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A disturbing dream

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I dont know if im posting at the right place, I dont even know if you subject is covered by your forum but meaby someone here could help me about this.

Recently I keep having those dream where I cant remember what happen during the dream but its always a different dream and it doesnt really matter what happen before this but at a certain point I hear a sound that sounds to me like an alarm and it become louder and then I fail on the floor and become paralyzed but im still conscious, I feel like im in extrem danger and that I must wake up as soon as possible or something really bad might happen. When this happen I accuatly dont know that it is a dream, I think its real. So I do all I can to wake up (in the dream), I try to open my eyes, to move my arms, my legs and my body and after a short while I realise that Im dreaming and that Im trying to wake up for real, I still hear the sound and im still paralyzed but i start to be able to move my hand and my body a little bit, I try to open my eyes and I cant... after a short while I can open my eyes and move my body but I still hear the sound which become less loud gradually and disapear.

What happened?
Does this happened to someone?

This dream keeps me from sleeping and makes me very anxious.
 
Dreams as a general rule shouldn't be too much of a cause for concern but I understand it's not great if it's keeping you from sleeping and it does sound pretty terrifying. Has anything particularly stressful or that is perhaps tying you down been occurring in your life recently? I find whenever I'm stressed/depressed I have nightmares a lot but they tend to go away when I'm in a better state of mind. Doing calming things before going to bed might help.
 
Some similar experience happened to me in the past but it didnt happened for a few years. At the beginning or the end of sleep I hear the same sound and hallucinate people in my room or that im falling into my bed or my walls and I think this is called Sleep Paralysis and when this happened in the past I knew what was going on and that I was about to wake up. But this dream that I have recently it is different as I become paralyzed IN the dream and I think its happening for real. Its probably sleep paralysis too... but it feels different.

Yes its very terrifying.
 
yeah dreams are all caused by the mind state you have before you fall asleep, and can be caused from substance use.

The paralysis thing is fairly common. Its when part of your brain wakes up for consciousness, before the part of your brain can wake up that controls movement.

Its like a delay. nothing you should worry about..But if it is causing you problems, i suggest a sleep aid.

Try 2 benadryl before bed (50mg diphenhydramine.) i tend to have a solid, dreamless sleep when i use dph. No getting up to go to the bathroom, no dreams, nothing. Just an idea if its really causing you too much of a problem.
 
If the dream is recurring, you can take about 5 minutes before you go to bed to sit with yourself in silence, and ask to be shown what this dream is about. No one else can tell you what the dream means but you. Ask to be revealed answers the next time you dream about it. Another way to ask is to write it out before going to sleep. The work you do on it while you're conscious will affect your unconscious.

One thing that can cause sleep paralysis is when you're having a disturbing dream or nightmare, you try to get away from it by forcing yourself awake, yet your body can't awaken with the same speed. When the mind and body de-sync, you can have sleep paralysis. Also, any altering substances you've taken recently could cause it.

I do think a recurring dream is important to examine though. It's trying to tell you something. Once you know what it is, you can resolve it and integrate it. For me, an alarm would be pretty audacious and an indication that I am being notified about something. (But that's my association with alarms. Yours might be different.)
 
U maybe experiencing sleep paralysis or possibly night terrors..
I don't dream a lot anymore, but I use 2 experience something similar when I was a kid.
 
Yeah, sleep paralysis, no question. Google it. When you're dreaming your brain puts your body into a semi-paralysed state so you can't act out whatever's going on in your dream and hurt yourself. You're trying to bring yourself out of the dream but you're in a half-waking state for a short time and that's why you're experiencing that paralysis and aware of it. I've experienced something akin to an out of body experience at times, and also a physical presence sitting on me which was very, very scary at the time, felt very real but completely related to this. Dead common.

So, that explains that. Guess we need to get to what's causing the dreams? You unusually stressed or anxious at the moment about anything? Anything kinda traumatic happened recently? You just going to sleep now most nights worrying about whether this is gonna happen agin? All of these can be triggers for recurring dreams or night terrors. You caught yourself waking up trying to scream at all, anything like that? I quite often have dreams where it's my own shouting that wakes me up, or trying to shout and being unable to because of the paralysis thing. Freaky stuff but nothing over much to worry about. They'll likely pass, especially if you can get to the root of whatever might be causing them or stop being anxious about having them.
 
Thank you for all your anwser, Ill try to remember the next time and think about it but I think the dream is always different before I get paralysed IN the dream.
 
It sounds like you have sleep paralysis. It happens to people don't freak out about it. Just concentrate on your breathing.
 
Quare, I went through something similar for about 6 months when I first went away to college. It was terrifying. Mine was a combination of sleepwalking and sleep paralysis. I would have a nightmare, think I woke up, try to get out of bed and find that my body had no coordination or strength. I would think that I was throwing myself against something to try to move when in actuality I was out in the corridor of the dorm or in the stairwell. Fortunately this always happened very late in the night and I didn't scare the hell out of someone else! The long and short of it is that it came on mysteriously and ceased mysteriously. Like you, I was afraid to even go to sleep for a while but it just went away on its own. Looking back, I'm sure that the stress of college and being alone in a new place was at the root of it. I have to admit that as terrifying as it was, it was also pretty fascinating.
 
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