Lucid dreams & sleep paralysis

[Julian]

I never had sleep paralysis but I used to have insomnia, I'd be up 2-3days and down 18hours-ish. I lived on sodas/coffee and fast food. Anyways, went to a doc and got ambien. Don't ever drink when you take that. I fucking time traveled like the guy from Hero's. I woke up to my wife screaming at me, looking around I noticed I was naked and holding my dick. Then I heard the sound of running water but it wasn't water, I was taking a pee on our dresser in the bedroom. Fuck me. Latter changing my diet fixed everything and I no longer needed the sleeping med.


Maybe try eating healthier and cutting out caffeine

Ouch

I don't actually have insomnia or problem sleeping though. I always make sure to get enough sleep, although I do have a bit of trouble sleeping sometimes (not too often though)

I think this only happens when I go home for a break, because I'll just be bored, not really have anything to do, and I always get sleepy around 10-noon or so and decide to take a nap. Looking back, I think I've only ever had these sleep paralysis when visiting back home D:

That WILD thing sounds kinda like what I do, I often nap, but I'm still somewhat conscious, and I'll enter a dream, and I'll just go with it, but when I decide "fuck it I'm just gonna do whatever I want" I get snapped out of the dream, and I get that paralysis-like feeling for a few seconds, and I'll just be like FUCK that's really annoying, and usually I would just go back and repeat <_< I remember doing this like 2-3 times in a row or so last time I was home

[Eanae]

There was a thread on this exact topic maybe a year ago. Used to happen to me all the time on weeks I was particularly sleep deprived. Shit sucks.

[Kerberoz]

I'm curious what the spinning in circles and rubbing your hands thing is. Is that supposed to be if you wake up from a lucid dream or a dream that you are at least aware is a dream, then you do one of those activities and it sets your brain back into the mode or something?

It keeps you from waking up prematurely. Once you become lucid, you have to consciously strain to maintain it.

[Moss]

Idk, I'm wicked jealous of people that say they have lucid dreams and can control whats happening. Sounds like a really good time to me.

Yeah, it is pretty fun, I actually had a long one last night. It isn't like you are in complete control though, I would say you are more just along for the ride, and you know you can do whatever you want.

[Kurokikaze]

They are pretty fun. The best way to describe it is not so much controlling the dream outright but being able to influence things so that they give you favorable results.

Sleep paralysis happened to me like every other night for 2-3 weeks a few months ago. Hasn't happened since luckily. It's more annoying than scary at the moment cause I'm just lying there thinking to myself "Fuck.. I got shit to do today. Cut me looooooooose."

[Brill Weave]

A buddy of mine has this happen to him regularly. But he ends up hallucinating during it. Some of the things he's "seen" and told us about are pretty fucking creepy.

[arus2001]

Can't recall ever having a lucid dream, but it's always something I thought would be cool to get control of. I know for a long stretch of time when I was younger I felt like I wasn't dreaming at all in my sleep, but I think that was more me not getting nearly enough sleep (maybe 4-5 hours a night). As far as dreams I do have now, however, they always seem to be in third-person or more like watching a movie where I can associate one of the characters as myself even if they don't look like me.

[StareDownTheBarrel]

I've had it happen a few times. The ones I can most remember: Once happened and I hallucinated that I was covered in bees. Freaked me the fuck out. Second most memorable was when I fell asleep in my psychology class in like, 10th grade. Woke up and couldn't move but could look around and see everything that was going on around me.

[Brill Weave]

That's because you actually were covered in bees.

[StareDownTheBarrel]

Worst fear realized. =|