Frantic Dream Where I Can't Wake Up... (Page 6)

I had a dream today that some demonic thing was telling me crazy things and I told myself to wake up and I was awake cuz I heard the cats and the usual noise of trash pick up outside but I couldn't open my eyes or move no matter how hard I tried and even though I was "awake" I could still see the thing talking to me in my brain I started to get dizzy and felt dead thank god someone called me and I jerked up cuz it scared me...I don't even want to sleep anymore

This is a few years later but I just saw this site now. I haven't read everyone's response but this is called Sleep Paralysis. It is a sleeping disorder that everyone will probably have atleast once in their life.
When we dream, our muscles shut off and become paralyzed so that we do not live out and motion our dreams. During this sleep paralysis, you actually ARE awake. You awaken but your body is still in that paralysis and your mind is still half in dream state. Some people may see scary images- but there is an explanation to it. It is because once you realize you are paralyzed, your mind begins to become fearful- causing your subconscious to create scary images.
If you wake up and realize you are paralyzed, just close your eyes and realize what is going on. You will wake up within seconds. Try to move the slightest muscle- your pinky, or toe. Once the slightest muscle moves, you will jump out of the paralysis and it will be over.
Good luck to all the dreamers!
-Victoria

I have the same nightmare and it is terrifying! When my husband is in the bed, I try to call his name to wake me up. I try so hard that my voice actually breaks through the dream and he immediately tries to wake me...but he has to pull me up into a sitting position because I can't move! Then - it is STILL hard for me to come our of the dream. It is so bad, that when i husband gets up to go to work at 6:00 am ( I go later)...I am terrified to go back to sleep so I don't. What I do now if he is not home is I set a timer for 15 minutes so it will wake me...and I just keep doing this over and over... it's so pathetic to live like this - but I am so afraid I won't wake up

I have the same nightmare and it is terrifying! When my husband is in the bed, I try to call his name to wake me up. I try so hard that my voice actually breaks through the dream and he immediately tries to wake me...but he has to pull me up into a sitting position because I can't move! Then - it is STILL hard for me to come our of the dream. It is so bad, that when i husband gets up to go to work at 6:00 am ( I go later)...I am terrified to go back to sleep so I don't. What I do now if he is not home is I set a timer for 15 minutes so it will wake me...and I just keep doing this over and over... it's so pathetic to live like this - but I am so afraid I won't wake up

I have the same nightmare and it is terrifying! When my husband is in the bed, I try to call his name to wake me up. I try so hard that my voice actually breaks through the dream and he immediately tries to wake me...but he has to pull me up into a sitting position because I can't move! Then - it is STILL hard for me to come our of the dream. It is so bad, that when i husband gets up to go to work at 6:00 am ( I go later)...I am terrified to go back to sleep so I don't. What I do now if he is not home is I set a timer for 15 minutes so it will wake me...and I just keep doing this over and over... it's so pathetic to live like this - but I am so afraid I won't wake up

I have had two dreams like these. Both times I was home alone, napping in the afternoon. In the dream I am trying to wake up and I am conscious that I am trying to wake up. Both times I could hear things in the house,like the front door opening and a sound like someone was cooking, but in real life no one else was home. I would try very hard to get up to see what the noises were but its like a force is holding me down. my eyes open slightly and I can see my bed and my room, but still i cant wake up. One part that I can not tell if I am really doing or just dreaming that i am doing is moving my arms up and down like im fighting to wake up and i can hear myself saying "help help" but i dont know if im really saying it out loud or if im dreaming it. these dreams feel like they last forever. they are scary because you feel like you cant control yourself. I think a trigger for these dreams is a fear that someone is going to come into my house while I am asleep. locking the glass door in addition to the actual door gives me peace of mind, both times I had these dreams the glass door wasnt locked.

