Ok so I was half-awake today. On my bed, with my eyes open, just thinking, in a daze. Then I felt a "function" in my mind I didn't feel before. I uhh used it and then this is were I got scared. My eyes started to close slowly. I tried to move my leg and couldn't. My thoughts were getting screwed up. I was freaking out. I couldn't move, could't speak, and fought to keep my eyes open. I could only move my eye-lids, see, and hear. Finally I was able to move and got straight up. I am still trying to figure out if that really happened. It really scared me.

Are you sure you were awake already? I get a very similar feeling if I have multiple dreams (a dream within a dream). That always freaks me out.
I'm quite sure I woke up so I try to do something, but I can't - and then I wake up again - still not able to move. This keeps repeating itself until I finally really wake up - I'm usually all wet from sweat at that point.

I knew I was awake, because I could hear my mother and father having a conversation about the party they were going to in the next room.

I think that's happened to me in the past, you are right, it is damn scary, my body wouldn't respond and I could only just move my eyes. I can't remember what I did to stop it, I either jolted myself into action and was able to regain control or I just closed my eyes. I'm still not sure if it was a dream or not, it was far more vivid than anything I've ever dreamt.

I have experienced the same as Sebatianos explained.
It usually happens when you are just been sleeping and waking up.
Normally you don't dream at this stage so intensely but it can happen.
it is possible you heard your parents talk while still dreaming (much like you can hear an alarmclock going off while you're still dreaming)

usually these dreams occur when an alarmclock goes off and you turn it off in your dream and it continues again and again.

I've felt that too. About 2 or 3 times in my life. Scary as heck. Scared the crap out of me. did I mention how scary that was. Of course, I have had a dream where I was either drinking something or felt something, and when I woke up, I had wet the bed or still felt what I had felt in the dream, whether it was a pain or whatever. Those things are wierd.

I experienced that too, maybe it's like that for people in coma?

I had some of this too. It is usual for me, when something should wake me up, I just dream something about it continue sleeping. Like the alarmclock. I had an experience: I was sleeping, then the alarmclock started beeping. My dream was about some space ships and I dream that some emergency signal gone off. I done something on the dashboard and it was over(my alarmclock stops after 1 minute of beepeing). It was fun :D Dream the reality in your dream :D

It's not a dream I think. When I was in my teens I used to experience the same phenomena; always when I was about to go to sleep.

It's as if you're in a different state of conciousness. I remember that it felt sort of like you're about to fall down on your back (if you're lying on your back). I was always afraid I would let go and allow myself to fall, because I didn't know what would happen then. I suspected that if I 'fell' I would never wake up again...

Then I read about it in a popular science magazine (Dutch, KIJK). Turned out one of their staff also had experienced this phenomena. But she was not afraid to let herself 'fall' and she ended up having fantastic visions.

Well, I don't know. Perhaps I'm too scared of the unknown but whenever I was about to 'fall,' I always fought it with all my inner strength. Trying to get my eyes open. Now that I'm a bit older I've never had that experience since.

Perhaps it's just a panic reaction and we should try to relax and just see what happens.

I've read some about this.
It's due to the body still beeing in "sleep"-mode and everything but the autonome system is practicly paralyzed. You do however have controle over your eyes since they are controled seperatly.

This funktion is there to prevent the body for harm during sleep, where dreams else would be actualy carried out by the person who's having them.
To some extent, ppl who sleepwalks have "mallfunction" in this paralyze-system.

I'll try to see if i can dig up an artchilce or two and post here, on the subject.

Anyway, it's perfectly normal, but unusual. Most commonly triggerd by sudden waking up during a REM-face of the sleep. (REM = Rapid eye movement, btw)

Sidenote: many ppl claiming to be abducted by aliens experince the same thing, imho it's a combination of sleep-paralazys and dreaming/imagenation.

Been there bud. Yes it is quite frightning. Now you know what its like to be paralysed.
heres an informative link.

http://www.answers.com/topic/sleep-paralysis

Damn... same page as i found, but you beat me to it ;)

Anyway, i hope this explains some of the thoughts you had over this "incident", and see that it's perfectly normal.... well.... almost... that is............. :ph34r:

I've had that happen a lot of times too, usually while falling asleep...

