From: lethargiclown@gmail.com   
      
   On 2007-06-23 00:41:48 -0400, neo  said:   
      
   >   
   > veg...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> This morning i had a lucid dream/experience.   
   >> I woke up at around 7am and fell back to sleep but i can recall   
   >> everything so clearly and woke up at around 9.44am   
   >> In the dream i was laying in bed looking at my door and i could not   
   >> move at all.   
   >> I tried to get up but i wouldnt budge...   
   >   
   > This mind awake, body asleep state often occurs before 'out of body   
   > experience'. So if you are awake but can't move your body then don't   
   > be afraid. Your mind is taking troll. You will see your own body   
   > sleeping while walking on wall.   
   >   
   > For further info, see alt.out-of-body newsgroup or search net for 'out   
   > of body experience (OBE)'.   
   >   
   >> ,i clearly remember suddenly   
   >> being in a different place but still in the same position like i was   
   >> still looking at my door and i saw a large snake hanging from a vine i   
   >> think in a dark corner of a really old and half destroyed house which   
   >> i think was in the middle of nowhere.Im quite sure i could see dry and   
   >> arid land through my peripheral vision.   
   >>   
   >> I returned suddenly back to my bedroom still in the same locked   
   >> position,laying on my bed and looking at my closed door.I was really   
   >> getting nervous and started calling for my mom but as hard as i tried   
   >> i could never shout loud enough.I got really scared because i couldnt   
   >> move and no one was answering me.I felt like i wasnt alone and i   
   >> looked to my roof and i could see a dark shadow was covering half my   
   >> room and it was slowly covering more of my roof.   
   >>   
   >> I was feeling scared and i tried to push it away and thats when i   
   >> realised i could see a shadow figure of my hands on the roof even   
   >> though i was still stuck in this position of laying on my back.   
   >> When i realised i could move things without the use of my hands i   
   >> tried to open my door but the key wouldnt move and small pieces of the   
   >> key started to strip off like string and was flying across my room to   
   >> where my window is.Like it was being stripped away by a black hole or   
   >> possibly that shadow.   
   >> I tried to push the shadow away but it kept pushing against me.A   
   >> voice told me to "remember the texture of leaves and sunshine" I felt   
   >> a sense of comfort and started telling myself to remember   
   >> water,leaves,sunshine etc   
   >>   
   >> Somehow i managed to open my curtains and the shadow disappeared.I   
   >> awoke shortly afterwards but it wasnt like opening my eyes.It was more   
   >> like everything quickly changed back.   
   >> The room was semi dark again *the blinds in my room where open but my   
   >> curtains were closed*   
   >> I got out of bed and walked to my kitchen.I told my mom i had a dream   
   >> but that my eyes were still open.She backed it up by saying that my   
   >> eyes where very red and dry.I didnt tell her what my dream was about   
   >> because she can get superstitious.   
   >>   
   >> First thing i did was google "dreaming with my eyes open" and i came   
   >> across this board.   
   >> Any feedback is greatly appreciated. This was no doubt in my mind a   
   >> lucid dream.I felt like like i left one reality and returned back to   
   >> mine.   
   >   
   > You will not believe in how many ways human brain takes troll. Deja   
   > vu, dreams, lucid dreams, sensory (auditory, visual, touch, taste,   
   > smell )hallucinations, blindsight, anosognosia, synesthesia, phantom   
   > limb, alien hand, blah blah blah.   
   >   
   > Search and Read this stuff. It will help you if your brain takes troll.   
      
   I am an experianced lucid dreamer and I have only had one case of   
   something like that.  It was when i was still somewhat inexperianced   
   with lucid dreaming but what happened was:   
      
    I was sure I was awake lying in my bed but I started to feel something   
   pressing down on my body and I couldnt move.  It was pushing down   
   especially hard on my legs.  I started to get panicked and I tried as   
   hard as i could to move.  Like you said it wasn't the same sensation as   
   waking up per say but I indeed returned to this reality.   
      
   When I woke up my heart was racing and I could feel my pulse all   
   throughout my body and I was sweating vigorously as well.  The first   
   thing that comes to mind is a false awakening dream.  When you believe   
   that you woke up but you are indeed still dreaming.  Often times after   
   this happens your dream is much more vivid than before.   
      
   Now that I am a much more experianced lucid dreamer and can almost   
   always recognize when I am dreaming nothing like this has ever happened   
   again.  I also have trained myself to be able to wake up in case of an   
   unwanted dream.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)