What you are experiencing is called "sleep paralysis" and is common to many that also experience nighttime vibrations and lucid dreaming. The truth of these phenomenom are hard to swallow unless one is objective and/or spiritual minded.

I just had this experience a few weeks ago. never before and none since. I was sleeping, (not lucid, because I know what that is) and all of a sudden my whole body was like a pager or cellphone. It vibrated for about 1-2 seconds. It woke me up, but I did not open my eyes. It was if it took me to another level of consciousness. I know it was not a dream. I'm not on medication or anything. I am very conscious of my states of consciousness, because I have studied dreams etc. I have had many episodes of sleep paralysis throughout my life, but this was not one of them. This was something so unusual and out of the ordinary. Just wanted to share this.

The only time my body vibrated while sleeping was due to a mild earthquake. Never had it happen any other time.

~Zig

I shake in my sleep but most f time do not feel it, but my boyfriend does, he is deaf and super sinsative to movement and I thought it might have been me just moving in my sleep and he was just viewing as shaking, but I woke a couple of nights now in the middle of the shaking. I don't know what to do, it's keeping boyfriend up and he hardly wants to sleep with me anymore and hurts me. does anyone know what i can do? I thought of maybe of putting different beds together...

i wen t my sleep study. i do have sleep apnea. they put me on this machine. i haven't had anything happen since i have got my cpap machine.

I have been experiencing the bed vibrating since 2001, at least that is the first time I can remember it happening. What's weird is that it didn't scare me...but as it kept happening it started to. In the past three years since I've been married my husband says that the bed indeed vibrates when I'm sleeping at times. As far as the dreaming, I find it happens when I am having pleasant dreams that feel so real. However, I have had a lot of injuries that would cause spasms. It's a very interesting phenomenon.

I had this happen to me about a year ago, and then it went away. I just got it back about a month ago and it is happening mostly in the mornings. It is a very low vibration deep in my chest area. Starts and stops, starts and stops, athough this time the vibration seems to last a bit longer than what it used to.
I don't have insurance, and I really want to find out what this is...I'm getting to the point where I just don't want to go to bed at night.

I went to a doctor recently and he told me that this happens to me because I'm tense and stressed. He gave me some pills to calm down. I don't know if this is the reason because even when I'm very calm it happens to me and I'm not stressed.. And I'm only 18 to take pills to calm down..

This happened to me the first time a few days ago since then I've been google searching alot to find out whats happening (and learning alot). The previous 3 nights were full of lucid dreaming and on the 4 night I vibrated, the sensation startled me and I couldn't move when I first woke up.

Just a question in that dream before I vibrate I felt like I was on an ocean, it was calm and relaxing...did anyone else have that? Or just a vibration. (Describing it as if you were on a phone on vibrate is the only way I can describe it too.)

And oddly enough...it was a full moon out as well.

Hi guys thank you for posting all these tips.
This vibrating & trembling has been going on for 2 years now and its horrific.
The Feeling is really bad like some sort of electrical appliance is plugged into me and it awakes me during the night its that bad.
it went away for awhile and now its back, i have experienced lots of anxiety and stress in my life i believe this could be the main problem. i know im lacking in some of minerals aswell so this too could related.
My Partner actually woke me up one morning to advise that i was shaking that bad i looked like i was fitting in my sleep.
although i have worked out that thinking more about the trembling when your trying to sleep brings this on more and when trying to not think about it, it suddenly goes away.
another thing that i notice when this problem occurs im very irritated, my legs are very restless and i cannot get comfortable in bed.
however i had a session of acupuntre and then same night i slept like a log.
I Thought i would share this with you guys...

I've had this sensation for well over 10 years now. It's not every night of course, but it's not rare either.

It seems to happen mostly when I am dreaming of floating, flying, rapidly descending, or something scary.

Sometimes, I can actually control where I "fly" to a certain point, and then the scenery changes. Therefore, I am skeptical of the "out of body" experience.

A lot of the times I will force myself to wake up, probably as a security thing, and within 5 minutes of closing my eyes again, it continues.

Additionally, I feel like I'm not in a deep sleep. Sometimes I can (or think I can) hear what is going on around me as I sleep while this is happening.

I personally think it's pretty cool, because it's differen't from any sleep experience I've ever had. As long as it doesn't have anything to do with a health risk, I look forward to the next time I dream like this.

I too, thought it might be something in the way of an out of body experience at first. I am open minded and although I hold my beliefs true, I find it educational to talk with others who believe in different things.

However, I never have to "return" to my body, nor again can I completely control the direction of flight or fall 100% of the time.

I have talked with someone who believes in out of body experiences and they informed me of transportaion facilities as in airports, etc and I've never experienced that. My reply was, "If I could fly myself, why would I need a plane?" =D

I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm just saying I've never experienced anything like what was explained to me.

