Lucid dreaming

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Does anyone else suffer this?

I really hate it sometimes. Like this morning, I could have sworn I felt someone trying to prise my eyes open, which was relating to me dream. No one was doing it obviously, but my god did I shudder

I do, but in the way that I know I'm in a dream and can explore. I have learned not to try to fly, flying breaks immersion and wakes me up.

That’s the thing. I knew I was dreaming, but I could still “feel” hands on my face

Lucid dreaming is when you are aware tou are in a dream and therfore can influence it. It doesn't sound like thisbis what you are experiencing.

Do you mean sleep paralysis?

Do you mean sleep paralysis?

I love it when I become fully lucid in a dream. It blows my mind how detailed and real everything is.

I occasionally have lucid dreams. I’ll try to wake myself up and move but my body feels heavy. It’s quite distressing, I’m aware of my surroundings but can’t move.

This has reminded me how much I love lucid dreaming (mamaged to move away from trying to fly, apparently it is what most people do try because why wouldn't you want to try that!) and how terrifying sleep paralysis is!

This is sleep paralysis, your brain wakes up before your body. Horrible.

Sounds scary, I had an odd one where I dropped off and then was fully conscious in a different place, a train station I was screaming "am I dead" and trying to get peoples attention. Have never been so relieved to open my eyes, only had that once.

I’m not sure about the terminology but I do know taking magnesium at night gives me very vivid realistic dreams.

Thank you. I’ll Google it. It’s not nice. I imagine it’s how patients feel when they’re conscious.

I lucid dream frequently and can often force myself awake if the dream is a unpleasant one.

I totally get why you might not like it but I do. It's great fun with an easy get out to wake up if I don't want to continue.

I even have a dream 'test' to confirm to myself it really is a dream and not real life. It involves finding something to read (eg a road sign). I look once and read it then look away then look back. If I am dreaming it will say something different the second time I look. God knows why but it always does.

I wonder if I am just a chilled out sleeper because I occasionally have sleep paralysis and it never really upsets me. I always know what it is and just lie there waiting for it to 'break' or for my brain to fell back asleep

I normally think someone is in the house or outside and I desperately want to go and shout/fight them off and can’t. Totally bizarre.

My reality check is to push my finger through my palm, it's amazing when it goes through.

Is this where you can dream before you're fully asleep? If so I get this. I know I'm still awake but my brain isn't cooperating and goes off on a very weird journey that I have to really focus to get out of.

I used to have it as a child where I was watching tv in bed but I didn't actually have a tv in my room 🤷‍♀️

Plus Alice in wonderland syndrome but not for a while thank god.

Sleep is a strange thing....

Sleep paralysis. I have heard of this but never considered it for me but actually now you’ve mentioned it, it does sound like it.

It doesn’t happen every night thank god. More like once in a blue moon but every time it does happen, I do end up freaked out a little

DH has lucid dreams where he can control or change the 'path' of the dream. DS2 has lucid dreams in nightmares where he can make a 'weapon' appear to kill whatever it is that's chasing or threatening him.

If I'm having a nightmare I'm lucid enough to know that if I scream DH will wake me up and 'get me out of the dream'. In my dream I start screaming, but DH (who does wake me up) says I'm making more of a moaning or a whimpering sound.

As a rule I don't remember my dreams, good or bad, much past waking. When I wake up it's like they're a video that's erasing itself backwards until I don't really remember anything other than the first few seconds of the dream.

Interestingly enough, I recently had a happy dream about something I really really really want to happen but I know for certain sure that it never will. That dream has stayed with me vividly and shows no signs of being 'erased'. And the memory of that dream makes me feel happy, even though I know it will never come true.

Interestingly enough, I recently had a happy dream about something I really really really want to happen but I know for certain sure that it never will. That dream has stayed with me vividly and shows no signs of being 'erased'. And the memory of that dream makes me feel happy, even though I know it will never come true.

I've had that. But I suspect you might be talking about something far more wholesome than my all night dream about the -ahem- attentions of Aidan Turner and Charlie Hunnam

I have lucid dreams where I can influence what happens, I can also wake up and go for a wee and go back to the same dream.

I also get sleep paralysis, not often maybe a couple of times a year, I do wonder if the two are linked.

I sometimes have lucid dreams - it often seems to come in waves. I also enjoy them.

I have always had very vivid dreams in my regular dreaming from childhood, - which can be terrifying but when they are good dreams they can be magical.

Sometimes I have a weird thing when they are so vivid I almost feel half stuck in my dream for the day after, occasionally days. It’s like I can’t quite come back to reality, which is disconcerting.