This is amazing. I thought i was the only person. This has happened to me a number of times, i would even have a perfectly normal dream and then wake up in my dream again, like in my room, thinking i was awake. Its only happened once after another dream (that i can recall) and the first time i only woke up still in my dream twice. But then it got worse. I would wake up in my bedroom, everything perfectly normal thinking i was awake. But when i tried to get out of bed i couldnt. I wasnt completely paralysed in my dream because i could move. After the first time it happened i knew immediately that the times after that i were in a dream, and i can literally remember waking up once, realising im dreaming when i cant get further out of my bed, and i remember saying to myself oh god not this again!
Because its the scariest thing ever, and i would literally go insane like i would try to reach over and switch my lamp on and it either wouldnt turn on or off, and id frantically keep clicking it on and off in hope that i was doing the same thing in real life so it would wake me up. When that failed to work for me, i started screaming at the top of my lungs hoping someone would hear me and wake me up, and i was going mental. Like shaking my bedside table and screaming, messing up my sheets punching the wall behind me even, and then i would just wake up in that same position lying in my bed again, thinking i had woken up but when i realise again it frustrates me even more and i go even more mental to wake up and then it happens again. And again. i was just going nuts because i swear you feel trapped, like your never going to wake up. And i would every time but every time i would think its the end and eventually i got too scared to fall asleep because i thought i was going to be trapped forever and never wake up and it was petrifying. I could move anywhere on my bed but i just couldnt get off, like i couldnt go any further than on my bed. But i think one time i got off, and walked around my room punching the walls and going crazy, but then i just woke up in my bed again. No one else was in the room with me ever in my dream. Everthing was always exactly as it was before i fell asleep. I know it might be your mind waking up before your body but how come we repeatedly wake up instead of staying the same?

I have been practicing lucid dreaming now for ~ 25yrs and have often experienced what everyone here is talking about...physical paralysis whe I try and re-awake.

Again, I find that I usually experience this paralysis after/during lucid dreaming when I tell myself that I need to wake-up for one reason or another.

The practice I use to break this physical paralysis is too, in the dream, shut my eyes very tightly while saying to myself "wake up, wake up, wake up."

When I open my eyes again, I am awake and alert and, once again, in the real world.

At first it can be quite scary, but once it is realized it can be overcome, it just took practice and discipline on my part.

Thanks

I have these dreams quite often, they started a few months ago and i used to get them every morning, only when i knew i was alone in the house. So i stopped sleeping in the morning if no one else was in the house, and they went away. However i had this dream tonight whilst taking a nap at my boyfriends, he was in the room on his computer and it was exactly the same in my dream. I was trying to get up but i couldnt so i started screaming, eventually i pulled myself onto the floor but my body bounced straight back. A few times i managed to get up normally and i thought i was awake, but then i pinch myself to check, as soon as i realise i am not awake i bounce back into my sleeping position but my eyes are wide open and im panicing. I dont know how i eventually wake myself up but i always feel scared when i do.

I used to suffer from sleep paralysis frequently, and also from not being able to wake up or have my movements translate into physical reality. I sometimes experienced demonic visitations during the panic of the paralysis, because they are attracted to fear. The demons can be repelled by the use of one's God-given authority to cast them out in his name. The sleep paralysis hasn't happened since I started eating bananas every day. I think it might have been related to a potassium deficiency.

Has happened to me several times and most always during a nap.I just woke up from this with my husband's help We were napping mid morning. I was dreaming we were in an upstairs room...out house in one story. In the dream I experienced terrible vertigo, something I suffer from when in a high place. Suddenly in the dream I was lying in our bed next to husband feeling the vertigo. I thought I was awake but couldn't move. I struggled and stuggled to awaken. I was frantic. In the dream/not dream I reached over and started shaking husband saying "Dave, wake me up" over and over but he wouldn't wake up. Then I heard him call my name telling me to wake up. Apparently I had broken through enough to actually call to him very softly. Woke up feeling still somewhat paralized. In varations of this I also here people moving about the house who are not there and I try to call out to them. Only one other time, when husband was there, was I able to call out like this time for him to wake me. Seems like it takes an external stimulus to break through?

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well this happens almost exactly the way you described it and finally i found some one who knows how it feels. i try to explain it to people but they dont understand how it feels. im not a religous person or anything but the same thing happened to my aunt. and she told me to pray and it hasnt happened since then. also if you feel like its going to happen and wake up before it does, i dont know if you know what im talking about. just a pray a little just something small, and it wont happen . i know it sounds kinda crazy and dumb but it works. ma aunt told me about this but she said she didnt wanna tell me why it realy happened because she didnt wanna scare me,. by the way im juust 16.

I too must join the club...just woke up from one. Like many others I think I have mine down to happening during naps most often, though sometimes at night I have a similar experience, usually at night it's more just a very bad dream that seems so real that I am panicking and moving and mumbling in my sleep -once I was even shot in the dead in the dream and woke up violently a split second after being shot with a terrible headache right where where I got "shot" in the dream.