I never felt really scared though ... sometimes a little, but maybe I'm used to it or something ... and it's usually accompanied by the feeling of falling/floating, and feeling sort of tingly, not bad like post-numbness tinglies, but a more warm feeling.

It hasn't happened in quite a while though...

Strange never happened to me.

Worst thing that happens to me is that everything seems to grow massive yet still staying the same size and I shrink yet still staying the same size, I think it's some kind of mind trick. And if I walk somewhere I get dizzy and it's then followed by pins and needles and some uncontrolable shaking afterwards. I hate that feeling. But I think what I get has something to do with dehydration and lack of food. I do have one of the worst eating patterns.

But I've sleep walked once, my friend was playing his computer when I went to bed and I was dreaming I was just sitting on a chair beside him and fell asleep then I suddenly woke up to find that he had turned computer off and went to bed without telling me, so I got up walked across the room and found him in the bed I was supposed to sleep in so I started poking him telling him to get out of my bed then he said something I woke up and I was standing on the other side of the room at the bed he was meant to be sleeping in. It would probably be easier to understand if you knew the layout of the room.

It happens to me a lot, I don't find it that weird any more...

This is a very strange and interesting subject indeed. We humans are almost gone out to space, we contol every animal on the planet etc... but we are unable to control our own body. :huh: I've read a whole bunch of books and learnt very much on this subject. Let me explain:

Heres an example that I just though out:

Your body is just like a computer. A PC for instance, with a SUB-Conscious XP operating system and only one program, the Conscious V1.0 . :)
Now, your subcounscious is doing its job just like an operatin system, maintains the CPU(your brain), the power suppy(your heart)...etc. It has access to everything. But your conscious is like a single program, and it has only limited access to anything, it can operate the peripherals(eg you can move as you like, you can see, hear, speak etc) and has read/write access to the HDD(you can store thoughts and remeber them, but thats about it).

Normally, when you are awake, your conscious is working, does everything you like. Meanwhile, your subconscious maintains your system that you cannot control nor care about normally, like your heart beats, you breathe, you digest...etc.
You are just a program, you cannot control the system features.
But when you go to sleep, its like when you minimize a program to the system tray. You can no longer see it, nor do anything with it, it is resting. Meanwhile the subcounscious switches to maintenance mode. Your body goes to a stand-by state, turns off the unneeded features like digesting, slows down your heartbeat and breathing to spare energy...etc. It starts to defragment your brain, sort out and save needed data, delete temp files etc. It is when you dream, you live again the day passed since your last sleep and earlyier experiences. They mix in your brain, and create new experiences, that is your dream.

The conscious and the subconscious normaly do not interfere with each other. This means when your counscious it active, your subconscious is in stand-by and vice versa. But there is a little time zone, when they are both active. This is when you go to sleep and awake.
This paralysis you are talking about is the state, when your sub conscious is still working and your conscious suddenly becomes acive but not yet gained control over your body functions. It happens accidentally sometimes, when your subconscious is overloaded and no yet finished working, but you become awake.

Another strange and intersting subject is hypnosis. It is an artificially created REM phase with your conscious active. Your conscious and sub-conscious merge for a limited time. This is when you gain admin state over your inner PC. You'll have access to the system log, eg you can remeber anything that happened to you, that you cannot remember normally. (Your brain stores EVERYTHING you experienced in your life. Every single moment, what you feel, what you hear, see, smell etc) You can do anything with your body and brain you cannot normally. The only thing is to figure out how to do it, with is yet mostly unknown to us.

Phew, that was long... ^_^

So what do you think?

Hmm an odd assessment but a good one :D

Both paralizations and sleepwalks occurred to me!

Paralization cause a bit of fear :ph34r: , but i consider sleepwalking fun! Even if sometimes could be confusing :blink:

It never happened to me. But often I sleep with the head or the whole body over an arm, so the following morning the limb is quite paralyzed and it's annoying to slap it 'till blood restarts to flux properly.

Once i was talking to my mom in the kitchen. The doors to it were closed. I was going to go out, so i walked towards the doors. When i was almost there, i suddenly couldn't see a thing. Everything went pitch black. I started screaming, then i felt really dizzy and fell to the ground.

