Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
That definitely does sound like sleep paralysis, though it seems odd that you had a warning it was going to happen before it did. It seems like usually people are in SP right from the beginning of a dream, but I can't say for sure. Did you already know what SP was before having this dream, or did you research afterwards and learn about it? If you did already know there's a chance you might have simply had a dream about SP. One other thing was odd - usually people in true SP are unable to move at all except for their eyes, at least at first. The fact that you were able to kick your legs makes it seem like not full SP, or like you were just dreaming about it, though the rest of it does sound legitimately like SP. Though people do frequently have some of the effects of SP without experiencing all of them, as if sometimes maybe you can be very close to it without actually waking up while your body is asleep.

I have no thoughts about the rest of the dream (sorry), except the last part where you told people about it. That's fairly common behavior for someone who wants to remember a dream. Around here we keep dream journals, and quite often we'll dream of writing in them or of telling people about a dream we just had, because our mind is trained to try to impress each dream in memory somehow. Maybe you really wanted to remember this one and so were telling people as a way of impressing it in memory?

Yeah I've heard about sleep paralysis before, so maybe I was just dreaming about it! I've never had a dream like that before where I actually felt pressure on my chest, so it was scary but it does seem like it was just a dream rather than actual SP...

Thanks!