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| 164.1 | Yeah, me too | NATASH::BUTCHART | | Fri Jul 11 1986 13:56 | 22 |
| Your experience sounds similar to some of the "dreams" I've had
They feel similar in some ways to the experiences I described in
the Incubus Dream note. The chief feature of these dreams is that
I believe I have awakened and then notice, as you describe, what
an impossible task it is to move, that everything is weird, that
when I try to move I seem weighted down and even feel that I'm
being held down. I used to always feel terrified, until I became
more used to the "symptoms"; now when it happens, and I manage to
realize I'm asleep, I say to myself, "relax, self, you're really
still asleep." Then, as if relieved that I really haven't wakened,
my dreams assume a more recognizable "dreamy" state, without the
attendant anxiety of imagining that I'm awake.
I'm not sure what causes my dreams of this kind, but they only occur
when I'm under a lot of stress. They also occur on nights when
I've had trouble getting back to sleep after waking in the middle
of the night. It's almost like the sleep I get back to is distorted
in some way. So I suspect that many of my dreams of this kind have
somes psychological or physical basis.
Marcia
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| 164.2 | ALTERED STATES | BPOV10::COLLETON | | Tue Jul 15 1986 22:22 | 9 |
| I've had this sensation happen to me about a half dozen times now
it scares the living hell out of me it's like I wake up (in my mind
anyway) before my body is physically able to move and the result
is like i'm parallized and I too have to calm my mind into a false
sence of security before I can actually move once in one of these
"altered states" I was so scared I tried screaming for some one
to help me i realy thought I was parallized even screaming was almost
impossable.
BILL
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| 164.3 | altered state or altered nervous system? | ELWOOD::MCCARREN | | Wed Jul 16 1986 22:55 | 10 |
| This has happened to me on NUMEROUS occasions over the last several
years. Quite frankly I thought it was an early warning sign of some
kind of bizarre neurological problem.
I'm not quite sure, however, that this is some kind of psychic
experience. Instead, I think it may be that the process that turns
off neural transmission during sleep has not quite re-activated
my nervous system.
Ed.
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| 164.4 | Error during reboot! | RAINBO::HARDY | | Mon Jul 21 1986 14:53 | 14 |
| re 164.2
Do not be afraid, it's just one of those things that people don't
talk about. It has happened to me at occasional intervals for about
fifteen years, and I've heard it happens to others. My own theory
is much like ELWOOD::MCCARREN's -- you're only partly awake, and
the feeling of being immobile or "slowed" is a consequence of the
same mechanism that blocks motor activity while dreaming. It seems
to happen in bursts -- several times a night, maybe once a year.
The neurological equivalent of hiccups, I guess -- certainly nothing
to worry about, although it feels constricting at the time.
Pat Hardy
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| 164.5 | Happened to me too! | BRAT::DAVIS | ENIS DAVIS - DTN 264-8746 | Tue Jul 22 1986 17:11 | 9 |
| I have noticed on several occasions that I have been dreaming, and
don't like what I am dreaming so in my dream I try to wake myself
up but can't. This usually happens in the early morning hours,
after I have been sleeping all night, wake up, then go back to sleep.
It is quite scary, and when I finally do wake up, I am so relieved!
Enis
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| 164.6 | Which is dream, and which is reality? | TOPDOC::JAMES | | Wed Jul 23 1986 16:34 | 11 |
| A similar thing happens to me: I decide that I can't handle a certain
dream, decide to wake up, think that I *have* awakened, only to
find bizarre things going on (another dream). When I finally *do*
wake up, I am disoriented, to say the least. The mechanism that
tells me that I am dreaming in the first dream seems to be, at least,
temporarily suspended during the second dream, and things have to
get really crazy (and they do!) before I realize that I am still
dreaming. I don't even try to wake up at that point, I just do....
Stel
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| 164.7 | Trying to get "in" bed? | SCFAC::MIRASSOU | John Mirassou | Thu Jul 24 1986 04:39 | 7 |
| As to the feeling of movement being a strain, it seems this can
also be caused by the body trying to make the movements needed
to run, walk, etc. Unfortunately, especially if one is sleeping
on the stomach, the matress gets in the way of the movement, causing
the sluggish feeling. Not unlike trying to walk through a wall,
I'd imagine.
john
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