So i was browsing the forums, looking for info on lucid dreams, as i am rather new at it, when my brother comes into my room and tells me that he has had a ld before.
Now i am 16 and he is 18, he wasn’t trying to be “mean” to me in any way, he gave it as serious warning to me.
He told me that when he had a lucid dream, he woke up, and was paralysed, couldn’t move or speak, and he was like this for a couple of hours or so, making him ache quite badly. He also said that he thought he was awake, but there were dream like images trying to attack him (of course, this didn’t pysically happen) as if parts of his dream had come back into reality.
Anyway, he basically told me that even though he had enjoyed his ld, but will never try to do it again because of what happened afterwards. Can anybody persuade me to try and get a ld…because now i am afraid to
Many people have lucid dreams here and don’t wake up in SP. So trying to have a lucid dream doesn’t mean you will experience the same thing.
Also having the knowledge of what SP is will remove a lot of the fear that you could otherwise experience. Waking up in SP from a LD could make it possible to chain LDs together
Yes, naturally we have sleep paralysis every night. It’s our body’s way of immobilizing us to protect ourselves from acting out our dreams. It is completely natural, but we usually don’t notice it because we are sleeping. Sometimes when you wake up, not necessarily from a LD, your body may still be in SP. The best thing to do is wait and relax, as it will wear off in a couple minutes.
Now, there is some phenomena that some people say they see things while experiencing sleep paralysis. This is most likely due to the brain still transitioning from the sleep state into waking state. This can cause hallucinations, and because some people become frightened during sleep paralysis (because they don’t know what it is), this fear may relate to the hallucinations they see.
I haven’t heard of people being in SP for hours before. You think he miscalculated it? perhaps even had it several times and experienced it as a long continuous thing? You can’t judge LD upon one bad experience by someone else. But if your brother had had this happen often then it could be some hereditary predisposition for it. I would’t sweat it, Now that you know what it is and that it’s not dangerous, you wouldn’t be as scared by it as someone taken completely by surprise.
Your brother had what we call the Old Hag. He was still in sleep paralysis (normal and natural thing you have every night) when he woke up and he was hallucinating scary stuff. Nothing dangerous and he could just have closed his eyes and it was over.
Lucid dreaming is safe. Everything happens in your head and you can control it. Nobody has been reported to go insane or anything because of a lucid dream. Yes you can have one or two scary experiences, but that’s all, and it’s safe.
Sleep Paralysis is a state between dream and reality; when you wake up from a dream, you open your eyes and see your room ( or think you see your room) but it’s a nightmare inside your room and if you close your eyes, you can become aware that there’s nothing in your room.
It sounds easy but when you’re asleep, it’s almost impossible to think clearly and you just panick.
You can’t entirely blame LUCID dreaming for Sleep Paralysis. One time I was extremely tired, I had a test on a book the next day and I had to read over 400 pages in 2 hours. I passed out and woke up paralyzed.
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Oh i had that last night, its not so bad.
it was kinda like an old hag or something. like this ghost thing was punching my bed and i was paralysed, i was a bit scared at first since i couldnt move and something was there.
but then i realized i was in SP or something, so i tried to use this as a help to WILD, it kinda worked, i felt lightheaded and like falling into a dreamstate, though i didnt finish it because to tell you the truth i just wanted to wake up, i had to struggle a bit but after that everything was alright, and even kinda funny so its not that bad you just have to understand what it is and stay cool
I actually had such an experience where I woke up with SP and spent several minutes (maybe subjective time) in the state. I even heard some demonic voice talking gibberish for a few seconds, but quickly reminded myself that it wasn’t real (the voice then went away).
Anyway, I could not wake myself up (that actually was rather scary) and I could not move either. So I just spent the time discovering what was possible (I like to do this, I guess I am a scientific type ) and noticed that I could move my dream arms about and feel everything, although the visuals never changed. It was not too bad, I decided to just wait and eventually I did wake up.
So, are LDs dangerous? No, but you should expect weird things to happen and be prepared to deal with them. Otherwise you could become scared of going to sleep, and that wouldn’t be good. I actually think it is better to know about it before it happens - otherwise it might really be very scary. I remember having nightmares where I could not move. Now, when it happens I know I am probably somewhere between sleep and awake and I can decide where I want to go.
On the other hand, LD experience may lead to becoming aware of dreaming more often - especially when things get really strange, like in nightmares. It is actually quite a good experience to thwart a nightmare by becoming lucid.
) and noticed that I could move my dream arms about and feel everything, although the visuals never changed. It was not too bad, I decided to just wait and eventually I did wake up.