Every 2-3 days, I end up in a state between REM sleep and wakefulness which I believe to be some combination of a lucid dream and sleep paralysis. It's a bit hard to explain, but I can list the symptoms:
1. I can't move, which is typical of sleep paralysis.
- I can "feel" my limbs moving, but in reality they aren't moving at all.
-Occasionally, I "move" a limb off the bed, and it slumps down and becomes completely unmovable along with the sensation of all my blood being sucked down to my fingers, as if it were made of lead or something.
-It seems to be different with every episode, at times I can "open" my eyes though it feels like my eyelids are made of lead, I can "move" my limbs/fingers/toes though my real body isn't moving at all, there are times when I can control my breathing, times when my heartbeat becomes incredibly strong, times where I can make sounds using my voice although nothing coherent and no one else seems to be able to hear it, and times where I can hear as I would normally.
- I instantly wake up by being physically touched by another living thing. I haven't had anyone test prodding me with inanimate objects though, but I believe it would have similar results.
2. As for the mental part:
- I am quite aware of my state.
- I can attempt to struggle awake, but there's an incredibly strong urge to just fall asleep.
- Attempting to move just moves the body "in my mind", my real form doesn't move at all. If I manage to open my eyes I just see what I expect to see: the room wall that I'm facing when I fall asleep.
- Giving in to the urge to fall asleep makes me enter the dream state, where I apparently dream as normal, although they are quite vivid.
- While dreaming, I am unaware of doing so until near the end of said dream, I suddenly become acutely aware that I'm dreaming. I can attempt to wake up and return to my paralyzed state or attempt to continue the dream, which only delays the time where I return to my paralyzed state.
- While in my paralyzed state, I can wake up through sheer force of will, but I occasionally experience very frightening hallucinations.
- A full dream period state, if I decide to fully experience it can be as short as 20 minutes, where I can experience several dozen different dreams.
I suppose I could list these different states:
1. Paralysis: I have become aware of my paralyzed state.
2. Resistance: I attempt to wake up, I do see imagery, but its mostly translucent images with a black background.
3. Dream: I gave in to the urge to sleep and enter a dream, I have no knowledge that I am dreaming.
4. Semi-Lucid Dream: I'm suddenly acutely aware that I am dreaming, depending on the type of dream/nightmare, I can attempt to wake up or continue dreaming, but either way I return to stage 1.
After enough time passes, the dream period will end on its own and I will feel completely refreshed, even if I only slept for 20 minutes. On the other hand, if I resist the attempts and wake up after stage 2, I'll be extremely tired and almost immediately return to stage 1. This tired period only lasts for about 30 seconds if I manage to get up on my feet.
I vaguely remember some of my dreams:
1. After falling down several hundred stories into an artificial lake, I was taken in by the lowest members of a futuristic society. Apparently society had become a vertical-organization, literally. People lived on separate levels divided by their wealth and status. As I watched their souped-up motorcycles race around - which was quite a feat considering they had to drive sideways on walls - I found out I was in possession of a genuine can of Coca-Cola, which apparently was worth enough to purchase an entire galaxy. So I was sent onto a cargo lift which pulled me hundreds of miles up to the very top, where I was able to see the leader(?) and his cabinet(?) through a small window. The encounter was sorta like when Gordan Freeman in HL2 accidentally teleported into the Big Bad's office i.e. everyone turning to look at me the leader saying "YOU.". Shortly after I was treated to a scene where I saw two giant space fleets preparing for battle with a blue sun in the background.
2. I was on the search for giant spinning runestones and somehow got an entire elementary school (Where my father was playing bingo) drunk which somehow culminated in me turning into a vampire after something of a "X-years later" ending. And then I was in Korea at night with my sisters who were all armed with AA-12s so we could visit some relative I never knew about (Though we were also probably searching for more runestones since I remember saying "Keep an eye out for spinning things."). We reached the home, where I tried to turn on the television, but they said it wasn't working.
3. My boss apparently called my co-worker and we were supposed to meet at the place where we worked; which was apparently behind an old Japanese sushi shop in a dilapidated portion of town. My nephew(?) was driving the car, and he drove onto the road to the right of the shop entrance, which led to a grand hotel where he drove off the top of the escalator and landed in the pool in the center of some fancy restaurant. And that's all i can remember.
4. I was speaking to some character I had just recently met, she spoke in a sing-song voice with rhyming lines - she had a great voice! From our position on some platform with podiums with buttons we climbed across the criss-crossing metal suspending it. Unfortunately, I realized I was dreaming and though I tried to stay asleep, I returned to stage 1. Upon falling back into the dream, I found out that we had all been curbstomped by zombies(?) along with the rest of my squad(?).
5. I was on a cross-country trip to visit someone's wedding in my car with my companions: A talking wolf and a talking pregnant kangaroo. After stopping by a nearby grocery store... Apparently, kangaroos eat meat, who would've thought. Later I was jumping from planet to moon, to another planet, to another moon. It ended when I landed on a tiny moon with some form of human construction on it. Apparently I was afraid of being sucked into the purple sun that the rock was orbiting.
6. In my most recent one, happening only a few minutes ago, I was confronted with 3 doors. On the left side was a door with some form of metal barrier erected in front of it. When I asked my "companions" about it they mentioned that they've been there before and it was best that I left it alone due to what they experienced behind it. I unlocked the center door and went through it, which brought me into some kind of hedge maze with a path straight through the center of all the walls. Though it was pitch black due to the night, I "remembered" advice that all I had to do was walk straight towards the center and I probably wouldn't run into any monsters(?). About halfway through I was grabbed and swept off my feet, which somehow culminated to me speaking with some guy that I apparently knew very well at the pool in my swimsuit.
7. I was on a small wooden sloop(?) near the docks and some people drove by with their fancy motorboat. So I sailed my boat in circles really fast, which caused a whirlpool to suck them up. Unfortunately, spinning around so fast caused to boat to tip a bit and take on water. So I jumped up into the air, grabbed the end of the boat, and spun it around really fast, then swung it down which caused the ocean(?) to be split in two for a bit. As I drove along some more, I was stopped by a police boat(?) and thus I ran aground on the side of the giant concrete walls near the docks. After that I was trapped in some white room and was being tortured, my limbs were sucked into giant dimensional rifts where it felt like they were being pierced by thousands of needles. And the rest of the tortures... aren't work-safe. Anyone who says you can't feel pain in a dream is wrong, horribly, horribly wrong.
And that's the few I can remember. I can't make heads or tails of it either.
Oh, the questions are:
1. Is this going to detrimentally affect my mental or physical well-being?
2. Is there any trick to staying in a dream? Some of said dreams are quite enjoyable.
3. Has anyone else experienced this or anything similar to this?
Please excuse my run-on sentences and horrible grammar, all of this is sorta spilling out right now.
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