked her did it make sense and she told me they had a big fight before he died and they never made up

..... Needless to say i was freaked out!!

**paul_oshea** · 27/02/2008, 7:33 PM

Last time it happened I sort of realised what was going on so I rode it out so to speak.

Kev, i was reading the first half of your post with a dropped jaw, but as soon as I read this, I just couldn't stop laughing....I think its partly to do with the word "presence" previously mentioned in the post

**Block G Raptor** · 28/02/2008, 9:52 AM

Had a really weird controllable Dream last night. I was smuggling Cocaine through Boston airport

and in the dream I knew I was going to be caught started to freak out and controlled the dream so that I went to the bathroom's in the airport and flushed the stuff! Too much watching banged up abroad me thinks

**jebus** · 28/02/2008, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Kev, i was reading the first half of your post with a dropped jaw, but as soon as I read this, I just couldn't stop laughing....I think its partly to do with the word "presence" previously mentioned in the post

Same here

**paul_oshea** · 28/02/2008, 10:26 AM

The one thing since I have started reading about this, that hasn't been answered, is if someone were to "actually" shake you or touch you, would you snap out of it, when ive been having this I always hope someone will in the hope that I "snap out of it" so to speak...

I'm just looking forward to the one that happens, when a really fit blonde one jumps into the bed beside me, I can still enjoy the experience in my mind even if "I" cant move.

**Block G Raptor** · 28/02/2008, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

The one thing since I have started reading about this, that hasn't been answered, is if someone were to "actually" shake you or touch you, would you snap out of it, when ive been having this I always hope someone will in the hope that I "snap out of it" so to speak...

I don't know the definitive answer to that. I do know however that during one particularly bad nightmare(I must have been tossing and turning) Miss Raptor tried to shake me awake and apparently I started blindly swinging punches

thank god none of them connected with her

although it did scare the bejaysus out her