Weird dream.. and possibly sleep paralysis?

[an3mptyb0tt13]

Well, as usual, I took a little "nap" before going to school this morning. I had this weird dream where a girl with a head the size of a baseball, with a normal sized body, came running down my stairs like a zombie and then yelled at me like she was going to kill me. It was quite lucid, so I changed the dream up and made it so she wasn't there anymore. I proceeded to go up my stairs and then she came down again, this time I threw her down the stairs. She got up and came yelling again, so I kicked her in the face. At that instant, she mutated and it made me so scared that I woke up, only to feel that feeling of being trapped in your body. I felt as if this was prime time to try and project so I tried to get the vibrations to get to me. I went back to sleep again and had the same dream, this time waking up for real. Anyone know what this could have been?(the sleep paralysis thing.)

[MisterJingo]

Hey an3mptyb0tt13,

This sounds very similar to a lot of my 'waking into a sleep paralysis state' experiences. Usually the immediate precursor dream contains a degree of lucidity, and an element of fear. What I think is happening is that we are on the border of sleep, so still seeing the dream images, but we become subconsciously aware of the paralysis state – this immediately generates a knee-jerk fear reaction which colours the dream which is occurring – making it more dark/scary. Once we become more awake and consciously aware of the sleep paralysis, we can reduce the fear and utilise it to OBE.

[an3mptyb0tt13]

Thanks for the reply! I haven't had this happen again, but I'm sure it will happen again eventually. I have never experienced this before, so I didn't quite know what to do. Sleep paralysis is a weird feeling, and it's hard to get used to the feeling of not being able to move. I did enjoy the slight "floating" feeling whilst in this state, though.