Sleep Paralysis / Lucid Dreaming
This isnt Unexplained as such. As I think its pretty much proven. But I do wonder about analyzing sleep paralysis experiences.

Its on the top of my thought process at the moment, as Ive just had one hell of an experience and wish to share.

SP and LD happen to me when im sleeping outside my normal sleep pattern. Im off work today really poorly. Im laid in bed as i type this. Im not too bad lying down but the moment I stand up i feel sick and dizzy. I have a temperature too. So when I have fallen asleep, im not falling asleep properly. Which seems to allow me to enter.. The Other Realm.

Today was strange. I was dreaming that i was sat on the toilet. This wasnt any ordinary dream, it felt real. Its filed in my head as a real life memory now. I started to pass out on the toilet and fall against the sink. I then woke up in the future. I was in some sort of hospital. There was no nurses but some robot running around giving medication. It was annoying as it wouldnt shut up. It had a kind of female announcer voice.

I got given some paracetamol, but i took more than I should have, and this thing was spazzing out. Strangely I can still taste paracetamol in my mouth now - yet I havnt actually taken anyway. It seemed that real Id actually be interested in a blood test result right now to see if I actually have any paracetamol in me. Im sure I dont, but it just felt so real.

Im not sure how i realised I was dreaming. But I woke up back in my own bed and was looking around, except I couldnt move. This is the sleep paralysis bit. There was loads of noise around me. I then recognised what was going on, and was now able to control myself. I got up. And took over the dream. I was now lucid dreaming.

I ran towards my bedroom door imagining it was red and I could pass straight through it. The door changed red and i ran through. Suddenly i was floating around aload of different colours. Then I was at my mums house at Christas time 1600 miles away. There was tinsel on the railing. I could feel the brisslyness of it. I floated around the room looking at the xmas tree and then I could hear a fly buzzing around. So I grabbed the fly spray. It was the exact same fly spray I have at home. It was the same one. In one hand ive got a canister of fly spray. I felt it get cold as I shook it. It was incredible. This whole thing was so real.

Next I was back in my bedroom. Im trying to turn the light on to find the fly to spray it. But the lights werent working. (That seems to be common in dreams) I tried spraying the spray but it didnt seem very powerful for some reason. Like it was almost empty but it wasnt.

I then realised that I thought the fly may have been actually in my room. In the waking world. As I couldnt find it there. Albeit it was a bit dark. And so eventually after a lot of effort I managed to snap myself out of it and woke up. It took a couple of attempts as Id wake up but then realise that Im still asleep. But eventually I did and the fly buzzing sound stopped.

The fly wasnt really in my room at all.
But for some reason the fly spray now was. I kid you f*kin not. Somehow I got the fly spray out of the kitchen and brought it to my room whilst all that was going on.

Ive put that down to perhaps sleep walking. Strangely tho, I didnt dream that I got it out of the kitchen. Ie i didnt wake up and get it, then sleep again and the memories became tangled. Im home alone today so no one can verify. I have never slept walked in my life. Maybe it was already here, tho im pretty sure it wasnt. It lives under the kitchen sink, and I havnt used it for a while.

It was kinda freaky but Im a rational person and can put it down to sleep walking and lucid dreaming. It all probably happened in my mind.

But I do feel like I have been away. Its a strange feeling. I felt that the images i experienced and the things I felt and heard were rather personal to me. This is going to sound stupid, but that fly that i kept hearing buzzing around.. It feels like it was some sort of warning to get me out of there. My attempts in the sleeping world to get rid of it failed.

I dont know. It was a hell of an experience anyway. Everything seems normal now.

Sorry for length.
(Miggyman, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 12:17, 3 replies)

LD
Read the booking about LD by Stephen La Berge...very interesting stuff...
(scotsbloke, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 12:53, closed)

I have experienced sleep paralysis..
Its fucking scary. I had gone to bed, but my dog had barked to go out in the early hours of the morning and so disrupted my sleep pattern. It happened an hour or so after.. I was awake but couldn't move even my little finger..I was frozen solid. The scariest part was the breathing. If normally we breath at 100%, I was only breathing 5%, and felt like I was being suffocated but there was nothing I could do.

In my mind I screamed in terror, thinking, I am going to die. I slowly calmed myself down and tried to concentrate, but I was so groggy.. the kind of feeling where you can't help but close your eye's you are that tired.

Somehow I snapped out of it.. and gasped for air, just as if I had been holding my breath under water, then finally surfaced.

I was tired all through the morning, and was left feeling odd. At some point during the paralysis, I believed there were people in the room with me..but I couldn't see them.. but I read afterwards that this is apparently to do with the brain.
(TheRiddler Hmmmmm... I concur., Mon 7 Jul 2008, 13:02, closed)

hum
there is nothing worse, yet more fascinating than sleep paralysis.
(nutellajunkie Deal with it.., Mon 7 Jul 2008, 14:02, closed)