Help please anyone!! I have frequent similar dreams that are not dreams. What are they and how can I make them stop?
I’ll go to bed and read…anything, makes no difference. I am usually tired, I feel myself starting to fall asleep and try to stop it. The times I can’t I cannot move at all, I get a horrible sensation of choking as it seems my head has fallen to one side but because I cannot move I can’t lift it up. That in itself is pretty scary. But then I am dreaming, I know I am dreaming, I am fully aware of trying to wake myself up but I cannot move…except in the dream I am moving. The location is exactly that I fell asleep in only I feel terrified. I usually end up walking around but always float off somewhere. Sometimes I stand on the window ledge and think about jumping to see if I can really float but I dont because I am aware of not being quite sure if this is a dream or if I am actually awake and about to really leap out the window!!!If I leave the room I always encounter something frightening. I never feel at ease or in control. The whole time I am aware of being asleep trying to wake up and being totally unable to move. Its hard to explain since in the dream I am moving. Its like being aware of two selfs if that makes sense. I usually wake up eventually, but even weirder is that when I look at the clock it can be as little as 10 minutes of time that has passed. If I don’t get up and wake myself properly I easily fall back into the dream. I know about lucid dreaming and SP but this experience doesn’t seem to fit into either. It is never a nice experience and for years I would try and keep awake to avoid it happening. Has anyone had anything similar? Does anyone know what is happening to me during these times? I would welcome any thoughts or ideas as this is actually affecting my waking life and I fear dreaming. Thanks. 
EDIT: oops, sorry, missed the part where you said you knew about SP on my first read-through. Hmm… SP, with hypnopompic imagery and maybe even an OBE?
Seems terrible!
However, you mustn’t avoid your dreams.
You can’t live without sleep.
You will feel very weak and tired, and if you don’t sleep for like 10 days or even less, you’ll die lol.
Well, I’d say that is SP before you fall asleep.Don’t resist it or anything.
When you start dreaming, DON’T be like:’‘Oh, no, I’m in a dream, I want to get out of it!’’
You must be relaxed, and not afraid.Then you say:’‘This is MY dream, and I am in charge!!’’
And that should do it.I hope i helped.
It seems terrible but is not quite like that.
I also have these kind of experiences about 2 times a month. I believe it is a high profile OOBE. For me, it was not scary at all until I felt I’m not the only one, I mean I felt that in my house there is also “someone” who lives as a spirit and that actually scared me. Focusing on yourself will help make the fear feel less vivid, also there must be something that scares you, this fear is not getting out of nowhere. I can tell you this for sure because I had quite a few OOBE’s when I could feel the both bodies and I wasn’t scared at all, even if outside was dark and raining.
You cannot treat this experience as a dream because it is not. Although you can walk through walls, there is nothing else extraordinary you can do. As you get farer away from your body, your fear will get higher in your case, in my case it was just like an invisible wall that would not allow me to continue.
Im slowly learning that I may control these once frightening dreams. I dont fear them so much and have actually enjoyed some once I get a better grip of myself and start exercising control over my mind. This site has helped me enormously. Wish Id checked backl on here earlier, it would have saved me a few years of unsettled nights and weariness from staying up so late.