I had my second lucid dream this morning but when it came to an end, I found myself awake but in a state of paralysis. It's the first time I have ever experienced it but I have done enough reading on the subject to know what was going on as it happened.

The experience was pretty much exactly what I had read about: inability to move or talk, dull buzzing in my head, intense feelings of fear, heard incoherent babbling of "someone" in the room as well as what sounded like some large animal eating on the opposite side of me.

I panicked initially but once I realized that this was exactly what I had read about, I sort of embraced everything that was happening. My sense of fear was still there but I kept telling myself that it's all in my head and there is nothing in the room that can hurt me. It lasted what felt like maybe 10 minutes, during which I drifted in and out of a dream.

I really hope I experience this again. It never ceases to amaze me what our brains are capable of projecting on top of reality. Don't get me wrong, I was pretty damn scared for most of the ordeal but I now liken it to a really, really intense horror movie.

Anyone else agree or is the general consensus that sleep paralysis really sucks?