Comments on: Lucid Dream Experiments and Paralysis

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:24:02 +0000

I thought I Was the only one,The way You describe the feeling is Incredible Because its exactly what I Feel and think .. These ‘Experiences’ during My sleep come ever so often Maybe like 1 or 2 times a Month , &It Scares the Hell out of ne & Bothers me that it cant Just be a 1 Time thing, And Whyyy do ‘I’ Get them ?
Thanks alot for sharing this It Really helped .
And Im Onlyy 15 by the way This is Crazy;

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By: nina

nina — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:05:39 +0000

is this really true? because if it is then i can do the lucid dreams thing i do it almost all the time i dream but i never had problem minus one bad dream and i am only 14

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:24:08 +0000

Hey I suffer from paralysis but I like it and when this happens I just relax and it seems like I can take over my dreams but every so ofton I wake up, think I’m awake but am still dreaming, for example I think I wake up, make a phone call on fone drift into another dream which I can seem to sort of control then wake up again, when I wake up for real I check phone and no calls made is wierd but cool any one experianced simalar things? Made any sense lol

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By: ClaireyCanary

ClaireyCanary — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:04:55 +0000

Tha same thing is happening to me right now!

The voices, it using someone elses appearence, being paralyzed to move, the lights, the face, only its teeth, were they jagged and pointy, almost rotten? its the same feeling, the feeling that whatever it is, its bad and that its playing with me, it amuses itself with my fear.

Did you ever have things when you were awake too?

The only reason i knew i was awake is because i was staying at a friends and she saw what i say aswell, unless we were bought caught in our sleep, but once we felt we could move again we both sat up looked at each other realising we had both seen it.

Please write back to me when you can?

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By: Sophie

Sophie — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:20:31 +0000

omg! You know when you mentioned that “sad dreams”, it reminded me of something…once I’ve had some weird sad dream (but I cant remember what was so sad) and i burst out crying while I’m asleep O_O and i remember that because i actually HEARD it…its extremely weird and it only happened once (THANK GOD!!)

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By: Takaiko~

Takaiko~ — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:37:39 +0000

This Actually disturbed me a little bit, because i constantly wake up in my dreams, and I’ve been able to do it since i was quite little.I’ve also had tonnes of dreams inside dreams…… I remember doing it once because i was having a nightmare, and i wanted to change the dream so i wouldnt be scared. ( for those interested, my dream was about this horrible fmaily who were like witches and monsters and stuff, and the witch was coming after me, so i woke up in my dream, and changed it, I took out my pokeball ~ I was a fan then~ so I whipped out my evee and i killed the witch.) Since then, I’ve been able to control what happens in my dream if I’m displeased with it. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before, though. I had another dream, where i got stuck in the school library, and by the time i got out, it was like 8 pm, and my grandmother, who religiously picked me up from school everyday was still waiting there. I felt really bad. So i decided that it was a dream. I got home from school the next day ( in the dream) And i asked my mum oculd i have someone over, and she said yes, so i was like~ This must be a dream, inside a dream, inside a dream. Twas one of the weirdest dreams I’ve ever had.
Anyway,
I found your story really interesting, and very creepy.
Lots of Love,
` Takaiko :0

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By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:22:10 +0000

Wow that mummy like creature biting your two fingers off was scary.I think I remember what Star Trek episode you are referring to but I have to see it again to be sure.It’s been awhile.

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By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:49:25 +0000

I went through the same religious searching reading up on all religions. Being raised a catholic, I wanted to learn about other religions and beliefs starting when I was 16 years old .I read Carlos Castaneda religiously when I was in my teens to early 20′s. I also became adept at lucid dreaming. It was quite amazing… then wierd things began to occur around me and in my parent’s house. Shadows would be seen zipping around my bedroom floor. And, like your experience the lucid dreams became increasingly dementing. I stopped practicing when I had a visit from my Dad this one evening when I was 19. He sat on the edge of my bed and just blurted out calmly to stop what I was doing. I had allowed things to come into our home. He looked scared. Never explained more. It was very unusual coming from him. I never discussed what my interests were to him. But he must have witnessed something?