Generally speaking when I take a nap, I have am either in the bed looking at the room as many have said and I think I am woke but I have one eye open and can't open the other that's when I know I am having an "event" and that I'm still sleep. I start panicking and breathing and digging so very deep to force myself to wake up and when I finally do I'm exhausted and want to go back to sleep but am afraid.

The other instance is I will be driving (in the dream) and then slump down to where I can't see over the dashboard and thats when I realize I'm having an event...I will try desperately to wake up before I "crash" in the dream due to not being able to see...my panic to wake up is compounding by feeling like I"m going to drive off a cliff or crash and die any minute as I try to wake up. Once again I scream kick, all the while telling myself WAKE UP WAKEUP -it's to the point where I have told my wife that if I ever die in my sleep to have my head examined because I am certain it will be due to one of these events

This is the second time this week it's happened, and it's the same dream too. I'm still somewhat tired, but I'm scared to because I don't want to have that dream again.

hmmmm Mine seem to happen expectantly like it happened a year ago than it happened today so all together it has happened maybe three times in my lifetime now that i think back far enough this actually happened when i was about 9 years old(9 years ago), i was having some dream that i was in a pool with a few ladies and i was trying to swim up but i Just couldn't seem to get my head above the water it seemed as though the women couldn't see me so i started panicking and after maybe a minute i woke up and to my relief i was in my bed after that it never happened again... Until last year with this dream everything looked real (although it wasn't my room) i was laying down on a bed in some type of Chinese restaurant my cousin was standing above me and the first time i attempted to get up i couldn't i stayed laid on my back i screamed and i hear myself but nothing happened i started to panic and started screaming more nothing happen my cousin stayed there standing above me but nothing happen wheeewww when i finally woke up which was about under a minute after that happened i was happy but than also confused and scared i admit my first thought "did i almost die in my sleep?", well sooner than later i got over it and life moved on now here iam today July 7th 2011, 1:07pm and it happened again this time i was in some hunt in Africa and there was bones all around and this man was telling a lady she had a certain amount of time to get out it seemed as though she was gonna get arrested than suddenly the man left but the lady appeared she started chasing me around the small hunt chanting some like "get out here before ..." than i couldnt make out the rest she was saying after that! so than after i step out the hunt i was laying in my aunt's house in one of her kids bed room my mother was there sitting on floor and so was my niece, i was laying on the floor on my stomach and i started feeling like someone was tryna grab my head and sink me lower into the ground i started trying to resist and get up but i kept seeming to get on the ground i stared screaming and again i couldn't hear myself no matter how long i scream or how loud i was panicked this time too but not as much because i felt it was a matter of time before somebody come see me and wake me up cause surely they must hear me (i was wrong), than after about 2 minutes i finally woke up and thought "damn it happened again" so now im starting to do my research its very important i find out what this is i hope you all also find out what it is and how to treat it also i did a little research on sleep paralysis i suggest you all the same... Much Love

I've noticed when this happens to me if u can think of someone in your life that will always protect you no matter where you are and call there name out loud the first two or three times it will seem likes its not working but by the third time it will break you free from everything.

I had a dream like that today.
I sleep with a fan on to have a back ground noise, and it sometimes get louder, and thats what happen. the noise ''woke me up'' but i couldn't open my eyes, then I started to freak out. I tried to sit on my bed, it felt like I could move my arms but it burned.
When I realise I was still sleeping, I tried to trick my body by no trying to move anymore. I thought, I'm gonna wait a bit then just change my sleeping position and then maybe I will wake up.
No, not happenning! I was stuck on my back. Then thing started to get weird, I felt like someone was in my room (I was home alone), and it freaked my out, so I tried harder to wake up until finaly, I heard someone talk and that just bust me out of my dream, and there I was, all sweaty in my bed, alone!
For me, it happens often and here are some similarity:
-Home alone,
- I wasn't really tired when I whent to bed, I had to force myself asleep.
-I had a headache for having a few drink before going to bed. I wasn't drunk, just a bit dehydrated.

