Something strange happens to me when I'm sleeping.

Wow that sounds scary to experience. I have not experienced this before, but I hope I never do. It would freak me out to, have you ever spoken to a dream analyst or a doctor about it? Maybe they can help you more on it. I have had some dreams where I feel like I've woken up and started doing something else but have been asleep that whole time. It does feel bizarre when you actually do wake up.

When you are in REM sleep (the dream stage) your body naturally goes into a paralyzed mode, to keep you from acting out your dreams. When you wake up and can't move, you've probably been woken up out of REM sleep. It happens to me to, and it is scary.

I have not had this experience, but I have heard of other people having it happen. I see by reading the responses that you have been reassured that you are not the only one. I do sometimes have very vivid dreams and it takes some effort for me to be fully awake and moving, but I have never actually felt as if I was paralyzed. I also will wake from a dream and go to the bathroom and fall immediately back into the same dream. It feels very strange. I am glad people here have let you know that you are not the only one.

hi chrystaltears a lot of p eople have this and its called sleep paralysis.'web md says it's not life threatening and a lot of people have this coming out of sleep when still in the rem state.there your body muscles are stopped so you do not actually run or jump or fly as you do in your dreams. it terrifies people because they cannot move or even call out but it only last for seconds or just a few minutes and is over.scary but not life threatening at all.so relax and know many people have this and its not going to kill you or harm you.its just weird What has alarmed me is that lately I wake up and find myself standing in front of the door to the hall and not knowing how I got there so I had to h ave walked in my sleep. rem sleep is su pposed to stop us from acting out stuff in our dreams yet I got out of bed and instead of going to the bathroom I was by the droor to our room. that scared me as I wondered if I had not woke then would I have walked out in the hall?thank goodness it has not happened again. lol

That is spooky, i wish your experience never happen to me. Your experience may well is the result of extra-dimension force pressing on you, may be the ghost (unless you believe they exist) is playing with you that can't explain by psychologist/ psychiatrist from scientific perspective.

I've has these experiences off and on since I was young. I'll go through many different sets of it in one go. And each time until I 'wake up' in my dream, I really believe I am awake. It's terrifying. Any time I wake up afterward, it takes me a few minutes to realize I am truly awake, and it's usually because a light comes on that wouldn't come on in my dreams or something like that.

Interesting... I wonder if it is related to a condition when a person eats a heavy meal and falls asleep. There is a digesting sequence that seems to get overloaded and results in a "nightmare-like" attack. I have been through similar episodes three times before, I could not open my eyes and feel like my bed is spinning around ... for two times I try to pray and I just snap out of it like nothing happened. The third time I try to explore "a new place" in my imagination ... after a few steps, I snap out of it... What do you think?

in asian countries, we called this as "Ghost press" but in scientific version, it is just that you are too tired in mental and physical that causes all this to happen.

I can think of about 3 times in my life that this has happened to me. It doesn't happen often but it is very frightening when it does happen. If it happens to you a lot, I have sympathy because I know how scary it is.

I can somehow relate to this experience. However, I don't know also what is that and have not figure it out until now what is that all about. I had several experience of that before when I am a kid but now I no longer experience them. I feel I am divided between 2 states, I feel I am conscious but I can't seem to control myself. I am half conscious I guess. I want to stand up but I can't. I want to move my body but I cannot. It is a freaking experience. I will research more about that one of these days.

It's nightmare my friend. I think you should pray before you sleep to avoid those kind of incidents.It's kinda creepy and alarming if it happen continuously.

my sister experienced that kind of i-dont-know-what-is-it,but exactly the same. she told me that when she was sleeping after a sudden she woke up because she knew she heard something. i was beside her that afternoon. she told me that something was on top of her because she felt heavy but there was nothing on it but her hands only.so she tried to scream but she didnt because there were no voice came up to her mouth. she tried to move to get my attention but she couldnt. i dont what had happened to her but that was for real. then afterwards she fell asleep and when she woke up she was fine but sweat was all over her body when that time was so cold (NOTE;SHE DIDNT HAD A COLD OR BAD FEELINGS THAT TIME,JUST THAT) and she swore that she was really awake when that thing happened coz she knew what was i doing that time.

Just like some of the top post mentioned about REM and all. This happens to a lot of people and my friends sometimes tell me these stories when we hang out. But the thing is, my friends think it is the supernatural activities because not like what you have experience, my friends actually get the same experience that you do but they said that there are something that is sitting above them and they have this hard to breath and all. I can't say for sure what it is, but my theory is that they we're in sleeping mode and had a nightmare, but their eyes are actually working live in the normal world like half asleep. Well, we can't know for sure what natures is up to right ?

its nightmare it is, but science would tell that there is something wrong with your pancreas. better not to eat heavy meal before you go to bed.

Have you ever discussed this with your doctor or a counselor and see what they suggest or think about this. To me this does not sound natural and almost like some sort of dream state. Hope somehow something can help.

This has happened to me sometimes back and it usually happens when I am having what I will call a lazy sleep- like when I am so free for couple of days and I take a much longer nap after eating breakfast, I know I should get up but just decide to drift in and out of sleep then it happens to me, but I soon try to try to start to move my fingers or toes then my arm and then kick out waking up. Its not a very good experience but i just try to know why it happens to me and what to do when it happens, now I guide against 'lazy sleep' or even during normal sleep I get up the moment I sense am drifting into the situation again.

I think that is sleep paralysis. It happens to me, and the only way that I can know that I really am dreaming is that I see if there is anything different in my immediate setting. And if the sounds are different. For instant, you may hear the sounds in the house, but it could be what was years ago and not now. Or you can see that the curtains are different. Best to wait it out or maybe face the other way.

I have experienced that sometimes now that I am old. We call that in our dialect as "urom". During my teens was the peak of this in my life. I always experienced it every night that it made me feel afraid to sleep. I remember when it was already getting dark, I was so afraid because I knew that a few minutes after I fell asleep, it would come to me. What I did was to try to make a sign of the cross. If you're not a catholic, just move any part of your body that can be easily moved, a finger or your hands and feet. The best way is to have someone with you in bed so that when she touches you, you can move easily.

you're pretty much experiencing a nightmare... some people actually die that way.... if it happens again try concentrating and move any one of youir fingers.. not exactly sure thou of the cause of it..