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By: zainab

zainab — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:05:45 +0000

it’s, i must say a very scary discriptin of the mummy like creature in your dream.hope u don’t have any more.

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By: Byron_O

Byron_O — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:23:23 +0000

Well it certainly sounds you were a way more successful lucid dreamer, I never managed to summon any movie stars to do my bidding, LOL… that’s a good one! Sounds like your advice would be good for anyone doing dream work, I don’t think I’m in that place anymore though… Thanks though for the detailed advice!

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By: Jennifer Mills-Young

Jennifer Mills-Young — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:40:56 +0000

Byron, you are correct in seeing the conenction between the subconscious and projections of fears that appeared in your dream states – again you have made the connection your friends became ” zombie like ” and thats not a friendly imagery – almost on the edge of turning into another nightmare!
In the (true) lucid state you can manipulate your dream environment and people in the dreams……….I used to have Tom Cruise pop into mine and he would do what ever I wanted ( give me a break, it was the 80′s ) LOL. But I could also go to the Eifel Tower – climb Mt Everest – fly – absolutely anything! and it my case, I actually started to manage astral travel! ( another story )
But it takes training because of that ability to switch back into the ‘ regular’ dream state where the subconscious is back at the helm.
When my kids and friend’s children had nightmares and I would counsel them on how to handle bad dreams – at the end of the day subconsciously even the dream is your own creation. Thinking you have no control over that can make the idea of going to sleep and having a bad dream a scary thing for a child ( & some adults! ) as you believe you have no control over whats going to happen as soon as you fall asleep.
Its a bit harder for adults to entertain the concept but kids grab it hands on ; where does the dream happen? In your mind. Who’s mind is it? Yours. Who controls what you think? You do. So in a dream you are ‘ king of the world ‘ & even your mum has to do what you say! LOL
One boy had a monster that would come after him with a ray gun and try to shoot him – I suggested as he was king of his dreams not turn the gun into an ice cream and laugh at the monster when it starts to melt.
Of course once he did that – the monster had no power over him anymore as he realised he had power over the monster and the dreams stopped.
So your comment about power is a very telling idea, in that all your dream experiences you always seem to end up almost ‘ powerless ‘ and frightened – more suggestive of a regular dream state than a lucid dream.
The fact you get scared in the experience, shows a loss of control already.
Fear even in a paranormal/ normal situation robs you of the power to act.
I deal with ghosts quite often and dealing with any fear is always the first step – you can’t be ‘ afraid ‘ of them to deal with them effectively.
So I think you are down the right path in realising the application of ‘power is related to the experiences. Power needs to be a positive and empowering experience – and there is no place for any fear in that state. Sounds like your experiences have been interesting!

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By: anna

anna — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:34:58 +0000

thanks

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By: Caretaker

Caretaker — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:45:47 +0000

People who say they never dream just dont recall them. Almost everyone dreams every time they sleep but the majority of people do not remember them or they recall only a few of them occasionally.

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By: anna

anna — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:22:43 +0000

just curious how can ppl not dream?you want to know something funny,when i was younger someone had told me if you dont dream you die.ya i know how silly.i never believed her.

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By: Byron_O

Byron_O — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:31:29 +0000

Thanks for your thoughtful comment (and thanks to everyone who has commented!) … I guess I’m agnostic enough I can go with a naturalistic or supernatural explanation for these sorts of thing, though recently I admit I’m tending more on the supernatural side myself. The vivid sense of the presence of an actual intelligence outside myself, a malicious mind deliberately trying to induce fear, has stayed with me strongly from these experiences. (Of course, a psychological explanation involving projection could also account for this.)