I just FINALLY woke up from one of these dreams..the only difference in the ones i've been reading about and my experience..is that i can move..i "wake up" go down the stairs..found my house different every time, it would never be the same house..only the last 2 times i "woke up" was it my real house..the first time i made it to the living room and "woke up" the 2nd..i didnt get out of bed..when i "awoke" my closet door was open..and then it shut. in the dream every time i "woke up" i kept trying to get to or find the door to unlock the deadbolt because my husband would be coming home from work soon. the only time i saw him in the dream was the first time i "woke up" and i was screaming and crying when i saw him..i told him i just needed to go back to sleep then i'd eventually wake up and everything would be back to normal including the house and all of our belongings. shortly after i "woke up again" this time coming downstairs to a completely different house. when i finally actually woke up i lifted my head off the pillow and had a horrible headache...came downstairs and researched these dreams..felt confused and kept looking around just to make sure i was actually awake. These dreams always happen when i'm home alone and only when i take an afternoon nap. i'm never not able to move in the dreams..but when i "wake up" in them..it always starts with me in bed. to avoid these dreams i've tried to stay away from napping, atleast when i'm home alone..they are so exausting and i want them to stop.

I am reluctant to call this sleep paralysis, because I always wake up after it happens. It feels like I've awakened, there is a very strange almost buzzing sensation in my head. It is a very intense sensation and almost feels good. I wouldn't call it being held down by anything heavy, just unable to move.

I fell asleep after dinner for about an hour today. I had the most intense experience involving this dream situation I've had yet.

At some point the sensation in my head grew so strong that I concluded, in the dream, that it must be death. I was then picked up from the couch, still unable to move. All in one movement I was flung towards the tv and pressed up against it, my face right up against "Seinfeld." My legs were dangling, the dresser that is typically in front of the TV was gone.

I was back on the couch. I can vaguely remember going out of body, into the kitchen, but I can't be too sure. This seemed to go on for a while, at one point I could move. I'm not sure how, but I was slapping my face trying to wake up. No idea if I was actually hitting myself in the waking world. I also fell off of the couch in the dream. I always wound up back on the couch struggling to wake up, until I was just laying there anxious..

After the anxiety set in during the dream, I woke up. My blanket was still on me and "Seinfeld" was no longer on the television. I was sweaty and exhausted emotionally.

i started having this episodes about a yr and a half ago. at first i thought it was nothing. then came to realize this was in fact "something"...I would have the same symptoms as everyone else here. the only difference is i would wake up full of gose bumps and always felt an uncomfortable and not very friendly presence around me. I must be honest and say I wasnt living a very "proper life" no drug use or anything but I was involved in a different kind of life. basicly, i was in the adult industry for 8 yrs. one day i had one of this episodes and my daughter witnessed it. she was terrified for me and so was i. so i decided to go to church and speak to a priest. Now, ive never been into that but boy was I glad I took the time to sit with him and hear what he had to say. he explained to me due to the life I was living I had a lot of darkness around me. which of course included dark presences or spirits or whatever u wanna call them. at first I was like, whatever! he basicly told me to look into my life and change it. its been 18 months since i started my convertion and went back to church. and what do u know? when I decided I needed to get out of that world is when I had the most experiences. The closer I got to God the less and less it happened to me. My priest also told me to start praying to st. michael the archangel everynite before going to bed. I went to a religious store and purchased a "st.michael the archangel novena" which is basicly a little book where u pray to him for 9 days. I also started doing the rosary, fasting, reading the bible. left the adult biz industry on a leap of faith. and this so called SP stopped. Once in a while I will have the experience and I just basicly start praying in my sleep and by the grace of god manage to wake up...

Hyper hallucenagenic dream state is what you are all suffering from or "living dreams" as they are called. It is all a part of sleep paralysis. Horrible doesn't begin to describe the utter most fear and impending doom the you feel whilst in this state. Sometimes taking 4 or 5 times before actually returning to the real world and inside the dream of a dream. Everything so vivid but only your eyes move. Even trying to call someone but actually nothing happens your just frozen and have to watch whatever fate is about to befall you. I don't have these much anymore because my extreme treatment with Xyrem for my cataplexy stops them from occurring which is a great plus for me.

I learned from my own experience. If you get the paralyzed ,try to calm down and relax your muscles. I know it is hard but it really works. however if you get paralyzed in a dream that will be really different.Even knowing that you are in a dream but it is really hard to wake up by yourselves . For me ,holding breath works

I have this horrible experience every week, not really sure why but I've bought a book about it and how to deal with it and how to stop it happening.


Im going to try it next week fingers crossed.

Something i noticed is that you are all either female, or didnt say wich gender you were.