This felt nothing like fainting, i've done that millions of times. This was strange.

I used to sleepwalk. We lived in this really old house during the summers when i was a kid. I got this whole floor just for myself. There were two big rooms, one kitchen and one small room, where i'd usually sleep. Between those rooms was a tiny space, around 1m X 0.5m . Below this space was a really steep staircase. I used to walk back and forth this space, just over the stairs. Nothing really happened to me, though. But my parents always woke up because of the noise the house makes when someone walks around :D

This happened to me once. But then I hallucinated seeing the Tooth-Fairy, so...... :tomato:

I really dig the computer/human analogy.
When this experience happened to me, I was absolutely terrified the first time. It happened to me twice that I can remember, and I felt a presence. Like a demon or something coming to devour my lifeless body as I lay there helpless. I can only imagine how a wrapped up fly must feel in a spiders web....

Anyone here experienced a "falling" feeling?

It happens to me sometimes, just before getting asleep, I feel like the bed abruptly disappears letting me fall down...lasts less than 2 seconds, yet it's pretty weird and sometimes scary.

I remeber one dream I had, were I had a heavy bag over one shoulder, and I got off a bus/train on a huge suspention bridge, and as the train pulled away, a gust of wind off balanced me and the weight of the bag took me off the bridge. I vividly remember the feeling of falling, and as I fell I could see a brown cliff face pasing me by, I woke up with my eyes open, and the clif face was still burned into my mind, but I was actually looking at the light filtered through my brown sleeping bag. This was similar to the times when I have have been woken up from a dream by a telephone, but this time it was very visual in nature and has always been in the back of my mind. I was really blown away by it.

Ouch yeah!! Hate when it happens. I dream i'm falling down a cliff (always the same cliff, Látrabjarg. Lots of puffins there.) or falling in a swimmingpool. The one at the hotel i stayed at in Portugal. Weird

Oh yeah the falling dream I've had the happen before many a time, really freaky when it happened, once it was from a plane for some odd reason, the other time it was just out of nowhere I began to fall from somewhere, and then waking up whoa quite the rush.

I've done that a lot. I thought it was cool cause I felt blind. :D I've also had the falling feeling, but I have it soo intense that it wakes me up. It's so bad that I hate it when it happens. :blink:

Yeah, usually i have hard time falling asleep again.

@Evad
What do you mean by you dig my analogy? :huh:

@all

I used to have falling dream like that, bu a bit different. I remeber once I was dreaming about I was chased by a giant T-Rex in some dark abandoned industrial complex. That was horrifying. It was about to get me when I fell of the catwalk down to the pipe covered, steam filled void. I could see the floor coming with a blinding high speed, and I could swear I felt the impact with my body, several bones fracturing in the same time including my skull and squishing the crap outta me. When I woke up I was covered in cold sweat and I was shaking like hell. I was just sitting there in the brink of hysteria for almost an hour. It was a real horror :omg: If I think back I still go shaking and I almost crap myself of the fear... :omg:

The worst dream i have ever had was few years ago. I dreamt that i was being chased by couple of trolls, and the ground was shaking. It was a big field, with cliffs on each side of me. The cliffs were breaking down.
Then I woke up and everything was shaking. It was an earthquake, the biggest recorded in the history of iceland. That was friggin scary.

The first thing that came to my mind was "HECK!! The window is going to break!!!"

By comparing a human to a computer, you are using an analogy. I dig it means I think it is a good analogy;)
I have heard this analogy before, and it is a good one, the only thing different that I believe from what I remember you saying, is that we are fully capable of programing our mind. I mean fully too, not just concious.

Yes, we are capable. Just think about the fakires or whats their name. Thos who lie down on a spikebed, and thrusts needles in their skin. No blood, no screams. They can sub-consciously turn off the pain "sub-rutine"(according to the PC analogy) in their body and turn off the bleeding too, accelerate the healing rate...etc. They mastered this alright.
And YOU can do this too, just you have to learn how to do it. I have some cool links here, and I'll gonna post them here as soon as I find em :ok:
If you want, I can help you discover this territory :ok:

I'm very interested in this stuff. Please do post some info.

