re: Anyone Else Occasionally Experience Sleep Paralysis/Lucid Dreams?

Lucid dreamer. Some are very pleasant, some just weird, some unpleasant to the point that I could not possibly tell anyone. I can realize that it is a dream but allow it to continue. I am also very aware that I dream in color. My daughter has always been a dreamer to the point that I suggested she should investigate whether she could participate in scientific dream studies.

Anyone else here time-travel? I have lost increments of time by leaping forward 15 or 20 minutes with no recognition or memory of the intervening time passing. Checked anus for evidence of abduction and probing by aliens.

Wow. That is freaky. And no doubt unsettling.

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I suffered from sleep paralysis for a while.

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haven’t experienced it in years.

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Same. But I'm not sure why mine stopped

I have had sleep paralysis one time. Pretty sure it was a 4 or 5 years ago at this point.

Unlike anything ive ever experienced before. Very eerie feeling and i remember there being some dark feeling of something.

I wonder what causes everyone to feel the darkness when it happens.

Back when I used to do x/mdma a lot this would happen from time to time when I didn’t sleep for a day or so .

Was pretty terrifying trying to wake up but couldn’t move . Glad I grew up

It's a demonic attack. Seriously.

I told it to go away in the name of Jesus. Always worked. The attacks became less frequent until they stopped altogether.

Sleep paralysis happened to me when in my early 30s while napping on the rear seat of a van on the way to a dive trip in Florida. I woke up, was in a daze and my entire body felt like cement and I could do nothing but blink. I couldn’t talk, make a sound, nor wiggle a finger. I just laid there while the van stopped and the other 2 people got out and one told me to wake up. It seemed like minutes until I could move anything and as it faded I could feel parts of my body start to wake up. The feeling came back to my core first and then the arms and legs. It was crazy. Never happened again.

Yeah. Usually I recognize it and try to shake my head until I wake up fully. When that doesn't work it's very unpleasant, helpless, and frustrating. And I often know it's happening when it happens.

If you’re stuck, try to move and wiggle your toes. It’ll wake you up. Dream hack.



ETA:
I’ve discussed in threads here before. I’m capable of controlling my lucid dreams. They always involve me flying or having sex with someone nearby. The dreams are great, but they’re exhausting. I actually wish I had a button to turn them off. But they happen way too often and it makes it hard to get a good night of sleep.

I go to nearest wall in my dreams when I’m asleep. And I realize that I can start to climb it and begin to float/fly. That’s how I know I’m in the dream. After that I can control and do anything I want. I don’t know how to turn it off. I wish I could. Fun but exhausting

Something else that happens to me - I'll dream about something that makes perfect sense in my dream, but after I wake up and try to recall it or describe it to my wife, I can't come up with any description. It is impossible to describe what I was dreaming even though it all made sense at the time.