I have these dreams when I can't move
or talk at all. I'm paralyzed. I know I'm on a dream, and despite that, I get very scared. I try to wake myself up. I try very hard. Sometimes I manage to wake up, but in reality, I'm still sleeping, but I think I'm awake. Then, moving gets harder and harder, until I realize again that I'm sleeping. Then, sometimes I tell to myself: "Don't worry, you're sleeping, just relax". But I can't. I get all shaky, trembling, sweating (on my dream). I try to shout but I can't. My throat hurts and all I can manage is a little whimper.

When I finally wake up, I'm scare of going back to sleep and have another bad dream.

It hasn't happened to me since I started to sleep with Mark regularly.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Do you snore?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

I don't think I do
Nobody has ever told me, not even my sister, who has a very good ear and wakes up with almost no noise.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I've had that a few times
it's fucking terrifying. Especially not being sure if you're awake or not, but not being able to move, and feeling like any second you won't be able to breathe, but not being able to scream or move or do anything about it. The last time it happened I was convinced there was somebody in my flat, I swear to god if I hadn't managed to jerk out of it I'd either have pissed myself or had a coronary. Or both.
(berk, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I can sometimes bring myself out of it by gasping increasingly louder each time until i kind of shriek

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

Yeah, I've done that too
Concentrate in the only thing that is moving and you can feel, your lungs, and make them move faster and faster until you wake up with the movement.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:39, Reply)

I've had it when awake
usually in the morning. Terrifying, feeling like you're going to die with not even a squeak
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

I know, it's too scary
I was so afraid to go to bed for some time!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I used to get that all the time, it's worst when the Telly or radio is on and you can still hear it and recount everything that has gone on in it.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

Yes, and when you think you woke up
You mix up what's going on outside and in your dream. I've woken up from naps on the sofa, asking my mother where her friend was, completely certain I had been having coffee and biscuits with her, and had a good conversation all the time, just feeling very tired though, and wanting to go to sleep all the time; so I thought I had fallen asleep while talking to her and she had gone.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:40, Reply)

I read and fall asleep
then dream what happens next. It's really confusing when I continue reading later
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:09, Reply)