REM: Yeah tell me about it! Sometimes I dream very vividly, more like a nightmare. And I know I will be alright if only I can get my eyes open! Then I'm already awake, still trying to get my eyes open.

Falling in a dream: very unpleasant. I am scared of heights and rarely jump off the highest springboard in a swimming pool. The feeling I get while falling in reality is exactly the same as when I'm dreaming it.

Dreaming that you can fly is much more fun. Sadly, that hasn't happened to me in some time.

Yeah, you CAN control your body and the functions too, including your dream. It is very hard to master, but if you do, you can do whatever you like. :)

First of all, you have to understand how your sub-conscious works. I have read some texts regarding this. Here we go:

The subconscious works differently from the conscious mind because one of the really important jobs of the subconscious is to keep subconscious processes sub- or unconscious. That is, secret from the conscious mind.

But first let's tackle this business of logic. Deductive logic is the process of reasoning from the general to the specific. There isn't anything difficult about this process if you remember that deductive logic means applying what you know about a lot of things to one or just a few things that are similar.

For instance, just about every human being you've ever known or heard about was born with eyes. So when you hear that someone gave birth to a new baby, it is through deductive logic that you assume that that new baby also has eyes.
(Put aside for a moment the sad case of birth defects. We are talking in general or statistical terms here.)

To make another example, consider the case of redheads. An unsubstantiated stereotype has it that redheads are hot tempered. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that you have known 10 or 15 redheads in your life and every one of them have had volatile tempers. If you were then introduced to one or two or three people with red hair, it would not be illogical of you to conclude that these new friends might also have quick tempers. This is deductive logic, or deduction.

Inductive logic goes in the reverse direction. With induction you form generalities from specifics. This is the logic of science, in which you go from the specific to the general. You make a limited number of observations, then generalize what you learn to the rest of the population.

Much of the uniqueness and contradiction that inhere in the subconscious mind are possible because it is limited to deductive reasoning.

Why is this important? Because it means that a good suggestion repeated often enough and long enough will be accepted by the subconscious mind as true. It is this characteristic that allows us to make statements that, in the beginning, are not really true, but that eventually become true. That is basically what we do with suggestion.

Digest this one and ask what you like :ok:

i can actually control my dreams and do whatever i want in them if i figure out that it's just a dream. just wondering, is it possible to make your mind believe your're dreaming when you're not? or is it possible to make yourself go to sleep and remember your dreams?

Sometimes you remember your dream, sometimes not.

The scariest dream I ever had? Probably my death. I don't exactly remember what the dream was about, but I sure like hell remember it ended up with me getting stabbed right through the heart and dying. Everything getting dark around and a feeling of numb cold spreading through the body.
Worse, this repeated about 4 or 5 times in one night. Fortunately I never had this dream again since.

I experienced something very strange yesterday.

I was sitting right in the school canteen with some friends, when suddenly I'm gone.
I just fainted, or had some kind of attack or something, very weird. All I could see was grey and white flashes, and I didn't really realise anything at first. It took a while for me to be able to think that something was wrong. Then slowly my vision returned, with flashes of black in rapid succession. I tried to get up, and it all ended suddenly.
My friends were pretty concerned. It seems I just fell off of my chair, and lay on the ground spartling a bit for seconds. I don't remember falling at all, and I have no idea how long the flashes lasted.

It might have been the heat, but the strange thing is that I've never experienced anything like it in my life.
Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Can anyone tell me what it was?
:blink:

Has anything similar ever happened to you? Sounds like a bad case of heatstroke or maybe an attack of epilepsy - if it's happened before or again I'd go to the doctors.

Happens to me every now and then. Fainting. Went to the doctor, he saw nothing wrong with me. It just happens. I take iron and vitamin c, i wish to believe it helps.

Like I said I never had anything like it in my life.
It could have been a combination of multiple elements. I hadn't had any food that day, I was really thirsty (?) and it was almost 40C in there.
It hasn't happened again, for now. I certainly hope it doesn't. Can't say I liked it... :eeeeeh:

@The_Fifth_Horseman --- I had just such a dream once. Dreams can be very real at times. Especially such times :eeeeeh:

Hmm... crazy, crazy dreams.

One that I have had more than once is that I've been trapped inside a box, sort of like one of the national parks in Kenya. I'm walking along, trying to find a way out of the fence (it's a really, really large area) and then all of a sudden people start chasing me.

