Hello all.

Last night I was having a somewhat Lucid Dream, I wasn't aware that I was dreaming yet I could remember some vague moments of the dream.

Anyway the dream was somewhat Nightmare orientated. The storyline was that I was trying to sleep in a dark and industrial room, and there was a disturbing eerie alarm that stopped me from sleeping.

I was on some kind of chat room with my friends, and we were all texting about how we will at some point fall asleep.

I then saw a man wearing a cloak. He was in my bed and he said something like "just get some rest, come on" So I immediatly layed down on my pillow and closed my eyes.

The second I did this, the man grabbed my shoulders and violently started shaking me awake. I suspected it was sleep paralysis, so I used a technique for getting out of it which works almost all of the time. (Make sure your mouth is open and snore over and over again until you can move out of it.)

The man shaking me had a ghastly and horrifying presence about him, I just wondered what everyone thinks of this. Possibly hypnogogic/hypnopompic imagery?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Kindest regards.