Hope this information helps, and I look forward to reading more responses on this because I too, thought I was in a very low percentage of people who experienced this sort of thing.

I can not believe I am not the only person dealing with this. It starts as I am laying down relaxing or drifting off to sleep. 1st i thought it was the room, then the bed, then I thought I was having a heart attack except that when checking I could distictly feel my heart beating seperatly along side the vibrating. So next I attributed it my nervous system blaming my parting life of ten years ago and then though I was dying from smoking alchol or poor nutrition. It is scary and wierd. The pager or cell phone analogy is perfect and I don't think people I tell get it. Mabey I will keep a sleep log. Is this the sighn of a medical condition, I am scared.

I vibrate day and night. I don't know if I vibrate while I'm sleeping but I imagine that I do. I'm vibrating right now and I'm wide awake.

It comes and goes and I don't know what triggers it. I just thought I would get online and see if anyone else experiences this.

It looks like I am alone in vibrating when I'm also awake and not just when I am in bed. Or maybe some of you do to but don't notice it during the daily routine. I have Fibromyalgia, so I am extremely sensitive to what my body is doing.

For me there is no visible trembling of the body, it's just a fast vibration, faster I think than the cell phone vibrators, but at a lower intensity.

I used to think it was my bed vibrating, my chair vibrating etc... But I would get up and tell my fiance to sit in the same chair to see if he could feel it and he can't, but he has been able to feel it while touching me.

I haven't found anything medically to explain it. I do know that for me, it isn't sleep apnea.

Somebody has to know what this is. I do not know if it happens while I am sleeping or not, but it does happen when I am awake and relaxed especially if I am trying to fall asleep or am over tired.

This happened to me once. I woke up from a weird dream and found my self in a state of panic. I decide to try to clear my mind in a meditation kind of way. As I sat there I began to feel my whole body vibrate. The first thing I thought of was that I was like an engine running. I wasn't scared of the vibrating but my state of mind seemed to be getting way intense so I snapped myself out of it.

I had a similar thing happen once before but instead of vibrating, i started to feel like a protective globe was encompassing me.

Its not something I'm worried about and I actually really enjoyed which is why I'm looking it up. My theory is that it's my mind becoming in tune with my body (that phrase always sounded cheesey to me but now I think i understand it).

Its like when two different musical notes slowly become more similar in pitch, a vibration starts to occur. I think the same thing is happening in some kind of body/mind way.
Just my theory.

I'm glad to have found this site. I thought I was losing my mind!

My body vibrates sometimes at night when I'm sleeping--it wakes me up it is so strong. It is like a vibrating blanket has been thrown over my body, and it is a vibration like my cell phone when I have it on vibrate instead of ring. It goes...buzzzzzz, pause; buzzzzz, pause; buzzzzz, pause..the whole length of my body. It keeps on until I turn over and wake up fully or get up and walk around.

Anybody know what this is? It's driving me batty!

The first time this happened to me was when I was pregnant with my 3rd child. He is now 8 years old and this has not happened very often. It happened again last night I was laying down with my baby and started vibrating, I am not so sure if it is my body, last night it felt as though it could be a vibrating force pressed against me. Nonetheless it scares the hell out of me and when it occurs I cannont speak or move at all, only open my eyes or think. I started praying to make it stop and go away and it did. What is going on here!?

I'm 60 years old and this has only started recently for me. It is most perplexing.

Mine, too, feels like something is laying over me, like a blanket. It is not every night nor is it every time I take a nap. I don't know what triggers it, but I am eliminating things one per week (like that cup of coffee in the afternoon or a particular vitamin or the chamomile tea at night) to see if I can narrow it down.

I pray for yours and mine to quit, too!

Ok so I am up at 10:08pm reading everything you all have wrote and I can realte to this 100%

At night when I try to sleep first my body (mostly upper) starts to vibrate them when I try to close my eyes my head gets funny feeling and I open my eyes only to have my head feel really weird it is hard to explain but its almost like pins & needles I get so stressed out I have anxiety attacks and that only way I am able to sleep is to wait until I am totally exausted and have no choice but to pass out.

I had this problem for the last 10 years.
It started in my throat and eventually moved to all parts of my body including my head.
There are only two ways I can stop the vibration; one is sheaking my head several time the other is getting out of bed.
It only happen early in the morning, one or two hours before I get up.
I work in Microwave System and as far as I can tell nobody has proven any relationship between the vibrationss and Microwave.
The Neurologist never believe me, the only thing they did was an MRI of my Brain and then they send to a Psycologist.
At the beginning it hapenned every night; now it does not happen as often but when it happens I get up somewhat grogy.
At the beginnig when I started having this problem I searched the Internet and could only find one other case that showed at the
CLEVELAND CLINIC patient question page.
Last night I hadvery strong vibration which make think in searching the web one more time.
Good Luck to everybody.
I hope somebody find the logical reason why is this is happening and how we can avoid this problem