Eventually they catch up with me and kill me, after I just give up. I've been trying to work out why I stop, but I can't really.

The last time that dream happened I woke up with a massive pain in my chest, right where the bullet hit me in my nighthmare.

It's strange, because I can sort of analyse it.

I think it's to do with being 'trapped' in my current life with hatred all around me and eventually I just give up and let myself die.

Maybe it's just a bleak view of reality put into a nightmare/dream.

I experienced something similar a year ago.
Every week I would go swimming on wednesday and friday.
I'd follow a routine and I'd try to up my limit.
I was just swimming when suddenly everything got dark (except for right ahead of me) I couldn't hear anything and everything went really slow.
I felt as if I couldn't move and I was thinking: I'm going to drown.. but that didn't seem to scare me. I tried swimming on and suddenly everything turned back to normal.

@ Doubler: deidratation and lack of sugarcould do that kind of jokes... once something similar occurred to me... but i saw even the world spinning around me...

@ Skyfire1: somethimes appens to me that know that i'm dreaming so i take the control of the dream starting to do whatever i want! I agree that's wonderful!! Usually i go to the girl i love, or i start fling like Superman... really wonderful!! :ok:

I've experienced both, this and what sebatianos explained, and every time any of it happens, I try to scream. Couple times I had feeling that someone else (black figure) is in the room.

I believe that I can sometimes be semi-concsious and control my dreams..

Hmm yeah that sometimes happens to me too... it's a bit odd though and usually the only choice I get is whether or not to wake up.

That is called Hypnosis :D

That is the phase when your conscius ans sub-conscious merge, you are semi-conscoius cuz your sub- and conscious is both active. Read my earier posts :ok:

The dream is your brain's defragmentation, and clean-up. Your sub-conscius sorts out your earier experiences from the Temp folder of your brain, and puts them in your memory(HDD). This process is your dream. Normally you can't control this phase becouse your sub-conscious makes sure your conscious in not active during the process (and vice versa if you are awake).

When you are hypnotised, your conscious falls to a different state, that fools your subconscious to believe you are asleep, and activates. You can do lots of things whenyou are hypnotised. You can remeber EVERYTHING you ever experienced, incuding your dreams for example. There are different states of hypnosis. The shallow hypnosis happens to you every day, you just don't notice it. Like when you are watching TV, you focus on the screen and the outside world fades off. Just remeber a cool movie you seen on TV. Can you remeber what happened around the televison during the film? I don't think so :D That is becouse you were hypnotised, although it was only a very shallow state :D

Ask away, and I'll try to answer :D

when this occured it felt like my head was sinknig into the bottom of my skull, closing my eyes. So thats what happened eh? pretty cool.

I have dreams about once a week. It sucks that I can't remember them at all 12 hours after I have them :angry: .

But when I do have them, they are often very vivid. I watch them like I do a movie. There was one where I was being chased on a floating casino in the near future by some thugs referred to as "the Green Jackets". They looked bit like the mafia. Later that day, I did a google search on green jackets and found out that they were in fact a branch of the mafia, which is weird cause I''ve never heard of them before :blink:

The dream was really cool, though. I was like James Bond in a tux and they were acting as though I had some really valuable info they needed.

It was'nt based on any movies or experiences I've had too. :blink:

I just brought the subject of dreams up because mine are very unnatural.
I feel things very vividly in my dreams to. It feels like I live a whole nother life as a 35 year old undercover agent. I have been painfully stabbed, poisoned, hanged and shot several times, and I wake up as soon as I die.

Some other notable dreams:

>>I often dream that I am falling in pure pitch darkness. My stomach flies to my mouth and I throw up (sometimes in real life on my bed, too!)

>> I was a 40 foot tall giant and crushed a trailer park in the woods(staypuft marshmallow man? ah, what fond memories :D )

>> A knight in the crusades fighting in Jeruselum. I got painfully killed in this one when I didnt watch my back!

