Something that has troubled me...

[Dust2Dust]

I had this dream a few weeks ago... I was dreaming about the game Silent Hill 3(I have never played it), when I suddenly had this realization that I was awake... basically. I was concious but unable to move. As soon as I realized this, my dream ended. For a moment, I was fine, just laying there seeing the darkness of my eyelids. Then I felt as though someone was in the room(I can sense close friends, or enemies, even if I cannot see/hear them). It did not feel so much as someone was in the room, as much as something was in the room. I felt evil was right beside me. I remember opening my eyes, and scanning the room, until I looked just below the ceiling fan. The light was turned off, but beneath the bulb was a tiny ball of light. The very second my eyes connected with the light, it became unbelievably bright. I was blinded by the light, and I lay there, terrified. I don't remember trying to scream, but I know I was trying to move. After a few moments(?), something just snapped.I let out a growl, and used all of my willpower to bolt upwards. All of reality rushed back just as my feet hit the floor. I ran to get someone awake other than me....

Does anyone have any ideas on this? Most of my dreams I analyze, and look at from different perspectives to see what they're about. This one just scared me half-to-death, and I have yet to see anything connecting it to my actual life. Which is why I am not entirely sure it was a dream. My father has watched lights float around in his room, and my brother had a similar dream months before my own.

[LycanSpectre]

I read something about this in my psych class. When you enter REM sleep, your brain blocks your motor functions, so that you dont act out your dreams. Paralysis upoun waking is uncommon, but not unheard of. Its not dangerous, just unsettling. As for the visions, it could have been some holdover from REM sleep left in the transition to wakefulness.

Or it just could have been a vivid dream. :shrug:

or it could have been for real. Whow knows?

Ive had dreams where I dreamed that I was awake. Its weird, I know.

As for what it all means, I cant help ya with that one.

[Dust2Dust]

Thankyou for your time and help.
I had another "dream" like this a few nights ago. I believe it was more of a nightmare spawned from the first event, because I was not as concious as before and the dream started in a different room. The first event took place right where I was, in bed.

The dream began...
I was in the hallway of my home, from which I entered the living room. I turned around, and shut the door behind me. A light appeared from behind me, in the same part of the room as the first event, beneath the ceiling fan bulb. For some reason, I was bold enough to turn and face it. I was ready to defend myself... The light looked more like one of the spots you see after being blinded by lights. Instantly, my willpower was gone, and I stood there like a scared rabbit. I was suddenly laying down. I struggled to move, to scream, but I couldn't... I began trying to simply lift my eyelids, when I just woke up. Nothing was in the room.
I had been woken up early in the night, and I had this dream after going back to sleep. I looked at my watch (as I always do after waking), and found that I had been asleep exactly 4 minutes.

[Nightmare GenoReaper]

wow, u fall asleep THAT fast? I wish i could, it takes me 30 minutes to get my 40 winks in

[Redwolf_Claw]

I have heard of the same phenomenon where your brain is awake but your body is still asleep and you feel like you are being restrained. The skeptics say this accounts for many so called UFO abductions.:shrug:

[DarkWolf]

LycanSpectre is right about the paralysis, and some people are a lot more susceptible to it than others, such as I think you might be. Some physical conditions can also cause this. See a doctor for a checkup to be sure, doubtful they'll find anything, but it isn't uncommon, meaning there are tablets you can take to prevent it. But there are some conditions which can cause it and could get worse if left unchecked, so it is worth checking out.

As for "My father has watched lights float around in his room" - this is so greatly simple: ball lightning. Somewhat rare, and some places get it more than others. Often occurs during a storm - but can even happen on a bright and sunny day. Put simply it is an orb of electricity creating light that can sometimes pop like a bubble on contact or have enough physical force to knock ornaments over and some very rare cases have seen ball lightning able to shatter windows. The voltage is low and is very rarely dangerous to any level, but it makes an eerie and yet fascinating light show. Oftentimes an area will fill with more than one ball of light before they exit or just fade out.

- It could be bugs though, some flying bugs can emit light, like fireflies for example.

Suggestions and things to think about.

Don't take dreams too seriously, even repetitive dreams mean little as usually, you are worried about the dream, so it keeps happening until you stop being worried.

Lucid dreaming can be a bitch for that paralysis thing. I've had it before, and it is frightening. I also got full paralysis when awake. I was awake watching TV, my brother and father and uncle were playing cards in the next room. I felt weak and tired, and then my legs went heavy and numb. I couldn't move them, then my arms and body went, then my face and neck went numb and I couldn't move. My eyes closed against my will, and I was stuck there. Fifteen minutes passed before I began to get feeling back, and it happened in reverse, gradually able to move my head, then my body, then my arms etc. From start to finish it took ten minutes to paralyze me, fifteen in that trapped state, and five before I could function again. Only happened that once. Weird.

Some lucid dreams can be too vivid, too realistic that the body seems unable to wake up from it. I've had this (too many times for my liking). Never get into a lucid loop, where you lose sense of reality because you dream about a normal waking life, and you can feel and interect and everything. All senses are working, you can feel pain, and you believe you are awake. Then, all of a sudden you are waking up on your bed.. so continues the waking world....and you wake up....more vivid, unable to "wake up from" dreams with full sensory ability.. and you wake up again.. Repeat until on the verge of insanity before you wake up for real..... And you can't tell the difference... It took me over a month to fully recover from that.