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Wow!
Frist time ive seen someone post about this on one of the trading forums I frequent.
Yes, I get this, and it is FREAKY!! I get it approximately once every month or so.
I haven't even bothered to look at the links yet but im assuming its the same as what I get.
Basically I fall asleep, and then at some point my senses seem to wake up without me. I can hear the TV if its on for example. Sometimes I attempt to 'throw' my arms around as I sleep in an attempt to wake myself up. The first time I experienced this I thought I was about to die!!
I now notice that I am more likely to get it if I sleep on my back.
I kind of experience the 'ghost feeling' you mentioned when it first happened to me, but that could also be bacuse I was so much more afraid than when it happens to me now??
Its so weird though. I tried to explain it to some of the guys at work and they all thought i was nuts!
yep i get it regularly too, have had for decades. like everyone else I always assumed I was alone in my freakishness til i heard it being discussed on a very late radio show one night.
Since then, even just knowing about it and understanding it has certainly lessened the frequency and severity.
what's worrying is what the guy in the linked article says about monsters, demons, witches etc:
"for the most part they're hallucinations."
Does that mean occasionally they're NOT just hallucinations ?
Unreal, thanks for bringing this subject up.
Years ago I used to experience this quite frequently. I would have had a normal nights sleep...wake up...have a lie in ...go back to sleep...this is where the trouble started !
Complete body paralysis and it used to go on for what seemed an age...20 to 30 mins i'm guessing. Experiencing some form of mental awareness and knowing that I could not move a muscle...and not from want of trying I can tell you !
Finally I found a solution to this problem...it involved focussing the mind on One action....this action was to jolt myself out of it.
Much later I was speaking to a friend about this experience from years past...and she said it had to do with "travelling"....a form of mind travel...always looking outward in these adventures/ nightmares and not backward.....not looking backward is the important bit here, because if you are looking backward at yourself and surroundings...it probably means you are dead!
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Sounds like lucid dreaming?
You're lucky to get these often. People spend months training themselves so that they know when they are dreaming.
I used to get these when I was younger - Be dreaming and become aware that I was dreaming, and then go around robbing banks and doing all sorts of crazy stuff, but once it started to get exciting, id always wake up
I later learnt a cool way to stay in you 'lucid' state but have only managed to get the chance to use it a few times because I hardly ever lucid dream any more...
but i always find myself wanting to wake up? which is annoying when i do.