As for lucid dreaming, I did try to some extent to reassert control when it would start to turn “dark,” but it seemed like the whole thing was just getting way too strange and I should stop. I actually remembered one other episode I forgot to mention earlier. In one of the earlier lucid dreams I was in a room with some friends when I woke up in the dream, and basically I wondered if I can control the dream, can I control my friends in the dream? I tried to make them walk around and do things, like I was controlling people with ESP or whatever, and I could sort of do it but they stopped seeming like my friends and became these sort of… things… kind of zombie-ish I guess, so the whole thing just ended up feeling creepy. Sometimes I wonder if it was this sort of thing that made the experience turn bad. I wasn’t just experimenting, but to some extent I was trying to have “power” – and I’ve come to believe that if you’re trying to obtain power, most likely you’re giving something else power over YOU!

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By: E.Bero/author

E.Bero/author — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:41:23 +0000

I’ve had sleep paralysis before and it is very horrific. You can’t move or speak. You try to force yourself to sit up but it feels like something is holding you down. I think sometimes, whatever spirit is in contact with you, wants you to see something or feel something.
Well at least it’s over. Those are some scary vivid dreams. I don’t remember any of my dreams anymore. I don’t even think I dream anymore.

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By: Jennifer Mills-Young

Jennifer Mills-Young — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:24:13 +0000

I’d have to say from experience that you weren’t actually having lucid dreams by definition, which are a specific set of brain waves, in the situation where you found the dream evolving in ways you didn’t like.
The inherent component of the lucid dream is you are in total control of the dream environment and can manipulate it at will – hence your inability to control your body changing shape would indicate you had already slipped back into the ‘ regular’ dreaming state and were no longer in a lucid state.
When I was in a lucid state – I would regularly slip between a lucid and ‘ regular’ dream state and in fact – proposterous things like my body mutating would be the first reminder to me – I was back in a ‘ regular’ dream state because when you are conscious you know such a thing is impossible and hence the conscious logic ‘ oh I must be having a dream ‘ and then have to change back into the lucid state.
It takes some training.
Unfortunately, you were starting to have a bad dream and your inability to stay lucid and in control meant the ‘ regular ‘ dream degenerated into a nightmare.
This was nothing to do with the lucid state – everyone has nightmares on occasion.
It is also telling that many of the other experiences sound like sleep paralysis which is as scary as hell!
You literally go through the motions of being asleep and in a dream state condition and achieve REM brain waves ( hence the strange dream like imagery you could see ) but you are at the threshold of sleep only, when the brain paralyises the body so you dont thrash around the bed literally when you run from the monster in your dream or run into the cupboard! That little jolt sometimes of almost electricity which can sometimes wake you up again with a jump just as you are falling asleep is the paralysis threshold when all the muscles discharge their electrical current in one go and enter the paralysis state.
Of course if you start to wake up and your brain hasn’t thrown the ‘on’ switch for your muscles yet, it can be terrifying as you can’t move, particularly if you havent come abck to conscious brain waves quite yet and can still SEE dream like events.
It was telling that the mummy like monster reminded you so of a childhood terror – which is what the subconscious does when it seeks out ” fears ” for your bad dreams.
Its a shame you have attached such fear to the lucid experience because as the book suggests, it can be quite enlightening……………remember what ever state of consciousness you are in YOU are always the one in control.

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By: anna

anna — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:36:10 +0000

i didnt care for that movie.

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By: Believer

Believer — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:39:19 +0000

Good story! I would totally freak out If that had to happen to me. This makes me think of those movies called “Hellraiser” where theses people wake-up In a dream and then again wake-up, It’s such confusing movies.

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By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:32:10 +0000

Geez, that is pretty freaky! The freakiest, to me, is your fingers being bitten of by that thing. I will have to look for that episode of Star Trek.

Dreams are a mystery to begin with and I can honestly say that I’ve had some that had me wondering if it were real or an actual dream. Thankfully, I have never experienced any type of paralysis and can’t imagine feeling that helpless. But, I have had my share of slam bang five star dreams that had me fighting off evil, aliens, vampires, etc. Waking up somewhat scared, but always being able to go back to sleep.

Glad to hear you’ve turned that corner on the entire situation and you know what? Maybe it’s best we don’t remember some of our dreams. Maybe just maybe, that’s just a way of protecting ourselves, too.

Take care!

Christina

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