>> common one where I get out of bed, walk downstairs, start the car and drive along the expressway. I know perfectly how to drive the car, and know exactly where all the controls are. The dream is extremely vivid. When I wake up I'm like huh? :blink: cause I have no idea how to drive a car in real life

>> I met the girl of my dreams and she like me! (now this one is a great dream :D )

The weird thing, like I said, about all these dreams is that I dream them without any prior knowledge about what I am dreaming. It doesn't freak me out, but excites me. Maybe events from my future? :Brain:

I mean, if you wanted me too I could perfectly describe the moldings in the floating casino and the people at the slot machines. I could tell you that there was a man at the foot of the stairs dressed in a lavish tuxedo and a women by his side in a green sequined dress and a gold ring on her pinkie finger with 2 dolphins entwined on it. Its so weird!

I experience extremely realistic dreams too. Complete with hallucinations of touch and smell.

Some oddest thing that heppened was that in one dream, on the end something stabbed me under the ribs. IIRC, it was looking exactly like Venom from Spider-Man comics. That's not odd in that, however. In the dream I felt pain - and when I woke up it still hurt.

I also sometimes experience a certain event and several seconds later: "oh, ****, deja vu...", because I recall this very exact thing I saw and heard earlier - in one of my dreams. Creepy. :eeeeeh:

Oh, yes!

It occurred to me so many times! And some time it wasn't only a deja vu, but something more like premonitions :omg:

Only to tell you one of these stories... a night i dreamed abuot an exam that i was going to take: in the dream i passed for first, the professor asked me about an electromagnetic circuit, i didn't remind the argument and immediately failed me...
Two days after i went to take the exam and i was remembering perfectly the dream i had... all went like i've dreamed... :cry: i didn't pass the exam!!

This is the power of our mind!! :kosta:

Last Thursday I was driving with my dad, we were going to my old town, 400km's from where I live now. When we were driving through the area where I used to stay as a kid during summers, I got this really weird thought when we drove past one certain hill.

"I was here last week, with Grétar. I was here. I really was here."

The thing is, I hadn't been there for over a year, and Grétar, a friend of mine, has never been there. But this feeling was so strong, I felt assured that I had been there the week before. I still can't figure it out..

What a great topic!
A friend of mine, she is from maroc, told me that in her country poeple believe that in this sleep hypnosis people enter the world of demons. the demons are not bad nor friendly, they are just there. you can see them in this strange stadium when your body sleeps and your brain is aware. further, you should not leave hot water tap on because the demons live in the sinks :blink:

Yeah. I'll be walking down a street in some weird place I've never been before and suddenly I'll be like "Holy Cow!" I've been here before!

I think your mind pieces together bits and chuncks of other memories and when you go somewhere that resembles the memory "collage" your mind has made, you go crazy when it is really nothing but your mind making a silly comparison.

well some of my dreams are...

:blink:

I cannot remember any of them.. any..

Puffin and Indignus, I think you have experienced genuine déj? vu.

People experiencing this phenomena have the strong conviction they have been some place before, even if they have never visited before.

Personally I have never experienced déj? vu.

I actually have precognitive dreams in which I see things, usually little images of the future. I totally dismiss them, but then some time in the future (it can be hours or weeks) later I just do the same thing and talk/act as I remember doing in the dream.

Bloody odd...

I once had a dream, I was walking along a street and it felt very hot and there where shops to the side.

Some years later I was walking along the very same street which happened to be in America/Florida over 2000 miles away from where I dreamed it.

Also before that I had a sort of dream I was sleeping and it was very black more black than I can say and from the blackness there was some thing there a monster of some kind that was as I remember calling my name, then I woke up in my nans house where I was staying for the night.
The next day I learned my mum and dad had an argument.

All of the dreams I have I can remember very well and clear.

I am also telepathic. :ok:

back to sleep paralysis:
have ever anyone had this paralysis, but in some other way:
i already woke up, i knew it, i couldn't open my eyes and seen an image from dream, an image i can't forget until today(i was 5 yers old-and i remember that!)
i was in crowd of people, on some kind of rock concert, a singer endet to sing his song and everzthzng.. freezed, rest of time i couldn't move like you and heared a voices of my sister and mom chatting

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I've had occasionaly deja-vu, though never really strongly.

I've have them often... So often I don't believe in them anymore LOL .
It was strange thing, though, when about a year back I actually predicted something correctly to a friend of mine.