So I'm not the only one that this is happening to, I actually had a episode this morning. In my case I know my eyes are open because when I do wake up everything is the way I saw it. Today it happen to me when I fell back asleep on the couch, my 3yr old daughter was playing next to me and I was watching and hearing everything she was doing, I was trying to call her and my husband but whenever I try to talk I feel like I cant get the words out. This has been happening to me since I was a little girl and I'm almost 33. It is very disturbing and scary. I find what CAMPRIP says its true, if I relax and stay with it I wake up fine but I still panic at first, I cant help it.

I had a dream where i was falling out my door, like something was pulling, i was on the floor and i couldnt walk propley so i crawled to my room and i was trying tell my bf to help me up but he just ignored me, when i crawled into bed he was gone and i couldnt see anything but it was like a girl was plling me back and forth and i just felt like a rag doll and i was trying to wake myself butit woudlnt work. it was horrible, i fnlly found the mote to my t.v and turned it on which woke me up. I feel so scared to sleep in my room now, i have little dreams like that, but it was the worst. what is it? what does it mean? is it spritual or mental??

omg i fort i was the only persson.
ive experienced the exact same thing last night for the first time and now im afraid to go to sleep, i dno if im gnr have this weird thing again but im sure it wasnt a dream.
i woke up, i couldnt move my body, just my eyes, i was at my cousins, and the cat walked over my head.
i dont know why but something was telling me if i didnt fight this force that was like pulling me down then i'd die, i dont know why i fort i wss gnr die, i felt like i was dying tbh, i got ready for school then and havent slept since, im so glad someonelse has experinced this cos everyone thinks ive gone mad !

i read alot of things about this..... so wenever i get an episode i dont panic and i knw wats going and that im gona wake up soon so i dont try as much to wakeup in the dream... i heard tht trying to move my fingers in the dream/real helps.... but once i dont panic these dreams become very realistic unlike the ghosts and scary stuff i dreamt of befooore and learned wat sleep paralys and lucid dreams meant.... wen i understood them i didnt dream of scary things....
oh and u do get them wen u over sleep or wakeup early and try to sleep agian...
i read somewhere that you can take advantage of these dreams and do things cuz ur dreaming....
so today was sooo angry for losing my boyfriend,,, i tried to imagiiine him with mee to picture him touching meee BUUUT NOTIHIIIING HAPPPNEED heeeee didnt apppeaaar in my dreeeeaaam!!!!! so then i got sick of it and i was wiiilll seee if this is reeal so i reached for a pen on the table next tooo me and i wrote in my fone book " SARA YOU ARE DREAMING" and was saying to my self if this is reeeeeal i willl seee it once i wake upp.... and wen i did there was no pen next to me and no boook....
i caaant handle these dreams wen im already deprreseddd.... its sooooooo annooooyingg

I am losing it over these dreams and need help! I have what I call a dream within a dream. It starts out as a nightmare that always has to do with Evil - something horribly oozing with evil is trying to get me while I'm in some strange house alone. (the house is never the same) I jolt awake up sweating, heart racing etc and sit up in bed. I reach to turn on my light and the light won't come on. I sit there perplexed and then the walls start shaking and the Evil is now there in my room. I panic realizing that I am not awake and the dream is still continuing. I panic and wake up and sit up in my bed and then I reach for the light....it won't turn on. I know when the light doesn't come on, I am still dreaming and I panic - then wake up again. I go through this pattern over and over. When the light finally comes on during one of these times, I realize that I am totally awake - panicked, heart racing and not able to sleep for hours. My boyfriend actually tries to help me wake up during these events - I will startle him awake as I am reaching for the light. He will reassure that I am awake now and the light will come on.

So I researched this and read about lucid dreaming and taking control of your dreams. OMG it got worse, and now I am terrified to sleep...

So I had one of those dreams two nights ago. In a house - evil there and coming for me. So I thought to myself, oh god - here we go again and made a decision take control. I pretended it was a video game and I was a heroin and started being all bad assed and destroying anything scary. It was actually fun and I thought it was the coolest experiences of my life to be able to control the outcome of the dream.

Something woke me and I rolled over in my bed and thought how I wanted to go back to sleep and finish the dream and someone was standing next to my bed. He leaned into me and pinned me down in the bed. He leaned down and got 2 inches from my face, slowly looked over at my sleeping boyfriend and then back at me and said. "You think it's that easy?" I panicked and started fighting and screaming and my boyfriend woke up and started rolling over. The man backed off and said, "This ain't over" and disappeared. I sat up in bed, all the while my boyfriend is reassuring me by telling me to turn on the light that I will wake up. The light came on, and I started crying. My boyfriend said, "Trish it's ok, your awake now." I looked at him and said, "I wasn't asleep."

I am afraid to go to bed. I am a professional and don't take any medications. I don't know what to do.

i get this very very bad i dont mind the being paralyed but while in the weird dream thing everything in my room is normal and i dont even relize im asleep untill very scary stuff starts happening doors opening and closing the worst is when somthing starts banging on my door so hard it sounds like there trying to knock it down its been like this for years but is gettting worse larely jus wonderder does anyone else get horrers while in this dram thing

You're having a false awakening!! I've gotten those for years now.

Google to read more about them.

They suck...hardcore. Sometimes I feel like it goes on for hours.

I've been having dreams like that when i was 6 yrs old i wake up and my blood pressure is shot to hell i have a dream and then i try to wake up and i cant its almost like im paralize i try to move but i haveto fight with my body to get it to move i just had one not too long ago thats why i'm on the internet doing some research its happens when i lay on my back this is why i always try to avode sleeping on my back it helps most of the time but every once in a blue moon i find myself sleeping on my back if anyone has any information please let me know .

Just had one of these for the second time. The first was when i was really 5 and it scared the crap out of me. The time when i was younger sounded exactly like most other people put it.

Now i had a slight alteration on the "formula" yesterday. I took a nap on the recliner and did the whole wake up and everything yet i was still in a dream. I realized i was in a quasi dream/awake state. But the weird thing is i could decide if i wanted to go back to the "full on dream" or stay in the "dream/awake state". I eventually did this about 3 or 4 times then i started trying to see what i could do. I would plan out what I wanted to happen in my next dream when i was in the awake/dream state and see what would happen when i decided to go back to real dream world. Though it never happened exactly like i wanted it too it was still very interesting. I guess i was trying to have complete control over my "lucid dream". And though at some points i realized the dreams were frightening after i just sort of accepted it, the experience was actually quite interesting.
I think i entered the "full on dream world" about 5 or 6 times. And the first few times when i was in the quasi dream state i did try waking up. I tried screaming, and it was really creepy because i really though i was screaming and it was way too real for it not to be happening, but of course i wasn't. Also got one eye open for a second but was just way too tired to keep it open. Finally awoke after getting a text message, i slowly sort of starting snapping out of it. The weird thing was that i still had to decide to wake up. It was in no way immediate. The phone rang and i had to say that seeing what it said was more important than sleeping.

Entirely strange and interesting experience. Frightening but i think if you really just try to think logically while you in those "quasi awake/dreaming" moments, you might be able to take away most of the fear, or at least realize that the fear that is felt is irrational. But that being said, i still rather it not happen again.

Good luck

well its good to know i'm not the only one that this happens to. But i'm SICK of it, and i want some answers. Does anyone know exactly what this is, and if there's anything you can do to prevent it?