Well, the night before last I had an interesting dream, and in it something happened that had never happened before. In the dream I was looking for a knife and decided to look in this room where the really good ones were kept. Anyway, I ended up in this room, but then I essentially couldn't change what I was looking at. Off to my left in my periphoral vision I could see this bed and to my right I could see the edge of the room I wanted to be in, but I couldn't change that image. I tried turning and even felt my feet moving slowly clockwise, but nothing changed.

After about a minute or two (it was a lengthy-ish period of time), this panther appeared and when I reached out to touch it then the dream shifted and I was able to move again, though I wasn't in that room any longer.

Has anyone experienced this? I'm fairly certain that I knew that I was dreaming, but I was more interested in trying to figure out why this was happening rather than try to change it. Any thoughts?

-Amé